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Illegal Lines: The Toll on Cocos Video At the Wafer Bay ranger station on Cocos Island, defenders of the park’s protected waters fight an uphill battle to safeguard marine life from rampant illegal fishing. Welcome to the National Geographic video player.Video Sections

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- A Lethal Web - The Costa Rican coast guard calls with news: They’ve discovered illegal fishing lines in protected waters just a few miles from Cocos Island-something that happens with alarming (and increasing) frequency. The team hurries out, and is dismayed by what they find.
- A Survey of Flint Island's Coral Reefs - Enric Sala and his team of scientists survey and document Flint Island's coral reefs, diving up to 50 times a day to get a complete picture of this marine ecosystem.
- Cocos Revealed - In this video Leandro Blanco and Manu San Félix present a revealing look at the amazing sea life at Cocos Island, including an appearance by the extraordinary frogfish.
- Dive at Dirty Rock - A few members of the Ocean Now team go for a dive at Dirty Rock near Cocos Island.
- Four Men, 500 Hooks - The team joins a fishing vessel some 25 miles south of Cocos, beyond the no-take zone surrounding the island. Hard work produces scant results in these heavily-fished waters.
- Frogfish Blues - Easily mistaken for a sponge when standing still, this frogfish--a favorite of the Ocean Now expedition team--waddles the seafloor beneath Chatham Bay off Costa Rica's Cocos Island.
- Hammerhead Sky - Enric Sala talks about his amazing dive in Cocos where he saw hammerhead sharks and a "bait ball" with a school of red snappers and other fish.
- Illegal Lines: The Toll on Cocos - At the Wafer Bay ranger station on Cocos Island, defenders of the park’s protected waters fight an uphill battle to safeguard marine life from rampant illegal fishing.
- Into the Abyss - With the DeepSee submersible, Enric Sala, Sylvia Earle, Jorge CortÃ©s, and other expedition scientists probe depths beyond the reach of scuba divers at Cocos Island and Las Gemelas seamounts.
- Island of Waterfalls - A few members of the Ocean Now team spent the afternoon shooting locations on Cocos for a documentary that will be made about the expedition.
- Night Dive With White Tip Sharks - Enric Sala dives with white tip sharks in the Cocos Island Marine Conservation Area.
- River of Sharks - The night belongs to whitetip reef sharks, which sleep by day but patrol the seafloor after dark near Cocos Island.
- Slideshow: Cocos-Forest Primeval - The team shares photographs from a hike through Cocos Islandâ€™s rain forest, from Wafer Bay to Genio Falls, then up and over a ridge to Chatham Bay.
- Slideshow: Island of Waterfalls~Continued - A few members of the Ocean Now team spent the afternoon shooting locations on Cocos for a documentary that will be made about the expedition.
- Stranded on Starbuck Part 1 - Enric and members of the Ocean Now team become stranded on Starbuck Island during an on-shore excursion.
- Stranded on Starbuck Part 2 - The on-shore Ocean Now team receives supplies from the ship and will attempt to swim back to the ship in the morning.
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- Turtle Dance - Green turtles gather near Dirty Rock, Roca Sucia, off Cocos Island's north coast.
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- We Met Your Turtle - Sylvia Earle describes a turtle the team encountered on one of her dives near Cocos Island.
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