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ఐపీఎల్లో మరో ఘనత సాధించిన గేల్
విండీస్ విధ్వంసకర బ్యాట్స్మెన్ గేల్ మరో ఘనత సాధించాడు. అతి తక్కువ ఐపీఎల్ ఇన్నింగ్స్లో 4వేల పరుగులు పూర్తి చేసిన విదేశీ ఆటగాడిగా రికార్డు సృష్టించాడు.
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Published : Mar 25, 2019, 8:21 PM IST
| Updated : Mar 25, 2019, 8:38 PM IST
కరీబియన్ స్టార్ క్రికెటర్ గేల్ మరో ఘనత సాధించాడు. అతి తక్కువ ఐపీఎల్ ఇన్నింగ్స్ల్లో నాలుగు వేల పరుగులు చేసిన విదేశీ ఆటగాడిగా రికార్డు సృష్టించాడు. అలాగే 4వేల పరుగులు పూర్తి చేసినరెండో విదేశీ ఆటగాడిగా నిలిచాడు. 112 మ్యాచ్ల్లో గేల్ ఈ ఘనత సాధించగా.. వార్నర్ (4,099) 114 మ్యాచ్లు తీసుకున్నాడు. దక్షిణాఫ్రికా బ్యాట్స్మెన్ డివిలియర్స్ 3,962 పరుగులతో తర్వాతి స్థానంలో ఉన్నాడు.
కరీబియన్ స్టార్ క్రికెటర్ గేల్ మరో ఘనత సాధించాడు. అతి తక్కువ ఐపీఎల్ ఇన్నింగ్స్ల్లో నాలుగు వేల పరుగులు చేసిన విదేశీ ఆటగాడిగా రికార్డు సృష్టించాడు. అలాగే 4వేల పరుగులు పూర్తి చేసినరెండో విదేశీ ఆటగాడిగా నిలిచాడు. 112 మ్యాచ్ల్లో గేల్ ఈ ఘనత సాధించగా.. వార్నర్ (4,099) 114 మ్యాచ్లు తీసుకున్నాడు. దక్షిణాఫ్రికా బ్యాట్స్మెన్ డివిలియర్స్ 3,962 పరుగులతో తర్వాతి స్థానంలో ఉన్నాడు.
SEYCHELLES OCEAN MISSION ALDABRA SECRETS
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS / NEKTON
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only / Part Must Credit Nekton
LENGTH: 6.37
SHOTLIST:
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Aldabra Island, Seychelles – 18 March 2019
1. Aerial of Ocean Zephyr with Aldabra in background ++mute++
2. Aerial of Aldabra island ++mute++
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Aldabra Island, Seychelles – 22 March 2019
3. Aerial of submersible in water ahead of dive
4. Aerial mid of submersible in water ahead of dive
5. Closeup of submersible diving
6. Wide of submersible diving
NEKTON – MUST CREDIT NEKTON
Aldabra Island – March 2019
7. Underwater shot from submersible following a second submersible at around 80 meters
8. Underwater shot showing a Grouper
9. Underwater shot showing a Grouper
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Aldabra Island – 17 March 2019
10. Various of coral at 120 meters below the surface
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Aldabra Island – March 2019
11. Various of reef shark
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Aldabra Island, Seychelles – 23 March 2019
12.SOUNDBITE (English) Rowana Walton, Marine Scientist, Nekton:
"Over the past few days, what we've seen on our reefs here is that there is a higher number of predatory fish here on the coral reef. So that's your Sharks, that's also your Groupers and Snappers - those larger bodied fish - and we are seeing higher abundance of those here than perhaps elsewhere in Seychelles, particularly in the inner islands where there is higher fishing pressure. So having that higher number of these fish, these large bodied predatory fish is an indicator of a healthier coral reef ecosystem. So it indicates that these reefs here are much healthier than we've seen elsewhere."
