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.

[sidraines]

Must be hundreds of lost mobile phones in there.

[bellavaszilij]

Thanks BBC for reporting this! Thumbs up!

[ebanydwayne]

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

[thelostnomad]

Your forgetting the car tyres and the tesco trolleys

[sd]

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

[gothnerd]

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

[fredhall]

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!

[jakesyma]

What's the name of the VR app/experience, @bbclondon?

[Mrkva]

I didn't know seahorses could live in fresh water

[theapple]

Can we use this to find out sea monsters

[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.

[darkages]

It would be nice if more people start clean the river

[stevenmendonca]

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 😎

[lunes-]

River Thames is a bit dirty, need some cleaning😝

[usynnstradler]

There are SHARKS IN THE THAMES?! no way

[rjvtechnologies]

Fake river Thames doesn’t have large fish

[sonoilchamp]

A horsefish in the thames... yeah sure

[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

[cuteboy]

Fake. No seahorse in the river Thames!

[DS-jjmy]

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