1 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:12,680 It's the busiest waterway in the world. 2 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,400 Come on, skipper! Get a move on. That way. 3 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,520 A gateway to our nation. 4 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,200 Over 90% of the world's trade travels by sea. 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,760 It's not just TVs and refrigerators. It's everything around us. 6 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,760 Protected by a multi-agency task force, 7 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,360 it's a unique stretch of water. 8 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,040 This is warship Tyne, warship Tyne. Channel one-two, over. 9 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,680 INAUDIBLE ..Over. 10 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,640 It's very difficult to police the Channel. 11 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,320 To board every vessel's an impossible task. 12 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,640 It's a place where swimmers and Sunday sailors 13 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:48,840 fight for space with cruise liners... 14 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,480 ..and cargo ships. 15 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:55,520 It's like trying to get across the M25 during rush hour. 16 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,560 For some, the English Channel is their place of work. 17 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:02,640 If my mum came out here and saw what I was doing up here, 18 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,080 she'd tell me to get off straightaway. HE LAUGHS 19 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,560 For others, it's a playground. 20 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:09,760 Whoo-hoo! 21 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,080 RADIO: This is the rescue helicopter... 22 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,840 But for those who venture onto its unpredictable waters... 23 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,920 We're just going to assist the moving of the casualty now. 24 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,760 All controlled, over, lifeboat. ..it can mean life or death. 25 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,400 Just drag him onto the boat! 26 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,240 I hope my babies get to see this, and see what Daddy does for a living. 27 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:32,840 HE LAUGHS 28 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,640 Today on Channel Patrol, 29 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,040 line fishermen battle rocky seas to get their catch... 30 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,360 I know three boats that have sunk out here, 31 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,440 bass fishing, that have all either hit things in the water, 32 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:55,000 or taken too much sea. 33 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,080 And that's it, they're in the water. 34 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,800 ..border force sniff for contraband... 35 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:03,960 There could be a package in there. 36 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,080 It only takes one package, you know, it's £1 million worth of drugs. 37 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,760 Fast forward, thank you. 38 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,160 ..and a crew of merchant seamen get pumping. 39 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,840 Our hose is six to eight inches diameter. 40 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,520 Your average car, we would fill it up with 50 litres 41 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:18,960 in one fifth of a second. 42 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,400 HORN 43 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:36,840 Over the centuries, the 29,000 square miles of the English Channel 44 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:42,440 have provided an abundance of fish such as cod, haddock and skate. 45 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:49,520 But in recent decades, their numbers have plummeted, 46 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,120 in part due to industrial scale fishing methods. 47 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:57,760 The UK and France currently land about 150,000 tonnes of sea bed fish 48 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:59,440 and shellfish a year, 49 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,280 compared to 51,000 tonnes in 1950. 50 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,200 In Weymouth, Dorset, skipper Ian Taylor 51 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,960 is passionate about using traditional fishing methods 52 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:19,120 to catch sea bass. 53 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,160 All right? Yep, we're good. Let's go. 54 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,000 All the fish we catch are caught by fishing rods, 55 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:33,080 so it's a real sustainable, eco-friendly method of fishing. 56 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,560 We don't do any damage to the sea bed and we don't have anything 57 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,560 we catch that's undersize or the wrong species. 58 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,920 It's a real, simple way of fishing. 59 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,480 It's hard work. It's labour-intensive. 60 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,720 Ian and his anglers can make a decent living, 61 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,640 but it's a volatile and unpredictable line of work. 62 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,920 So far we've done two days and we haven't made a penny yet. 63 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:02,880 So the time is starting to get precious. So the pressure's on. 64 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,280 Intense rivalry between local fishermen only adds 65 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:07,680 to the stress of the job. 66 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,680 There's an awful lot of competition in bass fishing. 67 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,720 We put the time and effort in looking for the fish, 68 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,840 so as soon as we find the fish, we don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry 69 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:21,280 turning up and stealing it from us. 70 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:24,720 And it can make the difference in catching 200kg one day, 71 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,880 to catching 20kg the next. 72 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,560 We're talking thousands of pounds. 73 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,880 We talk to people we trust. We lie and cheat to everybody else. 74 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,000 And that's the rules. 75 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,200 Hole and line fishing catches naturally schooling fish, 76 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,680 which can be attracted to the surface using bait. 77 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,880 So the first step is for Ian to head two miles out to sea 78 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:47,440 to catch sand eels. 79 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,640 Basically, the sand eels live on the Shambles Bank. 80 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,960 It's really important to be able to be on the Shambles Bank ready 81 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,360 for catching bait at 11 o'clock, because the tide runs one way, 82 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,280 it runs up the English Channel, and then at a certain time of day 83 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:05,920 it will stop, and that's called slack water. 84 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,280 And they only come up out of the sand to feed 85 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:10,440 and do what they do on slack water. 86 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,800 So what we do is, we tow a little trawl behind the boat 87 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,640 and hopefully catch the sand eels, which we need for bait. 88 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,000 Basically I'm going to sit here now, see how the boat drifts, and then 89 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,200 I'll make the call when I think it's the right time to shoot the net. 90 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,720 And hopefully I'll be right. 