A little deeper and alot more money. Story Here.

cecil, the link is no good...

I got it.. Cynde go to this link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2204755.stm

Can hardly wait!

sarah, i get a "page cannot be displayed" on that one as well...

Well, for some reason I got through without a problem to Sarah's link. It's interesting, but I doubt it will amount to much actual 'competition' .

The link worked for me. Wild!

They both work for me, stinking left coasters, don't even know how to click.

CECIL!

Only kidding!!

ida, that's ok, cecil is just bummin' cause his birthday is approaching fast...cecil, i am so bummed that i will not actually be in bonaire holding a sign for your birthday, and that i won't be doing a birthday dive for us at small wall...waaaaaa

alright, noone here in my office can open the link...can someone email me the story????

Major bummer, Cynde. It's a big one for me this year, but I'm not talking about it. Here's the story cut and pasted from the above BBC site.


Reality TV will be plumbing new depths with the launch of an ambitious new BBC programme filmed one mile under the ocean.

BBC One's The Abyss - Live will see tiny submersibles scouring the darkness of the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California, bringing back footage from depths that divers cannot reach.

The programme, which follows the success of documentary series The Blue Planet, will be broadcast largely live, capturing scenes such as shipwrecks and deep sea sharks.

It is one of the highlights of the £243m BBC One autumn schedule.

The Abyss - Live aims to bring viewers ocean scenes that are rarely seen on television because of the technology and skill involved in beaming back the footage.

Presented by Blue Planet producer Alistair Fothergill and Kate Humble, there will be two broadcasts from the deep during one evening.

"It will go right to the depths. No one has ever done this before," said a BBC spokesman.

"They will do some prerecording to supplement the live footage. We are fully confident it will all work on the night."

thanks sarah for sending me the link! I can't wait. We have the entire blue planet series on dvd, and now this one will be great as well. we were watching discovery the other day, and this team was going down 3,000 feet. they came across a jelly, and it began to "drop" it's tentacles. theory is that it drops it's tentacles to distract the predator as it slowly moves away, by the time it was almost gone, it had no more tentacles and there was a trail of loose ones behind it...very odd looking!

Hello Cynde Brainy Box!.. Don't you just love Discovery? Great stuff.. OK, no more BT today, gotta get back to business..

Sarah.

We picked up the Blue Planet series while we were in the States. It is wild. Love it.

linda, it is so good, that i have watched a couple of them more than once. it is just amazing to me how they got some of those shots. when you look at it, i have to just "imagine" what they went through to get the really good stuff! do the kids like it?

Ok then, When is Cecel's birthday? Annie B.

Heck, nothing beats a coupla episodes of Sea Hunt..........

Bob the V

Very cool, I can’t wait to see it! But will they have AbyssTalk.com?

Probably not, but maybe we can license them the rights :-)

But hey - here I am after a long day at the office, and no WebCam pics in this thread? Jeez :-)

Jake

Linda,

Isn't the blue planet series just great? I just got it as an early birthday present. I really have enjoyed them.

Annie B...Cecil and I share the same birthday...i was in bonaire last year...


Jake, here is a pic to justify this thread

I wonder how many more shared B'days there are out there?.... on this board, I mean...