![]() ![]() A weedy sea dragon is just weird, they’re not real, are they? Here are some little fishes swimming about, quite peacefully, it seems … then Bam! One of them is gone, grabbed and pulled into the sand. ![]() Another pretends to be the opposite sex in order to get some – sex, that is. ![]() Do pipe down, Hans.Ī giant cuttlefish pulsates as bands of colour sweep across his skin. It’s like something from War of the Worlds, no wonder Herr Zimmer gets a bit carried away and goes all Wagner with his score. The stealth bomber is a massive stingray, four metres long, swooping down on a mountain of spider crabs. Is that footage filmed from its back? You wouldn’t want that job would you, rigging that up and then retrieving it? “Just go and get the GoPro back, will you? Yup, that one, dorsal fin cam…” Green turtles next, in a green sea, and another shark, a tiger one. Now that really is cosy, a raft of adorableness. Is there anything lovelier in this world than a fluffy, whiskery sea otter floating around on its back? Yes! As it happens, there is: hundreds of fluffy, whiskery sea otters, including babies, floating around on their backs all together. Millions of spiny toothed anuses … Anyone fancy a swim? The episode is worth it just for that, and there’s a nice story behind it too, in the Into The Blue diary at the end, about how the divers got to know and became rather attached to this lady octopus.īut there are many more treats: a plague of urchins, the spiky underwater variety rather than a load of raggedy Dickensian children a sea urchin’s mouth up close is an oddity, not unlike one of those so-called sea cucumbers but with teeth. It’s extraordinary behaviour, caught on film for the first time. Next, the octopus disguises itself, as a ball of shells (with the odd suckery tentacle poking out, but PJ is well and truly fooled). A pyjama shark! They’re just making these things up now, aren’t they? Also it sounds like an oxymoron pyjamas are soft and cosy, sharks really aren’t.Īnyway, this one fancies octopus for tea, already has a mouthful, but the octopus sticks a spare tentacle into the shark’s gills and stops it breathing, so it has to let go. Especially later, when an army of marching crabs comes under attack from a stealth bomber of doom.įirst, though, to an octopus’s garden, in the shade, for a fight. Blue Planet on acid that would be scary, I imagine. Hey, if you’re doing the music, maybe you should go all the way and take LSD too. ![]()
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