Deep Sea

IMAX - Volcanoes Of The Deep Sea
English | XviD MPEG-4 codec | 1280 x 584 | MP3 VBR ~122 kbps | 25 fps | 45 min | 700 MB

VOLCANOES OF THE DEEP SEA is an adventure that plunges 12,000 feet into the ocean for an unprecedented experience of this vast and little-explored dimension of our planet. The film 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, 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.
VOLCANOES OF THE DEEP SEA reveals the planet's marine depths as never before, putting audiences into the most alien and hostile environments on Earth and into contact with the planet's strangest creatures and phenomena. The film will also explore the implications that deep ocean discoveries may have for our understanding of the emergence of life and our search for its traces elsewhere in the Cosmos. Using the deep-sea diving vehicle known as Alvin, the filmmakers capture footage of some of these underwater ecosystems along with some helpful CGI reconstructions. Ed Harris delivers the narration.

When and where was the first life on Earth born? A large study was recently launched to solve this greatest mystery of biology. Scientists are focusing on the deep seas at depths exceeding 1,000 meters. On the deep ocean floor, hydrothermal vents spew out seething water at temperatures over 300 degrees Celsius.