Nature's Miracle
Monty Halls explores Australia's Great Barrier Reef, examining the vast, complex structure of the coral reef itself and the wildlife that lives on it.
Three-part series exploring Australia's Great Barrier Reef, one of the natural wonders of the world and the largest living structure on our planet.
Monty Halls explores its full 2,000-kilometre length, from the wild outer reefs of the Coral Sea to the tangled mangrove and steaming rainforest on the shoreline, from large mountainous islands to tiny coral cays barely above sea level, from the dark depths of the abyss beyond the reef to colourful coral gardens of the shallows.
Along the way, he experiences the reef at its most dangerous and its most intriguing, and visits areas that have rarely been filmed, from the greatest wildlife shipwreck on earth to the mysterious seafloor of the lagoon, where freakish animals lurk under every rock.
The first film explores the complex structure of the coral reef itself and the wildlife that lives on it. So vast it is visible from space, the reef is actually built by tiny animals in partnership with microscopic plants. It is a place full of surprises that is always changing, responding to the rhythms of weather, tide, sun and moon.
Within this magical and intensely crowded world, this episode reveals how the amazing reef creatures compete and cooperate - from deadly fish-hunting snails to sharks that can walk on land, fighting corals and parrot fish that spin sleeping bags every night.
Remote cameras, cutting-edge underwater macro and digital time-lapse photography have captured many sequences which have never been filmed before, providing completely fresh perspectives on this extraordinary natural wonder.
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Silent assassin
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Spawning surgeons
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Coral turf wars
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Snake-like sharks
Duration: 03:00
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Monty Halls |
Series Producer | James Brickell |
Executive Producer | Neil Nightingale |
Broadcasts
- New Year's Day 2012 20:05成人快手 HD & 成人快手 Two
- Fri 6 Jan 2012 19:00
- Sat 11 Feb 2012 02:35
- Sun 23 Sep 2012 18:00
- Sun 23 Sep 2012 19:00成人快手 Two Northern Ireland
- Mon 24 Sep 2012 19:00成人快手 Two Scotland
- Wed 21 Aug 2013 15:15
- Sat 1 Mar 2014 19:00
- Sun 2 Mar 2014 02:45
- Wed 5 Mar 2014 22:00
- Sun 30 Mar 2014 19:00成人快手 Two except Scotland
- Mon 17 Aug 2015 15:45
- Tue 11 Oct 2016 20:00
- Fri 14 Oct 2016 00:30
- Mon 14 Aug 2017 16:15
- Wed 3 Jan 2018 00:30
- Mon 28 Oct 2019 20:00
- Fri 1 Nov 2019 02:45
- Wed 25 Nov 2020 21:00
- Thu 26 Nov 2020 03:00
- Tue 4 May 2021 15:45成人快手 Two except Scotland
- Wed 23 Feb 2022 20:00
- Thu 24 Feb 2022 02:20
- Wed 19 Oct 2022 15:30成人快手 Two except Scotland