The Deep Ocean- Journey Into the Last Hidden World

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Deep Ocean: Journey Into the Last Hidden World takes you from the sunlit surface to the darkest and deepest places on Earth. Travel through the sunlight zone, twilight zone, midnight zone, abyssal plain, hadal trenches, and finally Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.

Along the descent, discover how deep-sea creatures survive extreme pressure, darkness, low oxygen, and scarce food. From bristlemouth fish, barreleyes, viperfish, fangtooth, vampire squid, sea cucumbers, and xenophyophores to hadal snailfish and amphipods, each layer reveals a different strategy for survival.

This ocean documentary also explores diel vertical migration, bioluminescence, the biological carbon pump, manganese nodules, deep-sea technology, ROVs, AUVs, landers, environmental DNA, and the future of ocean exploration.

*FOOTAGE CREDITS*

Archival ocean exploration footage used in this documentary is sourced from NOAA Ocean Exploration and collaborating research organizations. Credits are grouped by the original expedition/source attribution:

• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Voyage to the Ridge 2022
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2023 Shakedown + EXPRESS West Coast Exploration
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Seascape Alaska
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2025 Beyond the Blue
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Windows to the Deep 2021
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Gulf of Mexico 2017
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones
• Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Deep Connections 2019.
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2016 Hohonu Moana
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Exploring Puerto Rico’s Seamounts, Trenches, and Troughs
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Gulf of Mexico 2018
• NOAA Ocean Exploration
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Our Deepwater Backyard: Exploring Atlantic Canyons and Seamounts 2014
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Windows to the Deep 2018
• Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Windows to the Deep 2019.
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2015 Hohonu Moana
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2017 Laulima O Ka Moana
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2021 ROV Shakedown
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Deep Connections 2019
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Deep-Sea Symphony: Exploring the Musicians Seamounts
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Deepwater Wonders of Wake
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, INDEX-SATAL 2010
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition 2013
• NOAA/UAF/Oceaneering
• The Hidden Ocean 2016: Chukchi Borderlands, Oceaneering-DSSI
• Brian Helmuth and Northeastern University
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2013 ROV Shakedown and Field Trials in the U.S. Atlantic Canyons
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2017 American Samoa
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2021 Technology Demonstration
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2026 Cook Islands ROV Exploration
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Discovering the Deep: Exploring Remote Pacific MPAs
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Gulf of Mexico 2012
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Mid-Cayman Rise Expedition 2011
• NOAA Ocean Exploration, Océano Profundo 2015
• Video courtesy of Submarine Ring of Fire 2006 Expedition, NOAA/PMEL.

Scientific reference organizations mentioned in the narration include NOAA Ocean Exploration, NOAA Fisheries, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), NASA, MBARI, Smithsonian, and Monterey Bay Aquarium.