Claim: A video of divers near a Mother Mary statue has been posted online,
with the claim that the statue was discovered in the Indian Ocean by the
divers while they were looking for aircraft debris.
It continues by stating that no one is aware of how the statue got there,
but the viral post claims that it has remained clean for a considerable
amount of time despite the fact that it should have been covered in
algae.
Several Facebook users have shared the video.
A group of faith-inspired divers known as the "Sea Knights" assisted in
the installation of a statue of the Virgin Mary off the Philippines' Bohol
coast to stop dynamite fishing nearly nine years ago. It was hoped that
god-fearing fishermen would stop using dynamite, thereby assisting in the
preservation of marine life.
By Google reverse image we discovered a 2018 BBC video report. The "Sea
Knights'" return to the Virgin Mary statue to determine whether it had
been successfully erected was covered in the report.
The group admitted that erecting the underwater statue had taken them
nearly 11 hours. Additionally, in contrast to the claims made in the viral
message, corals had colonized the statue, so it was not clean. The group
gave the statue a thorough cleaning and placed red rose petals near
it.
Additionally, they discovered that the underwater growth of corals had
been healthy ever since the statue was placed. Therefore, the assertion
that divers were looking for aircraft debris when they came across the
statue is completely false and misleading.
Conclusion: It would appear that the video that is being shared on social
media was taken directly from the BBC report.
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