NEKTON – MUST CREDIT NEKTON
Aldabra Island – March 2019
13. Underwater shot from transect at 10 meters of depth conducted by scuba divers showing hard coral and reef fish
14. Underwater shot from transect at 10 meters of depth conducted showing a sea turtle
15. Underwater shot from transect at around 30 meters of depth showing fan coral and reef fish
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Aldabra Island, Seychelles – 23 March 2019
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Rowana Walton, Marine Scientist, Nekton:
"Usually, in our trophic pyramid structure, what we would see is fewer sharks and predatory fish, those that sit at the top of that pyramid, and at the bottom we would see many more herbivorous fish. But what we are seeing at Aldabra is a high number of predatory fish, but also a high number of herbivorous fish. So this could indicate that there are changes in that classical trophic pyramid structure that we understand from coral reefs elsewhere in the world. So this is something we really want to study and investigate further, and find out if this is true, and if so, what factors could be causing this."
NEKTON – MUST CREDIT NEKTON
Aldabra Island – March 2019
17. Underwater shot from transect at 10 meters of depth conducted by scuba divers showing hard coral and reef fish
18. Underwater shot from transect at 10 meters of depth conducted by scuba divers showing an anemone and reef fish
19. Underwater shot from transect at 10 meters of depth conducted by scuba divers showing a sea turtle swimming underwater
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Aldabra Island, Seychelles – 18 March 2019
20. Aerial of Aldabra revealing Ocean Zephyr
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Aldabra Island, Seychelles – 22 March 2019
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucy Woodall, Principle Scientist, Nekton:
"So Aldabra can provide a baseline for what some atolls in this sort of latitude might look like if human activities hadn't impacted them. It's always hard to tell unless you have a before and an after, but it does act as that baseline so that we can understand a model to try to predict, after protection has been put in place in other places, what it might end up looking like."
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Aldabra Island, Seychelles – 21 March 2019
22. Wide of National Geographic Society fellow, Jonatha Giddens reviewing a shark identification sheet
23. Tilt from hand to screen
24. Closeup on hand typing
25. Various of computer screen with Giddens pointing to screen UPSOUND: (English) Jonatha Giddens: "Ok, so we are at 320 meters depth off of the north point of Aldabra, and we see what looks like a sixgill shark come through the frame. Wait for a minute and you'll see him and his eye, slowly move in the distance. And that beautiful tail."
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonatha Giddens, National Geographic Society fellow:
"We know very little, because we're not able to observe frequently. So people may have only seen them only at deeper depths before, but they could have very varied behaviour patterns throughout the day and night, throughout seasons, throughout currents. So every sighting is really rich with information as far as expanding our knowledge of their depth distribution, and their spacial distribution throughout the world, as well as how they might be responding to changing conditions."
NEKTON – MUST CREDIT NEKTON
Aldabra Island – 17 March 2019
27. Underwater shot from submersible near the Rariphotic zone, with Siphonophore
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Aldabra Island, Seychelles – 22 March 2019
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucy Woodall, Principle Scientist, Nekton:
"What we find, with the animals that live on the seafloor, that they change a lot from the surface and down through into the depths as the light decreases. And we can see this very obviously, we've seen that in our submersible dives and a lot of our pictures and imagery. However, although they look like very distinct bands to us, in fact they are all connected really. And I think for me, that was an incredible point that came up when we were finding this sixgill shark earlier. So what we've got is an organism that generally lives a lot deeper and we found it a lot shallower than we might expect it."
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Aldabra Island, Seychelles – 22 March 2019
29. Wide of Aldabra island at sunset
30. Mid of fishing device drifting towards the reef
31. Closeup of a fishing device drifting towards the reef
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Aldabra Island, Seychelles – 23 March 2019
32. Sunset
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Aldabra Island, Seychelles – 22 March 2019
33. Aerial showing the outline of Ocean Zephyr with dusk in the background
LEADIN:
Scientists from the British-led Nekton mission say it's significant that they've found an abundance of marine life while exploring the remote atoll of Aldabra in the Indian Ocean.
They hope it indicates a healthy reef, and one that could show what a tropical reef should look like without impact from humans.
STORYLINE:
Aldabra: one of the largest coral atolls in the world, more than 1100 kilometres (680 miles) from Seychelles' capital Victoria.
It's so remote that its near-pristine environment is considered by some scientists as a modern-day baseline for tropical reefs in the Western Indian Ocean.
Scientists onboard the Ocean-Zephyr have been on site for a little over a week, conducting dives just below the surface, but also using manned submersibles to dive deep into the ocean.
It's with regular video surveys at specific depths - called transects - that the scientists hope to understand the ecosystem in Aldabra and how different layers of the ocean interact.
