"Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea" - Trailer

[modcat]

Clean bike. Minimalistic lines. Core quality. Advancing cycle builds. Keep it going.

[jennafergrace]

have the newest flash player, this video just doesn't work :(



[rickydelatejera]

I gave it a thumbs down, not because it is no good, but because I didn't see or hear anything.

Please fix it. It looks interesting

[scarstruck85]

Thanks to the Joe Rogan podcast!

[ZachFromDetroit]

Rogan!

[wateringwoman]

OK, nothing shows on this video. Perhaps it's time to take it down.

[saltonseadoc]

This is a problem that some videos on YouTube are having. If you update to the most recent version of Flash you should be a-okay.

[BlackIcexxi]

@saltonseadoc mine is up to date, and it unfortunately still doesn't work

[saltonseadoc]

This is a problem that some videos on YouTube are having. If you update to the most recent version of Flash you should be a-okay.

[RAWRCookyMonstr]

wow, last time i went to the salton sea was a week ago and the little store owned by emmie on the marina was robbed and broken into. my favorite cabana to rent was number 11 but it was destroyed...... i saw all of the tilapia too..... thousands washed up on the shore. so i went shooting for pelicans near the sinking sand, and i scared a bird and a fucking tree humper called the cops on me..... stupid photographer... but anyways the cops got to me and when the got the call they said fuck it. yay!

[slatan420]

Imperial valley 4 life.

[votejello]

In a strange way, I would love to live here. It seems like it has an eerie serenity.

[SamDrozin]

place can't be real. It's incredible. I saw on anthony bordain that there are fish dieoffs is the millions at a time! the beaches are litered with dead fish. That place seems pretty scary. I feel like if you went there it would turn into a horror movie.

[kraftymomma1979]

I first visited the Salton Sea by accident in the mid-80s. I lived in Yuma, Arizona, at the time and was in the process of moving to Yucca Valley, California. My hubby and I raced to the water, only to discover that the water was HOT. We took a shower in the bath house, thinking at last we could cool off. We cranked the cold water and let it run and run and run. The best we got was bathwater warm. Still, it was a very interesting place to visit.

[ohmosess]

It used to be awesome, it used to be great and fun, but those are the key words, "used to". I go offroading around there about once a month... other then that the smell is pretty awful..

[Hax0rKyo]

well first off there isn't much for a teenager like me to do. There isn't much work, and the locals are a bit off, so socializing is kind of out of the question. There are plenty of things positive about the sea; but for somebody like me the negatives outweigh them by a ton.

[KM760]

I grew up in Salton City, and I will forever defend it. it was one of the best places to grow up. It maynot seem like it, but it was. My family still lives there, however I moved out.

[badlandsk8]

Whats crazy is that its a haven for pool skaters now! all those abandoned building are a god sent to skateboarders. check out the documentary chlorine its about the joy of skating empty pools. and it has an awesome footage and short history on this place.

[BrentC18]

We took a look at the Salton Sea while vacationing in Palm Springs. I couldn't believe the amount of dead fish and all the abandoned structures. I'm quite interested in watching this documentary. Anyone know where I can get it in Canada?

[asmfmjb]

We stumbled upon the Salton sea by accident back in 2006. I'd swear that most of the Twilight zone shows were inspired by the sureal abandoned buildings, the old burned out hippies running the marina, the zillions of dead fish, and the now, long dead classic automobiles up on blocks! Also, one of the neatest places I've seen!

[dannygringo]

I have to see this documentary as soon a possible.

[pickledpigsfeet]

thanks for sharing!

[weoserf]

looks like the future ....

[bigrob981]

the salton sea is a horrifically tragic place....

its smells, its hot, and the lake itself is a giant sewer, filled with sewage from the "new river",the most polluted river in north america....

it is a crap hole, half the people on this video sound retarded or have some other disability....

sure it can be very pretty at times and you can get great pictures of nature..

but a lake filled with dieing fish, chemicals and raw sewage from mexico..is not where i want to swim or fish...

