| Run in with the Devil (article) |
Word Count: c. 1100 |
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Describing an unusual ride across
the mouth of a large Manta Ray on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
“...a minute later I was hit at full force by the open mouth
of the manta ray!” |
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| Fish Tales (article) |
Word Count: c. 1300 |
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Describing a close encounter with
a ten foot long Shovel-Nose Ray (Rhinobatos batillum) on the Great
Barrier Reef, Australia.
“...what were these three things and why side by side?” |
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| Instant Disintegration...At a
Price (article) |
Word Count: c. 1400 |
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Describing an incredible diving experience
with a rare comb-jelly on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
“...my precious beast literally disintegrated into a thousand
or more fragments!” |
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| Close Encounter of the Prickly
Kind |
Word Count: c. 1500 |
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Explaining the concepts of structural
colour, as seen through the natural world in a wide range of organisms,
from the exoskeleton of marine parasites to the multicoloured
wings of a butterfly.
“...all are structural colours, none are produced by pigmentation.” |
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| Stingray City (article) |
Word Count: c. 1500 |
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Describing an incredible diving experience,
in a completely natural setting, with dozens of stingrays in the
crystal clear, warm waters off the island of Grand Cayman.
“...dozens of stingrays gracefully glide over your head and
swim between your legs." |
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| Life Not From Mars |
Word Count: c. 1600 |
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Describing a weird planet, covered
in an extraordinarily dense atmosphere, inhabited by flying life
forms, which seem to be obsessed with devouring each other. This
planet beats, hands down, anything man is ever likely to trip
over on Mars.
“...a creature glides by that is best described as a pair of
lips attached to a stomach." |
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| Invisible Colour |
Word Count: c. 1700 |
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Explaining the concepts of structural
colour, as seen through the natural world in a wide range of organisms,
from the exoskeleton of marine parasites to the multicoloured
wings of a butterfly.
“...all are structural colours, none are produced by pigmentation.”
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| Orders of Magnitude |
Word Count: c. 1750 |
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Describing the evolution of specialist
'fluid effect' photographic techniques that generated, for example,
the red barrier effects as seen in Superman films I and II.
“...thirty seconds later we had achieved the Red Barrier Effect!"
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| Cannibalistic Jellies (article) |
Word Count: c. 2000 |
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Highlighting the cannibalistic nature
of the Lion’s Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea lamarcki), as discovered
when shooting on an IMAX film expedition to the Great Barrier
Reef, Australia.
“Could it be that this was a jellyfish eating jellyfish?” |
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| The Star We Seldom See (article) |
Word Count: c. 2150 |
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Describing the life and times of
the unusual, rarely documented, chondrophoran Porpita - the beautiful
blue sea star.
“...within the rigid disc a veritable army of aliens are to
be found!” |
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| Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut |
Word Count: c. 2300 |
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Describing life behind the scenes
of a 3-D IMAX film shoot that aims to depict a story based upon
the two interwoven life-cycles of a magnificent tropical butterfly
and a predatory jungle-living praying mantis.
“...fill a movie screen one hundred and twenty five feet across
and ninety feet high with the image of a fly's eye, in perfect,
full colour 3-D." |
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| Lobster Lunacy |
Word Count: c. 2500 |
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Describing the intrepid journey each
juvenile slipper lobster must undergo to reach maturity - from
hitch-hiking rides upon unsuspecting jellyfish to free-falling
through the marine realm to the ocean floor.
“...the gawky phyllosoma juvenile rises to the surface plankton
community and begins the strangest larval life on record." |
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| Face of the Deep |
Word Count: c. 2650 |
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An article emphasising the importance
of the marine realm and its inhabitants by comparing this oceanic
component to a human face of an otherwise rocky head, the face
of the deep.
“... if you were an alien, sent to sample planet Earth's ten
most representative life forms, you would not take back in your
kit bag a single terrestrial organism." |
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| The Third Dimension |
Word Count: c. 3000 |
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Describing the three-dimensionality
and diversity of the marine realm and its planktonic inhabitants,
with their immense capacity for adaptation.
“... it is the most spectacular, beautiful, fascinating, enigmatic,
mysterious and wonderful show on Earth." |
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Plankton - A Lifetime’s Passion:
Part 1 The Third Dimension |
Word Count: c. 4300 |
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Introducing one of the most fundamentally
important populations on the planet - the plankton community.
Including organisms that are as big as a football pitch or as
small as a pinhead.
“...these creatures perform the greatest mass migration this
planet has ever seen.” |
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Plankton - A Lifetime’s Passion:
Part 2 Associations, Alliances & All Out Predation |
Word Count: c. 3100 |
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Describing the range of relationships
to be found between planktonic organisms in the marine realm,
particularly those of the surface drifting community.
“...Janthina rips into Glaucus and devours it whole!” |
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Plankton - A Lifetime’s Passion:
Part 3 The Drop-Outs |
Word Count: c. 3200 |
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Describing the daunting process of
successfully metamorphosing from vulnerable planktonic larvae
to predacious adults, as undergone by a range of different organisms
in the marine realm.
“...the sea was transformed into a pulsing soup of sex cells.” |
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| The Jelly Connection (article) |
Word Count: c.3900 |
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Describing an expedition to film
and photograph a bizarre group of organisms - the irredescent
comb-jellies, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
“this animal seemed like nothing more than a pair of lips attached
to a stomach!” |
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| Blues Brothers: Part 1 Mean,
‘Mazin’ & Misunderstood |
Word Count: c. 4700 |
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Telling the life story of the surface
drifting blues brother, the Portuguese Man-O-War (Physalia physalis)
and its endless struggle for survival against all odds.
“...the longest animal, with the most lethal sting is a mere
surface drifter!” |
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| Blues Brothers: Part 2 Rafts,
Radulas & Rumours |
Word Count: c. 4400 |
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Describing the trio of surface drifters
that is the Purple Bubble Raft Snail (Janthina), the By-the-wind-sailor
(Velella) & the Blue sea Slug (Glaucus).
“...likes nothing more than dining on Men-O-War” |
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| Blues Brothers: Part 3 Sex, Slugs
& Steene-Stills |
Word Count: c. 4500 |
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Describing the unusual and rarely
seen sexual acrobatics of the hermaphrodite Blue Sea Slugs (Glaucus)
as found off the coast of Bermuda.
“...two silken bodies, each twisting and turning to over power
the other” |
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| Colour In Nature |
Word Count: c. 5000 |
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Describing the occurence and function
of colour in the natural world, from camouflage to courtship,
warning signals to bioluminescent illumination.
“...what function can internal colour possibly have?” |
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| The Weed & The Weedy Folk |
Word Count: c. 5400 |
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Describing the life and times of
the Sargassum weed surface drifting communities, found off the
shores of the Caribbean Islands and Bermuda.
“...the nest is designed by an animal that flies...but it’s
a fish!” |
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| The Gobblers |
Word Count: c. 9400 |
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A detailed account of the 'marine
gobblers' - looking at the unusual and varied prey capture techniques
exhibited by members of the open ocean plankton community.
"....planktonic life forms have had several million years
to perfect their hunting techniques." |
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| Passion for Plankton |
Word Count: c. 10,700 |
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Introducing the unique and vitally important
plankton community, one that we must conserve, for without this
biomass the planet will see consequences of unimaginable severity.
“...these creatures carry the complexity of eyes to the limits
of our imagination!”
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