A virtual 'dive' in the Thames - BBC London

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  • Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
  • In 1959 the River Thames was declared biologically dead, but sixty years on it’s a thriving habitat full of fish, crabs, seals and even sharks. Now the Zoological Society of London wants to show Londoners what’s living under the Thames in a very 21st Century way.
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  • @bbclondon
    @bbclondon  4 роки тому +7

    Subscribe to BBC London here: bit.ly/2Gd18gB

  • @closethedoornow7538
    @closethedoornow7538 4 роки тому +266

    Where’s all the bodies and weapons?

    • @yesgeorge333
      @yesgeorge333 2 роки тому +5

      wtf are u doing

    • @closethedoornow7538
      @closethedoornow7538 2 роки тому +4

      @@yesgeorge333 fancy seeing you here mate

    • @bob69927
      @bob69927 2 роки тому

      decomposing at the bottom

    • @booth2710
      @booth2710 4 місяці тому +1

      It's not a real dive - it's just a made up waste of time simualtion

  • @sidraines
    @sidraines 4 роки тому +93

    Must be hundreds of lost mobile phones in there.

  • @notaclue638
    @notaclue638 4 роки тому +102

    Freshwater pike swimming next to sharks 👍👍👍👍

  • @thelostnomad8571
    @thelostnomad8571 3 роки тому +13

    Your forgetting the car tyres and the tesco trolleys

  • @bellavaszilij6868
    @bellavaszilij6868 4 роки тому +11

    Thanks BBC for reporting this! Thumbs up!

  • @dricard953
    @dricard953 4 роки тому +27

    We've just outsourced our dirty industries (e.g. manufacturing) to Asia where most of their rivers will be classed as biologically dead in the next 20 years.
    Still good that these guys are studying and trying to protect the species that are returning to the thames. Great work.

  • @Limabelasun
    @Limabelasun 3 роки тому +26

    Ive worked on & in the Thames. It is vastly more cleaner than it was, It is no longer biologically dead. It still faces litter & CSO problems. However, the Thames Tideway super sewer will address most of the swage problems, diverting it directly to treatment. Also with foreshore & habitat restorations & planting projects, we have started to see improvements in habitats. I have seen seahorses, seals, porpoise Catfish, roach, pike, perch, carp, bass, mullet, eels elvers, Dace, Tench, Lamprey, flounder, Dabb, sole, whiting, gobby, stickleback, trout/sea trout. Im aware of Salmon & even a Sturgeon caught several years ago.
    Litter & flytipping is still a problem. litter washed down street drains run off into UK rivers. Wind blown litter, litter louts. The water colour changes depending on what part of the Thames you are at, this due to the river sediment. Upriver its more clear, the river has a gravel bed, as you move downriver into and through London & towards the coast, is more sand/clay, hence the "Dirty" appearance. Also its a tidal river, its been narrowed over the centuries so flows much faster than it once did. Its flood plans and natural freedom to meander has been blocked by pilling, concrete, developments, sewer embankments, WHARFs, Bridges, piers.

    • @dihainthegreat
      @dihainthegreat 3 роки тому +1

      thx for the info

    • @Lion-O-Richie2040
      @Lion-O-Richie2040 2 роки тому

      Was it ever biologically dead? I mean, wouldn’t some sort of microorganisms be able to live?

    • @sha22276
      @sha22276 2 роки тому

      Interesting

    • @dihainthegreat
      @dihainthegreat 2 роки тому

      @@Lion-O-Richie2040 bacteria

    • @adolflenin4973
      @adolflenin4973 2 роки тому

      @@dihainthegreat You're Most Welcome

  • @ebanydwayne1357
    @ebanydwayne1357 3 роки тому +9

    I wonder how many dead bodies are inside the river... I mean, the city is like almost 2000 years old...

    • @pseudo4914
      @pseudo4914 3 роки тому

      They got eaten out by bacterias. The end.

    • @ebanydwayne1357
      @ebanydwayne1357 3 роки тому

      @@pseudo4914 The Bones remain, they just found a 200/300 years old skull in the riverbank

    • @ebanydwayne1357
      @ebanydwayne1357 3 роки тому

      @@pseudo4914 I Googled after posting this comment to know if there are still very old bodies in the thames

  • @daveellis5100
    @daveellis5100 11 місяців тому +2

    Recorded horizontally:)

  • @davidthomas7931
    @davidthomas7931 2 роки тому +3

    These people with a passion for cleaning up the river and seeing it thrive again are doing God's work.

