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S1 A3 Dolphins and Whales

Documentary

7

48min

25 sep. 2015

Ute Margreff lives on the rough Atlantic coast of Ireland, while Florian Graner has settled in the fjord region in the north-west of the USA. Both originally from Germany, they have never met, but they are united by one thing: a passion for the sea and its inhabitants. It was over 10 years ago that Ute Margreff first met the female dolphin Mara along the Galway coast, and over the course of time an extraordinary relationship has developed between them. Mara is a solitary dolphin, a dolphin which has left its original group and prefers to live on its own. Since meeting Ute she has gone out of her way to seek out the German woman, and the encounter also changed Ute‘s life. She moved to Ireland, and now she devotes her life to studying the unusual behaviour of this marine mammal. Almost every day she and Mara meet in the cold water of the Atlantic, and on many occasions Ute pushes herself to the limits of her own physical endurance in order to maintain this amazing relationship. What she discovers about solitary dolphins on these dives seems to make all her efforts worthwhile. In fact Mara isn't the only solitary dolphin on the coast of Ireland, and we accompany the German dolphin expert as she visits other lone dolphins which have become well-known far beyond the borders of Ireland. In the north-west USA, near the Canadian border, high mountains surround a huge bay known as the Salish Sea, an American fjord landscape teeming with life. The biologist and wildlife film-maker Florian Graner has discovered his own personal paradise here at Puget Sound, making a home for himself and his family on one of the many islands. From his front door it is only a few steps to the water's edge. Shoals of herring swim up to the seagrass meadows on the shallow coast to lay their eggs, waterfowl dive for mussels, and sea lions bask sleepily on the swaying seagrass.

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Ocean Stories - Molas and Manatees

Molas and Manatees,

The ocean occupies more than two-thirds of our planet's surface, constituting an extreme habitat with dimensions beyond our comprehension and a variety of lifeforms that can scarcely be chronicled. It is in the seven seas that we find the last "white spaces" of our world: unexplored, mysterious expanses still virtually off-limits to human beings – although that doesn't stop us recklessly plundering and destroying these areas. Underwater film-maker Thomas Behrend, honoured with numerous awards for his work, has been travelling the world for many years on a mission to record the fantastic, teeming life of our oceans and establish the effects of human activity on the sensitive ecosystems. This time his mission is to capture on film molas and manatees, two giants of the oceans. This entails many months of filming, taking Thomas from the USA to Italy. On the Pacific coast of California, and just off the island of Elba in the Mediterranean, Thomas searches for a mysterious deep-sea dweller whose eccentric appearance has fascinated the film-maker since he was a boy. 3 metres in diameter, weighing up to 2 tons, the circular sunfish is one of the biggest and strangest bony fish to roam the oceans. Despite its enormous size, this creature, which dines off jellyfish, is very seldom seen, since its habitat is the open ocean. But there have been reports of sunfish sightings in shallow coastal waters, or near the surface of the sea. Thomas is determined to discover more about the curious wanderings of the colossal creatures. With the support of experts and the help of a remote-controlled camera submarine, he actually succeeds in tracking down the legendary fish and capturing footage that reveals unexpected insights into its behaviour.

Ocean Stories - Dolphins and Whales

Dolphins and Whales,

Ute Margreff lives on the rough Atlantic coast of Ireland, while Florian Graner has settled in the fjord region in the north-west of the USA. Both originally from Germany, they have never met, but they are united by one thing: a passion for the sea and its inhabitants. It was over 10 years ago that Ute Margreff first met the female dolphin Mara along the Galway coast, and over the course of time an extraordinary relationship has developed between them. Mara is a solitary dolphin, a dolphin which has left its original group and prefers to live on its own. Since meeting Ute she has gone out of her way to seek out the German woman, and the encounter also changed Ute‘s life. She moved to Ireland, and now she devotes her life to studying the unusual behaviour of this marine mammal. Almost every day she and Mara meet in the cold water of the Atlantic, and on many occasions Ute pushes herself to the limits of her own physical endurance in order to maintain this amazing relationship. What she discovers about solitary dolphins on these dives seems to make all her efforts worthwhile. In fact Mara isn't the only solitary dolphin on the coast of Ireland, and we accompany the German dolphin expert as she visits other lone dolphins which have become well-known far beyond the borders of Ireland. In the north-west USA, near the Canadian border, high mountains surround a huge bay known as the Salish Sea, an American fjord landscape teeming with life. The biologist and wildlife film-maker Florian Graner has discovered his own personal paradise here at Puget Sound, making a home for himself and his family on one of the many islands. From his front door it is only a few steps to the water's edge. Shoals of herring swim up to the seagrass meadows on the shallow coast to lay their eggs, waterfowl dive for mussels, and sea lions bask sleepily on the swaying seagrass.

Detaljer

Ocean Stories

Dokumentär

7

1 SÄSONG

49min

Teaming with marine wildlife, our oceans are full of fascinating stories, like these, about orcas, sea lions and the giant Mola.

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