NARRATOR: They're watching you.
More than 6,000 satellites circle the Earth.
Every day, they uncover new, mysterious phenomena
that defy explanation.
Revealed from the skies,
Indiana's phantom mega-factory.
It's this sort of post-apocalyptic nightmare.
NARRATOR: The Russian Atlantis.
Throughout the city, we see
scenes of total carnage and destruction.
NARRATOR: And the island that disappeared.
It represented one of the darkest chapters in history.
NARRATOR: Baffling phenomena. mysteries from space.
What on Earth are they?
[theme music playing]
October 1st, 2021.
A satellite scans a suburban area of Clark County, Indiana,
and spots something out of place.
This is a highly populous area, and yet there's a whole section
of it that's just been overgrown, abandoned.
It's a really bizarre sight.
It's really strange.
And then if you zoom in closer,
you see all these unusual shapes.
It looks like somebody carved circuit boards
into the surface of the Earth.
NARRATOR: The strangely-shaped structures stretch across
a facility the size of 7,500 football fields,
one that is being devoured by nature.
There's gotta be some story that
explains why something that's so big
is now abandoned to the elements.
NARRATOR: To investigate that story,
Trevor Albertson has traveled to
Indiana to study the ghostly compound up close.
ALBERTSON: Man, this place is crazy.
It's this sort of post-apocalyptic,
abandoned, overgrown nightmare.
NARRATOR: Row upon row of abandoned structures stretch
for up to a mile into the distance.
This is just an incredible place.
You've got brick buildings over here.
Steel structures over here.
I need to know what's going on
out there to know what this whole facility does.
NARRATOR: As Albertson explores the facility,
one structure draws his attention.
Whoa!
Oh, check this out.
NARRATOR: The massive industrial machinery lining
the room is several decades old.
ALBERTSON: They almost have this feel of
being something out of a Frankenstein movie.
Something very, very serious was going on here.
NARRATOR: Close by,
Albertson finds structures concealed by trees
in the satellite image.
It's like some giant water slides or something.
NARRATOR: Each of the slides is grounded with a thick wire.
ALBERTSON: That means something serious.
If you're trying to keep electricity away from something,
you're trying to keep it from igniting, combusting,
maybe even exploding.
NARRATOR: As the weather clears, Albertson reaches
a structure at the center of the giant compound.
Oh, wow!
NARRATOR: Dozens of mixing machines
and gantry cranes line the corridors.
ALBERTSON: This is really impressive.
It's like time is standing still here.
NARRATOR: A wall behind one of the machines yields a clue.
We have a clear indication that what is going on
here is military-related -- on the top of these memos,
it says, "Indiana Ordnance Works."
This was a ordnance factory.
NARRATOR: Declassified military records
reveal the satellite image has uncovered
a facility that helped define the course of human history.
This factory played a crucial role in helping
America and the Allies win World War II.
This plant is a seriously important part
of the story of the 20th century.
NARRATOR: The groundwork for the giant factory
is laid in 1939.
[shouting]
NARRATOR: As the specter of Nazi evil spreads across the globe,
President Roosevelt steels his nation for combat.
There is a sense that something big is coming down
the pike, and the United States wants to be ready.
WALTERS: As a result of this, the U.S. Government
comes up with a plan, what they call M-Day,
the day American manufacturing would go to war.
[whistle blows]
NARRATOR: Washington's plans lead to American
industrial production almost doubling in size.
And the country manufacturers around
2/3 of all Allied military equipment.
M. MORGAN: We put 16 million people in uniform during
the course of the conflict, and that helps,
but it's the contribution of American industrial output
that is really a decisive factor
in the outcome of the war.
WALTERS: Suddenly, the U.S. is producing tens of thousands of
warplanes a year, and it's not just vehicles.
There's also a real emphasis on weapons and munitions,
and that is how this site here came to be.
NARRATOR: Construction of the site in the image
begins in August 1940.
By the time it opens,
the mega-factory employs more than 27,000 people.
Many of them are tasked with manufacturing a material
that transformed how war was waged, smokeless gun powder.
Smokeless gunpowder was a revolution for warfare.
Prior to its invention, soldiers regularly
had to try to fire through clouds
of their own smoke to hit targets they could not see.
All of a sudden, you couldn't see where that round came from,
whether it was from a tank,
a sniper, or somebody with a machine gun.