  • @gothnerd887
    @gothnerd887 4 роки тому +6

    This reminds me of Caddicarus and The Completionist's review of Jaws Unleashed

  • @fredhall4239
    @fredhall4239 2 роки тому +11

    It seems to be going in the right direction these days, you only have to look at reviews of what coarse fish anglers are catching in this river, could be due to an invasive species of bait fish fattening them up, and some years the sea angling can be very good on Kent and Essex banks, with convincing amounts of new species like Thornback Ray, Dogfish and Smoothound being caught recently, also one off catch of a Coalfish, just hope when the new sewer is finished the Salmon really do come back, Love or hate angling but it is a good way of knowing whats in the river, i have seen pods of Porpoise's at Shorne meads Light in Kent at least three times and Seals, it's a good fish holding area with it's deeper water, the worry is are they there because the sea is so trawled out by netters and they have to come up so far river just to survive? Some species of whale have died this way recently in the Thames, there is more to do!

  • @354sd
    @354sd 4 роки тому +10

    This is such good news.well done to all concerned over the years.

  • @JKweez
    @JKweez 4 роки тому +2

    What is this? 2003?

  • @alo1236546
    @alo1236546 2 роки тому +1

    No trash and with fish alive. Amazing !

  • @akscricket8
    @akscricket8 2 роки тому +2

    Where is the POLAR BEAR

  • @jakesyma49
    @jakesyma49 Годину тому

    What's the name of the VR app/experience, @bbclondon?

  • @doug5101
    @doug5101 4 роки тому +16

    Maybe they will find the BBC'S principles down there...

    • @catsadilla324
      @catsadilla324 4 роки тому +1

      I thought I saw Jeremy Clarkson's lunch from 2015

  • @Mrkva22296
    @Mrkva22296 2 роки тому +1

    I didn't know seahorses could live in fresh water

  • @weizhongxianfumariobeans7788
    @weizhongxianfumariobeans7788 3 роки тому +3

    Every once in a while, I come here, to this video.
    To laugh.

  • @jimcazador6057
    @jimcazador6057 Рік тому +2

    I am just going to put it out there, just a theory, but the Thames catchment area, i.e. greater London is hugely overcrowded, 90% of migrants gravitate toward that area, all the water and sewage systems needed to sustain the area are simply overwhelmed in part due to numbers. Its getting worse and worse, yes there is underinvestment and corporate greed-mismanagement but no one has suggested the human numbers involved in the mess. Why isn't immigration and the numbers involved never spoken about?

  • @theapple8538
    @theapple8538 2 роки тому +1

    Can we use this to find out sea monsters

  • @manlikejc5652
    @manlikejc5652 2 роки тому +1

    can someone tell me why it is CGI

  • @darkages4589
    @darkages4589 2 роки тому +1

    It would be nice if more people start clean the river

  • @cvdeiana
    @cvdeiana 4 роки тому +30

    There are sharks in the Thames?! 😱

    • @ricknaughty1016
      @ricknaughty1016 4 роки тому +10

      I3LINK no. Maybe dogfish but its probly just a tactic to make people not want to swim in there along with danger of currents

    • @WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel
      @WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel 4 роки тому +18

      @@ricknaughty1016 Yes there are sharks there.. Several speies in fact.

    • @ricknaughty1016
      @ricknaughty1016 4 роки тому +8

      Daniel Niemi i have never heard of sharks in the thames let alone seen a shark fin in real or pictire from the thames. If sharks cant survive in the open seas in uk then how can they survive in the thames. Basking sharks are not real sharks neither are dogfish. Great whites tiger and bullsharks in the thames ok pal

    • @ricknaughty1016
      @ricknaughty1016 4 роки тому

      Daniel Niemi and how can fresh water be with salt water/ tropical fish its not possible

    • @idot3331
      @idot3331 4 роки тому +25

      @@ricknaughty1016
      Great white sharks and bullsharks aren't the only species of sharks. Dogfish are a type of shark, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. There are loads of species of smaller sharks, and they're all "real sharks" unlike your weird child-like mind seems to think.

  • @stevenmendonca2917
    @stevenmendonca2917 12 днів тому

    Yea even new species of evolved fish, as the water quality has improved over time, condom fish, knife fish, trolley fish are just of the new species, some bottom dwellers some can be seen on the surface 😎

  • @user-kg6vu8zu4k
    @user-kg6vu8zu4k 4 роки тому +1

    Рахмет

    • @xGaSx
      @xGaSx 4 роки тому

      Тоқасы жоқ

  • @dangymking7273
    @dangymking7273 4 роки тому

    What they are porpoises in there?! 0:12

    • @luke8763
      @luke8763 3 роки тому

      Yeah, in the Thames estuary

  • @georgeschlaline6057
    @georgeschlaline6057 3 роки тому +1

    See the beautiful river of blood
    The cold water surrounds me
    Save me from this river OF HELL

  • @tedthepony7521
    @tedthepony7521 4 роки тому

    Yo where’s Benny??

  • @UserAPJ58
    @UserAPJ58 3 роки тому +1

    Start planting vetiver all over the polluted area,it will cleance asap.