91 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,280 That's us, and then these marks along here is where I've actually 92 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:42,040 marked the tow line where we're actually going to tow for the eels. 93 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,680 The wind alone will push you along nearly a knot, 94 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,480 so that means there isn't much tide running. 95 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:58,280 We could probably shoot away and tow. Right. 96 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:01,480 I'm going to go for it, lads. Get yourselves ready. Right. Sorted. 97 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:02,880 Going out! 98 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,840 The net they use is lightweight 99 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:09,520 and causes minimal disturbance to the sea bed. 100 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:22,200 With the net released, Ian now has to carefully move the boat off. 101 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:33,440 If you go too fast, your net will pick up too far off the bottom 102 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:34,960 and you won't catch anything. 103 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,640 If you go too slow, it will jam in the bottom and then 104 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,520 you're in a world of pain because you've got to try to get the trawl 105 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:41,920 out of the bottom. 106 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:46,640 With the crew already down on wages, this could be devastating. 107 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,480 The trawl costs about £1,500 for the trawl set-up, 108 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,560 so you don't really want to lose it. 109 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,960 Shall we go? Go. 110 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,800 After trawling for 20 minutes, the net has picked up shingle 111 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,600 and could get stuck on the sea bed. 112 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,440 Sometimes it digs in, and then you've got to be quick, 113 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,120 otherwise you pull the whole lot in and you get a massive ball 114 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,160 of shingle and it costs a lot of money, and a lot of time and effort. 115 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,520 And you don't get no bait. It can be an endgame. 116 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:14,800 THEY HEAVE 117 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,760 Got it? Yeah. 118 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:20,480 One, two, three, go. 119 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,080 They've got to pull up the net without tearing it, 120 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,960 and without losing any bait they might have caught. 121 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,720 It's all right, mate. All right? Their luck is in. 122 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,160 We've got here all blacks and needles, but we've got some. 123 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:44,320 Has it all come out straight? Yeah, it's fine, mate. Well done. 124 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:46,480 Yeah, get a half or something. 125 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,520 Haven't done too bad, have you? A lot of needles. 126 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:51,120 A lot of needles. A few longs. 127 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:54,920 We've got enough for today, yeah? 128 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,880 We've definitely got enough for today. A few nice greenies in there. 129 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,520 There's quite a lot here, actually. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. 130 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,040 We've done all right. That's what we're after. 131 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,720 That's a lovely green sand eel. That's like curry to a bass. 132 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,840 So what we do now is basically sort out the decent eels 133 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,360 amongst all the needles, what we call needles, which are baby sand eels, 134 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,400 which we throw back and hopefully will survive. 135 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,040 If you take all that out, 136 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,840 then you're not going to have anything to catch next year. 137 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,760 This is basically what allows us to have a proper bass fishing industry, 138 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,040 the amount of sand eels that are here. 139 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,160 So this lot are no good to us, so we put them all back. 140 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,960 And they'll carry on to be big sand eels next year. 141 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:39,480 Well done. 142 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,080 Having caught the bait, 143 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,640 the crew can now head further out to sea to begin fishing. 144 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,520 On a normal day we'd like to clear 100kg of fish. 145 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:02,720 We get an average price of £10 a kilo, so that's about £1,000. 146 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,760 But obviously we've got fuel to come out of that, 147 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,320 we've got wages to come out of that, wear and tear. 148 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:12,440 I mean, this is a £200,000 boat, so you've got big overheads to cover. 149 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:14,840 If you don't catch fish, you don't earn any money. 150 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,840 That's the way it is. 151 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,160 Hopefully, the bass will be here this afternoon. 152 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:24,760 There you go. 153 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:26,040 Go on, then. 154 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:31,360 Today I just hope we just start to catch a few fish, 155 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,320 just to know that they are starting to feed around the area. 156 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,200 Fingers crossed. 157 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,240 Really I should have a rod in my hand as well, 158 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,800 but I won't bother till they start catching. 159 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:48,000 It's not long before a sea bass takes the bait. 160 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,400 Whoo-hoo! 161 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,840 Dave's got a fish. Go on, David! 162 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,360 Unlike large-scale fishing methods, line fishing enables the crew 163 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,080 to specifically target small amounts of fish. 164 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,160 Now they know the fish are biting, 165 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:11,560 Ian wants to reposition the boat and drift over the area on the tide 166 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:14,760 so they can maximise their chances of a good catch. 167 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,800 Basically there's a hump here, and the fish are on top of the bank. 168 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,240 So we drift the boat over the top of the hump, 169 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,640 and that's where we're catching them. 170 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,520 So the secret is to keep the drifts as short as possible. 171 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:33,040 So it's all about having a fast boat, a fast team, and being quick, really. 172 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,520 Most of my team are getting too old, so they're not that fast any more. 173 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:38,640 Got to get some newer ones next year. 174 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,640 I got my rod back, yee-hah! 175 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,880 It's probably been ruined, cos Bazz has been touching it. 176 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:52,440 Argh! 177 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:54,480 That's the bottom. 