By: Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
A Sea Studios Production
Narrated by: Leonard Nimoy
Executive Producer: Nora L. Deans. Monterey Bay Aquarium
Prod. + Dir.: Mark Shelly
Writer: Robin Burnett. Ph D.
Music (Lost Oceans, Hope and Whale Dreams): John Huling
Other music by Kurt Bestor, Chuck Meyers, a.o.

"The third planet from the sun - a wet planet. We are on an expedition to investigate a federation of strange life forms... Because light from the nearest star provides light poorly we must provide light...  Jellies spent most of their lives without contact to anything solid and do not have a fixed home site. Their weight is near neutral to the fluid around them...

The life form we see before us has no brain, no eyes, no heart, no lungs, no tough protective covering. Yet it is a complete being. Able to navigate, feed, defend itself and reproduce...  

600 meters deep a certain kind of jelly feeds on other jellies by swallowing them whole...

No destination, no point of origin. For millions of years its kind has silently cruised the depths. It can be discussed whether they represent life on earth better than us...
By the ROV, the remotely operated vehicle, which is controlled from the ship, photos can be taken in the most precise way. And extremely close to the animals. Gelatinous creatures make up a very large percentage of the Oceanic community."