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Special Screening: Documentary film “Collision”, featuring IOC/GOOS

Special Screening: Documentary film “Collision”, featuring IOC/GOOS


Ocean Souls Films, in association with the Claude & Sofia Marion Foundation, have released its powerful feature documentary focusing on fatal ship strikes on cetaceans - Collision (2023). The film, featuring GOOS Act. Office Director Emma Heslop and many scientific experts in this field, premiered at the 20th International Ocean Film Festival in San Francisco on Sunday 16th April and was awarded the Environment Award.
 

A special screening of the film will take place at the UNESCO HQ in Paris on 13 September 2023 19:00, followed by a discussion in the presence of the film's Director & Producer, Philip Hamilton, scientific experts and representatives of the maritime industry. Join us for this special screening and a timely conversation about the impacts of maritime shipping on marine biodiversity and how science, technology and international cooperation can improve our understanding of the issue and inspire the development and implementation of solutions.


 

Humans are using the oceans more and more as highways to ship goods across the world. A 2014 study found that global ship traffic had increased four-fold in only two decades. As the oceans become increasingly laden with large ships travelling at a high speed, whales are increasingly at risk of being hit and killed by this traffic. A recent study in Canada found that along with entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with ships is the number one cause of non-natural death in large whales.
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The IWC has recognized that reducing the spatial overlap of both high numbers of cetaceans and high numbers of vessels is likely to remain the best means of reducing ship strikes. However, multiple solutions exist in different locations around the world.

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We identify overlapping marine areas where high a density of whales (feeding or nursing grounds) meet a high density of boats. This is where most accidents happen and where solutions could be the most effective.

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To evaluate the current dramatic situation, the Ocean Souls team talked to the best scientists, experts, conservationists, NGOs and agencies around the world and uncovered the challenging but also the successful stories. Unfortunately for the whales and marine ecosystems as a whole, technology is not evolving as fast as expected, thermal cameras are in need of some real modifications and improvements and acoustic buoys are helping but are yet to be perfect. Despite the complexities, there is hope and with just willingness, we could be saving thousands of endangered whales a year.









“For every whale confirmed to have died as a result of a ship collision there are dozens more killed by strikes that go undocumented with the ship unaware and the carcass sinking or not coming ashore. “

John Calambokidis, Research Biologist, and founder Cascadia Research


“I can’t possibly imagine that my colleagues on the shipping industry would not be willing to help, we are part of the problem, clearly we want to be part of the the solution"

Michael Barbaix - Supertanker Captain
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