NARRATOR: During World War II, U.S. factories produce over
41 billion rounds of small arms munitions,
enough to take 20 shots at every person on Earth at the time.
This factory alone manufactures 1 billion pounds
of smokeless gunpowder, for use in anything
from 45-caliber pistols,
to 16-inch naval guns.
This is a war factory on a scale never before seen.
It's truly an incredible feat of manufacturing and production.
ALBERTSON: What you're looking at is the factory that
defeated Nazi Germany and imperial Japan
and fascist Italy
during World War II.
NARRATOR: More than half of the factory workers are women,
many of whom stitch storage bags and pack them with
the explosive powder.
ALBERTSON: The reason you have these structures with hard walls
and soft roofs is that if something detonates,
it goes up rather than out, hopefully killing
as few people as possible in an accident.
NARRATOR: At the end of World War II,
production at the site winds down,
but events then unfold, which see it
play another crucial role in military history.
The United States was facing a very different
kind of enemy, and it roars back into life.
NARRATOR: Coming up, terror in the jungle.
The ambushes absolutely devastate U.S. forces.
NARRATOR: And code of the desert serpent.
These patterns are carved into the ground on
tremendous scales.
NARRATOR: Strange shapes revealed from the skies
have drawn Trevor Albertson
to an abandoned 10,000-acre compound in Indiana.
This is a massive facility used to make the ordnance of war.
RUBEN: During the Second World War,
this factory was the largest producer
of smokeless powder in the world.
NARRATOR: Military records reveal production at the site
winds down at the end of World War II,
but it goes on to play a role in a very
different kind of conflict on the other side of the world.
CAVELL: The start of the Vietnam conflict is going to see it
come back to life,
and massive production will start coming out of
this factory once again.
NARRATOR: During the Vietnam War,
the U.S. sends more than 2.5 million
military personnel to Southeast Asia.
But unfamiliar terrain and enemy tactics mean they soon
incur terrible losses at the hands of the Viet Cong.
[explosion blasts]
The Viet Cong preferred guerilla warfare,
hit and run ambushes,
and those absolutely devastate U.S. forces.
The Vietnam War was a very different
type of war from World War II.
So the U.S. shifted the type of weapons that we use.
NARRATOR: Unable to dominate the ground war,
the U.S. turns to the skies, dropping more than
7.5 million tons of bombs,
more than double the total amount used in World War II.
In the jungle, soldiers rely on rockets,
artillery, and mortars to overpower enemy forces.
These weapons allowed the United States to attack from
a greater distance without being attacked themselves,
which negated some of the advantages of guerilla warfare.
NARRATOR: As the conflict escalates, so does production
at the plant in the image,
with almost 20,000 workers contributing to the war effort.
WALTERS: At the height of the Vietnam War,
they are manufacturing eight million mortar charges
every month.
That rate of industrial
military output is absolutely staggering.
ALBERTSON: It's kind of sobering to think that what came from
here meant a lot of death and destruction for others.
NARRATOR: Despite the U.S. military's
overwhelming firepower,
the war descends into a bloody stalemate.
In an attempt to break the deadlock,
American intelligence operatives authorize a highly
controversial operation,
code named Project Eldest Son.
This is really a little known operation in which the U.S.
military was able to capture some of
the North Vietnamese ammunition.
They drained out the powder and put in high explosives
and then returned the ammo to the North Vietnamese.
So if they used it, it would explode, killing the user.
The operation also successfully implants this idea
amongst the Viet Cong
that Chinese and Soviet weapons supplies aren't to
be trusted, they're not very well made.
NARRATOR: When the Vietnam War ends,
thousands of workers leave, and the factory falls silent.
But 15 years later, the U.S. government
calls it back into action one final time.
RUBEN: In the late '80s, there were plans to close
this site but it got a last minute reprieve
thanks to the war in Kuwait.
NARRATOR: During the war, the U.S. Navy deploys
two World War II era battleships
to support ground troops in Iraq.
You have the U.S. battleships,
Missouri and Wisconsin .
I mean, they're designed for the Second World War,
and they still need World War II style charges to work.
And so the plant in Indiana went back to manufacturing
the same powder bags that they made during World War II.
NARRATOR: By the time the war has ended,
the factory has produced more than 1.5 million
tons of explosives during its 50-year lifespan.