178 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,880 The crew needs to catch 20kg each a day to make a decent wage. 179 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,760 Really, after the last couple of days, anything would be nice. 180 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,280 Just to know it's going to start fishing would be nice. 181 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,000 It's always a struggle to pay your rent, feed your family. 182 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,520 But that's what we choose to do, I suppose, 183 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,040 and that's part of the parcel of fishing. 184 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,840 The swell has picked up, making for a rocky ride. 185 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:25,120 It's pretty dangerous when it gets rough. 186 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,800 You need to be aware of what everybody's doing, really, 187 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:28,920 to be safe. 188 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,560 I know three boats that have sunk out here, bass fishing, 189 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:35,080 that have all either hit things in the water, 190 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,600 or taken too much sea, had a wave over the boat... 191 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,800 Like that one! HE LAUGHS 192 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,840 And that's it, they're in the water. Luckily, all the three boats I know, 193 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,920 there were other boats around them fishing, 194 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:46,600 and they actually rescued the people. 195 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,200 I think one of the times they actually stepped off 196 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:50,600 as the boat was sinking. 197 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,600 But it can be a very dangerous place to be. 198 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:57,360 Due to overfishing in the Channel, hitting the 20kg mark has become 199 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:01,320 more difficult for Ian and his crew with every passing year. 200 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,240 There's a fish now. It's a small one. 201 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,400 Come on, Jeff, get it in. We've got it. 202 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,760 Even when a bass is caught, it still has to meet certain criteria. 203 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,840 It's a small fish, this could be close to the legal size. 204 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,320 We've got to keep up with regulations, 205 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,040 and check legal sized fish... 206 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,840 ..with a measuring unit. 207 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,520 Basically from the tip of the nose, 208 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,600 as long as the tail is overhanging the back of the measure, 209 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:33,680 then it's a legal fish. 210 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:38,160 The catch just scrapes in above the 36cm minimum. 211 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:42,480 It's probably earned me about £1.50. 212 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,680 But after nearly an hour on the sandbank, with only two bites, 213 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:51,400 Ian has to think tactically. 214 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,680 It's not really fishing here very well, 215 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:56,440 so you've got to make a decision whether you stay here and see 216 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,080 if it gets any better, or you go and try somewhere completely different. 217 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,880 If you go somewhere completely different that's no good, 218 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:04,640 then you've had it. That's you done. 219 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,040 There's a massive gamble for the next three hours, 220 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,800 trying to find whatever we can find, or cut our losses, 221 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,240 steam 10 miles to a new mark, and see if that fishes. 222 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,160 But the trouble is, where we're going to go, if we go down there, 223 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:18,760 if there isn't fish there, 224 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,520 then we might as well just turn round and go home. 225 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,040 We're going to move to a different position, different place. 226 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:29,200 This is dreadful. 227 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:32,080 Disaster day. 228 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,040 Weather's rubbish, the fishing's rubbish. 229 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:38,840 It's all rubbish. 230 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:43,440 Ian now has a 45-minute journey before he finds out 231 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,800 if his gamble has paid off. 232 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,280 In the UK, we are dependent 233 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,320 on maritime trade for the country's prosperity. 234 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,680 Over 90% of the world's trade travels by sea. 235 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:05,440 Each year, £524 billion worth of goods come in to us 236 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:09,720 through our ports, including half of all our food. 237 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,440 The breakfast you had this morning probably came by sea. 238 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:14,760 If it was a banana on toast, for example, 239 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:17,360 that banana's come in on a ship from the Caribbean. 240 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:19,280 Probably the cutlery and the plates, 241 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:23,200 and even the table you're sat at, has arrived by sea. So shipping is huge. 242 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:27,080 It's not just TVs and refrigerators, it's everything around us. 243 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,880 With such a huge flow of massive container ships 244 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:36,560 and boats coming in from all over the world, it is inevitable 245 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:40,480 that contraband, including counterfeit goods and illegal drugs 246 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,680 will be hidden and buried in amongst legitimate imports. 247 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,000 Something the UK Border Force are vigilant to. 248 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:55,240 In 2011, the team in Southampton seized the largest ever haul 249 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,000 of Class A drugs 250 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,880 when they discovered 1.2 tonnes of smuggled cocaine 251 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:05,040 with a street value of up to £100 million. 252 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,600 We get roughly 1.5 million containers arriving in this port 253 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:13,760 every year. 254 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,720 That equates to roughly about 39 million tonnes. 255 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:25,400 Sean Gigg is one of 20 officers trying to intercept the flow 256 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,920 of illicit cargo into Southampton, 257 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,360 home to the UK's second-largest container terminal. 258 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:40,080 We find various illegal goods that come into the UK. 259 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,840 That can be counterfeit goods, it's drugs, 260 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,400 but also excise goods such as alcohol 261 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,400 and tobacco products as well. 262 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,200 Detecting these illegal goods is a massive ongoing operation 263 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:52,960 for the Border Force. 264 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,800 We have a number of staff in, who we'll be deploying now 265 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,840 to look at the container ship which has just arrived, 266 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,520 look at the containers inside to make sure 267 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,480 there's nothing illegal inside those containers. 