Blue World

2 seasons available

Marine naturalist and underwater filmmaker Jonathan Bird discusses animal themes, marine research, underwater exploration and recent discoveries.
Zach Gets Certified + Filming Goliaths
S8 E1

Deep water enthusiast Jonathan Bird passes a scuba diving test with Zac Petersen.

Atlantic Wolffish + Aerolito Cave
S8 E3

Jonathan explores Lake Champlain, the 13th largest U.S. lake, using a World War II landing craft.

Cave Drift Dive + Triple Wreck Dive
S8 E7

Jonathan Bird investigates the underwater world, finding manatees and renting scuba tanks.

Maldives, Indian Ocean & Indonesia
S4 E1

The waters of Manuk, a tiny volcanic island in Indonesia, brims with thousands of venomous sea snakes; manta rays gather for just a few weeks each year at a remote atoll in the Maldives.

Cancun, Mexico & Houston
S4 E2

Bull sharks in Mexico; astronauts train for space walking in a giant pool at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston.

Key West, UAS & Bonaire
S4 E4

Jonathan Bird heads to Key West, Fla., and learns to dive without a scuba tank, then heads to Bonaire to explore shipwrecks and coral reefs.

St. Lawrence River, New York & Florida Keys
S4 E5

Biologists work to save sturgeon in the St. Lawrence River; coral grows in an underwater farm in Key Largo, Fla.

Mystic Aquarium, Connecticut & Bahamas
S4 E6

Beluga whales at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut; a blue hole on Andros Island in the Bahamas is over 400 feet deep; spinner dolphins in Hawaii.

Key Largo, Rays & Skates Around the World
S4 E7

Aquarius Reef Base, an undersea lab in Florida; skates and rays, including the plankton-eating manta ray and the electric torpedo ray.

Stargate Blue Hole/Sponges
S4 E8

After going to the Bahamas to explore caves, Jonathan Bird travels around the world to learn about sea sponges.