Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Planet Earth

I mentioned the Discovery HD series Planet Earth a few weeks ago, but it's worth mentioning again after seeing the "Shallow Seas" episode.

Mind-blowing.

Great white sharks attacking seals in ultra-slow HD, with one fifteen-footer leaping at least eight feet out of the water. I don't mean his nose was eight feet out of the water--his entire body was at least eight feet out of the water. Freaking awesome. And there was an attack before that one where the great white looked like a twenty-footer. Nice jaws.

Dolphins hydroplaning in extremely shallow water to catch fish.

Sea snakes hunting cooperatively with goatfish.

There's also quite a bit of coral reef footage in this episode, which looks glorious beyond words in HD.

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