Original air date: 19 November 2017


Below is an experimental view of the above. Since the blue colour is reserved for web links it is out of the question and was replaced with green which is used for three different purposes in the listing: for Theme, contents column it is used to mark the contents (usually a short for the detailed description in the right column). It can also be used in the right column as a connecting text between two different – otherwise seemingly inconsistent – stories. Lastly it can be used to indicate filming location.
Start time | Theme, Contents | More detailed description (Filming location) |
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Until 2’30 | Marine equivalent of a desert | Earth’s greatest wilderness, covering more than half the planet. There’s nowhere to hide and little to eat: the marine equivalent of a desert. |
2’30-7′ | Young lives | Then there is an explosion: some shoal of tiny fish coming to the surface to spawn|
2’30 | Spawning fish | Lantern fish – Usually only come to the surface at night to feed on plankton but this time they do so to spawn (Pacific coast of Costa Rica) |
3’20 | Bonanza | Spinner dolphins, yellow finned tuna & rays – come to feed on the fish larvae — the sea seems to boil |
4’25 | Sailfish | |
5-7’15 | Feeding frenzy | |
7’30-9’30 | Sleeping sperm whale & calf | |
10′ | Diving + calf waiting it out (too young) | Calf can’t hold breath long enough – calf gives up (11’15) |
13’20-14’26 | Calf’s steps to independence | |
15′ | Emptiness | Safe for prey – hard for predators – baby turtle |
16′-32’25 | Floaters | |
16′ | Floating life | Living life afloat come what may — even during storms |
18’40 | Weather building up | |
20’35-22’25 | Circulatory currents | Plastic ducks falling into the sea (20’20-22′) from a container ship that falls victim to the weather – – leads to explain the complex currents. Not all the toys end up together !! |
22’40-26’40 | Blue shark | |
24′-26’45 | Dead whale | Feast for the sharks |
27’10 | Jellyfish | |
28’35-32 | Portuguese man of war | Fish nibbles the jellyfish’s tentacles (30′) |
30’40-31’40 | The jellyfish | Catching prey and reeling it in |
32’25 | Upwelling | |
32’25 | Under the surface | |
32’30-38′ | Whale shark | Welcome (34′) |
34′-38′ | Galapagos | Upwelling |
37′-37’30 | Whale shark gives birth | A possible nursery? |
38’05-42’45 | Wandering albatross | South Georgia (43’55) |
44′-48’40 | Pollution | |
44′-48’40 | Plastic pollution | |
45’15-48’40 | Pilot whales | |
49′ | Into the blue | The boiling sea: The lantern fish rising to the surface at night to spawn – – feeding frenzy |
Selected material
Marine desert

Whales sleeping
