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The Emmy-winning series is the definitive natural history of the world's oceans exploring everything from the popular shores and teeming shallows to the mysterious ocean depths. It's a journey that gets stranger and more awe-inspiring as it goes along. Over three hours of bonus content.
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Open ocean - "In the immense space of the open ocean the sea bed is a staggering five miles below the surface and the nearest island is over 300 miles away. Yet here live many of the mosr spectacular predators in the ocean. Marvel as you experience ruthless and beautiful battles between hunter and prey." The Deep - "A place of mountain ranges, perpetual night, pressure extremes and cold... and the weirdest life forms on our planet. Dive to the depths...
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Blue planet volume 2
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"This bold cinematic experience takes viewers on a magical adventure across the greatest, yet least known parts of our planet - our oceans. Since Blue Planet aired in 2001, our understanding of life beneath the waves has completely changed. Travelling from the icy polar seas to the vibrant blues of the coral atolls, Blue Planet II shares these astonishing new discoveries. Meet the strange octopuses lurking in the depths of the Antarctic ocean. Watch...
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Ocean realm: Beautiful, bewildering and largely unexplored, our oceans dominate our planet. How did they form? Why haven't they evaporated away? We take an HD journey through time ... watch as our world freezes solid ... long ago ... and peek at the ocean's possible future. We journey from the mind-bending beauty of coral reef shallows to the deepest depths of Mariana Trench, while glimpsing everything in between.
Born of fire: Learn about the molten...
8) Ocean
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Discover the ancient myths that surround our oceans and the modern science behind them.
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Meet creatures beyond your imagining in two undersea sagas pulsing with sea serpents, multiarmed beasts, magnificent kelp forests and jellyfish named for a Gorgon. In the Emmy Award winning The Blue Planet: Seas of Life and its jawdropping successor, Blue Planet II, cutting-edge breakthroughs in science and technology open your eyes to deep blue worlds, amazing sea life, and animal behaviors you've never seen before. Filmed on two circumglobal photo...
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Water life captures extraordinary locations and intimate animal behavior never before seen on film. Two years in the making, this groundbreaking series takes viewers on an unprecedented visual journey to aquatic ecosystems on five continents to reveal how water shapes and sculpt the landscape and provides food and refuge for an astonishing array of species. planet. This epic series tells water's story as never before to engage viewers in vital discussions...
12) Oceans
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From discovering the truth behind rumors that the Mediterranean has become a breeding ground for the Great White to exploring ancient wrecks that tell tales of piracy past and present, the explorer team ventures fearlessly into some of the planet's most challenging environments, providing a vital and timely understanding of our oceans.
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"Earth's single, truly unique, defining features is the ocean of salty water that covers most of its solid surface to a depth of thousands of meters. For nearly all of the 4.6-billion-year history of the planet, the ocean has existed and has been essential to life, climate, and even to the planet's geological evolution through plate tectonics. This course explores all of these topics and more."--p.1 of course guidebook.
14) Drain the ocean
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"Three-quarters of Earth is an alien world, lying beneath the surface of the oceans. And although it encompasses over half of the world's species, we know more about the surface of Mars than the bottom of the ocean. It's only recently that science has penetrated this world, revealing extraordinary life forms and vast sweeping landscapes on a scale that defies imagination"--Container.
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Bill Nye, the Science Guy goes underwater to talk about ocean ecosystems and the importance of small organisms such as coral, kelp and plankton. Amazingly, these latter organisms are the food of huge whales, which gather them by straining thousands of tons of sea water through their mouths.
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Through the works of biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel, the role of the sea as the "outer space" of his time is explored. Based almost entirely on 19th-century scientific illustrations, paintings, and photographs brought to life through innovative animation, Proteus explores the undersea world through a complex tapestry of biology, oceanography, scientific history, poetry and myth.
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"Embark on a global odyssey to discover the largest and least explored habitat on earth. New ocean science and technology has allowed us to go further into the unknown than we ever thought possible. From the coastal shallows to deeper, more mysterious worlds, we reveal the untold stories of the oceans' most astonishing creatures. Dolphins leap for joy through the waves, as we begin our journey into the blue. Our first stop is the coral reefs, where...