The Last Sail in the Tuamotus | Episode 254

Welcome back to another episode of WE|Sail, this week we set sail leaving the stunning island of Tahanea and overnight sail to Fakarava, our last stop in the Tuamotus before moving on. Sad to be leaving these picture perfect islands, but thrilled to get to experience them one last good time.
We arrive to Fakarava and get sorted to dive right away, only to be shocked at what we see below the surface. A lot has changed since we were here last and not for the better sadly.
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[@wepower196]

Your Right! Can't stop change. What was once cooler now warm, what was dry is now wet, and what was barron now flourishes and we do our best with what we have and appreciate all of life's ups & downs anyway 😅

[@dmttday3030]

Couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s not the fault of humans it’s just natural changes. But I sold my car, donated all my money, I eat insects and suck my own farts. What else can I do

[@nutbaridea1097]

@@dmttday3030when you accept sponsorship from corporations that profit off social problems they aren’t really against the problem

[@wepower196]

Now that you can't figure it out This is Wisdom 😢 Now you can forgive yourself for listening to your questioning mind every moment...Whose figured it out, anyway? AND now you can practice to discover what is true from your hearts good words in any moment !! Helpful to provide deep cleansing breaths and check in to colors, shades, temperature, breeze, flavors , shade out of the rain...allow yourself to a few times every hour to discover true simple facts that are in your moment. 5 senses simultaneously coming in. Start with a couple and you'll discover how good can come from limited possessions.

[@jayzeedeezee2837]

Your content is a blessing, not only because I can escape reality and live through you for a few precious moments each week, but also because you shine a light on our beautiful planet, our precious oceans and the unique humans we share life with. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@catherineb6561]

I cried when you showed the before and after of the coral; so sad to see

[@meltonwilliam]

Thank you for bringing awareness to the affected ocean temperatures change has on the coral.

[@WEsail]

Wow thank you so much for this donation and your comment. It means a lot to us, and we hope just brining a little more attention to the world and how we see it in the present moment! Thank you thank you

[@losc73]

Warren and Brian in the same anchorage is like the MacGyver Mount Rushmore

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

WEsail on Tuesday? What a wonderful treat! Love the underwater sequences. Thank you.

[@WEsail]

yeah, so I guess our computers think we have already crossed the international date line. Technically it is WEdnesday already for most the world! ahaha

[@brucerhodes8197]

Although the footage wasn't nearly as spectacular as in past dives there, thank you for sharing it and speaking about climate change. Coral bleaching is one of those things most people hear about once in a while, but never really see such a great example of it. How quickly this happened is crazy, just a month ago I watched WEsail, Delos and One Life videos of dives in the same location, all vibrantly colorful and a lot more sea life, there were hundreds of reef sharks. Now some schools of fish and maybe a dozen reef sharks swimming around. You don't need to be a climate expert or an oceanographer to know this is a bad/sad thing..

[@Robert-og2kr]

20 years ago when I read books and articles about cruising the South Pacific, there were descriptions and usually some low quality black and white photos. Everyone said it was amazing and beautiful, but 99.9% of the imagery was left to the imagination. Your videos make it clear that my imagination was insufficient--like my bank account.

[@TheMarlai]

3:26 what an incredible shark 😝😍😂

[@juliazentner681]

It saddens me about the reef! Amazing what can happen overnight! 😢😢 Great footage as always! Thanks for sharing..

[@ericpelletier9291]

Warren you lucky lucky man lol

[@TheSmartodd]

Thanks guys - living vicariously through you.

[@WEsail]

Thank you so much for your Super Thanks! It means a lot to have your support and we will keep that content coming! 🫶

[@stevenjohnson528]

That is so heart breaking. If the world don't start doing something to lesson our foot print we're going to lose all the coral and the oceans give this planet the ability to contain life...

[@WEsail]

It is really heartbreaking. We couldn't believe our eyes how dramatic and quick the changes were since the last time we dove here.

[@charlesmiller4624]

Your video and editing skills are awesome. My favorite couple. Can’t wait for all your future episodes. Fair winds ⛵️

[@heskellelwoj4574]

I am from Honolulu Hawaii and I am a big fan of those guys so be safe and God bless you guys always

[@imiloa.]

Aloha from Kaua’i- big fans here, too 🌺

[@WEsail]

Aloha! Thank you so much for following the adventures!

