I dived on that whale carcass a little bit further down the line. No, my assistant producer was down there in that scene. Were you in the sub when that was happening? So it was an amazing piece of discovery - not just for us, not just for the footage, but also in terms of really understanding how that ecosystem works.īBC Earth released a video (above) showing the sixgills pushing the sub because they, at first, considered it competition for the food. And you know, the scientists learned that it was within 25 minutes that the first shark came in, so these animals are constantly on the move and have extreme sensory capabilities to be able to find food when it’s there. And to see them come in and be a little bit less graceful, a little bit less gracious, and just rip the carcass to shreds, and sort of wrestle each other out of the way, it was just phenomenal. I think it’s a magnificent, beautiful, ancient animal. On my very first three sub dives, I met a sixgill shark each time, and so I felt really connected to that animal. And it was absolutely astounding to see these beautiful sixgill sharks. … We were really curious to know what was going to happen, what animals were going to come in. But nobody had ever done it in the Atlantic. Scientists have studied these whale falls in the Pacific Ocean before - in the original Blue Planet there were some great shots of a whale fall in the Pacific. We did it with a bunch of scientists because studying these whale falls is one really clear way to show how our life here up at the surface is connected to what happens down in the deep. Why was that a behavior you set out to capture? 27.Īnother standout sequence is when the team films sixgill sharks, who may feed only once a year, tearing into the carcass of a dead sperm whale on the Atlantic Ocean floor. Here, Doherty offers a preview of the most memorable sequences in “The Deep,” premiering Jan. But it’s got to be fundamentally connected to everything else in the ocean, and therefore to us, and we’re only just scratching the surface of what that really means.” There are amazing scientists trying to figure it out. That gave me this sense of perspective of, ‘Wow, this is an enormous world, and it’s one that we just know so little about.’ We don’t know how it functions. These must be the oldest occupiers of this planet,’ and us little human specs would be kind an insignificant blip, frankly. As episode producer Orla Doherty tells Yahoo Entertainment, “A deep ocean scientist that I spoke to very early on in the production said to me, ‘Orla, if aliens came down to earth, they’d land on land, but they would look in deep oceans and say, ‘Those are the most abundant, most prevalent organisms on the planet. The fact is, we know more about the surface of Mars than we know about the difficult-to-reach deep ocean - the majority of the living space on earth. But there’s a reason this weekend’s installment, “The Deep,” is truly exceptional - and it’s not just because we see sixgill sharks devouring a whale carcass or learn what happens when you have a leak in a sub as you’re 450 meters below. (Photo: Will Ridgeon)Įach episode of Planet Earth: Blue Planet II, airing Saturdays on BBC America, is special in its own way, of course. A bluntnose sixgill shark arrives to feed on the carcass of a sperm whale in the Atlantic Ocean.
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