The BBC’s new “Oceans” series was launched in the UK a couple of weeks ago and there’s a good article on it on their website with loads of information on the 8 scientific diving expeditions that made up the series which included:
- Sea of Cortez to study Sperm whales
- Mallorca to dive underwater cave systems looking at the evidence of past climate and sea level changes in the Mediterranean
- Red Sea and Indian Ocean to look at coral being grown in nurseries as a way of helping damaged reefs
- Atlantic to look at the vertical Black Hole cave system off Bahamas which may mimic what the world’s seas were like 3.5 million years ago
- Red Sea to film fluorescence in Eritrean corals
- Arctic – to look at the scale of the Arctic Ocean and how quickly it is changing
- Bahamas – to show that fish hooks can be made from a metal that repels sharks and could reduce the number of sharks killed as by-catch
