Name: Coasts
Released: 2018-01-29
Cast: David Attenborough

1) bull.

he's well on the way to becoming a full-sized breeding bull.
2) upwelled

We've got very cold water that's come up, upwelled,
3) fin.

and flashes his orange fin.
4) tameness

The local wildlife, famed for its tameness,
5) blenny

an eight-centimetre long blenny has chosen a nest hole.
6) limpet

But other limpet have a secret defence.
7) grazer

In rock pools, grazer, scavengers and filter feeders
8) tonn

to one and a half million tonn of TNT.
9) blubber

But in their way lies the biggest wall of blubber on the planet.
10) ochre

The ochre starfish.
11) plumage

Thanks to their waterproof plumage,
12) shoal

This time when the shoal tries to escape,
13) puffin

puffin must fly as much as 30 miles
14) cameraman

brought to them by a local cameraman Richard Wollocombe.
15) scavenger

In rock pools, grazers, scavenger and filter feeders
16) kilo

Each weighing 60 kilo
17) seaweed

seaweed covered rocks, a hundred metres from the shore.
18) drone

From above, the drone is revealing

1) regrow

Until their feathers regrow,
2) fertilize

He then fertilize them in the safety of his nest.
3) scorch

With the daily risk of drying out and being scorch by the sun.
4) topple

topple over and break.
5) insulate

they're now fully waterproofed and insulate once more.
6) gulp

Anemones gulp down anything they can reach.
7) sculpt

that gradually sculpt vaulted cathedrals of stone
8) reshape

Wave power gradually moulds and reshape our coasts.
9) starve

Having starve for a month,
10) descend

A thick fog descend over the cove.
11) mould

Wave power gradually mould and reshapes our coasts.
12) devote

who've devote their lives to protecting it
13) plunge

Once there, they plunge into another world.
14) tuck

its bodyguard tuck safe under its shell.
15) abandon

One marine creature has virtually abandon the sea altogether.
16) expose

Which expose their feeding ground,
17) breathe

Staying damp is essential as they breathe through their skin.
18) emerge

mother sea turtles emerge from the ocean

1) unobtrusively

so he will have to walk as unobtrusively as possible.
2) affectionately

and he's affectionately called him Tagboy.
3) intermittently

welling up intermittently to fertilize the surface waters.
4) unbelievably

To be so close to something so unbelievably ferocious
5) ashore

Yet, they must still come ashore once a year.
6) seldom

Overcoming the challenges of two worlds is seldom easy.
7) tightly

Their sleek survival suits of tightly packed feathers
8) seemingly

Seemingly, it's a haven of calm.
9) temporarily

when these cold water upwellings have temporarily stopped,
10) gently

and he was just gently back and forth tiring the fish out.
11) nowhere

Nowhere else do sea-living creatures face such changeable conditions.
12) gradually

Wave power gradually moulds and reshapes our coasts.
13) virtually

One marine creature has virtually abandoned the sea altogether.
14) definitely

If they're definitely coming very close,
15) possibly

He can't possibly catch one in the open sea,
16) forth

and he was just gently back and forth tiring the fish out.
17) absolutely

Absolutely extraordinary. Really, really impressive.
18) nearly

this puffin's nearly made it.

1) inhospitable

Their barren coastline looks inhospitable,
2) ferocious

To be so close to something so unbelievably ferocious
3) exhausting

After an exhausting round trip of almost 60 miles,
4) changeable

Nowhere else do sea-living creatures face such changeable conditions.
5) exiled

they will remain exiled on this isolated shoreline.
6) seductive

with his seductive dance.
7) barren

Their barren coastline looks inhospitable,
8) prolific

RICHARD: He's really different. He's, like, a prolific hunter,
9) catastrophic

The process is known as a catastrophic moult.
10) damp

Staying damp is essential as they breathe through their skin.
11) rooted

penguins will remain rooted to the spot.
12) unbelievable

Here they were in search of an almost unbelievable story
13) sleek

Their sleek survival suits of tightly packed feathers
14) terrestrial

lives the most terrestrial fish on the planet.
15) unreal

That just sounds too unreal.
16) unchanged

All along the beach in a spectacle that has remained unchanged
17) abundant

Up here, he can graze on the abundant algae
18) harsh

even in some of the harsh conditions on Earth.

Miniseries "Blue Planet II" » Coasts