Planet Earth (TV Mini Series)

Ocean Deep (2006)

David Attenborough: Self - Narrator

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  David Attenborough - Narrator : Global changes now threaten the great blooms of plankton on which the whales depend. Once, not so long ago, 300,000 blue whales roamed the oceans. Now, less than 3% of that number remains. Our planet is still full of wonders. As we explore them, so we gain not only understanding, but power. It's not just the future of the whale that today lies in our hands. It's the survival of the natural world in all parts of the living planet. We can now destroy or we can cherish. The choice is ours.

• David Attenborough - Narrator : Over 90% of the living space for life on our planet is in the oceans. Home to the biggest animal that exists, or has ever existed. The blue whale. Some weigh nearly 200 tons, twice the size of the largest dinosaur. Despite their great size, we still have little idea of where they travel in the vast oceans. And none at all of where they breed.

  David Attenborough - Narrator : The largest animal on Earth feeds almost exclusively on one of the smallest; krill, shrimp-like crustaceans. They take many tons of water into their ballooning throats in a single gulp and sieve out what it contains. Every day, each one swallows some four million krill.

• [first lines] 

  David Attenborough - Narrator : Away from all land, the ocean. It covers more than half the surface of our planet. And yet, for the most part, it is beyond our reach. Much of it is virtually empty, a watery desert. All life that is here is locked in a constant search to find food. A struggle to conserve precious energy in the open ocean.

• [last lines] 

  David Attenborough - Narrator : The Oceanic whitetips had allowed the Planet Earth team a rare insight into their world. Now it was time to leave these magnificent animals in peace.