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Marylee, we're just got a...

The spotter plane also provided
crucial information to a boat

based team trying to catch up with
the whales down at water level

The whales are only on the water
surface for two minutes

and then they dive for twenty

But as their tails go down they
leave a patch of smooth water,

called a foot-print:
a clue to where they are heading

and where they might resurface

You know with experience you have
an idea of the distance

the whale move underwater, you know,
looking where you started moving...

With Diane's knowledge
and special permits,

our team managed to get really close
without disturbing the whales

The open ocean is a vast wilderness
between the continents

- a big blue arena, where finding
anything is extremely difficult

Somewhere out in this marine desert,
there are amazing dramas played out

every day and the Blue Planet
team invested over 400 days on

often unsuccessful filming
trips far out to sea

The day is still young, it's a
little after four in the afternoon

Historically this is about the time
that the predator hour starts up

Probably the open ocean which
l like to call liquid space

is the most difficult area to work in the ocean

A lot of people just wonder
how we even film out there,

do you just throw the camera in, do you
just wander out there for days on end?

There's hours of boredom
Nothing goes on, nothing

Patience, patience,
looking, looking

After six weeks searching off
the Pacific coast of Panama,

our crew finally caught up
with some fast moving

and unusual dolphins - Spinners!

l look for dolphins, marine mammals,
aggregating, coming together

A successful predator's going
to go where the food is

lf we can find those patches then
that's going to be paydirt for us as well

A pod of dolphins like
this is often accompanied

by other predators such as tuna

and our team thought that
following dolphins

might lead them to
some exciting action

Right behind the dolphin school
a big massive bunch of tuna came by

which were a little deeper
so l dove down and,

and one school was crossing
in front of me

and all of a sudden boo...ooom
another big massive school

Eventually the team struck gold

A ball of bait fish corralled
at the surface by predators

...on the outside edge there...

You have to be quick to
film a bonanza like this

because soon the bait fish will
be eaten and it will all be over

You have to be careful too - this frenzy
is no place for the inexperienced

One of the things when you're
in the water the sardines

will often swarm you
to try to seek shelter,

to hide around you
from the predators

l could see a piece of the bait ball
break off and come directly at me

The fish were on me
and the tuna knew it

and the tuna were rocketing out of the deep

Just for a second l felt like l had
become part of this eating frenzy

l felt like a big sardine
in the middle of the bait ball

Finally when it was all
over all that remained

was just a shower of fish scales

from the sardines slowly
sinking into the deep... and me

On the other side of the world
another Blue Planet team

was looking for more
gentle creatures

- one of the world's smallest
whales - pilot whales

So little research is being
done in the open ocean

that normally we were working
without scientists

But here we had advice
from the local experts

This site in the Oberon Sea
is particularly important

for some species that have been
declining in the Mediterranean

like the common dolphin,

the bottlenose dolphin, the sperm whale
or even the pilot whale

Then we have a lookout
post on the masts

and also we have a hydrophone
towed behind the ship

that detects the clicks
or the whistles

that these animals
use to communicate

lt's just like a clock,
a very rhythmic sound

Most species like
the common dolphins

and pilot whales are
very curious animals


知识点

重点词汇
dove [dʌv] n. 鸽子;鸽派人士 v. 潜水(dive的过去式) n. (Dove)人名;(英)达夫;(德、法)多弗 {cet6 ky :5121}

dive [daɪv] n. 潜水;跳水;俯冲;扑 vi. 潜水;跳水;俯冲;急剧下降 n. (Dive)人名;(法)迪夫 {gk cet4 cet6 ky toefl :5121}

mammals ['mæml] n. [古生] 哺乳类;哺乳类动物(mammal的复数);哺乳纲 { :5214}

aggregating [ˈæɡriɡitɪŋ] n. 聚集 v. 聚集;合计(aggregate的ing形式) { :5505}

unsuccessful [ˌʌnsəkˈsesfl] adj. 不成功的;失败的 {gk :5651}

tuna [ˈtju:nə] n. 金枪鱼,鲔鱼 n. (Tuna)人名;(葡、匈、捷、土、塞)图纳 {cet6 :5993}

bait [beɪt] n. 饵;诱饵 vt. 引诱;在…中放诱饵;折磨 vi. 中途休息 n. (Bait)人名;(意)巴伊特 {cet6 ky toefl ielts gre :6346}

whistles [ˈhwislz] n. [铁路][船] 汽笛;哨子声(whistle的复数形式) v. 吹口哨;鸣汽笛(whistle的第三人称单数) { :6463}

sperm [spɜ:m] n. 精子;精液;鲸蜡油 { :6966}

frenzy [ˈfrenzi] n. 狂暴;狂怒;暴怒 vt. 使发狂;使狂怒 {toefl gre :7279}

Mediterranean [.meditә'reiniәn] n. 地中海 adj. 地中海的 {cet4 cet6 :7623}

boredom [ˈbɔ:dəm] n. 厌倦;令人厌烦的事物 {toefl gre :7682}

masts [mɑ:sts] n. 船桅( mast的名词复数 ); 桅杆; 旗杆; 天线塔 v. 船桅( mast的第三人称单数 ); 桅杆; 旗杆; 天线塔 { :8028}

