03- Open Ocean

Original air date: 26 September 2001

The outline shows how the programme unfolds, a more detailed look at the timeline can be seen below

Selected material

The kelp hygiene clinic (22’30-24’30)

The sunfish hunts for jellyfish in the deep and then returns to the kelp near the surface, not to eat it. It needs service that the halfmoon fish, residing there, can provide; pick off its parasites (left). Those parasites the halfmoon can’t remove are taken care of by the gulls swimming on the surface (right) if the sunfish gives them the right signal.

More episodes

01 - The blue planet
02- The Deep
04- Frozen Seas
05- Seasonal Seas
06- Coral Seas
07- Tidal Seas
08- Coasts
09- Deep Trouble
10- Making Waves
Series in retrospect