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How Deep Is Your Love review – under the sea at Earth’s last frontier with the Psychedelic Elvis Worm

theguardian.com · 4hShare

Film-maker Eleanor Mortimer accompanies a scientific expedition to the deep Pacific, where new creatures are abundant yet threatened by sea mining For the marine biologists in this whimsical eco-documentary, the answer is about 5000 metres down. In the lab, we watch them observing, describing, and classifying the bonkers-looking creatures that survive in the freezing-cold waters of the deep sea: blobby little sea pigs and alien glow-in-the-dark sea cucumbers. It seems 90% of life in the deep sea has yet to be named, explains film-maker Eleanor Mortimer in her quirky voiceover. It is the last frontier of exploration on Earth. Mortimer accompanies a team of scientists on an expedition to the eastern Pacific. It takes the ship’s robot four hours to descend the four kilometres to the ocean floor where it trundles along, grabber claw at the ready. A biologist explains that 80% of what they bring up to the surface is new to science. And one of the film’s pleasures is watching the wonderstruc

First report: New deep-sea creatures unlocked! — news.mongabay.com, 1d