Blue Planet Live

Episode
Episode 4
Broadcast Info
2019 (60 mins)
Description
In the final programme of this week-long ocean health check, we find out what the future holds for the next generation of marine life and how we can help. The team looks at how scientists across the world are embracing technology to find solutions to the pressures faced by wildlife at sea. In Mexico, Chris is at the end point of his journey, the southernmost tip of the Baja peninsula, to uncover the secret success of humpback whales. He joins a team deploying an innovative listening in device that can unveil some extraordinary whale behaviour. As night turns to day, we join Liz live in Australia as she tunes in to an underwater dawn chorus to be captivated by fluorescent corals that light up the reef. She also witnesses tiny turtle hatchlings run the gauntlet of predators ahead of their epic migration. Over in the Bahamas, Steve prepares for the final and most challenging live dive of the week. To understand more about hammerhead sharks and the journey that they will make when they leave the Bahamas, he has his most dramatic underwater encounter yet with a final live dive, and goes on a shark run with scientists as they count one of the biggest gatherings on the planet. Out on the open ocean in the Pacific, our expedition vessel reports back with exciting, never before seen discoveries that the latest technology has brought us from the deep, as the latest images arrive from submarine Alvin to reveal more about the hidden life in the seas that surround us.
Genre
Research; Biology; Natural History; Climate

How to cite this record

The Open University, "Blue Planet Live". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/233246 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)