![]() ![]() However good the video footage, nothing can recreate the experience of peering through the small acrylic plastic porthole of the deep diving submersible. It is extraordinarily difficult to light the pitch black depths and the footage shown was the best I’ve seen. ![]() “Blue Planet II vividly demonstrated the enormity of the deep ocean, the vast areas of unknown, the extreme conditions out there and the extraordinary inhabitants. Professor Rachel Mills, Professor of Ocean Chemistry, writes: This week Professor Rachel Mills, Professor of Ocean Chemistry, and Dr Maria Baker, Senior Research Fellow and International Project Coordinator, share their thoughts about 'The Deep' episode. Carried away by his voice, his insights and his passion.Research undertaken by staff here at the University of Southampton has informed much of the science that is covered in Blue Planet II. Stunning photography and Ken O’Sullivan is the perfect person to author this. Ireland’s answer to Blue Planet! Perfect for Earth Inspirational stuff from Ken and crew 4th Class are in awe of Ireland’s Deep Atlantic. Well done and thank #IrelandsDeepAtlantic I hope that Ken O’Sullivan and crew win all the awards for this hypnotically beautiful Mesmerised by the footage on Ireland’s Deep Atlantic. #rte I am afraid to put the kettle on in case I miss any of this fantastic programme. #Irelandsdeepatlantic is blowing my f**king mind! By far the best natural history programme about Ireland I’ve ever seen. Orla Diffily Apr 22 Mesmerizing – but unsettling too. Orla Diffily #IrelandsDeepAtlantic – no tweet can adequately describe how absolutely brilliant & overwhelmingly emotional this documentary by Ken O Sullivan on the life in our seas really is. Spectacular photography and shows what we take for granted. Here’s just a few of the thousands of This is the best show has produced/commisioned in years. “Ken O’Sullivan, the Kerry-born film-maker (:-)) who fronted the series, is a welcome addition to the premier league of natural-born TV naturalists.” ![]() “… the nature documentary was a balm for tired eyes, an appealing vista of some of the most graceful creatures on the planet joyfully surging like huge grey torpedoes through oceans of the purest blue.” “… the footage Ken and his crew get of the deep ocean and its inhabitants is extraordinary, up there with anything to be seen in The Blue Planet or any other outstanding nature documentaries, and O’Sullivan’s passion for his subject is both evident and admirable.” “Captured the attention of the entire country last night with the first part of the eagerly-awaited documentary series, Ireland’s Deep Atlantic.” This production was a new way of working whereby it became a partner in the oceanic research collaborating and sharing resources with research scientists resulting in SIX academic research papers, an unprecedented amount for any natural history documentary project. Four years and more in the making, Ireland’s DEEP ATLANTIC explores North Atlantic waters, much of it for the first time ever, in search of blue whales, sharks and deep water coral reefs down to 3,000 metres deep. ![]()
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