The new series also focuses on the damage being done to wildlife in the oceans by human activity, including plastic pollution in the sea. “When we first heard of it we just didn’t believe it – it’s fisherman’s tale that proved true,” said Honeyborne.Ī walrus mother and her calf rest on an iceberg in Svalbard in the Arctic. It is utterly surreal.”Īnother film first showed fledgling sooty tern chicks being seized in mid-air by giant trevally fish, which erupt from the waters of a remote Indian ocean atoll. In order to catch a crab, these cuttlefish send ripples of colour patterns down its body and, we can’t say for sure whether it’s hypnosis, but it certainly appears to mesmerise the crab to the degree that it momentarily stops, allowing the cuttlefish to make the kill. “The amazing thing about cuttlefish is that they have control of their of their skin pattern. “To get ahead in this crowded undersea city you have to come up with some ingenious ways,” he said. The cuttlefish footage was shot off Borneo, said Mark Brownlow, the series producer. On Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, a tuskfish was revealed using a specific coral nub to crack open clams, while elsewhere grouper fish were seen using a kind of sign language – the “headstand signal” – to reach across the vertebrate-invertebrate divide and encourage octopuses to help it hunt. We want to tell all aspects of the oceans and we will use all the film craft techniques to do that.” “But it’s very important we have a transparent relationship with our audience and that the small proportion of them that do want to know how these things are filmed can find out. “You can’t just break the spell,” said Honeyborne. The source of the footage is not highlighted during the programme. The fearsome-looking fangtooth, which has the largest teeth relative to its body size for any fish, was filmed in a special chamber aboard a ship that had retrieved samples from the deep ocean. The Blue Planet team also worked with scientists to accurately recreate a rock pool and the burrow of a zebra mantis shrimp to enable closeup filming. “If you’re filming something that’s microscopic, you have to put added light on it – that’s just the the simple laws of physics.” “We make films that are totally true to nature and we’re honest and open about the techniques we use to do that,” said James Honeyborne, the executive producer of Blue Planet 2. How did they film these awesome images? The DVD's behind-the-scenes featurettes offer tantalizing answers, along with informative photos and factual data.A giant trevally patrols the shallows of a lagoon in the Indian Ocean, waiting for fledgling birds to leap at as they fly overhead. The Blue Planet provides the privilege of visiting a truly alien world teeming with the rarest wonders of nature. Even 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. From manta rays to spinner dolphins, hammerhead sharks, and a plethora of smaller creatures fending for their lives, the patient cameramen capture a movable feast with intense proximity, while narrator David Attenborough brings these forces of nature into eloquent perspective. "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. The Blue Planet will astonish you from start to finish, and these two episodes are even better than those included in Part 1 ("Ocean World" and "Frozen Seas"). These animals have never been filmed before and some are new to science. The Blue Planet takes a journey in to the abyss where there are strange creatures straight out of Alien. More people have travelled in to space than have ventured in to the deep. Programme 4 - The Deep Sixty per cent of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean more than a mile deep, and only a handful of submarines arecapable of diving that deep. Much of it is a marine desert with virtually no sign of life but somehow the fastest and most powerful predators in the world survive thousands of miles out to sea. Programme 3 - Open Oceans The open ocean is vast - it covers more than 360 million square kilometres of the Earth's surface. In some cases the species were only recently known to scientists. From the deep to the shore, from pole to pole it revealed extraordinary life and behaviour that had never before been filmed. The Blue Planet, the definitive exploration of the Earth's final frontier is now over. Blue Planet Seas of Life: Open Ocean / The Deep (DVD)
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