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我们的地球是蓝色的 Our planet is a Blue Planet,
深蓝的大海使我们居住的 这片弹丸之地相形见绌 deep blue water,dwarfing the patches of land we call Earth.
深蓝的海,生命的源头 Deep Blue,the source of life itself.
五十万只信天翁… Here,half a million albatross jostle for space to breed
拥挤在南冰洋这座小岛上准备繁殖 on a tiny island in the Southern Ocean.
经过几万英里的搜寻 After thousands of miles of searching,
深蓝的大海终于张开了慷慨之手 at last the Deep Blue offers its bounty.
海洋孕育的生命远多于陆地 The ocean sustains far more life than all of the land,
但分布不均,在蓝色空间里隐藏和迁徙 but it is unevenly spread,hiding and shifting in blue space.
聚集的海鸟发现了一点动静 Gathering sea birds betray a discovery.
浅滩的鱼群便失去了它们的掩护 The fish shoals have broken their cover.
危险在这个世界无处不在 This is a world of constant jeopardy,
它是个永不停息的轮回,生死交替 an endless cycle of birth,death and renewal.
新生海狮的生命开始于海岸 For a new generation of sea lions,life begins at the coast,
这里是安全的 雌海狮只在生育时才会到此 a place of safety,to which their mothers return only to give birth.
这片陌生的陆地成了小海狮的温床 The unfamiliar land becomes a gentle nursery,
他们在这里渐渐成长 a place where the young pups gather strength,
直到融入海洋中更严酷的生活 as they grow in readiness for a harsher life at sea.
杀人鲸只有几天的时间占小家伙们的便宜 The killer whales have only a few days to take advantage of the naive young pups,
小海狮很快就学会如何避免满潮时的浅水 soon the sea lions will learn to avoid the shallows at high tide.
同时,杀人鲸为了捕食猎物 Meanwhile,the whales risk being stranded on the shore
还冒着被困沙滩的危险 as they take their prey.
这是个高风险的行当 It's a dangerous business
小杀人鲸必须先学会在宽敞水域中捕食 and young killers must be taught to hunt in open water
才能尝试在海滩行动 before they can risk the shore.
在海岸线上,陆地与海洋形成边界 At the coastline the earth and sea meet to form a borderland,
情绪随着潮汐变化 a world of tension where moods shift with the tides.
远离海岸线,在温暖的水域中 Away from the coastline,in bright warm water,
一小片海洋拥围着它最珍贵的财富 a tiny portion of the ocean holds its greatest riches,
珊瑚礁 the coral reefs,
它是靠太阳生存的生命构成的狭长地带 a narrow band of sun fed life
只存在于热带海洋的浅水地带 only found in the shallows of the tropical seas.
这是个脆弱的世界 This is a fragile world,
建立在最小的生物珊瑚虫基础上 built upon the smallest of organisms,the coral polyps,
由它们的骨架组成 whose skeletons form the reef,
足以延伸至几百英里 colonies that may stretch for hundreds of miles.
海洋中最大的鱼类,一条友善的鲸鲨 A gentle whale shark,the largest fish in the sea,
在布满了绿色浮游生物的暗礁 visits the reef during the green of a plankton bloom,
游过,用它的鳃来过滤 sifting the water through its gills.
月亮对海洋有巨大的影响力 The moon is a powerful force upon the deep,
这是个不同的世界,遵循不同的规则 her ghostly realm is a different world,where new rules apply.
即使是不能移动的珊瑚虫 为了争夺领地也要发动战争… Rooted to the spot,even the coral must fight a war for territory,
射出致命的针刺,将邻居麻痹后吃掉 shooting out deadly stinging cells to paralyse and then eat their neighbours alive.
黑暗世界有其格调,节奏的变化 The darkness brings its own mood,a change of rhythm
喜光的生物必须寻找藏身之所 where the creatures of the light must find a hiding place.
珊瑚礁顶端下的缝隙应该可以暂住一宿 A crevice under a coral head will provide shelter for the night,
但这不能保证它可再次见到黎明 but no certainty that you will see the dawn.
对其它动物来说,黑夜是大餐时间 For others the darkness is feeding time.
夜间猎人不需要阳光 The night feeders have no need of light,
他们靠特殊感觉来探测最细微的动静 special senses allow them to detect the slightest movement.
肌肉的一次抽动都可能把他们引来 Even the smallest electrical twitch of muscle will bring them close,
随时准备捕食 ready to choose their victim.