[@jimellis594]

Both of you keep them coming.

[@tlowe2502]

Thanks guys, glad Warren got the dive compressor fixed. It's really sad about the reefs. Thanks again stay safe we love y'all. 👍🏻💕🐾

[@wellDunn1]

Another fabulous episode. Tragic about the coral bleaching but great message/summary. ❤

[@MrElvanwyk]

Thanks! So sad to see the corral.

[@WEsail]

Hey THANK YOU!!!! Very appreciated!!

[@rayb3117]

That coral was hard to look at. Wow !!!

[@freedomwanderer91]

I love the unde4r water footage. The water is so clear. Awesome.

[@WEsail]

The clearest waters ever...so far!

[@pamlevesque8102]

Thanks! I started watching your videos on my TV and had no way to like and not a way I knew how. I wanted to let you know how much I admire your videography, photography and story telling. You guys keep it real and I appreciate that a lot. I’m going to send you a note about the Greece trip!

[@WEsail]

Wow wow wow! This is incredibly generous of you and thank you for your donation. We are so glad you have gotten a lot from our videos and we can’t thank you enough for this! So thank you thank you! Sincerely, Warren & Erica 🫶🏽

[@Bevie1973]

Love you guys.. it’s sad about the reefs, but i disagree slightly.. there has always been climate change since the beginning of time. Everything goes in cycles. I do agree we all need to be more responsible though and not add to any damages. All the garbage that washes up on the shorelines is testament to that. We definitely can and should do more to keep our planet beautiful. Thank you for the wonderful footage week after week- I always look forward to it. Amazing camera work and editing- definitely one of the best!! 😊

[@WEsail]

Well thank you for that!! At least we can agree that we all need to be better

[@SailingwithScott]

As always... you're the best! Cheers!

[@WEsail]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@joaoalmeida8172]

WE love it 😁

[@johnmiddleton6252]

Excellent video, great content as always. Love your videographia, looks very professional.

[@rainfinger]

Great video, presently we are sailing in Brazil, having cruised the Tuamotos in the 1980s.

[@WEsail]

Oh wow! We look forward to cruising that area as well at some point. I can't imagine the beauty you saw here in French Polynesia back then. Must have been very few boats in these parts!

[@rainfinger]

Very few boats in Brazil these days. It is a diverse country with incredible potential.

[@californiakayaker]

Wow, this place is really getting to me. Darn right emotional. First, wind hippie in her little boat Loving it for a very long time, seemed like she might have worked out a year, possibly overlapping your first year ? Then you guys, another year. Three years total, WOW ! Somehow I'd never leave. Visa hops, but I'd be right back. And yes, white water is scary if you haven't seen it a lot. I was a Raft Guide, up to a 4+ run with the rep of not flipping rafts so I had the 5 and 6 year old kids on my boats. The swirly eddies are toughest in a kayak or on one of those paddle boards, try that some time ! The Coral Bleaching is terrible, yet, it produces the white sands of those areas. Indications are that it is getting to be a little too much bleaching from what I've read.

[@mymoney9234]

Great video! Our honeymoon was in Bora Bora in 2007….one of the prettiest places in the world.

[@pyrocl0]

The video of the reef was epic!

[@tereh2003]

INSANE Water!

[@russells737]

Beautiful video. Thanks!

[@WEsail]

Thank you too!

[@federicomaisch8019]

Beautiful video, thank you for sharing

[@moise171]

That's an awesome video! thank you.

[@stevewakefield5001]

Appreciate your vlog. Thanks!

[@spazjdm]

Amazing as always

[@WEsail]

Thank you so much glad you liked this one and thanks for the comment

[@paulcollins9197]

Very beautiful view

[@jimschlabachpeacefuloutdoo7327]

Love your Chanel.

[@WEsail]

Thank you so much for joining our adventures!

[@charliebrown8278]

When you were putting up the spinnaker that first night I yelled out “ ERICA!!… PU ‘TCHER PANTS ON GERL!!!” Then I realized those shorts are just… we’ll call them “flesh tone”. Whew… that was close. Love the included fix-it videos. Warren is a true MacGyver at heart. The thing that really scares me about the coral bleaching etc. is that Mother Nature always wins. Usually by eliminating the ”problem child” of the equation. That’d be humans. Gulp.

