(16 Sep 2025)
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Dahme, Germany – 2 September 2025
1. Piece of amber held in hand shines in daylight
2. A group of people arriving to look for amber on the beach
3. Frank Philipp looking for amber amongst seaweed
4. Frank Philipp and others looking for amber
5. Frank Philipp holding small piece of amber
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Frank Philipp, amber collector
“Unbelievable. I’m 57 now and grew up on the Baltic Sea, and I’ve never found it before. I’m really excited about it."
7. Man looking for amber in seaweed
8. Close of seaweed
9. Wide of group
10. Axel Kramer showing piece of amber he found a while ago
11. SOUNDBITE (German) Axel Kramer, nature guide
"They are on all fours and dig through it and if they find just a tiny piece, that’s pure happiness because it’s their own amber. You can buy everything. but everything we have in life must be seen with the heart. And you see this amber with the heart."
12. Baltic Sea waves
13. Amber washed on beach
14. People looking for amber
15. People looking for amber in seaweed
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Cismar – Germany – 2 September 2025
16. SOUNDBITE (German) Vollrath Wiese, biologist, German Malacological Society
"Amber is still ancient tree resin, but it can look very different. There used to be 120 commercial classes of amber, very, very diverse, ranging from practically black to practically white, bony white forms with lots of bubbles inside, and beautiful, clear, almost transparent ambers, like honey-colored. Whether the amber is transparent or not actually depends on the number of microscopically small bubbles inside it."
17. Various of different types of amber on display
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Dahme, Germany – 2 September 2025
18. SOUNDBITE (German) Axel Kramer, nature guide
"In the ancient burial mounds from 5,000 years ago, we found amber. We used it as necklaces and jewellery. This means that people have been doing this since they have been here. The Ice Age ended 10,000 years ago. They lived here and were already collecting amber back then. And since it is very soft, they could work it with simple tools like chipped flint stones, which are razor-sharp. That was the best jewellery making, you could say. And that hasn’t changed to this day."
19. Wide of amber jewellery
20. Close up of amber jewellery
21. Beach chairs pull focus to earrings made of amber in a store
22. SOUNDBITE (German) Axel Kramer, nature guide
"This happens. We have various ways to test this because amber is a fossilized resin. By the way, the Baltic amber we have here is the most common type of amber on Earth. Such a fossilized resin we could burn it to prove its real. We have a safer test that we do. It’s better. We put a lot of salt into a glass. Then we have a fully saturated salt solution. Then we have changed the specific gravity, the specific density and then the amber floats."
23. Close up of amber pieces in a jar floating in salt water
24. Wide of people walking along the beach
25. Wide of cormorants and a seagull perched on rocks
26. Mid of people searching for amber on the shore
27. SOUNDBITE (German) Axel Kramer, nature guide
"We have now awakened the instinct and tonight with black light (UV) we will search for amber. The amber will then glows yellow. It’s no longer difficult to search for amber, but it’s a technique that’s now quite commonly used and which has been around for a few years."
28. Wide of silhouettes of people gathering in Dahme, Germany, under a dark evening sky.
29. Wide of a person using a UV light to inspect the ground
31. Various of amber stones illuminated in the dark
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