Sperm Whales – Titans of the Deep | Free Documentary Nature
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Dedicated scientists, equipped with cutting-edge technology follow the sperm whales as they dive to depths of 1,584 metres. Their efforts are not in vain as amazing new findings are revealed about the lives of these acoustically sensitive creatures. However, these findings pose new questions too. Are the increasing levels of man-made noise, that now pollute the ocean, affecting the whales and forcing them to swim into environments outside their natural habitat, such as the shallow waters of the North Sea?
The number of sperm whales that became stranded in the North Sea increased by 1000% in the 1990s. During this very same period the commercial search for oil in these waters, using seismic sonar technologies, also increased. Could there be a connection between the two? Until now, these two incidents have never been investigated.
Sperm Whales: Titans of the Deep combines pioneering scientific research with the latest in filmmaking technology to draw you into the mysterious world of the sperm whale and to uncover the problems that it and many other animals face today.
Thank you for the free doco. This is one old lady who has never lost her curiosity about anything & everything.
What a brilliant documentary, and what a fascinating animal. I hope they beat the odds and survive for centuries to come.
The Sperm whale could perhaps also use his echo for another reason than locating the prey. In another documentary free-divers tell about the enormous impact the whale echo has on their body. It felt like being in a microwave oven, every cell vibrated and became hot. The whale might use this echo to stun his prey and make him numb or disoriented before the actual kill.
In this day and age how any nation could hunt whales is beyond me
It’s revolting what humans have done to these amazing creatures and others.
The whales are deplteing our fish stocks? no, we are depleting their fish stocks.
Is there anything humans don’t destroy?? Sea Otters were hunted to the point of almost wiping them out completely just for their fur, elephants have been and still are poached for their ivory tusks, and lions are hunted just for the thrill of hunting. My god there will be nothing left of these beautiful creatures in the future and for what? Humans selfish wants?
Thanks for this amazing documentary!! I’ve been watching it over the past few nights before I go to sleep and found it so interesting but also relaxing!! I love these animals so much and hope that in the future people are more careful with the planet and realise how precious a habitat it really is
The oil industry has a lot to answer for. It’s bloody obvious that the sound of the equipment used for oil and development is hurting our whale’s! !this is criminal to say the least. We have only ourselves to blame for the state of the oceans. The saddest thing that I wonder about is imagine the possibility of leaving the sea alone for even 20 year’s? We couldn’t imagine the amount of sea life that would exist? ?the shear amount of fish and all other forms of life. It would be a sight to see.
