In the polar deep of Antarctica's Southern Ocean hides a secret world, one less well known to us than the surface of the moon. Humans are recent visitors to these freezing, inky depths, where thousands of astonishing lifeforms thrive in conditions where existence seems nearly impossible.
3 episodes
Secret Gardens of the Deep Dark
Featuring
Narrator: Andrew Scott
Writer: Jonathan Meiburg
Narrator: Andrew Scott
Writer: Jonathan Meiburg
Episode 1
Visitors
Diving on one of Earth's most diverse and vibrant habitats: a place of freezing darkness beneath the polar ice.
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Episode 2
The Hidden Ocean
Scientists discover new life every year in the extreme conditions of the Antarctic seafloor. Often it behaves like nothing on Earth.
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Episode 3
The City Under the Ice
The benthic animals of the Southern Ocean are among the planet's most astonishing lifeforms. Have we met them near the end of their time on Earth?
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