BBC - Life Disc 4: Creatures of the Deep (2010)

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Deep-sea marine invertebrates are extraordinarily diverse. In this episode, carnivorous Humboldt squid change color like flashing neon signs and attack a school of fish in a coordinated hunting maneuver, while vast numbers of giant spider crabs emerge from the deep and congregate in the shallows to molt. Time lapse cameras capture starfish, sea urchins and monster worms devouring a seal carcass in an astonishing frenzy of predation. The female Pacific giant octopus scours the ocean floor for a safe place to hide and lay her eggs. For the next six months she does not leave her den, but guards her eggs, keeping them oxygenated, free from disease and safe from predators. Gradually she starves, and in her last act of devotion blows water over her eggs to help them hatch. Then, she dies.
Peter's DVD rating: 4.5 stars
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QH 501.L544 2010
2:400.5 mile down, water reaches 450& 3:15 Pompeii Worm 3:252-meter long Giant Tube Worms provide mucous to bacteria?
4:10 Krill swarm 60,000/cubic meter rise to feed (Sea of Cortez, Mexico) 4:55 Humboldt Squid (Red Devil) hunt fish by herding them against rocks (west coast, North America). 9:00 Marine life under ice includes Red Starfish , Sea Urchin , and Nemertine Worm ; feeding on dead seal pup (McMurdo Sound, Mount Erebus, Antarctica)
12:00 Aurelia jellyfish swarm of 100,000 feeds on plankton bloom, hunted by 14:25 Fried Egg Jellyfish 16:00Quarter million Common Spider Crabs migrate to shallow water to molt
17:50 Common Spider Crabs mating , hunted by Smooth Stingray (south Australia) 20:35 Australian Giant Cuttlefish mate by passing packets of sperm. 23:30 Australian Giant Cuttlefish males fight.
25:15Small Australian Giant Cuttlefish sneaker male impersonates female 27:454-meter long North Pacific Giant Octopus seeks nursery, caring for 100,000 eggs for 6 months, dies as eggs hatch (British Columbia) 31:00 Sunflower Starfish eats dead octopus by sensing with tube feet, loses and regrows arm to
33:00 King Crab 33:50 Corals build on a WW II shipwreck. 39:30 Corals fight at night
40:40 Corals spawn after November full moon Coral polyps form symbiotic relationship with algae? 43:00 Christmas Tree Worms 43:10 Barnacles
43:30 Porcelain Crab 43:35 Boxer Crab uses sea anemone on each fist for defense and to gather passing plankton 43:45 Orangutan Crab body is covered with sticky hairs
44:30 Sea Cucumber 44:40 Nudibranch 44:55 Emperor Shrimp rides on a Nudibranch
45:50 Cleaner Shrimp      
Alvinella pompejana
3:15 Pompeii Worm
Riftia pachyptila
3:25 Giant Tube Worms
Euphausiacea
4:10 Krill
Dosidicus gigas
4:55 Humboldt Squid
sea
9:00 Marine life under ice
Fromia milleporella
9:00 Red Starfish
Echinoidea
9:00 Sea Urchin
Nemertea
9:00 Nemertine Worm
Aurelia
12:00 Aurelia
Phacellophora camtschatica
14:25 Fried Egg Jellyfish
Libiniaemarginata
16:00 Common Spider Crabs
Libiniaemarginata
17:50 Common Spider Crabs mating
Dasyatis brevicaudata
17:50 Smooth Stingray
Sepia apama
20:35 Australian Giant Cuttlefish mate
Sepia apama
23:30 Australian Giant Cuttlefish males fight.
Sepia apama
25:15 Australian Giant Cuttlefish sneaker male
Enteroctopus dofleini
27:45 North Pacific Giant Octopus
Pycnopodia helianthoides
31:00 Sunflower Starfish
Lithodidae
33:00 King Crab
reef
33:50 Corals
coral
39:30 Corals fight at night
coral
40:40 Corals spawn after November full moon
Spirobranchus
43:00 Christmas Tree Worms
Cirripedia
43:10 Barnacles
Porcellanidae
43:30 Porcelain Crab
Lybia
43:35 Boxer Crab
Achaeus japonicus
43:45 Orangutan Crab
Holothuroidea
44:30 Sea Cucumber
Nudibranchia
44:40 Nudibranch
Periclimenes imperator
44:55 Emperor Shrimp
cleaner
45:50 Cleaner Shrimp
   

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