An environment where only the toughest survive, the Arctic and Antarctic are unrelenting habitats. Only in spring does life begin again. Plankton blooms and feeds fast hordes of migrating fish, walruses rake the seabed for clams, and minke and humpback whales gorge themselves on gigantic swarms of krill. But it is a brief spring feast - the ice soon returns and pushes life back into the ocean.

The Blue Planet Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Introduction
• s01e02 - The Deep
• s01e03 - Open Ocean
• s01e04 - Frozen Seas
• s01e05 - Seasonal Seas
• s01e06 - Coral Seas
• s01e07 - Tidal Seas
• s01e08 - Coasts

The Blue Planet Show Summary

The BBC spent five years and $10 million to produce this landmark exploration of the ocean, a world we know less about than the moon. We go further out and deeper down to show you things that have never been seen before. The Blue Planet: Seas of Life reveals the sea and its communities at their most fearsome and alluring. Until now, we've only touched the surface...