[@justwayne4785]

You can’t blame humans for every change there’s been in the climate. Sea’s have turned into deserts, tropical forests have turned to frozen landscapes all without humans present. What you can blame humans for is convincing everybody that making paper bags was killing too many trees and we should switch to plastic… well we all know how that turned out, thankyou climate warriors of the 80’s

[@sisselnilsen4699]

New Caledonia - another French story...

[@davidprado9630]

What the Fakarava! Tuesday? Had me thinking I was a day off.

[@bradynixon8900]

You guys have been the best ambassadors for French Polynesia ever. Learned a lot about the place solely from your channel. So thanks. I hoped you’d do the Gambiers but perhaps next lap. Coral has this unique ability to communicate worldwide. There have been observations of changes in the pacific that occur in Ausy, Asia and in bizarrely fish tanks simultateously. Nobody quite knows how it works.

[@fritz3388]

The most likely way is by a kind of ping, that make bird, fish, butterfly, land animal herds start their species specific migration every year. Leads creatures to their new seasonal habitat. Otherwise, some birds would have to memorize tenth of thousand of miles, or thousands of miles in case of the US American butterfly and colibri-hummingbird that yearly migrate to Mexico. Or "Grouper Spawning in Fakarava French Polynesia", swimming there over thousand of waters without way markers, that is why masses of sharks assemble there when the grouper mate, to feed on them. That make the creatures begin their mating process, and make the plants activate their growing progress in the spring. A conscious being steers the earth circle's weather, because if it were not so, all in nature would be chaotically dangerous, which it is not!!! The problem with the dissemination of human knowledge in schools, universities, and mass media is, that no human has a full knowledge of how and why things work, are as they are. All human knowledge is tainted with imagination, greed for power, need for personal acceptance through peers, the need to support oneself or a family etc., colleagues and the public. Or one could say there is the evil of ignorance in everything. This world was created, that is obvious to everyone with eyes to see, it has nothing to do with religion. Human gods exist since about 10000-12000 years, the last time of mega cataclysm, the earth circle was cleaned and prepared for a new round of life and experiences. Before that time humans generally did not worship so-called heavenly gods, they did not exist in human understanding, nor was anyone missing them. That is written in the oldest deciphered text in pre Sanskrit, of very different earthly human societies from pre Veda times. Schildmann, Kurt 1999 Als das Raumschiff Athena die Erde kippte, German only not translated as far as I know.

[@brianhughes6986]

Wow, so happy to subscribe..again, glad you mentioned it

[@EnriqueDeQuesada101]

❤❤

[@nicolasSud13]

Merci de nous partager des moments de sérénité, de bonheur et de beauté, loin de l'actualité et de la violence internationale qui nous submergent . Bon vent et encore merci !

[@TammyBillings-qt1ve]

So beautiful 😍

[@jackechan1311]

peace

[@jameseisenhauer6631]

The water in the beginning was ridonkulously clear. So jealous, lol

[@buck_bacon]

Brutal changes! Sad.

[@DYoung-vt8pq]

Thank you for raising awareness about the coral bleaching. It's really saddening. Safe travels. ❤

[@carltontweedle5724]

The difference between last year and this is shocking.

[@robwhyte4118]

Great little set of tools to add that are light but unbelievably useful in many situations (like making small round gaskets) .. Dermal punches! Cheap and SO useful in situations like that. Love your videos!

[@paultabone2010]

🦘🥂🌈🦋🐬 Just one thing with your motor hard starting. I would definitely say that your fuel is draining back to the fuel tank, so this is why it's hard to start and you have to prime it when you don't use it for a while. So two things.... First your one way fuel valve is faulty and letting the fuel return to the tank and not holding pressure. The second way is to put a one way valve in and then you will always have fuel in the line on start up. All the best loving your wonderful adventures. ❤🐬🐬🐬🌈🦋🥂

[@peterellarby19]

Love it, thank you. X

[@TravelonlineWalk]

Lovly, we sail to Alanya in two weeks

[@gwfried1]

Fantastic channel !

[@WEsail]

Thank you very much!

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👍👍👍

[@OurCabinInThewoods]

I really enjoyed the video as always, great sailing and cant wait for more thank for sharing. Be safe and see you on the next one.

[@wellDunn1]

Thanks!

[@WEsail]

Oh Danny! You are so incredibly generous! WOW again, thank you thank you!

