Mediterranean Shipwrecks

Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, Zayde is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel.

There's something both eerie and poignant about deep-water footage of barnacle-encrusted shipwrecks, and there's something especially sad about the remains of the Ark Royal. The pride of the Second World War British fleet was sunk by a single torpedo in 1941 in the Mediterranean, its final resting place unknown. But three years ago a BBC team set out to search for the wreckage of the near-legendary aircraft carrier. The operation was a success. Here, Dan Snow takes us on a remarkable journey of discovery, looking at the Ark Royal's illustrious history and making good use of contemporary film. But, as always, it's the testimonies of those directly involved that move the most. The documentary gathers together Ark Royal veterans to view footage from the sea bed, and to share their memories of a ship that obviously still has a tight hold on their hearts.

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Blue Whisper immerges into the ocean's fascinating underwater world and gets to the bottom of a widely unexplored field of underwater science: the communication among fish. The documentary accompanies a team of specialists to overwhelmingly beautiful coral reefs, ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea and sunken submarines that are clouded in secrecy, to explore the versatile forms of underwater communication. What language do fish use? Do they make sounds? Do they have a body language? And what role do colours play?