The Living Sea celebrates the world ocean - its beauty, diversity and importance to life on earth. Filled with exotic creatures and seafaring adventure, this film will take you on a journey of discovery. You will feel the power of the ocean as you surf thundering waves in Hawaii, ride in a Coast Guard Rescue boat through Cape Disappointment and follow a Remotely Operated Vehicle 3000 feet down through the ocean depths to view strange creatures which live where sunlight never shines. You will come face-to-face with humpback whales, swim with thousands of golden jellyfish and observe the bizarre spawning behavior of giant clams. Featuring music by Grammy-award winning artist, Sting, and narration by actress Meryl Streep, this Academy Award nominated documentary is an ocean adventure you won't soon forget!
The Living Sea takes audiences on an exhilarating journey of discovery, demonstrating the awesome force of the sea, its fascinating inhabitants and the scientific principles that affect ocean conditions. Theater goers swim among thousands of golden jellyfish and come face to face with humpback whales, life size on the enormous IMAX 5-story screen. Illustrated magnificently in the 70mm IMAX format, moviegoers feel the power of the ocean as they surf thundering waves in Hawaii and ride in a Coast Guard Rescue boat with cadets learning to save lives at Cape Disappointment, home to some of the roughest surf in the world. The show features music by Grammy award-winner Sting and narration by Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep. With the ocean covering more than 70 percent of the earth's surface, "The Living Sea" uses powerful images to show how the harmonious balance of sea life, and life on Earth, may be maintained.
From the Producers of The Living Sea
The Living Sea was nominated for an Academy Award!
No movie released this year is likely to contain more spectacular or astonishing images than the ones we see in The Living Sea. The film is a truly ravishing experience... an often overpowering visual experience. - Michael Wilmington, Chicago Sun-Times
We live on the mere 30% of the earth that rises above sea level. The ocean, which averages two miles in depth, is the largest living space on this planet, and its inhabitants are the largest animal communities on earth. Creatures as delicate as a jellyfish or as powerful as a whale somehow all fit together, and we're just beginning to understand how. We're also learning more about how our actions affect the living sea. More than half of the planet's 5.5 billion humans are crowded into those areas within 100 kilometers of the coastline. Pollution, overfishing -- ignorance -- are damaging the world ocean. And it's the ocean that stores and produces much of the oxygen we breathe! It feeds us, regulates our climate, and generates the rains that water our crops. We live because the sea lives.
The Living Sea is an IMAX film that celebrates the beauty and power of the world ocean, as it explores this last frontier on earth. This giant screen motion picture will play to more than 20 million people at specialized, high-tech theaters around the world for the next several years. It is our hope that this film will have a global impact on people's relationship with the sea.
The immersive quality of IMAX -- the images are six stories high and the sound quality is unsurpassed -- will take audiences on an unforgettable journey; from the volcanic coastline of Hawaii to the frozen inlets of Alaska, from dark mid-ocean depths to the vibrant coral reefs of Palau where families tend the reef like a garden, and the violent waves off the Oregon coast. We want our audience to understand the importance of the ocean, but most of all, we want you to fall in love with the sea.