暴风雨和乌云 Storm and rain and wind and cloud
都影响着大海 churn the seas with their own power.
海水的强烈搅动带来了生命 The violent mixing of the waters brings life.
它们被阳光唤醒,受阳光滋润 Awakened and fuelled by light from the sun.
水下的暗流使海水不断混合 Underwater currents mix and blend the liquid world,
富于营养的生物群随暗流而动 whipping up the nourishing swarms of tiny organisms
饲养其它生物 on which so many other animals feed.
软体生物有自己的位置 The boneless creatures have their place too,
它们搏动的身体后拖着触角 trailing their tentacles behind their pulsing forms,
在滑动的同时捕捉猎物 capturing their own prey as they drift.
地球两端,南极和北极 At the ends of the earth,North and South,
结冰的海洋正等待太阳的归来 the frozen oceans wait for the return of the sun,
在静水中产生生命 the force that draws life from the still waters.
冰面上的白熊感觉安全不再 被迫下水 Polar bears,no longer safe on firm ice,are forced to take to the water.
在南极,帝皇企鹅大量集中在冰边 In the far south,emperor penguins gather in vast numbers at the ice edge.
它们圆滑快速的身躯 准备迎接地球上最恶劣的天气 They are sleek and fat,ready to face the harshest weather conditions on Earth.
南极洲的夏天已经结束 As the Antarctic summer ends,
所有的生命都向北方迁移 远离冰冷的水域 almost all life heads to the north,away from the freezing waters,
惟有帝皇企鹅留在这里 but still the emperor penguins remain.
等待它们的 是一段漫长艰苦的南方之旅 They face a long and arduous journey south,
穿越100英里冰冻的荒地去繁殖 one hundred miles across the frozen wasteland to breed.
雄企鹅要饿上三个月 For three months the male birds will starve,
忍受零下70度的低温 速度达每小时100英里的寒风 enduring temperatures of minus 70 degrees,and 100 mile an hour winds.
在北冰洋,冬天把液态的海 变成固态的冰面 In the Arctic,winter turns liquid sea to solid ground
自从夏天冰面融掉以来 and for the first time since summer melted the ice,
白熊第一次可以自如穿梭于海洋上 the polar bears can move across the ocean with ease.
饥饿半年之久的白熊迫不及待要觅食 After months of near starvation the bears are on a desperate search for food,
年轻一代要学会捕食 and a new generation must learn to hunt.
它们搜寻这个冰冻的世界 寻找藏身冰窟中的海豹 They scour their frozen world for signs of nesting seals hidden in ice caves.
冰冷的大海带来了危险 也带来了机遇 The freezing sea brings danger as well as opportunity.
白鲸被困在冬日未融的冰层下 Locked under a sheet of winter ice,these beluga whales are trapped.
许多星期后,冰层才会裂开 It will be many weeks before the ice opens up,
白鲸才能游向宽阔水域 and they can swim to clear water.
现在它们只能共享这狭小的空间 For now they are forced to share this tiny breathing space,
浮到顶端换气,挣扎着不让冰层冻结 surfacing to snatch air and battling to keep the ice away.
这次白熊失手了 This time,the bear fails,
但白鲸流线型的背上 but the belugas will keep the scars of the hunter's claws
却留下了猎人的爪痕 on their arching streamlined backs.
逃过冰劫的幸存者 Those who survive their icy prison
终将回到大海的怀抱 will eventually return to the freedom of the open seas.
温暖的阳光又一次驱走了寒冰 The warming sun once again chases away the ice,
灰鲸跋涉六千英里,来极地的海域饱餐 and gray whales travel six thousand miles to gorge in the polar seas.
这条三个月大的灰鲸第一次来到大海 This three month old baby is new to the open sea
母鲸慢慢地游 and the mother gray whale must swim slowly
指导幼鲸前往捕食地 as she guides it to the feeding grounds.
由于母鲸重达30公吨 等于猎人的两倍 Wary of the thirty tonne mother,who is twice their size,
所以猎人决定攻击幼鲸 the hunters target the vulnerable calf.
几小时后,幼鲸终于精疲力尽 After hours of harrying by the killers,the baby whale is exhausted.
现在猎人准备把它从母鲸旁推开 Now,the hunters try to push him away from the mother.
它们要淹死幼鲸 They try to drown him.
