4/2/2023 0 Comments Blue planet deep sea“But what we actually do here – and in the middle of Asia – has direct effect on the oceans and what the oceans do affects us. “We may think we live a long way from the oceans,” he told the premiere. Their remarkable recovery is put down to effective regulation and fisheries management, after the collapse of stocks led them to commercial extinction in the sixties.Īttenborough is keen that we, his viewers, accept that we have a responsibility for the changing oceans. We are taken to Norwegian fjords to see humpback whales and orcas, drawn there every year by billions of herring. The changes in the oceans are not all gloomy. “There’s a shot of the young being fed, and what comes out of the mouth of the beak of the adult? Not sand-eels, not fish, not squid… it’s plastic. It’s an issue that he recently told Unearthedhe finds “heartbreaking”, recalling a sequence in the series in which an albatross feeds plastic, unsuspectingly, to its chick. Percy’s intelligence isn’t the only marine phenomenon in the series that is challenging scientific understanding we are exposed to many others that are spawning new scientific research. The team track him on his daily mission to crack open his clam, using the coral as an anvil. Percy can use tools and does so repeatedly. Next we dive down to the rainbow landscape of the Great Barrier Reef to meet Percy the tuskfish. I’ll let you put the odds on the likely victor. It’s a giant trevally: a fish that hunts alone, looks like a bulldog and has the ability to calculate the altitude and trajectory of a bird, at speed. The central battle of the first Blue Planet episode is in South African seas, and it’s bird versus fish. We have seen tragedies happen because of plastic Remember the iguana’s miraculous escape from a mass snake hunt in Planet Earth Two? Or the fight between the lions and a lonely giraffe? It’s a compendium of a four-year adventure that has taken in 39 countries on 125 expeditions. The series is Attenborough’s return to a world that covers 70% of the planet’s surface. After 16 years away, Blue Planet Two will be back on our screens on Sunday 29 October on BBC1.
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