A virtual 'dive' in the Thames - BBC London

In 1959 the River Thames was declared biologically dead, but sixty years on it’s a thriving habitat full of fish, crabs, seals and even sharks. Now the Zoological Society of London wants to show Londoners what’s living under the Thames in a very 21st Century way.
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[@franklind.roosevelt8456]

BBC London sure

[@closethedoornow7538]

Where’s all the bodies and weapons?

[@yesgeorge333]

wtf are u doing

[@closethedoornow7538]

@@yesgeorge333 fancy seeing you here mate

[@bob69927]

decomposing at the bottom

[@booth2710]

It's not a real dive - it's just a made up waste of time simualtion

[@sidraines]

Must be hundreds of lost mobile phones in there.

[@notaclue638]

Freshwater pike swimming next to sharks 👍👍👍👍

[@getoutside9854]

Really cool

[@MichelleW870]

yes this sure is can real

[@bellavaszilij6868]

Thanks BBC for reporting this! Thumbs up!

[@dricard953]

We've just outsourced our dirty industries (e.g. manufacturing) to Asia where most of their rivers will be classed as biologically dead in the next 20 years. Still good that these guys are studying and trying to protect the species that are returning to the thames. Great work.

[@thelostnomad8571]

Your forgetting the car tyres and the tesco trolleys

[@Limabelasun]

Ive worked on & in the Thames. It is vastly more cleaner than it was, It is no longer biologically dead. It still faces litter & CSO problems. However, the Thames Tideway super sewer will address most of the swage problems, diverting it directly to treatment. Also with foreshore & habitat restorations & planting projects, we have started to see improvements in habitats. I have seen seahorses, seals, porpoise Catfish, roach, pike, perch, carp, bass, mullet, eels elvers, Dace, Tench, Lamprey, flounder, Dabb, sole, whiting, gobby, stickleback, trout/sea trout. Im aware of Salmon & even a Sturgeon caught several years ago. Litter & flytipping is still a problem. litter washed down street drains run off into UK rivers. Wind blown litter, litter louts. The water colour changes depending on what part of the Thames you are at, this due to the river sediment. Upriver its more clear, the river has a gravel bed, as you move downriver into and through London & towards the coast, is more sand/clay, hence the "Dirty" appearance. Also its a tidal river, its been narrowed over the centuries so flows much faster than it once did. Its flood plans and natural freedom to meander has been blocked by pilling, concrete, developments, sewer embankments, WHARFs, Bridges, piers.

[@dihainthegreat]

thx for the info

[@Lion-O-Richie2040]

Was it ever biologically dead? I mean, wouldn’t some sort of microorganisms be able to live?

[@sha22276]

Interesting

[@dihainthegreat]

@@Lion-O-Richie2040 bacteria

[@adolflenin4973]

@@dihainthegreat You're Most Welcome

[@daveellis5100]

Recorded horizontally:)

[@ebanydwayne1357]

I wonder how many dead bodies are inside the river... I mean, the city is like almost 2000 years old...

[@pseudo4914]

They got eaten out by bacterias. The end.

[@ebanydwayne1357]

@@pseudo4914 The Bones remain, they just found a 200/300 years old skull in the riverbank

[@ebanydwayne1357]

@@pseudo4914 I Googled after posting this comment to know if there are still very old bodies in the thames

[@gothnerd887]

This reminds me of Caddicarus and The Completionist's review of Jaws Unleashed

[@davidthomas7931]

These people with a passion for cleaning up the river and seeing it thrive again are doing God's work.

[@alo1236546]

No trash and with fish alive. Amazing !

[@354sd]

This is such good news.well done to all concerned over the years.

[@pseudo4914]

Monke's spoken

[@jimcazador6057]

I am just going to put it out there, just a theory, but the Thames catchment area, i.e. greater London is hugely overcrowded, 90% of migrants gravitate toward that area, all the water and sewage systems needed to sustain the area are simply overwhelmed in part due to numbers. Its getting worse and worse, yes there is underinvestment and corporate greed-mismanagement but no one has suggested the human numbers involved in the mess. Why isn't immigration and the numbers involved never spoken about?

[@JKweez]

What is this? 2003?

[@fredhall4239]

It seems to be going in the right direction these days, you only have to look at reviews of what coarse fish anglers are catching in this river, could be due to an invasive species of bait fish fattening them up, and some years the sea angling can be very good on Kent and Essex banks, with convincing amounts of new species like Thornback Ray, Dogfish and Smoothound being caught recently, also one off catch of a Coalfish, just hope when the new sewer is finished the Salmon really do come back, Love or hate angling but it is a good way of knowing whats in the river, i have seen pods of Porpoise's at Shorne meads Light in Kent at least three times and Seals, it's a good fish holding area with it's deeper water, the worry is are they there because the sea is so trawled out by netters and they have to come up so far river just to survive? Some species of whale have died this way recently in the Thames, there is more to do!

[@doug5101]

Maybe they will find the BBC'S principles down there...