The "Altiphotic" layer descends to 30 meters below the surface and presents the highest number of fish and coral.
In the "Mesophotic" layer sunlight struggles to penetrate so it presents less diversity.
The "Rariphotic" zone, from about 130 meters below the surface to approximately 300 meters, is where life is scarce.
So far, it's the top layer that is standing out. Marine Scientist Rowana Walton has been comparing the reef to other parts of the Seychelles facing higher fishing pressure.
"Over the past few days, what we've seen on our reefs here is that there is a higher number of predatory fish here on the coral reef. So that's your Sharks, that's also your Groupers and Snappers - those larger bodied fish - and we are seeing higher abundance of those here than perhaps elsewhere in Seychelles, particularly in the inner islands where there is higher fishing pressure. So having a higher number of these fish, these large bodied predatory fish is an indicator of a healthier coral reef ecosystem. So it indicates that these reefs here are much healthier than we've seen elsewhere," she says
Aldabra has been a protected site for decades and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, which has given the atoll time to recover from the effects of fishing.
Scientists here have seen various species of sharks, such as Blacktip Reef sharks, White Tip sharks, but also Groupers and Snappers.
These observations have led some reserachers to suggest that the traditional food chain pyramid - with a few numbers of predators at the top, and a large base of prey - may not be entirely adequate to represent conditions in near-pristine reefs.
"Usually, in our trophic pyramid structure, what we would see is fewer sharks and predatory fish, those that sit at the top of that pyramid, and at the bottom we would see many more herbivorous fish. But what we are seeing at Aldabra is a high number of predatory fish, but also a high number of herbivorous fish. So this could indicate that there are changes in that classical trophic pyramid structure that we understand from coral reefs elsewhere in the world. So this is something we really want to study and investigate further, and find out if this is true, and if so, what factors could be causing this," says Walton.
Science is a slow game, and it may take years for the scientists to examine all the data gathered during this expedition, but it does give their research a new focus.
"Aldabra can provide a baseline for what some atolls in this sort of latitude might look like if human activities hadn't impacted them," says Lucy Woodall, the expedition's principal scientist.
But it's not just what is happening at the surface that interests researchers here. The interaction between the different layers of the ocean remains a mystery they hope to shed some light on.
For Jonatha Giddens, a National Geographic Society fellow, her realm is the deep.
With a special National Geographic labs camera dropped to the sea floor she was provided with a rare sighting when her camera filmed what is believed to be a Sixgill shark at a depth of 320 meters.
"We know very little, because we're not able to observe frequently," says Giddens. "Every sighting is really rich with information as far as expanding our knowledge of their depth distribution, and their spacial distribution throughout the world, as well as how they might be responding to changing conditions."
It's this interaction between the different layers of the ocean that is also exciting the Nekton team.
"What we find, with the animals that live on the seafloor, is that they change a lot from the surface and down through into the depths as the light decreases. And we can see this very obviously, we've seen that in our submersible dives and a lot of our pictures and imagery. However, although they look like very distinct bands to us, in fact they are all connected really. And I think for me, that was an incredible point that came up when we were finding this sixgill shark earlier. So what we've got is an organism that generally lives a lot deeper and we found it a lot shallower than we might expect it," says Woodall.
Despite the protection conferred on Aldabra, this unique atoll remains at risk.
Warming events can lead to coral bleaching, and man-made waste can travel thousands of miles and wash up on its shore.
As the sun sets, a troubling sight appears on the horizon. A fishing device used to attract tuna is spotted a few hundred meters from the ship.
The device is legal in open sea, but should not have drifted into the waters of Aldabra.
A stark reminder that geographic isolation alone will not save this jewel of the Indian Ocean.
EDITOR'S NOTES
The Associated Press is the only news agency working with British scientists from the Nekton research team, on its deep-sea mission that aims to unlock the secrets of the Indian Ocean. AP video coverage will include exploring the depths of up to 300 meters (1,000 feet) off the coast of the Seychelles in two-person submarines, the search for submerged mountain ranges and previously undiscovered marine life, a behind-the-scenes look at life on board, interviews with researchers and aerial footage of the mission. The seven-week expedition is expected to run until April 19.
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Last Updated : Mar 25, 2019, 8:38 PM IST
