Richard Hammond BBC
Deep-C dives for the BBC Discovery Channel with Richard Hammond.
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This dive was to take Richard Hammond down into the Monterey Canyon which is the third largest underwater canyon in the world. Deep-C descended down the northern wall filming the variety of life that exists in total darkness at depths greater than 500ft. The upper reaches of the canyon act as an underwater sediment trap which then flows like a river down the canyon to be distributed on the ocean floor at 4-6,000 feet.
The canyon walls continue to widen due to land slides. Deep-C dived on an area where such landslides had recently occurred already silts had settled on the wall and marine life was abundant including the rare Giant Anemone, deep sea crabs, large pelagic Moon Jellyfish, sea slugs, jumbo prawns (the biggest I have ever seen), an unidentified bright blue eel and swarms of squid.
This dive will be on the Discovery Channel as part of Planet Earth. Deep-C's next movie assignment is for the History Channel at the end of September.
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