  • @C.O-EDITS
    @C.O-EDITS 3 роки тому +1

    What about all the bodies?

  • @lunes-1
    @lunes-1 4 роки тому +4

    River Thames is a bit dirty,need some cleaning😝

    • @benrichardson3031
      @benrichardson3031 4 роки тому +1

      You do know it's the cleanest river in the world that runs through a city right?

    • @coreyarmstrong1850
      @coreyarmstrong1850 4 роки тому +1

      mgdoff it’s actually really clean nowadays

  • @scottyboi2012uk
    @scottyboi2012uk 3 роки тому

    Sharks ?

    • @luke8763
      @luke8763 3 роки тому +2

      Yep, the Thames estuary has a resident population of tope, smoothhound, small-spotted catshark, and nursehound.

  • @richardanthonygilbey
    @richardanthonygilbey 2 роки тому

    Still no swimming London

  • @elixier33
    @elixier33 Місяць тому

    So it's a computer game.....

  • @user-oy9sf8iu3q
    @user-oy9sf8iu3q 4 роки тому +2

    Ставь лаик если с Казахстана)

  • @delishaenvy2564
    @delishaenvy2564 2 роки тому

    Sharks? Did she say sharks?

  • @brandonmoonesawmy4909
    @brandonmoonesawmy4909 3 роки тому

    Stop the cap

  • @theotheseaeagle
    @theotheseaeagle 3 роки тому +3

    For people who don’t understand why there are porpoises and sharks in the river Thames let me explain. This is the part of the river that runs into the sea but it’s still technically freshwater so that’s why there is pike there.

    • @adambrace5127
      @adambrace5127 3 роки тому

      none of the thames runs into the ocean it runs into the north sea. but I understand what you're saying and that makes sense.

  • @SillyKhoons
    @SillyKhoons Місяць тому

    Lol rip

  • @user-vb4vo3kc2b
    @user-vb4vo3kc2b 4 роки тому +1

    Это не правда

    • @xGaSx
      @xGaSx 4 роки тому +1

      😂

    • @xGaSx
      @xGaSx 3 роки тому

      Внатуре

  • @usynnstradler
    @usynnstradler 4 роки тому +1

    There are SHARKS IN THE THAMES?! no way

    • @dihainthegreat
      @dihainthegreat 3 роки тому

      sometimes they come

    • @MichelleW870
      @MichelleW870 3 роки тому +1

      i heard smaller ones usually stay around longer

    • @dihainthegreat
      @dihainthegreat 3 роки тому +1

      @@MichelleW870 yeah they called dogfish

    • @luke8763
      @luke8763 3 роки тому

      Tope are the largest shark in the Thames estuary, they can grow up to 1.8m (6ft) long.

  • @aiya414
    @aiya414 4 роки тому +1

    9 C лучший ;)))))

    • @xGaSx
      @xGaSx 3 роки тому

      10A

  • @christopher9727
    @christopher9727 Рік тому +2

    John 3:16-21
    16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
    Mark 1.15
    15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

  • @rjvtechnologies
    @rjvtechnologies 3 роки тому

    Fake river Thames doesn’t have large fish

  • @sonoilchamp
    @sonoilchamp 3 роки тому +1

    A horsefish in the thames... yeah sure

    • @Brunokellyutz
      @Brunokellyutz 3 роки тому +8

      You mean seahorse

    • @luke8763
      @luke8763 3 роки тому +2

      Seahorses are found in the Thames estuary

  • @alinecalves
    @alinecalves 4 роки тому

    Ye sharks surely live there 🙄

  • @weizhongxianfumariobeans7788
    @weizhongxianfumariobeans7788 3 роки тому +2

    What a lie..

  • @Adventureswithvinnie
    @Adventureswithvinnie 3 роки тому

    Yeah that’s not a true video at all I’m a magnet fisher there’s loads of rubbish and scrap in there that your camera didn’t show

  • @xGaSx
    @xGaSx 4 роки тому +1

    Fake, ban

  • @latecia1
    @latecia1 4 роки тому +2

    Very dirty

  • @cuteboy4190
    @cuteboy4190 4 роки тому +5

    Fake. No seahorse in the river Thames!

    • @londonfishingangler5818
      @londonfishingangler5818 4 роки тому +1

      cute boy there are i have cought one

    • @cuteboy4190
      @cuteboy4190 4 роки тому +1

      @@londonfishingangler5818 you're lieing.

    • @natalya5827
      @natalya5827 4 роки тому +1

      yeah bro there are lol

    • @luke8763
      @luke8763 3 роки тому

      @@cuteboy4190 There are in the Thames estuary.

  • @DS-jj5my
    @DS-jj5my 7 місяців тому

    its no a river😂, its sewage of Thames. Perfect representative of the royal family and their values.