CAVELL: It's really amazing to think about the fact that
this one factory was producing propellants
for American conflicts from World War II
all the way through to the Gulf War.
NARRATOR: Today, the plant is being demolished,
creating strange patterns visible from space.
The site that helped to defeat
Hitler and Saddam Hussein is being redeveloped,
bringing new life to a town that
brought so much destruction to the world.
WALTERS: When you look at the decaying ruins of
the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant,
they're a real reminder of the incredible military power of
the United States and the many,
many conflicts that shaped the 20th century.
NARRATOR: Coming up, the city being swallowed whole.
What we're looking at was created
by the murderous ego of one man.
NARRATOR: And the strange tale of Rabbit Island.
It's hard to imagine a more stark
contrast than the past of this island...
and its present.
NARRATOR: February 12th, 2021.
Flying over the Ural Mountains in Russia,
a satellite scans a city more than 400 miles below.
WALTERS: What we see here is the typical infrastructure that
you're gonna see in any large industrial city,
but it appears to have been devoured in places.
KOUROUNIS: Large chunks are just gone,
replaced by what looks like water.
NARRATOR: Some of the flooded craters
are over 1,000 feet in diameter.
WALTERS: Throughout the city, we see
scenes of total carnage and destruction.
You've got schools completely vanished,
homes disappeared, and lakes engulfing entire buildings.
NARRATOR: This is Berezniki,
a city of over 150,000 people.
It's become known as the Russian Atlantis.
RODRIGUEZ McROBBIE: Imagine living in a city
where, at any moment,
the ground beneath your feet could just give way.
Must be terrifying.
NARRATOR: Analysts turn to Berezniki's history for clues.
The unfolding catastrophe,
it turns out, is one a century in the making.
Declassified Soviet records
tell us that what we're looking at was created by
the murderous ego of one man, Joseph Stalin.
NARRATOR: After rising to power in 1928,
Stalin sets a plan in motion
to transform Russia's rural economy.
Known as collectivization,
it will see 25 million farms put under state control.
Stalin basically wants to free up labor
and money to help his country industrialize,
but he also wants to reduce the power of peasant landlords,
whom he despises.
NARRATOR: Over the following years,
over 90 percent of all peasant homesteads
are reorganized into 250,000 collective farms.
Collectivization would see a very large number of people
sent out to collective farms,
where they would produce all of the food that the Soviet
people needed for survival.
NARRATOR: Sixty million peasants are put to work on
farms that can cover more than 60,000 acres.
If he wants his new farms to feed his entire nation,
Stalin needs vast amounts of fertilizer, and that's what
gives rise to the town in this image.
Berezniki is rich in potash,
which is the potassium-rich salt used in fertilizers.
This would have been essential to Soviet agriculture.
NARRATOR: The potash mine in Berezniki opens in 1932.
It's a place of dread and terror.
Berezniki was one of Russia's gulags.
This forced labor camp sought convicts, from petty criminals
to political prisoners
put to work during the rule of Stalin and, indeed, beyond.
NARRATOR: Berezniki's prisoners are forced to dig tunnels with
bare hands in shifts that can last for 14 hours.
The potash they produce is sent
across Russia to fuel Stalin's agricultural revolution.
KOUROUNIS: Conditions, of course, were terrible.
There was no concern for the health and safety of
these prisoners.
They were worked to near death or to death.
NARRATOR: Despite the prisoners' efforts,
collectivization proves to be a disaster,
and millions die from hunger.
And as the inmates continue to toil in the mine,
the fuse is lit for the disaster
revealed from space.
What Soviet policy required was that labor camps needed to
be set up within marching distance of where
prisoners worked.
So this city was built directly over the potash mine.
The problem is that the walls and supporting pillars
within the mine were carved from the potash itself.
In many places, these underground
voids weren't reinforced with anything.
So it's a recipe for disaster.
NARRATOR: In 2006, a freshwater spring
leaks into the unstable tunnels,
setting off a decades-old geological time bomb.
The water just dissolved the pillars and walls,
leaving nothing to support the heavy earth above.
Now the weight of the city itself was bearing down on
these voids in the earth,
and parts of the town just started to collapse,
caving in on itself.
This really is a case of the horrors of the past coming
back to haunt you, because the prisoners
that were enslaved and forced to toil in those mines right
beneath the city ultimately contributed to its demise.
