Sixgill sharks and giant tubeworms: 'The Abyss' lulls Natural World Facts through a pause
Leo Richards' 400-day-old deep sea sleep film has passed nine million views, drawing more each day than anything else on the channel.
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The Abyss | Deep Sea Documentary for Sleep (4K)
Leo Richards started Natural World Facts as a passion project when he was eight, and more than fifteen years later the marine biologist is making feature-length films about the deep sea. No new one went up over the past seven days, so the older films did the work.
The busiest of them is "The Abyss | Deep Sea Documentary for Sleep (4K)", a slow descent built for sleep and study that has now passed nine million views. Its chapters move from marine snow on the abyssal plain to whale falls, sixgill sharks, ghost sharks and the bigfin squid, then on to hydrothermal vents with giant tubeworms and Pompeii worms. One stop is the wreck of Endurance, Shackleton's ship. The footage comes from NOAA and the Schmidt Ocean Institute, whose robot SuBastian filmed most of it.
Behind it sits "Into the Abyss: Creatures of the Midwater (Full Movie)", nearly two years old, which joins his Twilight Zone and Midnight Zone films with new narration. The newest of the three is "The Coral Triangle | A World Beneath the Surface (4K)", a month-old trip to the reefs of Raja Ampat filmed by Edi Frommenwiler, who has spent more than thirty years diving those waters. It has passed half a million views, with pygmy seahorses, a mimic octopus and a flamboyant cuttlefish along the way.
The channel is running somewhat below its usual daily pace. That is a familiar picture among the documentary channels of its size, where RocaNews and Channel 4 Documentaries are also below their norm and the fifth estate is one of the few running ahead of it.
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The bigfin squid, seen in The Abyss, belongs to which genus?
The film's own chapter list names the bigfin squid as Magnapinna, a genus of long-armed deep sea squid.
