Equally as happy below the water as above, Will has spent the last four years diving in seas around the world, to produce the Ocean episode for Planet Earth III. This saw him spending over 100 hours in deep-sea submersibles filming giant shark feeding frenzies and erupting methane volcanoes. As producer on the critically acclaimed series, Blue Planet II, Will worked extensively across The Deep and Coast episodes as well as delivering the final environmental film, Our Blue Planet, presented by David Attenborough. Will is an award-winning producer and director, who has worked at the BBC’s Natural History Unit for 14 years – producing a wide range of natural history series and specialising in creating landmark wildlife films. Pearl octopus ( muusoctopus robustus): only found in the deep sea.Snipe eel, glass squid, gulper eel: extremely rare to see.Loggerhead sea turtle ( Caretta caretta): endangered.Tope shark / school shark ( Galeorhinus Galeus): critically endangered.Giant sea bass ( stereolepis gigas): critically endangered.Fun fact: The surface of Mars is better mapped than the ocean floor.*.Lowest point filmed: Two miles beneath the surface of the ocean.*.Number of shoots managed remotely: Seven.Sea lions and anchovies: Off the coast of Mejillones, Chile.Octopus nursery: The deep sea off the coast of California, USA.Plankton: The coast of Belgium and Holland.Glass squid: The deep sea off the Azores.Orca vs mobula rays: Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Columbus crabs: the ocean off the Canary Islands.Horn shark and angel shark: California, USA.Read more: Everything you need to know about Planet Earth III Overview.But can they now adapt to the new challenge… living alongside us? As the net is drawn in, the sea lions must get out quickly or risk being crushed and drowned.Īnimals have evolved in remarkable ways to the demands of life in the ocean. Off the coast of Chile, thousands of South American sea lions raid fishermen’s nets – but it comes with a huge risk. In today’s ocean, animals are having to compete with humans. An extreme effort after which they will die, but meaning their young are the most developed of any octopus - vital in the demanding world of the deep. Here she joins twenty thousand female octopus, all here to raise their eggs – the largest known gathering of octopus on planet earth.* It will take two years for their eggs to develop and in that time these devoted mothers will not even leave them to feed. A mother octopus heads to a special place where warm water escaping from the seabed creates a thermal spa. Two miles below the surface, we reach the ocean floor where the pressure is crushing and the temperature is freezing cold. As we descend and sunlight fades, alien-like creatures appear, including a massive siphonophore - the longest animal on planet earth and a gulper eel with huge jaws that can engulf prey larger than its own body. Theleast known parts of the ocean are its great depths, which can only be reached using specialised submersibles. In the Sea of Cortez, mobula rays perform astounding, acrobatic leaps that appear to attract other rays – but the performance also attracts a family of specialist ray-hunting orca that have a unique hunting strategy. The relationship that works so well, these turtles are often joined by a pair of crabs.įinding a partner in the ocean is not always this easy. Passing turtles can help and in fact provide a permanent home for a pair of crabs - in return the crabs provide an onboard grooming service. The crabs, however, are poor swimmers, so to find a mate, they must hitch a lift. Today, islands of seaweed are being replaced by plastic - every year 12 million tons of it ends up in the ocean.* It is lethal to many (and the crew had to rescue many entangled turtles while filming), but Columbus crabs are making a home on these unnatural rafts. In the giant kelp forests off North America, a young horn shark is ambushed and swallowed whole by an angel shark - which may have bitten off more than it can chew - and out in the empty big blue, flying fish search for floating seaweed to lay their eggs but end up attracting the attention of hungry blue sharks. In the shallow seas of the tropics a lionfish is fatally ensnared by a shrimp-like lure, seductively dangled from the head of a cunning clown frogfish. In this episode, we join David Attenborough on a journey through the vast and changing ocean to reveal the extraordinary behaviours and remarkable adaptations required for life to survive here.įor life beneath the surface, the ocean can be a battlefield. The ocean covers two thirds of the planet and is home to 80% of all animal life,* yet much of it remains unexplored.
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