This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky.

Blue Planet 2 is a critically acclaimed 2017 BBC documentary series about the world's oceans hosted by the great David

Attenborough and it's now available on Netflix which presents a unique opportunity

shark researcher David Schiffman a postdoctoral

doctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver explains

This Sunday Monday and Tuesday join us for a synchronized viewing where everyone no matter where you are presses play on Netflix at the same time and follow along on Twitter with hashtag blue planet chat as a team of Ocean Science and Conservation experts, watch the show some of us

like me for the first time and provide our own running commentary.

We're also happy to answer any questions that anyone has about ocean science or conservation issues

as the series progresses.

The live tweeting commences with the first episode of Blue Planet 2 at 6 p.m.

Eastern time on Sunday, December 16th, followed by episodes 2 and 3.

4 and 5 start at 8 PM Eastern on Monday, 6 and 7 begin at 8 PM Eastern on Tuesday,

for the full schedule go to hashtag Blue Planet

chat on Twitter.

For Scientific Americans 60 Second Science, I'm Steve Mursky.