NARRATOR: The giant water-filled holes forced
12,000 residents to flee their homes.
But for them, the nightmare doesn't end there.
What's been reported is that some of the new buildings that
residents have been moved to
are actually built upon the cemetery of where countless
forced laborers would have been laid to rest.
NARRATOR: Authorities have tried and failed
to stabilize the old gulag mine.
Yet many fear the government is abandoning
the Russian Atlantis to a watery grave.
CERVENY: To put tragedy above tragedy,
there's nothing that seems to be being done to
stop this mine from collapsing even more in the future.
NARRATOR: Coming up, the Pacific Ocean's
weird vanishing act.
Why would the Japanese make an island disappear?
NARRATOR: And monster worship in the desert.
There's a very thin line sometimes
between fear and religion.
NARRATOR: Spring 2022.
An orbiting camera scans
Okunoshima Island off the coast of Honshu, Japan.
WALTERS: At first, there doesn't seem to
be anything particularly extraordinary
about this island.
MUNOZ: It looks like a lot of
the islands you'd see in the Pacific Ocean.
NARRATOR: However, local records reveal there's something
very strange about this 180-acre landmass.
There was a period of time when this island didn't exist.
Any nautical map, any sort of landmass map of
the area, simply did not include this particular island.
NARRATOR: The island is absent from all
official Japanese documents
for several years before reappearing in the late '40s.
M. MORGAN: The island is not there, and then it's back again.
Why would the Japanese make an island disappear?
NARRATOR: The disappearing island's location offers a clue.
What's interesting is that the island is close
to Hiroshima.
After the bombing of the city,
the Japanese government needed secure locations to
treat survivors.
Perhaps that's what we're looking at here.
NARRATOR: The detonation of the 15-kiloton Little Boy bomb
1,900 feet above Hiroshima kills or injures around
135,000 people.
As medics begin treating the wounded,
many begin to succumb to mystery illnesses.
SZULGIT: The Japanese government suddenly had thousands
and thousands of horrifically injured people
to treat, and the effects of radiation were not really
understood at all.
MUNOZ: They wanted to keep an eye on them to kind of
further examine the potential effects of nuclear
radiation and exposure.
NARRATOR: Authorities quickly rushed the injured
to secure locations for monitoring.
RUBEN: Could this be an island where survivors were relocated?
Could it be that the island was
then kept secret to protect those people?
NARRATOR: Declassified intelligence files confirm
the island is indeed linked to this country's military past,
but its vanishing act is the result of a different,
equally devastating type of weapon.
The reason the government tried to deny even
the existence of this island
was that it represented one of the darkest chapters in
Japanese history.
NARRATOR: In the early 20th century,
the Japanese begin researching chemical
and biological warfare,
reasoning that producing bacteria is
cheaper than making conventional weapons.
In 1929, authorities establish
a secret facility on the island in the image.
The main role of the factory was
to manufacture poison gas, and specifically, mustard gas.
The problem was that the Japanese had
previously signed the Geneva Protocols,
which banned the use of chemical and biological weapons.
So it's no surprise they didn't want
to publicize the existence of this factory.
NARRATOR: In 1937, Japan, seeking to expand
its territorial influence in the region,
invades China.
[bombs whistling]
[explosion blasts]
During the conflict, it deploys chemical weapons
manufactured on the island,
killing or injuring 80,000 people.
M. MORGAN: The Japanese Imperial Army used chemical
and biological agents
in the most inhumane and depraved way against
Chinese people.
NARRATOR: During World War II, fearing Allied forces
are stockpiling chemical weapons of their own,
the Japanese government turns the factory
over to a secretive unit called 731.
At first, Unit 731 was experimenting on
how to help Japanese soldiers withstand chemical warfare.
But after a while, it veered off into a completely
different territory,
something that really didn't even resemble
scientific research at all.
NARRATOR: Unit 731's first experiments take
place on animals, such as rabbits,
but it soon moves on to human test subjects.
M. MORGAN: They would, for example, take Chinese
prisoners of war, tie them to a post
in the middle of a test range, and then they would
expose these victims to chemical agents.
Another disgustingly common practice was to expose
prisoners to lethal doses of X-rays.
This is completely horrific.
NARRATOR: Some historians estimate that around
600,000 people die at the hands of Unit 731.
They were a peasant people, and the Japanese felt that they
were unworthy of life and they were nothing more
than lab animals.
