Windley Key, Islamorada, Theater of the Sea, swordfish and shark swimming, bystanders watching man hand feed sea turtle, stingray swimming, person hand feeding and petting stingray.

<p><pi><b> **This package/segment contains third party material. Unless otherwise noted, this material may only be used within this package/segment.**</b></pi></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>00:02 - 00:06: </p>\n<p>Gregg Furstenwerth</p>\n<p>Florida Keys Lifetime Resident</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>00:07 - 00:17: </p>\n<p>Gregg and Shaylee Furstenwerth </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>00:18 - 00:22: </p>\n<p>Gregg Furstenwerth</p>\n<p>Florida Keys Lifetime Resident</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>00:23 - 00:34: </p>\n<p>Gregg and Shaylee Furstenwerth</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>00:35 - 00:43: </p>\n<p>Gregg Furstenwerth</p>\n<p>Florida Keys Lifetime Resident</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>00:44 - 00:52: </p>\n<p>Bonefish and Tarpon Trust </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>00:58 - 01:13: </p>\n<p>Michael Rolph</p>\n<p>Captain, MyKeys Tours</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>01:14 - 01:20: </p>\n<p>Captain Michael Rolph</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>01:21 - 01:29: </p>\n<p>WINK</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>01:30 - 01:38: </p>\n<p>Mike Parsons</p>\n<p>Professor, The Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>01:42 - 01:54: </p>\n<p>WINK</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>01:57 - 02:02: </p>\n<p>Adam Catasus</p>\n<p>Researcher, The Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>02:03 - 02:07: </p>\n<p>WINK</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>02:19 - 02:36: </p>\n<p>Mike Parsons</p>\n<p>Professor, The Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>02:39 - 02:55: </p>\n<p>Gregg Furstenwerth</p>\n<p>Florida Keys Lifetime Resident</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>02:55 - end</p>\n<p>Bill Weir</p>\n<p>Reporting</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>-</p>\n<p>THERE'S A STRANGE UNDERWATER MYSTERY IN THE FLORIDA KEYS.</p>\n<p>FISH THERE.. ARE SWIMMING IN CIRCLES... UNTIL THEY DIE. </p>\n<p>CNN'S BILL WEIR IS IN MARATHON FLORIDA WHERE RESEARCHERS ARE RACING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S CAUSING THE BIZARRE BEHAVIOR AND HOW TO STOP IT. </p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>Gregg Furstenwerth/ Florida Keys Lifetime Resident:</p>\n<p>"I started diving when I was eight years old with my mom // so I've been in the water for a very long time."</p>\n<p>GREG FURSTENWERTH HAS SEEN A LOT IN HIS LIFE SPENT UNDERWATER AROUND THE FLORIDA KEYS…BUT HE’D NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS.</p>\n<p>Gregg Furstenwerth/ Florida Keys Lifetime Resident:</p>\n<p>"I noticed the fish were spinning. And so I started taking video of that that I really had no idea what I was looking at."</p>\n<p>SINCE LAST FALL HE’S SEEN STINGRAYS SWIMMING UPSIDE DOWN, GOLIATH GROUPERS FLAILING ON THEIR SIDES AND DOZENS OF OTHER SPECIES SWIMMING IN TORTURED, FLAILING LOOPS.</p>\n<p>Gregg Furstenwerth/ Florida Keys Lifetime Resident:</p>\n<p>"Well, I mean, I've said that, you know, it's like I'm in the middle of a disaster movie, and I'm that guy yelling from, you know, the mountain top, trying to get people to pay attention."</p>\n<p>STATE FISH AND WILDLIFE OFFICIALS AND FLORIDA’S BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST HAVE LOGGED NEARLY 200 INCIDENTS WITH OVER 30 SPECIES ACTING THIS WAY…MOSTLY IN THE LOWER KEYS BUT AS FAR NORTH AS MIAMI…</p>\n<p>Michael Rolph / Captain, MyKeysTours</p>\n<p>"Yeah, this is crazy. I was out on a six hour charter. I had two people on the boat, and we were down off a little bit by the bank, and we happened to see a fish floundering on the flats. And then. So we got close to them. We want to see if there was a problem, and we could obviously tell that he was in distress."</p>\n<p>IT TURNED OUT TO BE A SAWFISH—A CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES THAT MIGHT LOSE 4 OR 5 MATURE ADULTS A YEAR, BUT IN JUST A FEW MONTHS, AT LEAST 27 HAVE BEACHED THEMSELVES OR DIED AFTER INTENSE EPISODES OF WHAT ANGLERS ARE CALLING “THE SPINS.”</p>\n<p>Mike Parsons, Professor of Marine Science, The Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University</p>\n<p>“So typically when we think of fish acting strangely or dying, we either think of low oxygen conditions in the water or red tide. And so we saw neither.”</p>\n<p>AT THE WATER SCHOOL AT FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY, MIKE PARSON’S TEAM IS PART OF THE STATEWIDE EFFORT TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF THE SPINNING FISH…AND WHILE TESTS FOR MOST TOXINS HAVE TURNED UP EMPTY…</p>\n<p>THE MOST PROMISING SUSPECT IS FOUND LIVING OFF OF SEAWEED AT THE BOTTOM…A TINY CRITTER NAMED GAMBIERDISCUS.</p>\n<p>nats</p>\n<p>THE SINGLE CELLED ALGAE WHICH CAN PRODUCE VARIOUS NEUROTOXINS IS SHOWING UP IN RECORD HIGH LEVELS….BUT IT’S JUST ONE MORE STRESSOR ON MARINE LIFE ALREADY REELING FROM POLLUTION, OVERFISHING AND OFF-THE-CHARTS OCEAN HEAT WAVES BROUGHT BY CLIMATE CHANGE.</p>\n<p>Mike Parsons </p>\n<p>"So there's, concern and curiosity, I guess, on could the hot, hot temperatures in the summer cause some changes that maybe led to the fish, behavior now, and we just don't really have all the pieces together to try to link one to the other."</p>\n<p>Gregg Furstenwerth/ Florida Keys Lifetime Resident:</p>\n<p>"They really have no idea what is happening. I mean, there is no concrete, conclusive proof of what is happening yet. And that is still there to be determined, which is quite terrifying."</p>\n<p>Reporter:</p>\n<p>"It is scary, isn't it?"</p>\n<p>Gregg Furstenwerth: </p>\n<p>"It is because if it continues, it's going to be the end of this ecosystem as we know it." </p>\n<p>Bill Weir/ Reporting:</p>\n<p>"Off the charts ocean temperatures are, of course, just one of the massive stressors on marine life down here these days, there was a three year study recently in which 100% of the bonefish that were tested in the keys turned up at least seven different pharmaceuticals from opioids to antidepressants. And so this behavior has not been seen before, but it is sort of uh an attack from 1000 different angles for the creatures living down here and may be a warning for the rest of us."</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>OCEAN FLORIDA WATER ANIMALS WILDLIFE SPIN TWIRL SCIENCE CLIMATE</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>

