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Oceans: Our Blue Planet

The open ocean may be featureless but isolated volcanic peaksrise abruptly from deep water

The open ocean may be featureless but isolated volcanic peaks
rise abruptly from deep water

Full Transcript

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The open ocean may be featureless
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but isolated volcanic peaks rise abruptly from deep water...
Duration
11 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:25:18
Uploaded
Jun 22, 2025
Genres
documentary, short
Production
OceanX Media,BBC Earth,BBC Studios Natural History Unit

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Movie Summary

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.
The deep ocean is as challenging to explore as space. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:05
The deep ocean is as challenging to explore as space.
We know more about the surface of Mars than we do about the deep sea. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:06
We know more about the surface of Mars than we do about the ...
(Indistinct radio chatter) - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:14
(Indistinct radio chatter)
As we descend, the pressure increases relentlessly. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:05
As we descend, the pressure increases relentlessly.
Six hundred feet down, we enter an alien world. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:06
Six hundred feet down, we enter an alien world.
A fish with a transparent head, - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:06
A fish with a transparent head,
A layer of mud. In places, a mile thick. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:05
A layer of mud. In places, a mile thick.
Over time, the mud here slowly decays. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:05
Over time, the mud here slowly decays.
(Booming) - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:06
(Booming)
The deep maybe hostile, - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:08
The deep maybe hostile,
Because of their hairy arms - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:06
Because of their hairy arms
With ear-like-fins to hover above the muddy sea floor. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:04
With ear-like-fins to hover above the muddy sea floor.
Astonishingly, we're now finding there's more life down here - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:09
Astonishingly, we're now finding there's more life...
This may seem an alien world, - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:09
This may seem an alien world,
Thanks to great ocean currents. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:04
Thanks to great ocean currents.
These begin at the frozen poles. - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:04
These begin at the frozen poles.
Here in Antarctica, - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:08
Here in Antarctica,
That creates immense rivers of water that flow into the deep - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:09
That creates immense rivers of water that flow into the deep
These currents flow from the frozen poles - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:10
These currents flow from the frozen poles
They redistribute heat around the planet - Oceans: Our Blue Planet 00:09
They redistribute heat around the planet