Drain the Ocean
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Massive Cliffs
CGI STILL: Mid angle cliffs of the Grand Bahama Bank. The Bahamas are a group of hundreds of islands lapped by shallow turquoise seas, often only twenty feet or so deep. These islands are scattered over an area of nearly 5 and a half thousand square miles. Poking above the surface, they’re just the tips of a huge underwater structure called the Great Bahama Bank.
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Sunrise Over the Sea
CGI STILL: High angle view across Challenger Deep at sunrise. The Challenger Deep is a little bit deeper than 11,000m below sea level so to get an idea of how deep the Challenger Deep is, it’s like you were standing on the surface of the earth and looking up to the altitude of a cruising 747.
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Uncovered Ocean Trenches
CGI STILL: View across the Challenger Deep. The distance between the surface and the bottom of the Challenger Deep is seven miles.
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A Bahamian Island
Eleuthera Island sits on the very edge of the great limestone block of the Great Bahamas Bank. Its eastern shore faces the deep Atlantic.
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Tranquil Beauty
The typical image of the Bahamas. But the flat islands and calm seas hide the huge structure of the Great Bahama Bank.
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Disappearing Ridge
The southern coast of Iceland, where the mid-Atlantic ridge disappears back beneath the waves.
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Inactive Volcano
Oahu is no longer an active volcano and is now eroding. Yet there is evidence just offshore of past activity, such as the Nu'uanu landslide, caused by a steam explosion of unimaginable size.
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Waves Breaking
The southern coast of Iceland, where the mid-Atlantic ridge disappears back beneath the waves.
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Plates Pulling
Thingvellir in Iceland is on the spreading center of the mid-Atlantic ridge. Fissures run along the center of the rift valley, marking areas where the European and American plates are pulling apart.
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Land Divided
Iceland's rugged and dramatic topography comes from the fact that it is a section of the volcanic mid-Atlantic ridge that rises above the surface of the ocean.
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Past Tsunami Proof
White coral boulder amidst black volcanic ones are taken as evidence for a giant tsunami, originating on the Big Island, that hit the island of Lanai in the past.
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Steaming Lava
On the Big Island of Hawaii, lava reaches the sea and produces a huge cloud of steam. Similar events in the past, though on a much larger scale, produced huge steam explosions, responsible for the gigantic Nu'Uanu landslide.
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Bubbled Up
Mud volcanoes in southern California, where heat below the surface has caused liquid mud to bubble up. Similar structures occur beneath the waves, where they are much larger.
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Romanche Fracture Zone
CGI STILL: High angle view over airplane flying across the Romanche Fracture Zone.
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Volcanic Steam
The Big Island of Hawaii sits over a rising plume of heat from the mantle/core boundary which has created the world's biggest shield volcano. The Kilauea crater saw renewed activity in the spring of 2007.
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Harsh Growth
Ropy textures of Pahoehoe lava formed from recent eruptions on Hawaii's Big Island, the world's largest shield volcano.
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The Tar Pits
At La Brea in Los Angeles, asphalt is seeping to the surface. There are similar such asphalt seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, which support an extraordinary diversity of life.
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Seal Search
When fitted with cameras and data-loggers, the rare Hawaiian monk seal led researchers to previously unsuspected beds of deep water corals.
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The Fault's Fault
David Schwartz of the United States Geological Survey studies the complex series of faults running through southern California. Here, he examines a wall that crosses the Calaveras fault in Hollister, CA.
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Map Technology
David Sandwell at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography has spent many years assembling the best maps available for the ocean floor.
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Coral Expert
Chris Kelley is a deep sea biologist based at the Hawaii Undersea Research Lab (HURL) in Honolulu, Hawaii. He works on the ecology of deep water corals.
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Sonar Surveyor
Charlie Paull (MBARI) has carried out detailed sonar surveys of the Monterey Canyon and is trying to work out the processes that created it.
Awesome!!!!! The announcer is black, and was once a captain of a large and famous star ship!!!!! Thank you Nat Geo, my life is now complete!
Sorry, had to change the channel. I was ready to purchase 5 of every item, in every commercial, but since I am not watching "Drain the Ocean" anymore (why? pop ups, duuuhhh) I am afraid I cant now.
"James Cameron is a bearded guy in Hollywood with a severe fetish for submarines and large ships". Great info, thanks for telling me and covering 1/3 of my tv screen while doing it.
Did you come up with this concept of pop ups through a Focus Group??? No way, no possible way, unless the focus group was at 3 am and they had tooth picks holding their eye lids open.
Oh GOD, you are doing it on more of your shows, aaaaahhhh!!!!!! Ok, I can see doing the little 'additional information' scrolls on a show like 'Diggers' since it is mindless and should be sold to MTV or CMTV as fast as possible, and maybe occasionally on something like 'american pickers', but never on a show that relies on your presentation of the amazing graphics like 'drain the ocean'.
you should fire the post production editor for this show, for allowing all the pop ups. Unless you have information that every one of your viewers is 14 years old with severe ADHD, please remove the useless non-informational pop ups!
With the Nat Geo symbol, the "New Diggers Episode" banner, and the pop up, you managed to cover 1/3 of the tv screen with useless and mind numbing junk.
Dont they make software to stop pop ups because they are so annoying? Then why put them in your tv shows????
please please please stop the pop up messages during your programs!!!! Its like having the most annoying 'know it all' randomly shouting irrelevant facts. Its horrible!!!!!! Drain the oceans, and have a pop up about 'lawn mowing' stats, WTF?????