Clipperton's Dirty Secret

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Uploaded by on Sep 4, 2007

This musical vignette is an homage to the life that is still clinging on ever so desperately at Clippeton Atoll. I say this because we are exploiting it's waters by illegal fishing and polluting it's shore with our trash.

During our expedition to Clipperton Atoll there was a tuna boat that we believe was fishing the waters of this protected Marine Sanctuary. During the course of approximately 20 dives we saw little more than a handful of sharks. The once fearful Clipperton Atoll had been finned to but a mere few reef sharks that were so afraid, they stayed off in the shadows.

This piece demonstrates just how much of our waste washes ashore on some of the most remote locations in the world. There was no shortage of Coca Cola bottles or for that matter Suntori Whisky was in abundance too. So to where little toy soldiers and lots of medical waste. But the really scary stuff is all the long lines that have washed ashore. Sometimes it is in bundles on the beach other times it just wraps the reef, ensnaring life as it digs in.


The Boobies and Frigates that live ashore are found on the beach with swollen bellies full of plastic. Death their only salvation to the starvation they face.

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  • Busquen y lean el libro de Miguel Gonzalez Avelar; Clipperton isla mexicana, debemos de hacer algo para revocar la decisión del Rey Victor Manuel III de Italia quien falló a favor de Francia en 1931.

  • @faustomx saludos esta isla es de mexico

    ya hubo mexicanos que la habitaron

    los del canal 13 tienen un reportaje

    es mas hay  una mujer mexicana que le eredaron un terreno en la isla

    ni el vaticano ni un rey italiano va decidir sobre nosotros

    ya vasta que a los mexicanos nos quieran pisotear nuestros derechos internacionales

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  • Wow, this is interesting! Are there any remnants left from when there was a colony there in the early 20th century? Maybe a concrete footing or something?

  • @CassiusYou fue descubierta por magallanes y él la bautizó como isla de la pasión. luego llegaron los güeones franceses y en un alarde de originalidad la llamaron îlle de la passion. Pero fue el señor Magallanes en una de sus vueltas quien la descubrió.

  • Clipperton Island is a wasteland isn't it. Exactly what country owns it anyways?

  • "Ile de la passion"

    Solo permite a los franceses de tener derecho de pesca en la region, poco utilisado.

    En francia nadie sabe que existe...

    ps: fue descubierta por un francés ;)

  • Great video.The music and the commentary fit in great

    i really hope they do something about this place

  • @laloba9048 Cómo, cómo, cómo, cómo está eso que las placas tectonicas, tan inmensas que son pueden ser alteradas por bombas? Eso es nuevo para mí!

  • You have to watch out for ghosts...lots of evil has happened on that island over the years. My friend has been there and he said he would NEVER go back again

  • @Davis54pa

    otra vez borraste tu comentario.

    lo que me escribiste en privido

    esta raro.

    no estamos en contra de los frances.

    estamos contra los politicos.

    esclavos de los masones y judios.

    te gusta los ovnis entonces

    creo lo que estamos escribiendo.

  • @Davis54pa

    tu comentario que escribiste y lo borraste

    no tiene fundamento.

    las pruebas nucleares francesas en un atolon del pacifico sur. si provoco el terremoto

    en mexico 1985.

    el terremoto en haiti,chile y japon.

    fue probocado por haarp.los dueños son los gringos de esta arma.

    y aqui se esta opinando de la isla no de otro tema no te salgas de tema.

    o mejor no opines.

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