Using specially developed underwater tracking time-lapse techniques, life takes a journey to the unchartered corners of the ocean. It is here that the newest discoveries are being made and the strangest creatures live, from huge spider crabs which gather in their thousands, seeking safety in numbers as they shed their protective shell to cross-dressing giant squid. Join a pack of Humboldt squid, 250 strong, hunting; see the ultimate self-sacrifice of a Pacific giant octopus mother who starves to death tending her young; and dive under the permanent ice of Antarctica to see a seething carpet of starfish as they devour a seal pup carcass.
Using specially developed underwater tracking time-lapse techniques, life takes a journey to the unchartered corners of the ocean. It is here that the newest discoveries are being made and the strangest creatures live, from huge spider crabs which gather in their thousands, seeking safety in numbers as they shed their protective shell to cross-dressing giant squid. Join a pack of Humboldt squid, 250 strong, hunting; see the ultimate self-sacrifice of a Pacific giant octopus mother who starves to death tending her young; and dive under the permanent ice of Antarctica to see a seething carpet of starfish as they devour a seal pup carcass.
General Note
Originally released by BBC Worldwide Learning, 2009.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 20, 2018.
Content Note
Pompeii Worms (3:35); --Humboldt Squids (3:23); -- McMurdo Sound (4:35); -- Jellyfish (3:36); -- Spider Crabs (4:43); -- Cuttlefish (7:14); -- Pacific Giant Octopus (3:16); -- Pycnopodia (2:50); -- Coral Reef (8:13); -- Life on Coral Reefs (6:01); -- Credits: Creatures of The Deep (0:39);.