幼鲸死了 The calf is dead.
六个小时的追逐后 猎人终于获得了回报 Six hours after the chase began,the killers finally have their prize.
母鲸痛失它怀胎十三个月才生下的幼子 The mother,bereft of the baby she carried in her womb for thirteen months,
不得不一个人继续旅程 must continue her journey alone.
而猎人只吃掉幼鲸的舌头和下颚 The killers have taken only the tongue and lower jaw of the baby whale.
远离大陆,开阔的海洋 Away from all land,the Open Ocean,
无尽的深蓝,水域的沙漠 an endless expanse of blue,a vast watery desert.
这里,游动的巨人 Here,wandering giants
随海流旅行千万里,寻找食物 travel thousands of miles on the oceanic currents in search of food.
无边水域中的独行侠 A lonely traveller in liquid space.
只有在大海中几个秘密的地点 In just a few secret places in the Blue,
这些独行侠才聚集在一起 normally solitary wanderers come together in great gatherings.
在混乱中 一个三十公吨的巨人浮出海面 Amid the fury,a thirty tonne giant rises from the blue.
在海洋表面留下一条 阳光照耀的狭窄海域 Leave the narrow strip of rich sunlit waters of the ocean's surface
游向无尽的黑暗 and journey downwards into perpetual night.
每次下降,压力都在增大 With each sinking metre pressure builds,
温度降低,所有光线都黯淡下来 the temperature falls,all light from the surface fades.
去过太空的人比去过 More men have been into space
怪异的深海的人还要多 than have visited the deepest reaches of this alien world.
越深的海域,生命就在不断适应,变化… Go deeper and life under pressure adapts,changes...
准备玩一次致命的捉迷藏游戏 ready to play a deadly game of hide and seek.
这里唯一的光来自深海中的生物 Down here the only light comes from the inhabitants of the deep themselves,
有些用光来吸引猎物 some use it as a lure to attract prey.
有些用光来做伪装、吓退 For others,the light is a decoy,
或迷惑它们的猎人 flashes which dazzle and confuse their hunters.
海底是地球上最大的生命带 The deep ocean floor is by far the largest habitat on Earth,
它占据了海床的大半 covering more than half of all the sea bed.
这里的压力是海洋表面的五百倍 Here,the pressure is five hundred times greater than at the surface.
大部分是平坦的 但有些地方也是凹凸不平的 It is mostly flat,but here and there it's scarred by massive wounds.
世界上最深的海沟是马里亚纳海沟 The ocean's deepest reach,The Mariannas Trench,
一直向地心延伸七英里 plummets seven miles down towards the Earth's core.
海中的山脉是地球上最大的地理结构 The mid ocean ridges are the largest geological structures on Earth.
延伸达三万英里 They stretch thirty thousand miles.
如溶铅一样炙热的海水 Water,hot as molten lead,gushes from chimneys
从十六层楼高的烟囱状裂缝涌出 as high as sixteen storey buildings.
俗称黑烟囱 The black smokers.
具有强烈毒性的氢硫化物滚入海水中 Highly poisonous hydrogen sulphide billows into the water,
制造了一个生化地狱 creating biological hell.
但即使在这里,生命都是大量存在的 And yet,even here there is life in enormous quantities.
黑烟囱是地球上生命最密集的地域之一 These chimneys are some of the most densely inhabited spots on earth,
到处都是不靠太阳能量生存的动物 pillars of life where animals exist without energy from the sun.
每晚,不计其数的生命从深海中浮出 Every single night,life without number emerges from the Deep.
到食物富足的海面聚餐 They come to feed in the rich surface waters,
这是每天都会进行 地球上最大型的生物迁移 a daily ritual which is the greatest biological migration on the planet.
我们探索了恒星和月亮 We have sought out the stars,and our moon,
但对深海却知得甚少 without getting to know the Deep.
而大海也不断让我们惊奇 Yet,it is the Ocean that continues to surprise us.
到目前为止,我们只 探索了大海的冰山一角 So far,we have explored only a tiny fraction of the Deep,
而它却养育了地球上迄今最大的生物 home to the largest creature that has ever existed.
蓝鲸的数量一度达到三十万 There were once three hundred thousand blue whales in our oceans.
现在幸存的只有百分之一 Now,just one percent of these glorious animals remain...
而我们却仍在抢掠她的秘密世界… and yet we continue to plunder her secret world.