268 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,040 They use intelligence to make targeted searches, 269 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:11,680 but they also pull shipments off at random. 270 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,680 We're looking for a wide range of illegal commodities, 271 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,160 that's anything from Class A drugs, Class B drugs and Class C drugs, 272 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,160 all the way from counterfeit goods, but also foodstuffs as well. 273 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:25,720 So we're going to have a closer inspection of that. 274 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,080 It says on the manifest it's rice products, 275 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,400 but we want to have a good look inside to make sure that 276 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,440 it IS rice products, and nothing else that shouldn't be in there. 277 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,480 With such a large volume of cargo coming into Southampton, the search 278 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,960 for contraband can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. 279 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,920 A container's been selected for us to have a good examination, 280 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:53,080 because of the sheer size, and we don't know the goods inside. 281 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,360 What we're going to use is our X-ray vehicle here, and that will 282 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,960 give us the capability to look inside that, in the container. 283 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:03,240 It operates pretty much similar to an airport scanner 284 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,840 when they select baggages, and that goes through that. 285 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:07,160 But on a larger scale. 286 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,920 The scanner will go up and down the container, then give us 287 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,920 an image representation of what's inside. 288 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,400 There may be an area of concern, and that's the bit we need to look at. 289 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,320 So an item where it's fairly dense, like rice, 290 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:22,560 there could be a package in there. 291 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,840 It only takes one package, you know, it's £1 million worth of drugs, 292 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,080 concealed in a 40ft container. 293 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,360 Every major port such as here, Portsmouth and Felixstowe, 294 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:34,120 and also Dover, will have something this big. 295 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:36,600 We can't scan every single container, 296 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:38,360 it's impossible for us to do that task. 297 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:41,080 When you've got a container ship with 3,000 containers, 298 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:42,240 it's impossible. 299 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,080 So having something like this is a very valuable tool. 300 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,960 So it makes our job a little bit easier 301 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,440 when trying to combat smugglers, but also the general criminals as well, 302 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,320 trying to bring their stuff in illegally into the UK. 303 00:17:55,320 --> 00:18:00,080 The X-ray on the container's contents gives a conclusive result. 304 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:04,200 The image has come out all clear, and our officers are happy 305 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,560 that there's nothing in there that should be of interest to us. 306 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,280 So what's going to happen now, that container will go back 307 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,240 in its stack and wait to be collected by the company. 308 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,520 Another invaluable member of the Border Force patrol team 309 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,000 here at Southampton is four-year-old Eli. 310 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,720 We get the dogs involved if maybe an area which requires 311 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,960 closer inspection... Good boy. 312 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:32,640 We'll call our dog team in, 313 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,560 and we'll take a closer inspection inside, 314 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,440 with the dog unit, whose nose is always far better than ours. 315 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,640 This is Eli, the dog, and this is Mark, the handler. 316 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,560 Our dog is a spaniel. A very good dog. 317 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:47,440 He's multi-trained in all types of illegal commodities. 318 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,720 Anything from drugs to cash. 319 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,360 And so, yep, he's our primary dog to use now inside this container. 320 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:59,400 We've tunnelled out a little hole here, which will allow our dogs 321 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,240 to go inside and have a sniff right through the container itself. 322 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,240 There's two different types of products here, long grain rice 323 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:07,760 and some brown rice. 324 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,040 But as you can see, the depth of it makes it very, very hard 325 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,200 for our officers to have a good look inside, 326 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,240 and it's too time intensive to take off every single box. 327 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,520 The dog is absolutely fantastic here. 328 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:29,040 Up! 329 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,160 Eli performs over 20 searches a week. 330 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:37,880 Last year in Southampton a dog found £26,000 hidden 331 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:39,400 in the back-seat of a car. 332 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:42,880 As well as using detector dogs, 333 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:47,520 the force often use old-fashioned manpower to search boxes at random. 334 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:51,840 So, what we've got in here is branded products, 335 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:56,400 available, say, in branded stores and shops at the moment, 336 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,680 so we have these items here, all available in the UK. 337 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,600 But, as I say, these are counterfeit. 338 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,320 Here are some Diesel products, again very popular. 339 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,840 All counterfeit, all made in the Far East. 340 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,840 So these will be sold on street markets, 341 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,880 and also possibly car-boot sales. The quality is going to be poor. 342 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:19,480 It's not going to be tested, you know. 343 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:23,400 So the printer's ink may come off. It could be toxic, we don't know. 344 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,360 And we just have to take this stuff off, cos the protection is 345 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:30,640 not only for the public, but it's also for the companies themselves. 346 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,520 So we're coming up to September, and these are FIFA World Cup tops. 347 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,120 So they've completely missed the boat on that one. 348 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:38,520 Pretty pointless now. 349 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,920 But we also look for food products as well, banned, 350 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,320 coming into the UK from outside the EU. 351 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:47,520 Any foodstuffs that contain egg or meat-based products. 