Panama [.pænә'mɑ:] n. 巴拿马(位于拉丁美洲);巴拿马城 { :8319}

pod [pɒd] n. 蚕茧;豆荚 n. (Pod)人名;(罗)波德 vt. 从豆荚中剥出 vi. 结豆荚 {gre :8381}

inexperienced [ˌɪnɪkˈspɪəriənst] adj. 无经验的;不熟练的 { :8557}

rhythmic [ˈrɪðmɪk] n. 韵律论(等于rhythmics) adj. [生物] 有节奏的(等于rhythmical);间歇的;合拍的 {toefl gre :8756}

swarm [swɔ:m] n. 蜂群;一大群 vi. 挤满;成群浮游;云集 vt. 挤满;爬 {cet4 cet6 ky toefl ielts gre :8983}

towed [təud] adj. 被拖曳的 vt. 拖(tow的过去分词) { :9000}

underwater [ˌʌndəˈwɔ:tə(r)] n. 水下 adj. 在水中的;水面下的 adv. 在水下 {toefl :9111}

spinners [ˈspinəz] n. (板球投手投出的)旋转球( spinner的名词复数 ); (某些游戏中的)旋转指针; (钓鱼用)旋式诱饵; 纺纱工 { :10352}

lookout [ˈlʊkaʊt] n. 监视;监视哨;警戒;守望者;担心的事;前景 { :10483}


难点词汇
bonanza [bəˈnænzə] n. 富矿带;带来好运之事;幸运 {toefl :13031}

resurface [ˌri:ˈsɜ:fɪs] vt. 重铺路面;为…铺设新表面 vi. 重新露面;浮上水面 { :14009}

corralled [ ] 把…赶入围栏 聚集(corral的过去式和过去分词) { :14839}

sardine [ˌsɑ:ˈdi:n] n. 沙丁鱼;庸碌无能的人 vt. 使拥挤不堪 {cet6 :15458}

sardines [sɑ:ˈdi:nz] n. 沙丁鱼(sardine的复数形式);沙丁油鱼 { :15458}

spotter [ˈspɒtə(r)] n. 着弹点观察员;监视人;测位仪;检路器 { :20050}

LF [ ] [计] 换行, 低频 [医] 絮凝单位, 絮凝限度 { :30107}

bottlenose [bɒtli:'nəʊz] n. 宽吻海豚 { :32815}

Oberon ['әubәrɒn] n. 奥伯龙(民间传说的仙王), 天卫四 { :39732}

hydrophone ['haɪdrəfəʊn] n. 水诊器;检漏器;水中听音器 { :43273}


复习词汇
whales [hweilz] n. 鲸鱼(whale的复数) v. 捕鲸(whale的第三人称单数形式) {ielts :4232}


生僻词
marylee [ ] n. 【女名】女子名 [网络] 惠高市第一华人浸信会;李永梅;李放

paydirt [peɪ'dɜ:t] phr. 突然成功;暴富


词组
a clue [ ] [网络] 一条线索

a patch [ ] [网络] 双开修正程式

a patch of [ ] [网络] 一小片;一片;一块

a shower of [ ] det. 一阵;一批 [网络] 一大批;一连

bait ball [ ] [网络] 饵球

bottlenose dolphin [ˈbɔtlnəuz ˈdɔlfin] [网络] 瓶鼻海豚;宽吻海豚;樽鼻海豚

bottlenose dolphins [ ] [网络] 宽吻海豚;樽鼻海豚;鼻瓶海豚

clue to [ ] [网络] 提示;的线索;某事的线索

common dolphin [ˈkɔmən ˈdɔlfin] 海豚

dive down [ ] [网络] 潜入;潜下;潜入水中

dive for [ ] [网络] 潜水寻找;扑向;冲向

fish corral [ ] 鱼栅

marine desert [ ] 海漠

marine mammal [ ] un. 海洋哺乳动物 [网络] 海产哺乳动物;海洋哺乳类动物

marine mammals [ ] [网络] 海洋哺乳动物;海洋哺乳类;海中哺乳类动物

pilot whale [ˈpailət hweil] n. 巨头鲸;领航鲸 [网络] 短鳍领航鲸;领航鲸巨头鲸;导航鲸

sperm (whale) [ ] 抹香鲸

sperm whale [spɜ:m hweil] 巨头鲸;[脊椎] 抹香鲸(等于Physeter catodon)

sperm whales [ ] n. 抹香鲸 [网络] 脊美鲸和抹香鲸;抹香鲸荚在睡觉

spotter plane [ ] 校射飞机; 弹着观察机; 探鱼飞机

the Continent [ ] un. 欧洲大陆 [网络] 穿越大陆的马戏团男孩;指欧洲大陆;旧世界

the dolphin [ ] [网络] 海豚;海豚号

the mediterranean [ ] [网络] 地中海;地中海地区;地中海游轮



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