The Blue Planet
THE BLUE PLANET
Ocean World - pt 1
seas of life - pt 2
open ocean - pt 3
frozen seas - pt 4
seasonal seas - pt 5
coral seas - pt 6
tidal seas - pt 7
coasts - pt 8
Extraordinary footage and eloquent narration by David Attenborough highlight the BBC’s remarkable wildlife series The Blue Planet: Seas of Life. “Ocean World” begins with astonishing views of a gigantic blue whale–the elusive Holy Grail of undersea photography–and the marvels continue to demonstrate the power, diversity, and profound ecological influence of Earth’s oceans. “Frozen Seas” examines whales, walruses, penguins, and other creatures under the extreme conditions of the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. The next two episodes are even better. “Open Ocean” travels thousands of miles into the vast “liquid desert,” where currents determine how the ocean’s diverse life forms will assume their places in the food chain. More amazing, “The Deep” descends with a state-of-the-art submersible to the ocean’s abyssal plain and beyond, filming such bizarre creatures as the fangtooth, bioluminescent jellies, transparent squid, the giant-mouthed gulper eel, and the never-before-seen hairy angler fish.
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