352 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,240 All the way here from the Far East, pork steaks, so they're pork ribs. 353 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,040 Milk-based products as well, 354 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,560 so this will be, like, chocolate powder and milk powder. 355 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,520 None of this will have gone through the Food Standards Agency at all. 356 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,440 A lot of people bring this in in commercial quantity, 357 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,480 or it could be people bringing stuff in just for that taste of home. 358 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,440 This will be up for destruction, simple as. 359 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,040 Because we don't know the quality, 360 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,680 we don't know the effects it could have. 361 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,360 It's just one of those products that's been banned. 362 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:17,280 So we need to just basically get rid of it. 363 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,920 Come on, then. Good lad. 364 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,760 Eli has sniffed around and hasn't found anything suspicious 365 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,000 in this container. 366 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,720 It's all legitimate rice products, but you never know. 367 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,480 If you don't look, you don't find. 368 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:44,600 But there's no rest for Eli, Sean and the rest of the force. 369 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,480 Smugglers operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So do we. 370 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,280 The super ships that stream up and down the English Channel 371 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:04,440 become larger, faster and more numerous year on year. 372 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:09,800 RADIO: ...103, good morning to you both. 373 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,800 Freighters and cruise liners can carry up to 14,000 containers, 374 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,000 or over 4,200 people. 375 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,360 These vast vessels need an extraordinary amount of fuel 376 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:24,520 to carry them on their global journeys. 377 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,800 Their gargantuan engines are as heavy as a small ship. 378 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,120 So filling them up isn't a one-man job. 379 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,880 Dedicated crews on board titanic oil tankers are the ship's 380 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,920 petrol pump attendants. 381 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:45,040 INAUDIBLE COMMAND 382 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,000 INAUDIBLE RADIO COMMAND 383 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,360 Captain John Pryor is master of the Whitonia tanker. 384 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,960 It's 7:25 in the morning. 385 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,000 Just coming into refuel the Emerald Princess. 386 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,600 What are we, 1,200 tonnes for this, Jack, is it? 387 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:14,040 1,200 tonnes, which is a typical amount for these guys. 388 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,120 It's probably going to last them a couple of weeks. 389 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:19,000 It's a regular customer of ours. 390 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,000 Refuelling a ship is not like pulling up at the petrol pump. 391 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,960 Advanced planning is required. 392 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,440 Agents working on behalf of the cruise liner 393 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,840 have booked in their refuel with the company's office. 394 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,000 Captain John's job is to get to the ship on time 395 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,520 and deliver the oil as quickly and safely as he can. 396 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,320 The ship itself is worth about £6 million, 397 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,760 and the cargo's around about £4 million, so there is 398 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:50,800 £10 million of ship and cargo manoeuvring alongside another vessel. 399 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,880 And of course the vessel you're going alongside, if it's a cruise liner, 400 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,360 it may be worth £400 million or £500 million. 401 00:23:57,360 --> 00:24:00,480 So you need to be in a position where you can see everything 402 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,840 and be in complete control, which is why we go to the bridge wing, 403 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,320 where we get a better view of what's happening on the outside. 404 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,960 We're just coming alongside the Emerald Princess now. 405 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:19,320 Yeah, this is the bit that does all the damage if it goes wrong. 406 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,840 Where's his door on this one, then, Alec? 407 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,760 OVER RADIO: 408 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,680 What you're trying to avoid is metal-to-metal contact with anything. 409 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,080 Cos that could cause a spark. 410 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,240 Eight metres eight. RADIO: Six metres six. 411 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,800 Six. I'll slow it down. 412 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,040 Three... Three... 413 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,040 Two metres two. Two. 414 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,280 A metre. 415 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:51,440 One metre. 416 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,120 In position. Thank you. 417 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,840 We carry 6,200 tonnes. We've got about... 418 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,480 ..1,500 tonnes on board at the moment. 419 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,680 So we're nearly empty, to be honest. 420 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,520 Probably one more day and we'll be loading again. 421 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,400 Fast forward, thank you. 422 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:17,560 Before refuelling can begin, there is a formality to address. 423 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,240 Each time we moor up alongside, 424 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,160 there's a conversation between the engineer and the mate on here, 425 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,920 and they agree a contract of how fast he wants it. 426 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:33,080 And typically it's about 400 or 500 tonnes an hour. 427 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,960 It's a safety thing. You might have limited amount of staff 428 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,040 to watch his tanks coming up, or the vents on his tanks 429 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,840 may be restricted to a certain amount of flow. 430 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,000 So we agree a pumping rate, 431 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:50,480 and then we don't go over the rate that he specifies. 432 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:54,360 The contract is passed over to the cruise liner for the chief engineer 433 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:56,920 to review and sign. 434 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,400 The Emerald Princess has a busy schedule to keep to, with new 435 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:04,360 passengers and fresh supplies coming on board for the onward journey. 436 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:08,640 So refuelling is a time-critical operation. 437 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,400 We'll connect up a large hose, 438 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,080 very much like you put petrol in a car. 439 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,360 Instead of being a one-inch bore hose, 440 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:18,800 our hose is six to eight inches diameter. 441 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,280 Your average car, 442 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,400 we would fill it up with 50 litres in one fifth of a second. 