[@catsadilla324]

I thought I saw Jeremy Clarkson's lunch from 2015

[@akscricket8]

Where is the POLAR BEAR

[@cvdeiana]

There are sharks in the Thames?! 😱

[@ricknaughty1016]

I3LINK no. Maybe dogfish but its probly just a tactic to make people not want to swim in there along with danger of currents

[@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel]

@@ricknaughty1016 Yes there are sharks there.. Several speies in fact.

[@ricknaughty1016]

Daniel Niemi i have never heard of sharks in the thames let alone seen a shark fin in real or pictire from the thames. If sharks cant survive in the open seas in uk then how can they survive in the thames. Basking sharks are not real sharks neither are dogfish. Great whites tiger and bullsharks in the thames ok pal

[@ricknaughty1016]

Daniel Niemi and how can fresh water be with salt water/ tropical fish its not possible

[@idot3331]

@@ricknaughty1016 Great white sharks and bullsharks aren't the only species of sharks. Dogfish are a type of shark, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. There are loads of species of smaller sharks, and they're all "real sharks" unlike your weird child-like mind seems to think.

[@weizhongxianfumariobeans7788]

Every once in a while, I come here, to this video. To laugh.

[@Mrkva22296]

I didn't know seahorses could live in fresh water

[@theapple8538]

Can we use this to find out sea monsters

[@darkages4589]

It would be nice if more people start clean the river

[@manlikejc5652]

can someone tell me why it is CGI

[@stevenmendonca2917]

Yea even new species of evolved fish, as the water quality has improved over time, condom fish, knife fish, trolley fish are just of the new species, some bottom dwellers some can be seen on the surface 😎

[@dangymking7273]

What they are porpoises in there?! 0:12

[@luke8763]

Yeah, in the Thames estuary

[@georgeschlaline6057]

See the beautiful river of blood The cold water surrounds me Save me from this river OF HELL

[@UserAPJ58]

Start planting vetiver all over the polluted area,it will cleance asap.

[@user-kg6vu8zu4k]

Рахмет

[@xGaSx]

Тоқасы жоқ

[@tedthepony7521]

Yo where’s Benny??

[@lunes-1]

River Thames is a bit dirty,need some cleaning😝

[@benrichardson3031]

You do know it's the cleanest river in the world that runs through a city right?

[@coreyarmstrong1850]

mgdoff it’s actually really clean nowadays

[@richardanthonygilbey]

Still no swimming London

[@C.O-EDITS]

What about all the bodies?

[@user-oy9sf8iu3q]

Ставь лаик если с Казахстана)

[@delishaenvy2564]

Sharks? Did she say sharks?

[@elixier33]

So it's a computer game.....

[@scottyboi2012uk]

Sharks ?

[@luke8763]

Yep, the Thames estuary has a resident population of tope, smoothhound, small-spotted catshark, and nursehound.

[@brandonmoonesawmy4909]

Stop the cap

[@SillyKhoons]

Lol rip

[@user-vb4vo3kc2b]

Это не правда

[@xGaSx]

😂

[@xGaSx]

Внатуре

[@usynnstradler]

There are SHARKS IN THE THAMES?! no way

[@dihainthegreat]

sometimes they come

[@MichelleW870]

i heard smaller ones usually stay around longer

[@dihainthegreat]

@@MichelleW870 yeah they called dogfish

[@luke8763]

Tope are the largest shark in the Thames estuary, they can grow up to 1.8m (6ft) long.

[@theotheseaeagle]

For people who don’t understand why there are porpoises and sharks in the river Thames let me explain. This is the part of the river that runs into the sea but it’s still technically freshwater so that’s why there is pike there.

[@adambrace5127]

none of the thames runs into the ocean it runs into the north sea. but I understand what you're saying and that makes sense.

[@rjvtechnologies]

Fake river Thames doesn’t have large fish

[@christopher9727]

John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

[@CoExist64]

Amen

[@sonoilchamp]

A horsefish in the thames... yeah sure

[@Brunokellyutz]

You mean seahorse

[@luke8763]

Seahorses are found in the Thames estuary

[@aiya414]

9 C лучший ;)))))

[@xGaSx]

10A

[@Adventureswithvinnie]

Yeah that’s not a true video at all I’m a magnet fisher there’s loads of rubbish and scrap in there that your camera didn’t show

[@weizhongxianfumariobeans7788]

What a lie..

[@luke8763]

Like you

[@alinecalves]

Ye sharks surely live there 🙄

[@coreyarmstrong1850]

Yes several species do

[@luke8763]

Yep

[@xGaSx]

Fake, ban

[@luke8763]

Its real

[@latecia1]

Very dirty

[@cuteboy4190]

Fake. No seahorse in the river Thames!

[@londonfishingangler5818]

cute boy there are i have cought one

[@cuteboy4190]

@@londonfishingangler5818 you're lieing.

[@natalya5827]

yeah bro there are lol

[@luke8763]

@@cuteboy4190 There are in the Thames estuary.

[@DS-jj5my]

its no a river😂, its sewage of Thames. Perfect representative of the royal family and their values.