narrated by Martin Jarvis. Into the Abyss
Last of three programmes. Beneath the sunlit ocean surface lies the largest living space on the planet; on average two miles deep, dark, freezing cold, once thought to be lifeless, largely unexplored. Here high-tech submarines reveal not only creatures never seen alive before, but those never seen before!
Unimagined creatures - fish, crabs, and clams, countless hordes of blind shrimps, bask in the hot vents that spout from restless volcanoes.
Elsewhere mussels cluster and thickets of tubeworms and clams live on the natural gas that leaks from oil fields buried below the ocean floor. If the sun stopped shining tomorrow these creatures would live on in their dark world. Photography MICHAEL PITTS
VICTORIA STONE , MARK DEEBLE Music CLANNAD
Film editor COLIN CRADOCK Producer ROGER R. JONES
Series editor ANDREW NEAL A Natural World programme BBC Bristol