443 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:24,840 So it's pretty fast. 444 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,840 The crew can't start to deliver the fuel 445 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:33,680 until the contract is signed, so all John and his team can do is wait. 446 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,960 So this is the azimuth room, down here...stroke gym. 447 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,440 That's what I say to the cadets, this is the emergency propulsion! 448 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,840 The crew spends 28 days living on the tanker, 449 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,760 and is then released for 28 days' leave. That's the galley. 450 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,360 This is Janusz, our Polish chef for the day. 451 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:58,280 What are you making, Jan? 452 00:26:58,280 --> 00:26:59,880 China... 453 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:01,680 Chinese? Very nice. 454 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:04,960 This is the crew mess. 455 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:12,120 This is where we all eat our dinners, lunches etc. 456 00:27:12,120 --> 00:27:15,240 And this is a clean mess that we use, 457 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,560 just a games station 458 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,240 and a TV there for people to relax of an evening. 459 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:26,640 20 minutes after coming alongside, the crew is ready to pump, 460 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,520 but hasn't been given the go-ahead from the Emerald Princess. 461 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,960 Captain John and his crew could be delayed 462 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,640 reaching their other customers. 463 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,320 To be able to fill up as many ships as she does, 464 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:43,240 the Whitonia can carry over 6,000 tonnes of flammable material, 465 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,080 so the boat has to be prepared for the worst. 466 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,160 The fire triangle has three sides. 467 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,760 You've got to have heat, you've got to have fuel, 468 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,360 and you've got to have air, or oxygen. 469 00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:55,040 So if you eliminate any one of them, 470 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,200 wherever you are, you can't have a fire. 471 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,640 So obviously on deck we've always got some fuel, 472 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,680 and you've always got oxygen as well. 473 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,440 So you have to eliminate the heat. 474 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,160 So you don't want anything that's going to create a spark, 475 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,840 like a mobile phone or whatever, or someone smoking. 476 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,920 So that's taken out of the scenario. 477 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:22,520 Firefighting room. 478 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,400 There's a tank here that holds concentrated foam. 479 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,600 If you have a fire on deck, you can pump water through there, 480 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,720 and this little pump injects foam into the line, 481 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,320 which expands at 3,000 to 1. 482 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,440 And you can cover the deck in 18 inches of foam, 483 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,440 which should eliminate your fire. 484 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:49,240 After 40 minutes, the contract is finally signed, sealed 485 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:50,960 and passed back to the tanker. 486 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,120 Pumping can now begin. 487 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,320 She's got the flow now. 488 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,160 In the first couple of minutes, 489 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,400 we need to give them a very slow rate 490 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,360 and they have to establish everything's OK on their tanks, 491 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,440 their line, everything is open, no-one forgot to close any valves. 492 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,760 And everything is OK. 493 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,480 Yeah, go ahead. 494 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,920 RADIO: If you can increase the pressure on the black hole 495 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,480 up to maximum, please. Yeah, break it up now. 496 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,760 The pressures are carefully monitored as the fuel is 497 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,040 pumped over. 498 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,920 Yeah, it's important to keep a very close eye on the discharge. 499 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,760 That's when the accidents can happen. 500 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,680 RADIO: ...Where he is is fine there, mate, 501 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,960 we've got the pressure we want. 502 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,000 As well as the safety concerns, 503 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,680 Captain John now has delays to contend with. 504 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,760 40 minutes later than I thought we were going to be. 505 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,000 Which is having a knock-on effect on the day. 506 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,600 Everything's gone back nearly an hour. 507 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,320 You can't pump faster because we're behind time, 508 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,360 and we end up with a longer day. 509 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,280 The refuelling goes without a hitch, and after two-and-a-half hours 510 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,120 the Emerald Princess is fully topped up and ready to go. 511 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,360 Everybody ready to go now, please. 512 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,400 Go, all right. 513 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,920 The chief signs a receipt. 514 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,680 He may ask if he gets any free glasses or tokens with his fuel, 515 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,800 but unfortunately we're not like petrol stations. We can't do that. 516 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,040 We'll transfer that and move on to the next job. 517 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,600 Just finished on the Emerald Princess. Paperwork completed. 518 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,000 And we're just away now. 519 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,000 Having lost time on the cruise liner, 520 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,480 they need to get to their next two jobs as quickly as possible. 521 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,360 Luckily for the crew of the Whitonia 522 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,680 the next on the list is just around the corner. 523 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,400 Change of orders. 524 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,600 Instead of going to Portsmouth this afternoon, 525 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,880 now we've got another job in the Empress Dock. 526 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,880 To help this giant ship negotiate around the different berths 527 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,560 of the container terminal, 528 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,800 Captain John has all the latest technology at his fingertips. 529 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:22,520 The ship is geared up for lots of tricky manoeuvring like that. 530 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:27,240 You've got twin azimuth units here, they go around 360 degrees, 531 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,960 and there's two of them on the after end. 532 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,280 As many times as you like, they're all hydraulically controlled. 