Ocean Stories

Is there any truth in the legend that Sperm whales, the largest carnivores on earth, live in the depth of the Mediterranean? And what about the monk seals, one of the most endangered mammals on earth? Very little is known about the elusive seals that once populated most beaches from Greece to Spain.

Ute Margreff lives on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, while Florian Graner's home is in the fjord region of the north-west USA, two Germans united by their love for the ocean. Ute Margreff first met the female dolphin Mara about 10 years ago, and an extraordinary friendship has sprang up between them. Florian Graner has discovered his own paradise at Puget Sound.

The Ocean Sunfish or Mola is the biggest and one of the most weird bony fish in the Pacific as well as in the Mediterranean Sea, normally living in the unreachable deep sea. In Florida we meet the massive but gentle Manatees, and see how they live, and how they are endangered.