Name: Big Blue
Released: 2018-01-29
Cast: David Attenborough

1) suckerfish

The calf, covered in suckerfish,
2) lanternfish

The lanternfish may return to the deep at any moment.
3) tonn

we dump around eight million tonn of it into the sea.
4) blubber

Great whites are eager to feed on energy-rich whale blubber,
5) vastness

in the vastness of the open ocean
6) inhabitant

Many of the inhabitant of the big blue
7) hammerhead

Thousands of hammerhead sharks also assemble here.
8) shoal

But this immense shoal has risen during the day,
9) islet

Here they assemble around a tiny islet
10) expanse

in the immense expanse of the big blue.
11) plankton

they encounter a patch of sea rich in plankton,
12) wanderer

of 16,000 wanderer nest on South Georgia
13) seaweed

Here, there's not only seaweed on which to graze,
14) carcass

Within days, the carcass will be stripped of its blubber.
15) vapour

As the vapour rises, it condenses into clouds.
16) sonar

She's now using sonar to hunt down shoals of squid.
17) trench

there are long mountain ranges, deep trench,
18) metre

About 300 metre down,

1) in.

A tentacle has caught this one, and reels it in.
2) guzzle

And the calf guzzle a bathful of it a day.
3) regurgitate

The chick will need a regular supply of regurgitate fish and squid.
4) entangle

Here, it entangle and drowns vast numbers of marine creatures.
5) lurk

lurk a man o' war fish
6) replenish

The blue, with its reserves of fat replenish,
7) slumber

But its mother slumber on.
8) drown

Here, it entangles and drown vast numbers of marine creatures.
9) invent

we invent a wonderful new material
10) scatter

scatter across the world's oceans.
11) mould

that could be mould into all kinds of shapes.
12) assemble

Here they assemble around a tiny islet
13) disappear

of where baby turtles disappear to in their early years.
14) prop

prop by a vertical membrane.
15) illustrate

Their travels vividly illustrate
16) poison

It's possible her calf may have been poison
17) refresh

Sleep over, and refresh,
18) scoop

they scoop up the lanternfish by the hundred.

1) unparallelled

A moment of unparallelled drama
2) supe

In a supe pod, 5,000-strong.
3) voracious

This voracious man o' war
4) possessive

are highly possessive around a whale carcass.
5) agape

With their immense mouths agape,
6) expectant

But the fact that hundreds of expectant whale sharks
7) ingenious

... where only the most ingenious will triumph.
8) untouched

One of the best ways to film untouched depths in the open ocean
9) favoured

such a favoured chick will have the best chance of survival.
10) uninterrupted

A place where the winds blow, uninterrupted by land.
11) elusive

wanted to film one of the most elusive of them all.
12) unpredictable

an unpredictable climactic event
13) enchanted

These are enchanted worlds,
14) specialised

Specialised muscular tentacles
15) gigantic

They rapidly build into gigantic burgeoning towers,
16) volcanic

and isolated volcanic peaks
17) immense

But this immense shoal has risen during the day,
18) scarce

With food so scarce in the open ocean,

Miniseries "Blue Planet II" » Big Blue