533 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,120 I can link everything through into a joystick, 534 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,880 and if I want to go diagonally I go like this. 535 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:43,400 I can alter the heading by rotating like that. BEEPING 536 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,680 It's probably easier than parking a car, to be honest. 537 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,920 Watching the stern, Lofty? RADIO: All right, mate. 538 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,840 OK, we're just coming up towards the auto bay on 105 berth. 539 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,840 So what I'm going to do is lose some speed, and then swing to port. 540 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,360 To get alongside the next ship safely, 541 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:14,600 John is going to have to reverse past this 100-metre-long vessel. 542 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,200 If you have any failures, there's plenty of room out there, 543 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,960 so I've got time to recover, I've got time to drop my anchor 544 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,440 if I was to lose the engines or anything like that. 545 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,160 Not that that ever has happened. 546 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,800 But you have to think, "What's the worst thing that can happen?" 547 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,200 So I'm now at a point where I can't really see what's going on 548 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,480 from in here. 549 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:45,320 So I'm going to transfer out to the bridge wing... 550 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,000 ..where I get a better view. 551 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,600 The awkward thing on this boat is we have to come in, and the stern does 552 00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,720 have to get quite close in there, 553 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,480 and there's no fender in between us. 554 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,960 So it's critical that we're not going to fast when we get there. 555 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,680 Metal-to-metal again, possible damage, possible spark. 556 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:10,920 All to be avoided. 557 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,520 'When the ship's light, we haven't got much cargo in it. 558 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,080 INAUDIBLE RADIO COMMAND It's a lot more responsive. 559 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,760 You have to be quite gentle with the amount of engine power you use. 560 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,560 RADIO: One metre one. 561 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,080 But with 30 years' experience at sea, 562 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,520 Captain John makes the mother of all reverse parks look easy. 563 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,320 So we've lined up now, then we can shut down the engines 564 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:36,600 and start bunkering. 565 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:53,080 That was the Emerald Princess just sailing from the ocean dock. 566 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,280 Our first job this morning. 567 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,440 She sailed on time at 16:30. 568 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,880 She's burning, we calculated, 569 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,240 one gallon every 20 metres. 570 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,920 So she's probably burnt about a gallon in the amount of time 571 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:10,400 it's took me to say that. 572 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,400 The amount of fuel the large ships use is staggering. 573 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,960 But the shipping industry is currently transitioning from thick, 574 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,520 tar-like fuel oil to a cleaner liquid gas oil, similar to diesel. 575 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,960 The Emerald Princess is currently making the switch. 576 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:36,360 10% of its 1,120 tonnes of fuel today is the cleaner alternative. 577 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:40,360 News legislation coming in next year will prohibit ships powered only 578 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,520 with heavy oil from sailing in Europe's North and Baltic Seas. 579 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,280 The rest of the shift goes smoothly. 580 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,960 RADIO: You might have to move her up a bit, mate. 581 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,600 But Captain John and his crew's day isn't over 582 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,920 until they've topped up their empty tanks. 583 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,400 An even bigger tanker has been dispatched from the UK's 584 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:14,120 largest refinery at Fawley, several miles along the shore. 585 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,960 We're waiting now for the Whitchallenger to turn up, 586 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,480 and then she will load us with some gas oil. 587 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,440 And that will be the last job of the night. 588 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:25,960 And it'll be time for bed. 589 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,920 Out on the Channel, a growing band of eco-minded fishermen 590 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:42,600 are leading the way in alternative techniques for sourcing seafood. 591 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:44,120 Through traditional methods 592 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,240 that make it easier to target a particular catch, 593 00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:51,160 they hope to prevent the fish supper becoming a thing of the past. 594 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,920 Right, thanks, we'll fish somewhere else. 595 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,040 Skipper Ian Taylor and his four-strong crew 596 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:04,200 are line fishing for sea bass off the coast of Weymouth. 597 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,720 The last two days have seen them come home empty-handed, 598 00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:11,080 and this morning's location also wasn't delivering. 599 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,360 Where we've been fishing is no good. 600 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,480 We've given it a real good go, 601 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,000 and by now, really, we should be catching fish. 602 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,960 We should be catching quite well. 603 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,880 OK, what helps is how passionate we are for our jobs. 604 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,120 We absolutely love it, no matter wind, rain or shine, 605 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:30,640 we're just happy to be out most of the time. Provided there's fish. 606 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,280 They are heading to another fishing spot 12 miles away 607 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,320 in the hope of a better catch. 608 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,080 It's going to cost me probably about £30, £40 worth 609 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:43,280 of fuel to get there, and then the same to get back again. 610 00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,920 It's my job to put the boat on the fish. 611 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,960 It's their job to catch them, it's my job to find them. 612 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:55,320 We could catch £1,000 worth of fish down there. We could catch nothing. 613 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,440 And one thing we've always done in the past is we've always taken 614 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,240 the big gambles, and it's always paid off. 615 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:11,720 Right, let's get on it. 616 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,880 It's time to find out if Ian's gamble has paid off. 617 00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:22,440 Right, boys, here we go. Last chance. It's now or never. 618 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,480 Fish on. Ooh, that's a better one. 619 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,400 A lot of fish on over there by the looks of things. 620 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:35,640 Wahey! 