A new series of ocean and wildlife lovers starts tonight on Netflix. “Our Oceans narrated by Barack Obama is a five part series.
“Our planet’s five oceans are driven by a single, all-powerful engine: the “Global Ocean Current”, a thousand-year phenomenon that links their diverse ecosystems into one giant lifeforce, fuelling existence as we know it. From the tiny, tenacious cuttlefish to the gracefully enormous blue whale, every ocean-dwell- ing creature relies on that current to provide the resources they require to survive. A lonely puffin awaiting his mate in the North Atlantic is linked to the bioluminescent spectaculars off Southern California; bottle- nose dolphins in the Indian Ocean frolic in the same waters as polar bear cubs in the Arctic. As the current flows past clownfish circling colourful coral reefs in the Western Pacific to the frigid Antarctic ice floes of chinstrap penguins and crab eater seals, it carries with it valuable nutrients, newborn life, man-made dangers, and hope for the future.
Narrated by President Barack Obama, this five-part documentary from Freeborne Media — the Emmy Award-winning team behind Our Great National Parks — takes viewers on a 75,000-mile cruise across and beneath the oceans as they are today, giving us unprecedented access to some of the most unexplored realms of our planet. Using cutting-edge scientific research and newly-developed underwater filmmaking technology, the series overflows with stunning action sequences, eye-popping drone footage, intimate seabed closeups, and countless never-before-seen animal behaviors: Sea bream playing tennis? Hump- back whales staging heists? An octopus packing heat? It’s a literal deep dive into the emotional, relatable lives of the most magical, resourceful, and resilient creatures on Earth, as they face new challenges and develop astounding skills made necessary by the changing waters around them. Our Oceans invites us to care about these plucky heroes, with whom we’ve got a surprising amount in common — and not a moment too soon, as their fates are inextricably linked with our own.
EPISODE 1: PACIFIC OCEAN
Covering almost a third of our planet, the Pacific is the largest and deepest ocean on earth, and the Global Ocean Current brings it to life. Underwater volcanoes deposit stones on a coral reef where clownfish dads fastidiously clean their eggs before the current flows to Japan, where cuttlefish change color to impress the ladies. Hump- back whales in the Pacific Northwest take advantage of man-made salmon fisher- ies to stage elaborate dinner heists, while forests of giant kelp protect the redwood trees on the shores high above. As pods of spinner dolphins pirouette above the waves of the Central Pacific, the Gulf of California plays host to a ballroom of signal blennies staging an epic dance-off; meanwhile, sharks are having a meetup of their own, magnetically drawn to underwater mountains that erupt to form new para- dise islands. From sea turtles surfing alongside tourists to sea lions chasing tuna right out of the sea, the powerful volcanic force of the Pacific fuels a cast of extraordinary creatures, all of whom must learn to adapt to its powerful and unpredictable energy
Should be good!
