Blue Planet is the product of a six-year collaboration between The Discovery Channel and The British Broadcasting Corporation. Premiering in January 2002, the first four of this eight-part series narrated by Sir David Attenborough, includes remarkable footage captured from hundreds of locations around the world. In episode four, called "The Deep," you'll see footage from the JOHNSON-SEA-LINK submersibles shot in the depths of Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamas. The real stars of this episode are the bizarre organisms like bioluminescent angler fish found 3000 feet deep and chemosynthetic tubeworms living on cold methane seeps. Many organisms featured in this program are species studied by Drs. Tammy Frank, Edith Widder, Craig Young, and Ph.D. candidate Sandra Brooke of our Division of Marine Science. These researchers served as science consultants on board ship during the filming of this program. Much of the credit for this production goes also to the pilots and crew of the JSL submersibles and the captain and crew of the R/V SEWARD JOHNSON II. Visit Discovery.com to see their spectacular segment devoted to Blue Planet. They'll be adding many articles and images of ocean and marine-animal expeditions around the world, so stay tuned! PREMIERE BLUE PLANET: SEAS OF LIFE will air in eight parts: "Ocean World" • "Frozen Seas" • "Open Ocean" • "The Deep" "Coasts" • "Tidal Seas" • "Coral Seas" • "Seasonal Seas" CLICK HERE to see The Discovery Channel's Blue Planet TV Schedule. SEE HBOI CREW IN "GALAPAGOS" -- A 3D IMAX FILM NOW AIRING AT THE MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY & SCIENCE The Museum of Discovery & Science in Ft. Lauderdale is doing a "Galapagos Adventure Weekend" and an "IMAX Movie Madness Film Festival". The IMAX 3D movie Galapagos will be shown 3 times each day on Saturday & Sunday, On January 19th and 20th after the film, you can meet the submersible pilots from Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution who participated in the filming of "Galapagos" on location in 1998. Take a behind-the-scenes look at the production given by Harbor Branch's Don Liberatore (Chief Submersible Pilot) & Dan Boggess (Senior Electronics Tech/Submersible Pilot). As well, 'Galapagos 3D' will be part of the "IMAX Movie Madness Film Festival" going on between Tuesday, January 22nd and Thursday, January 31th. Show times are listed below. The IMAX screen is over five stories high - the unusual wildlife of the Galapagos jumps off the screen in exciting 3-D. From the Imax website: "Presented by the Smithsonian Institution and Imax Ltd., and using IMAX 3D technology, Galapagos vividly documents an eight-week expedition to the islands and surrounding waters. Part adventure, part scientific expedition, part personal quest, and part fantastic voyage, this unprecedented non-fiction film takes audiences on a journey with marine biologist Dr. Carole Baldwin, from the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History, on her first trips to the famed Galapagos Islands. An amazingly immersive cinematic experience, Galapagos delves deep into the largely unknown waters surrounding the volcanic archipelago to explore the natural wonders of a realm that is truly a living natural science laboratory. Using Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution's research vessel, the SEWARD JOHNSON as the mother ship-and their high-tech submersible JOHNSON-SEA-LINK-the highly distinguished research and filmmaking team deployed technology light years ahead of the crude instruments Charles Darwin had at his disposal during his famous 1835 visit to the region." Schedule: Galapagos Adventure Weekend At the Museum of Discovery & Science, Ft. Lauderdale The Galapagos 3D IMAX film show schedule; Saturday, January 28th - 10:15am • 3:20pm • 5:35pm Sunday, January 29th - 10:15am • 12:55pm • 3:20pm • 5:35pm Tuesday, January 30th - 10:15am • 3:20pm • 5:35pm Wednesday, January 31st - 10:15am • 3:20pm • 5:35pm Museum closes after the last show each day, so the Harbor Branch 'Behind-the-Scenes' presentation will be; Saturday, January 19th - 1pm • 2pm • 3pm Sunday, January 20th - 2pm • 4:15pm For Directions to the Museum visit: http://www.mods.org/imax/info.html Imax link - http://www.imax.com/galapagos/ Film Credits - http://us.imdb.com/Credits?0163639