Oceans
Year
2008
Genre
Documentary
Country
UK
Director
Actors
Mark Halliley, Lucy Blue, Philippe Cousteau, Tooni Mahto, Paul Rose
Description
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Episodes
- Season 1: 1. Sea Of Cortez (2008). The team explore how a unique ocean paradise, home to the greatest variety of whales and dolphins in the world, is under threat. They dive in stormy seas to investigate how a giant predator, the cannibalistic Humboldt squid, is invading this sea, and search for the threatened hammerhead shark.
- Season 1: 2. Southern Ocean (2008). Parts of the Southern Ocean are warming twice as fast as the rest of the world's oceans. The team brave some of the roughest seas and the strongest winds on the planet as they investigate this phenomenon. They also dive one of the thousand shipwrecks in these waters and in a unique sunken valley they search for mysterious deep ocean creatures normally found hundreds of metres below the surface.
- Season 1: 3. Red Sea (2008). The team explores the remote and unexplored Southern Red Sea, teeming with marine life.
- Season 1: 4. Atlantic Ocean (2008). The Atlantic Ocean is the youngest of the great oceans and critical in influencing our climate. The team dive into a 'black hole' to discover how different our planet's earliest oceans were 3.5 billion years ago. They also brave waters teeming with sharks to act as human bait in an experiment to test a shark repellent.
- Season 1: 5. Indian Ocean (2008). In the first of two episodes in the rich tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the team investigate how schools of Manta Ray suffering from shark bites are treated by the inhabitants of a remarkable reef. They go in search of one of the Indian Ocean's most elusive creatures, the dugong, and visit a 'coral nursery'.
- Season 1: 6. Indian Ocean Coastal Waters (2008). In the coastal waters of the Indian Ocean the team search for one of the ocean's most mysterious creatures, the seahorse, to see how the population is fairing amid increasing demand from the eastern medicine market. They dive in search of the sunken remains of a medieval village, dragged into the sea by a cyclone, and take part in an experiment to help protect whale sharks.
- Season 1: 7. Mediterranean Sea (2008). An exploration of the profound effect that man is having on the Mediterranean Sea.
- Season 1: 8. Arctic Ocean (2008). The team dives beneath the polar ice cap to explore how the ice is shrinking.
Comments
Duration
118 minutes (at 25 frames per second)
Filesize
702 MB
Video
MPEG-4 Visual - resolution: 688x294
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