Antarctica's
seafloor is
teeming with life, rare submersible footage shows
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The TV series
Planet Earth and
Our Blue Planet have provided us
with some of the most jaw-dropping nature
footage ever captured.
For BBC America's
Planet Earth:*Blue Planet II*series, which is now available on DVD and will soon be streaming on Netflix, the folks at
Alucia Productions powered by OceanX, working
with cutting edge
submersible technology, were able to survey ocean waters that have never been explored before. They took submersibles down to an area about 1,000 meters, or 3,280 feet, below
Antarctica's sea ice, in the Southern Ocean.*
What they found was an ocean floor
teeming with life, rivaling the biological diversity of tropical coral reefs.*
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