If you get a chance to watch this series of videos (by the BBC, Region 2 only), then take the opportunity. If you have access to the iPlayer, the episode ‘Creatures of the Deep‘ has another 19 days to run! Although the main focus of the programme is upon the creatures who inhabit the deep, the final 10 minutes of the programme demonstrates how some of this amazing footage was captured (and there’s nothing like hovering in the seabed whilst a large ray drifts majestically past) by expert scuba divers! These divers were breaking new ground … literally for one section, as they drilled through 2 metres of ice, and investigated life underneath for an hour at the time (before air/heat started to wear out). Over 100 dives were made under the ice, and the programme makers also created a new reef in the Bahamas. The programme took over 4 years to make!