BB-films.com, keeping one eye on the Blue

The Coral Triangle & sea nomads

admin — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:06:27 +0000

Changing times for the world’s center of marine biodiversity and the communities who depend on and harvest the sea’s resources. “Photojournalist James Morgan is working with WWF,...

Great White sharks in the Mediterranean

shurford — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:09:52 +0000

It is a little-known fact that Great White sharks can be found in the Mediterranean Sea, and perhaps even less-well known is that they arrived there some 450,000 years ago from Australia, according...

Hawaii bans shark fin soup – thank you Governor Linda Lingle

admin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:44:15 +0000

From time to time a glimmer of hope appears as some honorable, committed individuals stand up for what is right, demand a change to human behaviour that, although it may be ‘traditional’,...

Saltwater Crocodiles surf Ocean Currents

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:21:39 +0000

With the exception of a Great White, or possibly an Oceanic White-tip (on a bad day), nothing terrifies me more than the prospect of meeting a 20ft (6m) Saltwater ‘Estuarine’ Crocodile...

New Gear 2010

shurford — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:34:02 +0000

This is an update to an earlier 2008 post about my previous SD equipment setup. Stepping up to HD So finally I took the step up to HD video equipment with the Sony PMW EX1, Gates EX1 housing with 2 x...

Deep Sea Cucumber: “jettisons internal organs from anus”

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:41:44 +0000

Unbelievable – nature’s defense strategies never cease to amaze… Photo by INDEX-SATAL/NOAA “A free-swimming sea cucumber moves through the freezing waters of a 10,515-foot...

Indonesia mimic octopus imitates toxic flatfish for defense

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:44:03 +0000

How about this for an impersonation… Watch video of the Indonesian Mimic Octopus impersonating a toxic flatfish – sometimes the best form of defense really is to attack! The Indonesian...

BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill effects

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:44:30 +0000

Now that the media hype surrounding the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill has largely died down, we think it would be of interest to track news & findings about the effects of this...

Returning to the Abyss

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:29:33 +0000

Ocean ‘X Factor’ to reach deepest point will net £6m. Fifty years ago today two men sealed themselves inside a tiny steel sphere and were lowered over the side of a ship in the Western...

Is there still time to save the seas?

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:55:20 +0000

The ocean is acidifying and coral reefs are dying. And it will only get worse until we rein in our emissions. [BB-films note: from time to time I think it's worth stepping back and thinking about how...