Deep Ocean

The same submarine which successfully captured the world’s first moving images of a giant squid in its natural habitat is used for exploring the deep sea cliffs off the coast of New Guinea. The team encounters true living fossil species one after another. Join this exciting deep-sea adventure!

The NHK team that captured the world's first footage of a live giant squid in its natural habitat is setting out for another deep-sea adventure. They will give us a look at the amazing life forms with luminous bodies that have survived the harsh, pitch-dark deep sea environment of the Pacific.

Discover the extreme limits of life on Earth as you embark on a journey to our planet's deepest point: the Challenger Deep. At 10,920 meters below the ocean's surface, in the Mariana Trench, it’s a depth uninhabitable to most life forms.