Camera Captures Mermaid on Submersible | Mermaids

oh [Applause] wow we're with former Noah biologist Dr Paul Robertson and joined by Dr Torsten SMI he was the lead geologist on a submarine crew that recorded on March 6th of this year the astonishing footage we just watched and I'd like to start out with some reactions Dr Paul Robertson um I'd really like to see what's on that second camera I'm glad I think we all do our viewers at home too would like to see that we're going to show you that right now let's take a look oh wow Dr Robert no sorry can can we play that back please can we get can we get the footage of the of that back up there can we in fact why don't we take the both cameras first and second snc and let's roll them together can we do that take a look again [Music] you you got it Dr robton is this the creature that you and your team found in South Africa from what I can see here yes the the body recovered was in complete but based on the remains that were taken from us it it looks like the same species Dr Smith what did you think when you saw this and when you filmed it at the time well I looked at it and um I just knew I was looking into the face of another intelligence another species like us Dr Smith tell us who did you first show this footage to when you realized what you had filmed well we knew we could not shared with the Duty Officers of the EXP Expeditions so um we uh again you mean the Icelandic authorities who basically said that if you pursue this they're going to threaten you with legal action exactly so we discussed it as a crew and because we are Danes and Greenland is a part of Denmark we thought we could go to the Danish authorities so we did I'm going to put up an article here and this is just remarkable please take a look at this this is Greenland's response to what the Danish Authority shared with them the government in Greenland issued a total ban on all new new drilling all new oil exploration and this was just announced on March 27th of this year 2013 and all of this in response to the footage that you and your team shared with the Danish authorities yes that's right we have a map of this area can can we put up the map right now yeah I mean this is near where you filmed the encounter is that right yes seems like a vast area that's huge it's actually the largest natural park in the world uh and also a coastal Pres Service uh for marine mammals and I think because of our footage was taking near that area then uh there was a lot of concern about the disturbances to this habitat and and and what that may affect to the animals there

Channel: Animal Planet

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Keywords: mermaids, mermaid footage, mermaids caught on tape, animal planet's mermaids, deep sea mermaid sighting, sub mermaid footage, mermaid on sub

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Length: 3min 47sec (227 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 12 2013