Oceans

Most of the ocean lies below the depth where sunlight is useful, and much of its floor has never been seen directly. These picks come from publishers who explain how footage was gathered: by diver, remotely operated vehicle, or fixed camera.

Related guide: Ocean habitats, and how to choose an ocean documentary

• A Columbus crab on a drifting raft

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

• A cuttlefish hypnotises a crab

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

  • Predation
• A penguin escapes a leopard seal

  BBC Earth

  Oceans · Birds

  • Predation
• A puffin brings fish home

  BBC Earth

  Birds · Oceans

• A seal pup takes its first swim

  BBC Earth

  Oceans · Wildlife

• A stingray among moulting spider crabs

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

  • Predation
• An orca that hunts on the rising tide

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

  • Predation
• Blue Planet II: an hour in the deep ocean

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

  • Predation
• Clownfish move a coconut shell

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

• David Attenborough's closing words for Blue Planet II

  BBC Earth

  Conservation · Oceans

• Dolphins that hunt in the shallows

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

  • Predation
• Giant trevally leap at seabirds

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

  • Predation
• Great white sharks breach off Seal Island

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

  • Predation
• Life in the midnight zone

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

  • Predation
• Marine iguanas feeding underwater

  BBC Earth

  Wildlife · Oceans

• Orcas make waves to wash seals off the ice

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

  • Predation
• Our Planet, episode 4: Coastal Seas

  Netflix

  Oceans · Habitats

  • Predation
• Our Planet, episode 6: The High Seas

  Netflix

  Oceans · Habitats

  • Predation
• Protecting leatherback turtle nests

  BBC Earth

  Conservation · Oceans

• Sally lightfoot crabs dodge an octopus and eels

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

  • Predation
• Seals mob a great white shark

  BBC Earth

  Oceans · Wildlife

  • Predation
• Sharks and pelicans at the mullet run

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

  • Predation
• The kobudai that changes sex

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

• The Portuguese man o' war

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

  • Predation
• A barreleye fish with a see-through head

  MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

  Oceans

• A bluntnose sixgill shark

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans

• A close look at a deep-sea octopus

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans

• A deep coral forest on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

  Schmidt Ocean Institute

  Oceans · Habitats

• A deep red jellyfish drifting at 1,000 metres

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans

• A deep-sea octopus nursery

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans

• A hagfish and its slime pores

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans

• A high-temperature hydrothermal vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans · Habitats

• A metre-long halibut in Prince William Sound

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans

• A sea cucumber that swims

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans

• A skate gliding at 2,400 metres

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans

• A small blind deep-sea lobster

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans

• A squid escapes behind an ink decoy

  Schmidt Ocean Institute

  Oceans

• A transparent glass squid

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans

• A whiplash squid trailing its tentacles

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans

• An octopus chases the ROV lasers

  Ocean Exploration Trust (Nautilus)

  Oceans

• Autumn-coloured coral gardens in the deep

  Ocean Exploration Trust (Nautilus)

  Oceans · Habitats

• Crowned sea cucumbers, the deep-sea clean-up crew

  MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

  Oceans

• Deepwater stingrays off Nīhoa

  Ocean Exploration Trust (Nautilus)

  Oceans

• Diving the North Atlantic with an underwater cameraman

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

• First looks at life in the Romanche Fracture Zone

  Schmidt Ocean Institute

  Oceans

• Spearing mantis shrimp in their burrows

  Ocean Exploration Trust (Nautilus)

  Oceans

• Strange creatures of the midnight zone

  BBC Earth

  Oceans

• The big red jelly

  NOAA Ocean Exploration

  Oceans