In a sunken ship at the bottom of the scene, a heroic fish must leave his girlfriend to fight a wily pirate octopus. The fish borrows his weapon from a helpful swordfish. A turtle and a group of sawfish lend support. Beautiful, fluid animation style in vintage color. Master in Apple Pro Res 422 HQ 29.97fps 1080p.

"SAWFISH RESCUE"

PLAYMATES OF THE SEA

MONTAGE SAWFISH

PLAYMATES OF THE SEA

This clip features Lake Nicaragua, taken from the window of a commercial airplane. Also known as Cocibolca or Granada, Lake Nicaragua is the 19th largest lake in the world by area. Lake Nicaragua has sawfish, tarpon, and sharks, despite it being a freshwater lake. The lake also has sizeable waves driven by the easterly winds blowing west to the Pacific Ocean.

CU BLADE OF SAWFISH COMING THROUGH DOOR

This clip features Lake Nicaragua, taken from the window of a commercial airplane. Also known as Cocibolca or Granada, Lake Nicaragua is the 19th largest lake in the world by area. Lake Nicaragua has sawfish, tarpon, and sharks, despite it being a freshwater lake. The lake also has sizeable waves driven by the easterly winds blowing west to the Pacific Ocean.

Barberfish (Heniochus nigrirostris), pacific creole fish (Paranthias colonus) and yellowtail sawfish swim over coral reef, Galapagos (Core Number: NBSK536A)

A couple of boaters on the lookout for a barramundi down Western Australia's Fitzroy River came across something entirely different when they ended up rescuing an endangered sawfish. Footage by Karen Rule of Positive Fishing shows her and her partner John "Johno" Marven heading towards the shore after spotting what they thought to be a dead fish entangled in a net. "We see something strange; it wasn't right. We couldn't get the tinny in close enough, the water was too shallow," Marven told Storyful. The pair jumped into the ankle-deep water to take a closer look, only to find a very lively sawfish vainly trying to free itself. Video shows Rule holding the net as Marven proceeds to cut it and help the critter back into deeper water. Both https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/smalltooth-sawfish">smalltooth and https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/largetooth-sawfish">largetooth sawfish feature on the NOAA Fisheries list of endangered species. Talking to the ABC, Rule said, "We pushed him back into the deep and he swam off safely. It was a very nice feeling ... to see him glide off." (Footage by Positive Fishing/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)

Silhouette of a Saw Shark swimming underwater in the great barrier reef near Cairns Queensland Australia.

Shark

A stunning underwater capture of a Shovelnose Ray, highlighting its shovel-shaped snout and streamlined body, gliding effortlessly through the ocean.