NARRATOR: During World War II, the island factory uses
Unit 731's so-called research
to produce 6,000 tons of poison gas
and other chemical agents.
The justification for these experiments
was to advance military technology.
It really was atrocities that, nowadays,
would equate to being crimes against humanity.
NARRATOR: Following its surrender in September 1945,
the Japanese government attempts to
cover up Unit 731's brutalities
before abandoning the island.
They escaped from the island with the full knowledge that,
when the Americans get here,
there's going to be hell to pay.
We're going to have to face the music.
NARRATOR: However, in a twist of fate,
many of the murderous scientists escape punishment
for their crimes.
Disgracefully, you actually have
the U.S. government playing an active
role in this cover-up and giving immunity
to some Unit 731 researchers in return
for access to their data.
NARRATOR: Seven decades later, an unlikely legacy of
the Unit 731 experiments remains on the island.
Around 1,000 rabbits have taken up residence here,
rumored to be escapees from its
reign of terror all those years ago.
It's hard to imagine a more stark contrast than
the horrific, grim past of this island
and its present.
NARRATOR: Coming up, the 30-mile-long desert cipher.
NARDI: What we see are cryptic messages, which are
just beyond what we can comprehend at this time.
NARRATOR: And the lagoons of doom.
Their luminous color points to a dark, global story.
NARRATOR: May 21st, 2021.
A satellite flying ove the 77,000-square-mile Thar Desert
in India captures weird patterns in the sands below.
What we see from this image
is these lines that appear to be carved into the ground.
It's almost like a gigantic toddler with
a crayon has carved random patterns into the desert.
NARRATOR: The mystery desert carvings cover
an area equivalent to 38 football fields.
HUNT: It's so remote and isolated,
so you have to wonder,
what are these things doing here?
NARRATOR: Devin Dennie has a possible answer.
One potential theory here is that someone has come to
this area to do a seismic survey, looking for uranium.
NARRATOR: India's rapid industrialization
means its energy use
has doubled in the past two decades.
80 percent of the country's power comes from
oil, coal, or wood,
meaning the country is home to 21
of the 30 most polluted cities on Earth.
One of the areas in which India
is expanding its energy sourcing is nuclear.
So you need to prospect for
uranium for this burgeoning nuclear industry.
DENNIE: In order to conduct a seismic survey,
we need to put equipment on the ground, and we need roads
or paths laid out in specific
patterns in order to be able to do this properly.
NARRATOR: Yet when a drone scans the giant patterns in
more detail,
a very different theory emerges.
These patterns really have an organic quality to them.
So that tells me that these are geoglyphs,
patterns intentionally carved into the ground on
tremendous scales,
usually by ancient people.
NARRATOR: Geoglyphs are monumental carvings
designed to be viewed from above.
Their purpose remains unclear, but they appear to be
coded messages,
possibly to gods in the skies.
HUNT: In many cases, geoglyphs are thousands of years old,
and many of these lines scratched in the surface here
imitate a living creature.
NARRATOR: A clue to who created the giant
carvings in India lies across the state border.
KOUROUNIS: Interestingly, not far from where
this satellite image was taken in the nearby state
of Maharashtra, there are some geoglyphs there
that date back to the Stone Age.
NARRATOR: Thousands of geoglyphs and petroglyphs are found
across Maharashtra,
legacies of a civilization that ruled these lands
12,000 years ago.
Many depict predators, such as tigers and sharks.
The society or societies that created
them would have been hunter-gatherers.
HUNT: It's fascinating to see how many of these are of animals
that were feared,
animals that might hunt humans,
animals that posed great risk.
NARRATOR: Some of the carvings in
the desert appear to represent serpents.
Analysts speculate this could shed light on
the belief systems of people who once lived here.
HUNT: In many languages,
the same word for fear is the word for worship.
So there's a very thin line
sometimes between fear and religion.
According to Hindu mythology, the underworld is home to
a race of half-serpent,
half-human beings called nagas.
Snakes in India are also worshiped
as symbols of both death and rebirth.
These creatures were no doubt venerated by
the people of this region
many thousands of years ago.
Could we be seeing here
the beginnings of the worship of animals who are feared?
NARRATOR: The serpent-like symbols are up to 7 miles long.
Yet when archaeologists study them up close,
the mystery deepens.
