Ireland's Deep Atlantic

Thargor

This is on now on RTE One and its damn good, never saw this quality of camerawork on an RTE nature programme, its worthy of the BBC/Attenborough.

ednwireland

Brilliant program

EPAndlee

Very impressed with this so far

bloodless_coup

Typical brits

SeaFields

Jaw dropping footage. Very well done too in that they had land in the background of many surface shots just to illustrate how close the activity was to the shore. As an angler it had me fascinated. The surface breaking by the tuna was unreal.

AnneFrank

Really brilliant show, enjoyed every minute.

Ceist_Beag

Beautifully shot, soundtrack went well with it and I really enjoyed listening to yer man Ken, great show.

Oscar Bravo

Great show, lovely footage.

Sharknose

Great film of whales up close, but am I missing something here ?

Man in what looks like a 2 mil wetsuit travels 40 km west of Ireland out into the Atlantic in an open RIB in the month of November to snorkel dive with what looks like a 25kg camera to film whales diving in +100m depths ?

A little bit of artistic licence perhaps ?

Also a claim to have discovered humpback feeding techniques ?

Check Wikipedia for that one !

Ceist_Beag

Sharknose wrote: »

Great film of whales up close, but am I missing something here ?

Man in what looks like a 2 mil wetsuit travels 40 km west of Ireland out into the Atlantic in an open RIB in the month of November to snorkel dive with what looks like a 25kg camera to film whales diving in +100m depths ?

A little bit of artistic licence perhaps ?

I don't know what footage was at +100m depths apart from the footage from the ROV? All the footage from Ken was at shallow depths as you can see the surface above him in most of it.
One thing I did take from this show was that camera drones must be a Godsend to small film makers. Some of the aerial footage in this show was every bit as good as the underwater shots.

Doctors room ghost

I missed it and I’m vexed.was working nights and forgot to record it.will try to get it on the player.have it series linked for next week.hear it was v good. The program in Connemara with the pine marten living in the lads attic was v good aswell

The first episode is repeated on RTE2 tonight at 7.30.It looks like there are only two episodes in the series,according to my Sky planner series link!

Poochie05

Sharknose wrote: »

Great film of whales up close, but am I missing something here ?

Man in what looks like a 2 mil wetsuit travels 40 km west of Ireland out into the Atlantic in an open RIB in the month of November to snorkel dive with what looks like a 25kg camera to film whales diving in +100m depths ?

A little bit of artistic licence perhaps ?

Also a claim to have discovered humpback feeding techniques ?

Check Wikipedia for that one !

I don't think he claimed to have discovered the bubble net feeding, just that up to now humpbacks have only been documented doing this in Alaska I think, so it's first time recording them doing it off the Irish coast

Doctors room ghost

zorro2566 wrote: »

The first episode is repeated on RTE2 tonight at 7.30.It looks like there are only two episodes in the series,according to my Sky planner series link!

Cheers zorro

AndyBoBandy

Excellent comments and reviews above, I recorded this hoping it would be decent, so shall look forward to watching it now.

Sephiroth_dude

Looking forward to watching this again on Sunday!

Damien360

Great program. This kind of enthusiasm and interest in the subject was missing from RTE programmes for a long time. They got genuine experts in their fields to add to the content.

This is what the BBC does well. Even when the narrator is not the expert, they have the genuine interest and enthusiasm and crucially they are not clueless to make you want to learn with them. More of this from RTE please.

kippy

Agree with all the positivity. Great piece of work so far and looking forward to more of the same.

Ceist_Beag

Damien360 wrote: »

Great program. This kind of enthusiasm and interest in the subject was missing from RTE programmes for a long time. They got genuine experts in their fields to add to the content.

This is what the BBC does well. Even when the narrator is not the expert, they have the genuine interest and enthusiasm and crucially they are not clueless to make you want to learn with them. More of this from RTE please.

+1 Watching this on Sunday night and then Baz presenting a programme on gambling on Monday night really highlighted how important it is to get the right person presenting the show (one was excellent and one ruined the show)!

Wishox

Does anyone know where the theme music comes from ? I notice in the credits it says "Music - Johann Johannsson (RIP) - Thank you for the magic", But cant find what piece it is. Anyone ?

pickarooney

Is there anywhere to stream this?

Jeff2

pickarooney wrote: »

Is there anywhere to stream this?

This on at 9.30 RTE 1 tonight and can be seen on RTE One +1 an hour later.

Thargor

He's in France...

Thargor

That was a damn good drone shot of the breaching Blue Whale just there, looked like a train going past.

ednwireland

Wow just wow. Been whale watching in Iceland. But only saw minke which was amazing but that looks amazing.

Jeff2

Thargor wrote: »

That was a damn good drone shot of the breaching Blue Whale just there, looked like a train going past.

Yeah the drone shots made up for the underwater shots.

Mountainsandh

It's a pity this program isn't on earlier in the day, my kids could have watched it, it'd be a nice thing to watch around 6 ish on a Sunday.
I like the guy presenting, the drone shots are great.

Apologies if this has been said already, I haven't read the thread yet.

Ol' Donie

It's repeated earlier during the week.

valoren

Wishox wrote: »

Does anyone know where the theme music comes from ? I notice in the credits it says "Music - Johann Johannsson (RIP) - Thank you for the magic", But cant find what piece it is. Anyone ?

When the programme was being advertised I thought they were using Hans Zimmers "Journey to the Line" from The Thin Red Line. Seems like the "Music" piece used is like a riff on that.

Excellent programme by the way. Enjoyed it.

Sephiroth_dude

Pity it was only two episodes, I really enjoyed it, best thing I've seen on RTE in a long time.

SeaFeverKen

Thanks everyone for the kind words, delighted you all enjoyed our two documentaries.
Re SharkNose comment:

Re Great film of whales up close, but am I missing something here ?

Man in what looks like a 2 mil wetsuit travels 40 km west of Ireland out into the Atlantic in an open RIB in the month of November to snorkel dive with what looks like a 25kg camera to film whales diving in +100m depths ?

--- Ken-- I wear a 5 mm freedive suit, we were indeed 40km west of Clare during October & November 2016 in 100 metres depth of water when we encountered humpback whales feeding for the first time in this area. They would normally have gone to the Cork coast / Celtic sea in previous years, so this was an interesting development. Camera + housing weighs about 21Kg but neutrally buoyant in the water.

A little bit of artistic licence perhaps ?
-- See above

Also a claim to have discovered humpback feeding techniques ?
Check Wikipedia for that one !

--No, what I said was humpback whale bubble net feeding is not fully understood because it has been filmed so little underwater. The only other footage I'm aware of was filmed in Alaska using a critter camera attached to a humpback's back but didn't actually capture the bubble net feeding, just he whale's point of view. I've been working with the Alaskan researchers as ours appears to be the only current footage showing what actually happens in the bubble net activity.
HB bubble net feeding has been seen in Irish waters for many years.

Ken O'Sullivan
Sea Fever Productions

Ol' Donie

Brilliant show, Ken.

Well done, hope there's more coming at some stage.

Wishox

Good call on hans Zimmer, found it :-) enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcKGN_lTdyM