[@slf994]

to cool

[@bobram94]

As a CT tech, I have a complete o ring and blank gasket paper set for emergencies. I have seen them on Amazon, but I'm not sure of quality. Always good have them seals tend to go first. HAVE A GREAT WEEK OF SAILING.

[@chrisnielsen4241]

good job awesome video

[@WEsail]

Thanks for the visit

[@israfelmarkpafford8049]

Thank you both for bringing us along once again. Thank you also for sharing the reality of what you all saw on your recent dive. Are you all aware of new or ongoing conservation efforts in Tuamotus, addressing how this Global event has impacted them? I am 57 yo and got my open water scuba license when I was 11yrs old. I was a Jaqués Cousteau fan and watched his programs on PBS. Anyway the movies he took underwater featured vivid colors and teeming reefs. I have since then spent as much time as I could on or near the ocean over the years. It’s a real gift to be able to see these places while they still linger. And your Joy and energy and devotion to these places is evident , thank you both…..

[@maf0uz]

Would love to see the stars on open water with no light pollution 😍

[@GrantGrove]

The sun affects the coral and temperatures and we are in a solar maximum cycle . Just food for thought. Enjoy your travels. S/C Reality.

[@akLeanne]

I opened YT and saw your new episode. Is today Wednesday. You guys got me messed up for a minute. Nice treat, though. How does one person help with the changing temperature of the water. I see it up here in alaska. We lost a whole neighborhood because of the melting of the glaciers. their homes went in the water. The question is once again what does one do to change that?

[@Steve-Debs]

One person talks to another then there is two people, when eventually there are thousands you all go talk to the guys in blue suits that want to make money only. Change there minds.

[@richardbecker5614]

You're right, a sad note, but....We are not fully aware of why changes occur or how frequently they happen over time. We have to then, continue to hope, watch, and even pray that our efforts help correct the problem. In the mean time, thanks for a great video.

[@ronstacy6054]

Did that shark eventually catch that little fish it was following? These places you love, what would be required to become a resident?

[@WEsail]

hahah no, its a funny relationship the sharks have with the pilot fish. They just lead the sharks and the sharks don't bother them. Too cute

[@kathrynlonsdale6653]

It will recover. Nature tends to do that :-)

[@WEsail]

Totally, that’s the upside… but that’s not really the point…

[@thomasthornton5737]

😀😀👍👍❤❤

[@Daveincc]

The reef will recover. It’s not even given that the corals you are looking at are actually dead. They’re definitely under stress and have lost their algae that give them color. If they are dead eventually new corals will recolonize the coral structures once favorable conditions return. I’ve watched it cycle through the Florida keys.

[@Steve-Debs]

Nope coral do not recolonise dead coral. Eventually they will turn to dust. Their is no such thing as white coral, the inhabitants who built the coral have died, not move out for another tenant to take over. And yes I worked as a diver on the Great Barrier Reef so have first hand knowledge, the water is getting warm not colder so this is not a cycle.

[@Daveincc]

@@Steve-Debs the corals in the keys have been recolonized. New corals have seeded over the old structures. To speed the process here teams physically place small patches of grown coral on old coral structures. Corals don’t come back if conditions don’t return to favorable.

[@Steve-Debs]

@@Daveincc as I said they don’t take over old corals, they might build on top of but not move into. Yes man’s intervention might temporary make a very small part of the reef look pretty but unless the water temp drops they will also die.

[@Opdeweegh73]

Just thank you for sharing the beauty. It is humbling.

[@MrFroglips69]

A groovy and informative episode. Because sailors like you see things that most people can't see first hand what you experience. i.e., the bleaching of the corals, loose of the sea creatures homes, it would help if you sailors gave the land lovers some easy, no preaching classes on why this is all happening. What sciences believe is causing global warming. Why does the warming of the seas cause bleaching, and how bleaching effect sea life. Lastly why is it important to keep the sea and its beautiful creatures healthy. Most people do not know how the oceans of the world work hard to keep planet earth healthy. Or if what is happening to our oceans is normal, a regular cycle or some horrible change that huge monsters, known as human beings are responsible for. Remember to speak to us like the warm hearted sailor that you are. Not blue hairs, ring faced, druggies that get their misguided facts from TIKTOK. PS Peace out groovy people.

