![]() ![]() #rte I am afraid to put the kettle on in case I miss any of this fantastic programme. #Irelandsdeepatlantic is blowing my f**king mind! By far the best natural history programme about Ireland I’ve ever seen. Orla Diffily Apr 22 Mesmerizing – but unsettling too. Orla Diffily #IrelandsDeepAtlantic – no tweet can adequately describe how absolutely brilliant & overwhelmingly emotional this documentary by Ken O Sullivan on the life in our seas really is. ![]() Spectacular photography and shows what we take for granted. Here’s just a few of the thousands of This is the best show has produced/commisioned in years. “Ken O’Sullivan, the Kerry-born film-maker (:-)) who fronted the series, is a welcome addition to the premier league of natural-born TV naturalists.” “… the nature documentary was a balm for tired eyes, an appealing vista of some of the most graceful creatures on the planet joyfully surging like huge grey torpedoes through oceans of the purest blue.” “… the footage Ken and his crew get of the deep ocean and its inhabitants is extraordinary, up there with anything to be seen in The Blue Planet or any other outstanding nature documentaries, and O’Sullivan’s passion for his subject is both evident and admirable.” “Captured the attention of the entire country last night with the first part of the eagerly-awaited documentary series, Ireland’s Deep Atlantic.” This production was a new way of working whereby it became a partner in the oceanic research collaborating and sharing resources with research scientists resulting in SIX academic research papers, an unprecedented amount for any natural history documentary project. Orla's team wanted to capture the natural behaviours of these squid, but it wasn't easy in such inhospitable conditions.Four years and more in the making, Ireland’s DEEP ATLANTIC explores North Atlantic waters, much of it for the first time ever, in search of blue whales, sharks and deep water coral reefs down to 3,000 metres deep. They are expert hunters and will happily eat their own kind, turning on smaller or injured individuals in the group. These enormous cephalopods have huge appetites, boasting eight arms and two feeding tentacles that are equipped with hundreds of tooth-lined suckers. ![]() The team also filmed a sequence on the hunting habits of Humboldt squid in Chile. You're working at the edge of what we know about the planet.' Predatory cephalopods Eventually I realised that is just how it goes. 'But it's part and parcel of working in that extreme world. When we were working at 1,000 metres with technology that needs to be preserved from the pressure, we had technological hiccup after hiccup. The pressure gets greater as you go down. Every day we relied on technology to get us down to the deep ocean. 'Every day there was a different challenge. I did spend a lot of hours without going to the loo though. We don't feel the pressure even though you can hear the sub creaking as it gets compressed. Orla said, 'It's cosy in the subs, but it's lovely. ![]() In keeping with the type of filming undertaken for Blue Planet II, this sequence pushed the limits of technology. ![]()
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