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Film
Volcanoes of
the Deep Sea
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"Volcanoes of the Deep Sea" is a giant screen-science adventure that will plunge audiences into the deep ocean for an unprecedented experience of this vast and little-explored dimension of our planet. The film, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, follows a team of scientists as they dive to research mysterious hydrothermal vents on the mid-ocean ridge. As the dive unfolds, the film and the scientists reveal for us the fantastic diversity of the deep: its strange communities of organisms, its shipwreck gardens, bioluminescent creatures and awesome giant predators. An astounding 97% of the Earth's biosphere is located here, in the dark regions of the ocean that we have truly just begun to penetrate and explore.
Visit the "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea" Web site:
http://www.volcanoesofthedeepsea.com/
Credit: The Stephen Low Company
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