Name: Ocean Deep
Released: 2017-03-10
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, David Attenborough

1) baitfish

Now the tuna have a chance to attack the unprotected baitfish
2) microworld

and, an entire microworld was extinguished.
3) grazer

but, in the deep sea, as everywhere else if there are grazer, there are hunters.
4) monkfish

A monkfish, almost indistinguishable from the sand on which it lies.
5) tiptoe

Shrimps standing on elegant tiptoe
6) blubber

There's little left but fatty blubber clinging to it's bones.
7) vestige

No vestige of sunlight can penetrate as far as this.
8) floatation

It's graceful shell contains gas filled floatation chambers, that control it's depth.
9) faintest

Crabs can detect the faintest of tastes in the water
10) mola

An oceanic wanderer, a mola mola
11) crustacean

And here, too, more crustacean, but quite different species
12) appendage

Those strange leg-like appendage are feathered, to stop it from sinking.
13) sailfish

A baby sailfish, fifteen centimeters long
14) krill

on one of the smallest krill, shrimp-like crustaceans.
15) shearwater

Now the shearwater can dive down on them, descending to twenty meters or more
16) seabird

To raise their young, seabird worldwide seek such remote islands.
17) detritus

Marine snow, detritus from the creatures swarming in the sunlit waters above.
18) inhabitant

The inhabitant of these bustling communities may grow at speed

1) invigorate

Around these peaks invigorate by daily sunshine
2) bide

so, it bide it's time.
3) erupt

In places, volcanoes have erupt to build great submarine mountains.
4) clothe

These are squat lobsters, clad in furry armor
5) solidify

Clouds of sulfides solidify into towering chimneys, as tall as a three story house.
6) lurk

Other predatory fish are lurk nearby.
7) rive

In places, it's rive by great fissures, from which superheated water
8) nourish

It's flesh has nourish life for miles around
9) ascend

But as night falls, it ascend up to the reefs, to look for food.
10) defy

others defy classification.
11) divert

divert the volcanic energy elsewhere
12) roam

three hundred thousand blue whales roam the oceans
13) weaken

There's a chance that, eventually, it may spot a weaken fish that's catchable.
14) descend

As we descend into the darkness, the pressure builds, the temperature falls.
15) drown

Sheer cliffs soaring to drown volcanic peaks.
16) flourish

A richly varied community flourish here
17) dissolve

loaded with dissolve minerals blasts into the icy depths.
18) diminish

The threat diminish, and vampyroteuthis disappears into the blackness.

1) fastidiously

fastidiously select the particles that appeal to them
2) lethally

would be lethally toxic to most forms of life
3) unpredictably

Suddenly, unpredictably, they may become inactive.
4) astoundingly

but astoundingly, a particular kind of bacteria thrives here
5) fatally

A mistimed strike by one sailfish, could fatally damage another
6) downwards

As dawn approaches, squid and fish and plankton retreat downwards, to shelter in the darkness.
7) endlessly

endlessly searching.
8) richly

A richly varied community flourishes here
9) oddly

Oddly, the tiny fish swarm around it.
10) indefinitely

but their existence can also be short, for the vents do not erupt indefinitely.
11) upwards

They drive the fish upwards, trapping them against the surface
12) inevitably

During the next twenty years, the vast majority will inevitably die
13) continually

but each continually changes it's color, from blue, to striped, to black
14) nowhere

Out here, in the open ocean, there is nowhere for the baitfish to hide.
15) continuously

Frigatebirds spend months continuously airborne at sea
16) gradually

gradually sinking downwards.
17) wherever

Every night, wherever conditions are right,
18) fastest

They're the fastest growing marine invertebrates known.

1) mistimed

A mistimed strike by one sailfish, could fatally damage another
2) bioluminescent

Bioluminescent bacteria shine from pockets on it's arms to confuse it's predators.
3) superheated

In places, it's riven by great fissures, from which superheated water
4) scalding

At four hundred degrees this scalding cocktail of chemicals
5) putrid

Spider crabs, a meter across, still pick at the last putrid remains.
6) sunlit

Marine snow, detritus from the creatures swarming in the sunlit waters above.
7) gargantuan

Such gargantuan harvests depend on the continuing fertility of the oceans
8) pectoral

It's long, fixed pectoral fins
9) unscathed

A bite there, would leave the head unscathed.
10) sawtooth

A sawtooth eel hangs upright and motionless.
11) shee

Sheer cliffs soaring to drowned volcanic peaks.
12) frenzied

Over the next few hours there'll be frenzied competition
13) unbroken

that winds unbroken for forty five thousand miles around the globe.
14) watery

a watery desert.
15) indistinguishable

A monkfish, almost indistinguishable from the sand on which it lies.
16) bustling

The inhabitants of these bustling communities may grow at speed
17) habitual

Whale sharks cruise on regular habitual routes
18) predatory

Other predatory fish are lurking nearby.

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