SOUTH CHINA SEA: Three Superpowers, One Waterway | 4K Travel Documentary
In 1999, a single rusting warship was deliberately grounded on a coral reef. Twenty-five years later, a handful of marines still live on its rusting deck. They are the only thing keeping one country's claim alive in one of the most contested oceans on Earth.
This is the South China Sea — where 3.4 trillion dollars in trade passes every year, where six governments insist they own parts of the same waters, and where coral reefs older than civilization have been turned into runways in just thirty-six months.
In this documentary, discover the Bajau sea nomads who sailed these waters for centuries before any country drew a map of them, the Filipino fishermen who lost their livelihoods overnight when a single shoal was closed to them, and the artificial islands that rose from the seafloor on the bones of dead coral.
Take a breath. Stay a while.
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