Deep ocean exploration

BBC Inside Science

BBC

Technology, Science

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

UCL oceanographer Helen Czerski explores life in the ocean depths with a panel of deep sea biologists. They take us to deep ocean coral gardens on sea mounts, to extraordinary hydrothermal vent ecosystems teeming with weird lifeforms fed by chemosynthetic microbes, to the remarkable biodiversity in the muds of the vast abyssal plains. Helen's guests are Adrian Glover of the Natural History Museum in London, Kerry Howell of Plymouth University and Alex Rogers, scientific director of REV Ocean. They discuss the dramatic revelations made by deep ocean explorers in just the last forty years, and the profound connections that the deep sea floor has with life at the Earth's surface. They also consider the threats to the ecosystems down there from seabed mining and climate change. Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker BBC Inside Science is made in association with the Open University.

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0:42.4	Hello, last week, Kevin Fong took BBC Inside Signs off planet Earth to discuss space exploration.
0:49.5	But it's often forgotten that the most dramatic photos from the Apollo's space missions
0:53.1	weren't of the moon.
0:55.0	They were of Earth and it wasn't until we went to the moon that we really saw Earth's
0:59.0	ocean and named ourselves the blue planet.
1:02.4	Today we'll be voyaging into that blue to explore the deep ocean.
1:06.8	It's always been seen as a place of mystery, a place for the enigmatic Captain Nemo and
1:11.6	sea monsters like Moby Dick and the Kraken.
1:14.5	But we don't need to rely on fiction writers anymore for our view of the deep, because
1:18.6	scientists are showing us that the reality of the deep sea is far more interesting and
1:23.6	important than Jules Verne ever imagined.
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