As it turns out, these patterns in
the Thar Desert are much younger than we thought.
AUERBACH: These particular carvings are not as old
as the ones in Maharashtra,
but they're no less impressive.
NARRATOR: It appears the symbols were created by an unknown
group of people who once lived in this desert.
But why and how remains a mystery.
There are so many unanswered questions.
Were these lines part of some ritual or ceremony?
Did the artists truly intend them to be viewed from above?
What we see are cryptic messages, which are
just beyond what we can comprehend at this time.
NARRATOR: Coming up, blood lakes.
You would not want to go swimming in this lagoon.
NARRATOR: August 19th, 2019.
A satellite sweeping over the region of
Patagonia in Argentina scans the featureless landscape below.
For miles and miles,
you see nothing but arid and dusty desert.
A. MORGAN: And then, out of nowhere, there are
these lagoons with water the color of bubblegum.
NARRATOR: The weird bodies of water are
each over half a mile long.
It's as though somebody will cut open the earth.
NARRATOR: A clue to the origin of the pink waters
could lie in further aerial images captured
7,000 miles away.
RODRIGUEZ McROBBIE: My immediate thought is that
the color of these lagoons
is the same as that of Lake Hillier in Australia.
NARRATOR: First discovered in 1802,
the garish waters of the 53-acre
Lake Hillier have long puzzled scientists.
For years, no one could work out why Lake Hillier
has such a strange color,
but recently, they started to think that it has something to
do with the unusual high salt concentrations in the water.
NARRATOR: Lake Hillier is 10 times saltier than the ocean,
making it lethal to most forms of life.
But not all.
KAYS: There are some parts of Planet Earth that are
so toxic that almost no life can survive there.
But often, we do find some life,
and those species, we call extremophiles.
NARRATOR: There are almost 500 species of extremophile in
Lake Hillier, including bacteria,
viruses, and purple and red microbes.
Normally, you don't even notice them.
But if something causes their population to boom or to bloom,
you can get all kinds of extraordinary colors.
NARRATOR: Swarming in their trillions,
it seems these microbes turn the hyper-saline
waters of Lake Hillier a permanent shade of pink.
But local reports reveal this can't
explain the lagoons in South America.
If you look at older images,
you see that they weren't always pink.
These lagoons have turned pink a number of times,
but most of the time, they're typically blue or green.
NARRATOR: What's more, one of the lagoons
has a nauseating odor.
Locals report that it has this rotten smell, like
old food, and it's attracting large swarms of insects.
KAYS: Whatever is going on in these lagoons,
it must be something more serious than just some excess
bacteria or algae.
NARRATOR: Analysts dial up the magnification.
There's definitely some kind of manmade activity,
and there are some structures in between the two lakes.
It looks like some type of industry.
I'm seeing infrastructure here.
NARRATOR: It transpires the land around the lagoons
is home to dozens of fish factories,
part of Argentina's $2 billion dollar a year fishing industry.
As a byproduct of their processes,
fish factories can produce vast amounts of toxic effluent.
A. MORGAN: The factories have been driving truckloads
of this waste through a nearby town
to a treatment facility to dispose of it.
KAYS: Locals were sick of the constant stream of toxic,
foul-smelling traffic coming through their town,
so they protested and blocked the road.
NARRATOR: Unable to get to the treatment plants,
the fish companies look for another
place to dump their stinking waste.
Local activists claim that the color is the result of
fish factories letting the toxic runoff
flow into the lagoon, and, as a consequence, turning it pink.
NARRATOR: The discoloration may be caused by
the chemical sodium sulfite.
Sodium sulfite is used in fish processing,
mainly to preserve shrimp and prawns.
KAYS: It's the chemical used to help foods maintain their color,
so that, for example, frozen foods still look fresh,
but it can be toxic in high concentrations.
NARRATOR: If it is sodium sulfite in these lurid waters,
local lives are being put at risk.
KAYS: As sodium sulfite decomposes,
it turns into sulfur dioxide gas,
which smells really bad and can also cause
respiratory problems.
The irony of it all is that something so bright
and colorful actually represents something that is
dangerous and toxic.
NARRATOR: Worldwide, we catch and kill around
200 million tons of fish and seafood each year.
It's a $400 billion dollar industry,
and the people of Patagonia may
risk paying for it with their lives.
These lagoons may be bright to look at,
but their luminous color points to a dark, global story.