Planet Earth: "Shallow Seas"
Dec. 10th, 2007 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI've been watching the reruns of Planet Earth on Hi-Def Discovery Channel, and it's pretty awe-inspiring. I've never been so intrigued by an animal/nature film series before. The photography is breathtaking, with videos that been sped up or slowed down to show incredible imagery. So far I've seen: Shallow Seas, Oceans Deep, Deserts, Ice Worlds, and Caves.
In this episode, Shallow Seas, there is one of the most amazing video scenes I've watched: a Great White shark leaping at least 6 feet out of the water--completely out of the water-- to catch a seal in its jaws. You watch that, and you're like "MOTHER FUCKER THAT'S A HUGE SHARK." The camera crew had to film it with a special high speed motion camera designed for observing car crashes. Just watching it in slow motion is about 10x scarier than watching Jaws.
I found the clip on Youtube, but it looks like its taken from BBC, with a different voice-over than the Discovery Channel series, which uses Sigourney Weaver. It seems to use the same script, though, which is weird. I checked and apparently it was originally aired on BBC, and they re-cast the narrator for the American version. That seems silly to me; I understand British just fine thankyouverymuch. Anyway, here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9L4Mwn6wu0
The best clip is about 1:10sec into it, that's the one I'm talking about.
In this episode, Shallow Seas, there is one of the most amazing video scenes I've watched: a Great White shark leaping at least 6 feet out of the water--completely out of the water-- to catch a seal in its jaws. You watch that, and you're like "MOTHER FUCKER THAT'S A HUGE SHARK." The camera crew had to film it with a special high speed motion camera designed for observing car crashes. Just watching it in slow motion is about 10x scarier than watching Jaws.
I found the clip on Youtube, but it looks like its taken from BBC, with a different voice-over than the Discovery Channel series, which uses Sigourney Weaver. It seems to use the same script, though, which is weird. I checked and apparently it was originally aired on BBC, and they re-cast the narrator for the American version. That seems silly to me; I understand British just fine thankyouverymuch. Anyway, here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9L4Mwn6wu0
The best clip is about 1:10sec into it, that's the one I'm talking about.
