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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...

The truth about the Sardine Run

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:38:33 +0000

Having just bought my new Sony EX1 video camera, Green Force HID 250 lights and corresponding Gates housing I made up my mind to “break it in” with one of the underwater world’s...

Thank you President Toribiong (Palau)

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:40:09 +0000

President Johnson Toribiong of the tiny Pacific replublic of Palau is to create the world’s first “shark sanctuary”, banning all commercial shark fishing in its waters. With half of...

Gallery: Satellite view of Bahamas Ocean sands

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:17:20 +0000

Though you would be forgiven for thinking this picture a work of abstract art, it is actually a photograph of the Bahamas Ocean Sands captured by the Earth-orbiting Landsat 7 satellite. Ocean...

Baby blue whale video

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:37:56 +0000

A baby blue whale filmed off Costa Rica may be the first to have been photographed underwater and adds to evidence that a blue whale hot spot in the Pacific Ocean is a birthing ground for the...

Is boiling Lobster alive humane?

shurford — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:49:20 +0000

I am a carnivore, I like to eat meat, I like to eat fish and I like to eat crustaceans. I’m not a tree-hugging hippy, I’m not a vegetarian and I’m not squeamish about killing for...

Maldives first carbon neutral country?

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:37:01 +0000

The pioneering new president of the Indian Ocean nation announces plans for his country – under grave threat from climate change – to go carbon-neutral in a decade The president of the...

BB-films stock video galleries

shurford — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:49:50 +0000

Collection of various stock video galleries using Flash including this underwater collection of SD video clips from around the world including the Maldives, Honduras, Egypt, Malta and Australia. Shot...

Loggerhead turtles current-riding 20,000km round-trip

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:53:14 +0000

A marine biologist has helped fill in the so-called lost years of Australia’s loggerhead turtles by discovering they are using ocean currents to undertake a 20,000-kilometre, round trip across...