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Epicurus.com - National Geographic's Ocean Drifters
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Nat'l Geographic Vid
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792229391
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0792229398
Label: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Manufacturer: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Release Date: 1997-07-08
Running Time: 60
Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
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Circle the globe with National Geographic on an underwater voyage powered by earth's great ocean currents - the incredible superhighways of marine life. You'll plunge into an alien world where millions of sea creatures, from tiny seahorses to enormous sharks, spend their entire lives adrift, circling the planet on current that can carry them 100 miles a day. Some of the animals are familiar, like the fragile, just-hatched loggerhead turtle you'll follow as she swims for her life to avoid the deadly dolphin fish. Others are almost too strange to believe, like the Portuguese Man-o-War. This strange creature raises its own sail to catch the wind and "trawls" for fish with its venomous 50-foot-long tentacles. You'll dive into the eerie darkness at 3,000 feet in a high-tech sub as scientists study the strange, glow-in-the-dark phenomenon called bioluminescence. Animals like the sea cucumber somehow turn on their own lights - sometimes brightly enough to illuminate the inside of the sub - in what is thought to be a form of deep sea communication. Join National Geographic for this extraordinary odyssey into the unknown world of OCEAN DRIFTERS.
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Summary: The Ocean Drifters... via the loggerhead's tale
Comment: Q- When is a video on ocean drifters not a video on ocean drifters?
A- When it is a video on loggerhead sea turtles.
This is not entirely correct, but close. Ocean Drifters is about organisms... large and small, shallow and deep, that live in our oceans as opposed to the nearshore environments. You follow a newly hatched loggerhead as she emerges from the sand, races for the ocean, goes through a day of frenzied swimming, and settles back for a year of drifting in the ocean gyres.
The story switches back and forth between the loggerhead and jellyfish, snails, fish, and the strange organisms that live in the deep oceans. It discusses ocean management challenges: trash, chemical spills, and discarded fishing nets.
As we look for life on distance worlds, we shouldn't forget the mystery and diversity of life that exists in our oceans... the ocean drifters.
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Summary: Nature is truly beautiful
Comment: I've seen many National Geographic documentaries, but for me, this one ranks as my favorite. I hope someday it will be available on DVD. "Ocean Drifters" presents the most amazingly beautiful photography of marine life. You will be amazed and touched by the beauty and elegance of the life which exists in our world deep in the depths of the sea. After watching it, I almost felt like dropping all my career choices and becoming an Oceanographer so that I may experience such worlds for myself (to me, it was that moving). Add the perfection that is Keith David's voice as the narrator, and a very beautiful and haunting musical score, and you have a documentary which accurately presents the beauty of nature.
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Summary: Great for all ages
Comment: Ocean Drifters deserves to be ranked with the top biological documentaries of all times. The crew of National Geographic deserve to be congratulated. I show it to each of my marine science classes in order to give them an appreciation of the diversity of planktonic life. The almost one hour video traces the path of a loggerhead turtle as she hatches and takes trip around the North Atlantic Gyre. The video explores critical fact concerning ocean circulation, biodiversity and discusses a variety of planktonic lifestyles. People of all ages will appreciate the plight of the sea turtle and I am always amused by the gasps of the first time viewers.
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Summary: An underwater ballet performed by otherworldly creatures
Comment: This beautifully photographed program follows the migration of a newly hatched loggerhead sea turtle as she evades predators, dines on jellies (including the deadly Portuguese man-of-war) and navigates the bizarre floating meadows of the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean. Some of the most remarkable footage, however, is filmed in the mid-depths as we follow the research of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute's Edith Widder and her submersible work on bioluminescent creatures. Glowing siphonophores and jellies light up the black depths like miniature galaxies and slow-motion fireworks displays. Elegant close-up filming of minute planktonic larvae and wonderfully pulsating jellies makes this program a pleasure to watch again and again.
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