Planet Earth (TV Mini Series)
Shallow Seas (2006)
David Attenborough: Self - Narrator
Quotes
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[first lines]
David Attenborough - Narrator : Our planet's continents are fringed by shallow seas. Rarely more than 200 meters deep, they lie on the continental shelves, which may stretch sometimes for hundreds of miles before the sea floor drops into deeper, darker waters. Altogether, they constitute a mere 8% of the world's oceans, but they contain the vast majority of its marine life.
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David Attenborough - Narrator : In the spring, as the sun daily climbs higher in the sky, the algae start to grow. Blooms the size of the Amazon rainforest turn the seas green. Individually, the algae are tiny, but together they produce three quarters of all the oxygen in our atmosphere
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David Attenborough - Narrator : Reefs are the work of polyps, tiny colonial animals like minute sea anemones. Yet the Great Barrier Reef is so big it can be seen from the moon.