621 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,400 Cheeky kilo. 622 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,480 A kilo of sea bass fetches £10 on average, 623 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,160 so on a good week an angler can earn £1,000. 624 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,200 To keep track of how much they've caught, 625 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,600 each fisherman has his own colour tags. 626 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:10,120 Wahey! Yes. 627 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,280 Thank you. 628 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,720 Lovely. We should start getting a few now. 629 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:20,320 They're not a great size, but... 630 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,320 ..beggars can't be choosers. 631 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,080 That's the best fishing we've had all afternoon, 632 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,520 so I'm hoping there's a few here now. 633 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,640 So we might get an hour's decent fishing. 634 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:38,960 You all right? That's it now, we're on it. Going off! Yeah. 635 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,960 We get a few more of these, that'd be good. 636 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,880 Skipper Ian gets his first catch of the day. 637 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,680 What have you got there? 638 00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,120 I've got a bass! Lucky boy! 639 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,680 If the boss is catching, it means we can't be doing very well. 640 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,400 Dave is doing all right, isn't he? Yeah, mate, yeah. 641 00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,280 Where am I going, in the bin? Yeah. 642 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,320 It's good to catch a fish for a change! 643 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,600 HE LAUGHS 644 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:05,680 I've got to go and catch another one. 645 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,960 Caught a couple of fish, they're all getting excited now. 646 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,800 Ohhh! 647 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,560 Where did you find that one, David? 648 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,080 Where did you find that, Dave? Bottle of wine! 649 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,200 As soon as a few fish come over the side, 650 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,160 the smiles appear on people's faces. 651 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,480 Everyone starts to earn a little bit. 652 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,600 But the reality is, the crew's catch has to pay 653 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,440 for the boat's fuel first. 654 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:33,800 Oh, Bazza! HE LAUGHS 655 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,800 No! Don't chuck it back! 656 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,440 So every catch counts. 657 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:43,240 He tried to swing the fish, and as he swung it, it hit the rail, 658 00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:46,080 and it's come off, and he's lost it. 659 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,560 It happens. You'll never land every fish you catch. 660 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,080 So that fish was worth about £20. 661 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,120 So we've just thrown a £20 note over the side. 662 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,000 So, it's not my day at the moment. 663 00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,240 But it's not an actually a great day full stop... 664 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,000 OK. Get a few of those. 665 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,000 As the day wears on, the crew assesses the catch. 666 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,760 Looking at that there, there's 30kg. 667 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,160 We want a lot more than that. 668 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,640 But because we've got so little amount, I know there's 669 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,560 a couple of local restaurants and places that buy fish off me. 670 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,080 I'll just put it straight into them tonight when we come in. 671 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,920 We haven't got enough to start worrying about putting them 672 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:39,160 into markets. 673 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,840 After six hours out on the Channel, 674 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,800 they've finally covered the cost of the boat's fuel. 675 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:50,520 And what little is left earns each fisherman £20 to £30. 676 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,200 I've still got to play the lads their percentage of those fish. 677 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,320 So even though we haven't made any money, they'll still get their bit, 678 00:40:58,320 --> 00:40:59,840 their percentage of it. 679 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:03,320 I'm so rich, it doesn't matter, does it, boys? No... 680 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,320 This, for us, is still a bad day. 681 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,000 Our weekly wage isn't going to be that good. 682 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,720 But it's something, you know? 683 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:13,040 It's better than sitting at home, I think. 684 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,240 You can't go, "This has been awful, I'm going to quit, 685 00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:18,640 "I'm going to go and get a job in an office," 686 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,960 because you're not going to get it every day where it's really good. 687 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,480 On a really good day, you don't even notice 688 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,560 the time going by because it's just so manic. 689 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,440 What do you reckon, go home? Everybody had enough? Yeah, I reckon. 690 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,200 Time to go home then, guys. 691 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,960 Yeah, yeah. THEY LAUGH 692 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,040 I've caught one fish all afternoon! 693 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:39,240 HE LAUGHS 694 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:41,800 But I expect we're the top. 695 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,960 From what I've been hearing, we are the top boat in Weymouth today. 696 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:46,320 Whoo-hoo! Whoo-hoo! 697 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,600 The future of line fishing, really, I think it's on the up. 698 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,400 Because it's what people want. 699 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,600 The general public, the customers, 700 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,960 they want the fish to be sustainably caught, 701 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:09,280 and everybody's promoting sustainable fish, and the fish, 702 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,360 as it is, is a healthy food, 703 00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,880 so there's a bright future for fishing. 704 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,440 Tomorrow will hopefully be a better day. 705 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:26,080 Today was, for want of a better word, rubbish. 706 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:33,920 Right, then. 707 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:35,880 End of a rubbish day. Yeah. 708 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,840 Go back tomorrow and try all over again. 709 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,160 Tomorrow is a different day, isn't it? You never know. 710 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,640 Hopefully we'll make some money tomorrow. 711 00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:52,640 Ian and his crew hope that better days lie ahead for them. 712 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,960 Sustainable fishing is gaining popularity with consumers, 713 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,880 a method that could help to maintain the Channel 714 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:04,480 as a rich source of food for generations to come.