[pickledpigsfeet]

you sound retarded bigrob 981

[bigrob981]

very clever....you sure told me.

its still a crap hole...

[minidishes]

Watched this film twice on the Sundance Channel. There is something utterly fascinating about the strange & terrible saga of this place.

[digitalArtform]

Just watched the DVD. Very good.

[Australiano75]

Looks like a trailer for Fallout or place that got nuked after the cold war. lol

[doughboycod2]

@Australiano75 lmao 

[bigrob981]

why does everybody sound retarded?

[floooky1]

Your brain is compensating for something.

[bigrob981]

that place is a giant crap hole....

[pickledpigsfeet]

bigrob981,

just like your childhood.

[WickedGravityVideo]

"a super, super, wonderful place"  haha

[WickedGravityVideo]

saw this at SlamDance Film Festval 2 years ago -- wonderful movie --- gotta go buy this dvd

[rmdm1990]

I live in Palm Desert never been to the Sea. I would like to see it, and maybe help save it in some way.

[empsurf650]

that place is a fucking shit hole.

[badlad99]

you ever played fallout 3 ?

this place reminds me of that.

[Benzin0]

wow. just wow.

This place really is something to be proud of... How could they let it become like this, I just can't believe it. These rednecks retards screwed this place for good!

[Ribavirin9]

Fuck you. Those are good people. The Salton Sea became uninhabitable for most fish because the water has all been diverted to the Imperial Valley. It's corporate farmers that are the assholes and environmental rapists. Of course, they drive BMWs or Ford F150 crew cabs and belong to country clubs, so I'm sure THEY seem like good people to you.

[joshhhddd]

fuck you theyre rednecks

[Vamprin]

its like fallout3

[venomousbird]

with all the water in that 'sea' and the heat of the desert, desalination and purification would be a snap. that water could be used to create a true oasis in the desert!

[Ribavirin9]

Ummm, that would further concentrate to saltiness in the sea, which is why it's currently a dead sea.

[venomousbird]

Actually, it wouldn't. When you desalinate water you're left with a residue of salt, which you could then dump out in the desert or use for something else. It wouldn't increase or decrease the overall saltiness of the surrounding water.

[venomousbird]

just learned about it today, totally amazing

[marypopinzzzzzz]

I'm watching huell howser right now, and hes at mono lake, which has similar problems to salton sea, yet, there fixing the mono lake. Why one and not the other??

[Ribavirin9]

The problem is the farming in the Imperial Valley, which is a 10X50 mile oasis created by irrigating the water that should be flowing into the Salton Sea.

[kabakun]

I think maybe because Mono Lake is naturally salty / naturally formed. The Salton Sea formed on accident, so people are less concerned with saving it.

[marypopinzzzzzz]

Just what I'm lookin for in a place.

Seriously.

I've been doing ALOT of research on this area.

Neato!!

[vicodinsNguns]

god save bombey beach!

[IrelandPunk]

LOVE the Salton Sea ^_^

[Mrung0wa]

Hey if John Waters is narrating it you know it's got to be good...

[heatherboles79]

This is one of the best documentaries that I have seen in a long time. Watch it and take it for what it is worth. The information as well as the colorful characters in this film make is worthwhile!

[AveIvy]

Indeed. One of the absolutely best.

[gerritschroder]

Come on. The Salton Sea collects the agricultural run-off of the Imperial Valley. That's why it's poisoned, that's why it's so salty, etc. The state government decided a long time ago that the Salton Sea would become the holding pool for agricultural salt and fertilizer run-off. It was a bad idea to start with and it gets worse every day. These people are living at the mouth of an agricultural drainage pipe.

Enjoy. Would you like some celerey salt with that?

[thatDonOguy]

I SO want to see this! I dig the opening narriation!

[XxXxMammothXxXx]

I Can See The Salt In The Water

[oldphoque]

The oddity of salt water being inland in a lake is enough. This is a pond much like the dead sea. I would go in it but wouldn`t consume the fish.