[@Rouge_7]

I love your videos and I usually am not critical. So I will quickly say when you went on deck (~16:35) forward to check on the sail, I yelled, "LIFE JACKET!!!!" and got funny looks from my wife. OK, I'm done. Now on with the rest of the video. thank you for showing the shocking bleaching event the local coral are going through.

[@EduUSAbrasilvideos]

18.58 you got a ufo looking at you above the mo.. see it

[@sharimahigab1292]

Same song intro as Worldtowning

[@WEsail]

Oh really didn't know that! How cool!

[@sisselnilsen4699]

Leaving for Noomea??

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

This vid is from months ago

[@WEsail]

No not yet, but hopefully things will settle down a bit before we do head that way!

[@richardjacobsen2718]

😢

[@Roskellan]

Could that water get any cleaner...

[@WEsail]

Haha RIGHT!!??

[@tubeyerself2]

The only thing that kills a reef that fast is an exposure to a man made toxic substance, dumped either intentionally or accidentally.

[@murphyrp01]

Great video guys. Tell me given the UK French and USA governments spent 30 years doing nuclear testing in the pacific how concerned are you about residual radiation.

[@WEsail]

Well actually, we are more worried about ciguterra disease in fish… it comes from damaged reefs and the locals say that there was zero trace of the disease before the testing…

[@scottgibson7893]

I’m not complaining but … WE Sail Tuesday? Do we get a double-dip of WE this week? 😊

[@Steve-Debs]

From a Divemaster who worked the Great Barrier for four years I know where you’re coming from. There are to many people that say she’ll be right.To those that don’t know, in simple terms the colour in the coral is from a little living animal shall we say. They builds a home made of a calcium type substance. Different creatures different shapes, there are thousands of them in one little piece of coral. When it gets two hot they die and the colour with them, all that’s left is their home, white. Nothing else wants to live in it. I’m glad I don’t dive anymore, im tired from bashing my head against a blue collar money hungry wall. My rant.

[@Trooperuss]

You're too hard in yourself bud. If it's got a place and a purpose, it's not hoarding, it's being prepared.

[@robertscranton8293]

CME's ??.. Maybe you can explore the Sun's effects... Yes.. No... don't know.

[@pmorph]

Damn!! I really, really wanted the climate deniers to be right... but it is so clear that the scientists are right. Well done for showing this. About to dive on the Ningaloo tomorrow, be interested to see what that is like. Phil

[@navesink3044]

Climate change is always happening. Man-made is a lie. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWS3l6ufqtRgpa8si=ktqyboX7yLjy9Icd

[@rickhalverson2140]

Thanks for the climate change message. Unfortunately, there is nothing more I can do. I've given more of my money to our government because they told me they could fix it if I did. So, I'm just waiting on them.

[@somadevo]

This is the 3rd dimension Earth and The Earth and all life here is at the end of an age called the Kali Yuga and a new age is dawning which involves an ascension process into the 5th dimension where everything is in harmonious unity and all life is in a oneness that supports the highest good for all.

[@bryanrichards5814]

$$ comment Go algyrithum

[@keylimers]

Get rid of Delos. You guys are so so much better than their channel. They have bad juju.

[@boerwolf2326]

I'll defer to highly educated scientists over youtubers opinions angled for most 'likes'. Fortunately the tide is turning, in Europe youtubers are rightly being prosecuted for publishung false info, hidden advertising, and tax avoidance.

[@WEsail]

Haha okay, well we aren’t saying or reporting anything false- if you listen we specifically say things what we are SEEING, and experiencing first hand… and boy, we must be listening to different scientists, because just about the whole scientific community, that I am aware of anyways, they all pretty much agree that shit IS changing, and not for the better… but hey you go ahead and keep your head down, doesn’t bother me one bit.

[@dmttday3030]

Wonder how much cash they get for climate change msg per episode? I promise, the earth is going to be just fine.

[@Steve-Debs]

And there’s the problem. It probably will look fine while you are alive, but do you think your children’s children will say the same thing. Somebody else will fix it aye.

[@jimellis594]

Be nice if you looked into a camera that you can mount in top of the mast . What do I know I drive a golf cart. Hey i saw Sailing Z installing one dont telll them i told you guys. Hoarders get shit done,,yeah. Please stay safe and watch out for the shiney ones.

[@WEsail]

Haha we have been dreaming of mounting one up there- it’s super challenging with the long cords and needing to be waterproofed as well… thinking….