Javier Bardem dives to help save the Antarctic

Hollywood heavyweight Javier Bardem has dived to the base of the Antarctic in help of the generation of an Ocean Sanctuary, with a selection on the proposed nature reserve to be produced in Hobart afterwards this calendar year.

Immediately after completing the two-hour dive in a two-person submarine alongside Greenpeace US maritime biologist John Hocevar, the Spanish actor reported he was stunned by the variety of colors that existed 270 metres underneath the surface area.

“It is an very critical mission to go down and document these species in all their vibrant existence to confirm the worth of protecting a distinctive ocean that also feeds all the even bigger animals in the Antarctic,” Mr Bardem mentioned in a statement.

“As shortly as we reached the sea flooring, I was fully shocked by the frustrating wide range of colours and daily life all all around us,”

Through a a few-thirty day period expedition, Greenpeace is conducting scientific investigation in the Antarctic, sampling for plastic air pollution, and filming footage underwater.

There is an urgent need to have to make a 1.8 million square kilometre Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary to safeguard species like whales and penguins, Greenpeace states.

With the assist of Bardem, Greenpeace is building a potent scientific situation for the defense of the ocean and will demonstrate the key conclusions to the Fee later on in the year.

The proposed sanctuary will be thought of by the Hobart-based mostly Antarctic Ocean Commission – of which Australia is a member – in October.

“Although there is however much do the job to be carried out, it is by now obvious at this early phase of the expedition that the Antarctic is residence to a varied selection of species who have earned our protection” Greenpeace Australia Pacific Campaigner Alix Foster Vander Elst mentioned in a statement.