[oldphoque]

As a practice, I don`t eat lake or river fish. It just doesn`t jive with my tastebuds, nor do I trust it. I wouldn`t qualify the fish from here as seafood either. I never visited this location because I was under the impression it was dry. I`m sure many other Californians may be under the same misconception. This has to be one of the most awesome places on earth.

[ecosavvy]

The Salton Sea is interesting and stopping by Salvation Mountain is a must if down that way. I wouldn't call the sea beautiful, but it is interesting to see. The beach is made out of crumbled fish bones, not sand. Really creepy.

[Mistral8Wind]

I was a very young kid and I still remember how nice the Salton Sea was back in the early 60s. Resorts etc. More water too. El Centro was a great town. Haven't been there since...

[PolliFaxToaster]

i just watched this. simply appalling. i'll never eat tilapia again. way more intense and grotesque than this trailer lets you know. A++!

[sounding1972]

despite what some people think, the sea is not necessarily "polluted" with pure chemicals and other toxins coming in from mexico-- the main thing polluting it is dead fish due to the lack of oxygen in the water during the summer months. water that goes into the salton sea is filtered three times by wetlands before it reaches the sea, and is probably cleaner than most water being dumped into oceans everywhere else.

anyway, can't wait to see this documentary.

[Yumacoolio]

You stupid idiots obiously guys have never taken the pleasure to visit the sea that sea is the most beutiful thing that ever occupied california space. I have actually been face to face with sea and let me tell you it's way better than what you morons think it is.

[julebuggy]

wow

[mason7]

I also met that guy in the yellow shirt who was drinking. He rides around on a bike piss drunk. He came over and lit some fireworks.

[mason7]

Cool Place. The town they're filming in is called Bombay Beach. My Dad's freind owns a house there and I went out there for a weekend to go dirtbike riding. Fun riding. The Sea is nasty though, dead fish all along the coast and it got my bike rusty.

[eltunz]

Great work. Funny movie with cool music. Loved it!

[salemcripple]

You people are nuts! lol. I would never want to live there. I've got to have trees, and mountains, and everything stays green year round. And snow in the wintertime. Not to mention, fresh clean water. I have a Mt. stream running through my back yard for example.

[arkgirl62]

The one lady complains that the stores close at 6 and theres no mall...thats why people move out there!!! Small town living without the malls and millions of people. You don't like it? MOVE!

[arkgirl62]

The sewer comment REALLY annoys me! He obviously doesn't live at the sea.

[PolliFaxToaster]

does anyone know where i can find a torrent?

[artistmac]

The disconnect between the images and most of the words is hilarious (unintentionally, I'm sure).

[TRAnthony83]

I visited the Salton Sea maybe 6 years ago, and was amazed at how brown/black it was. The lake literally looked like a sewage treatment plant, minus the plant. It's insane that the people of CA would allow this.

[DocHelliday]

they dont allow it...it happened

[TRAnthony83]

I know the salt is natural....but they are allowing sewage and chemicals to flow in from Mexico...yes, that is being allowed.

[arkgirl62]

The sea is one of the most beautiful places I've ever lived and it deserves to be cleaned up

[cosgood1978]

Then why don't you quit complaining and go clean it up.

[youmakemehappyinside]

eww, I went to the salton sea 2 years ago and it's gross, the water is black and it smells!

[got2go2glamis]

You make it sound like its a bad place. I love it there and I never got posioned by eating the fish.

[ernestosinh]

really i never been there..... i would like to go though so i can see at least some part of it,imaging there is other places like that with more people on it.i wish we can do something

[Chapas45]

I love the scorching temps down there; it hits 105 even in the Winter. I'll be sure to make several visits this summer. Great video.

[WillowfanPS]

This film is great, well worth seeing :)

[Austinjoke]

Eco logical disaster, thats one way of looking at it, the WRONG way. Theres great opportunity in the Sea, and what about the millions of birds that use it? The States gonna fix the sea in a couple years and it will be nicer, its a nice unspoiled place.