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From the gentle turquoise seas of the Caribbean to the icy-cold Arctic, an international team of underwater explorers reveal the secrets and stories of our oceans. A team of intrepid adventurers – explorer and expedition leader Paul Rose, maritime archaeologist Dr Lucy Blue, marine biologist Tooni Mahto and conservationist Philippe Cousteau Jnr, grandson of Jacques Cousteau – undertake a journey to discover the world beneath the waves. Each mission sees the experts living together on a dive boat and shows the disappointments and dangers they face as well as the successes of each trip. Diving in some of the planet’s most challenging environments, beneath frozen Arctic ice-sheets, the Caribbean’s mysterious black holes and the deep submerged caves of Mallorca they reveal new mysteries about our oceans. They come across incredible creatures such as the fearsome Humboldt squid and the six gill shark and encounter stunning corals and illuminating shipwrecks. Packed with engaging personalities, amazing discoveries and unbeatable adventure, this series builds a vital understanding of the planet’s biggest and least understood asset – its oceans.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This obviously wasn't made on the same huge budget as Attenborough's series and, as such, lacks the majestic set piece shots that make those series so amazing.
This is much more about the issues affecting the oceans than getting great pictures.
It has its share of great shots, there's something about the underwater realm that ensures that is the case, but it's also true (at least in the form it was shown on TV, I've not seen the DVD version) that there are some rather dull interludes.
It also seems slightly amazing that Cousteau Jr has done so little diving around the world, but I have to assume his remarks weren't for some affect.
Is this is a good as Blue Planet? No, but it's not aiming for the same target and, if you can (unlike some of the other reviewers) stop tutting and sighing and switching off 10 minutes in because it isn't BP2 then you'll probably learn more than you will from Blue Planet (or many of the 'landmark' nature series).
Not a must have or must see, but a useful intro (mostly) to different aspects of the oceans of the world and certainly not as awful as those 1 star reviews suggest.
This is much more about the issues affecting the oceans than getting great pictures.
It has its share of great shots, there's something about the underwater realm that ensures that is the case, but it's also true (at least in the form it was shown on TV, I've not seen the DVD version) that there are some rather dull interludes.
It also seems slightly amazing that Cousteau Jr has done so little diving around the world, but I have to assume his remarks weren't for some affect.
Is this is a good as Blue Planet? No, but it's not aiming for the same target and, if you can (unlike some of the other reviewers) stop tutting and sighing and switching off 10 minutes in because it isn't BP2 then you'll probably learn more than you will from Blue Planet (or many of the 'landmark' nature series).
Not a must have or must see, but a useful intro (mostly) to different aspects of the oceans of the world and certainly not as awful as those 1 star reviews suggest.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I'm sorry that BBC allowed such a production to be made into a triple dvd.I tried very hard to watch the whole of it before giving it away to others to blame me for that.The amount of talk is unbearable,the presenters/scientists even talk underwater;incessantly!And the good images,alas,so few!
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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A great premise, but awfully executed. It's been said in a previous review but this really is just a group of well-meaning marine scientists diving all around the world at somebody else's expense. Each so-called topic that they claim to be seriously investigating is just glossed over quickly with little real science involved. It's just a case of "look at us doing this cool diving here, and here, and here. We're real scientists aren't we". It becomes very tiresome when you begin to understand they're just "looking" at lots of stuff . . . and that's it!
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