David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a shape-shifting cuttlefish, a pair of fighting squid, and a mesmerizing gallery of bioluminescent fish that light up the blackest depths of the ocean. He focuses on the work of two scientists: Edith Widder at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association, and Roger Hanlon at the Marine Biological Lab.
Bikini Atoll the sight of the famous US hydrogen bomb tests should be some of the more radioactive places on earth. One would expect a vast waste land both above or below the water.
However, this isn’t the case, Bikini’s coral reef is flourishing with life. The coconuts are radioactive as they absorbed the cesium and other particles in the soil but the background radiation in the sea is the same as anywhere else in the world.
You can dive Bikini’s coral reef and it’s nuclear fleet; a set of test ships blown up to see the nuclear affects of a nuclear attack on warships. However, it’s very expensive.
Divers have discovered an unusual flat-faced fish with forward-looking eyes that may represent an entirely new piscine family. This fish was first found by scuba divers, off the Indonesian coast, and may represent the first new family of fish discovered in the last 50 years.