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Season Two

19 Episodes

2009

E01

Aquarist For A Day

10/9/2009·12m

Jonathan Bird's Blue World visits the New England Aquarium as a volunteer aquarist for a day to learn what it takes to care for thousands of fish in dozens of exhibits, up to the massive 200,000 gallon Giant Ocean Tank (GOT). What he finds is an eye opener—it's not all fun and games. Maintaining an aquarium is serious work. But it does have its benefits, as Jonathan discovers while diving in the GOT and feeding the sharks. This segment won a New England Emmy Award!

E02

Mandarinfish

10/9/2009·5m

Even experienced divers rarely get to see the Mandarinfish, a colorful reef fish that is so shy, it only comes out of hiding for a half-hour a day. Jonathan travels to the south Pacific to film spawning Mandarinfish and witnesses an incredible secret ritual.

E03

Whale Sharks

10/9/2009·10m

Jonathan travels to Holbox, Mexico in search of the massive whale shark—the world's largest fish. Reaching 50 feet long, these animals grow larger than a school bus, but they are completely harmless since they eat only plankton and small fish. Jonathan gets up close and personal to a mouth the size of a small car in his investigation to discover why so many whale sharks visit Holbox every summer.

E04

Manta Rays

10/16/2009·10m

Jonathan travels to the island of Yap in Micronesia to learn about and dive with the resident population of Reef Manta Rays! They have been photo identified and named.

E05

Tropical Fish Rescue

10/16/2009·6m

Every summer, thousands of baby tropical fish are taken from the Caribbean up the east coast of the USA by the Gulf stream. Some make it all the way to New England, where they will die in the fall when water temperatures drop. Jonathan joins the New England Aquarium Dive Club on a rescue mission to save these baby fish before winter.

E06

Tiger Sharks

10/16/2009·12m

On an expedition to the Bahamas, Jonathan encounters dozens of Lemon sharks while trying to film a Tiger shark. But finally a Tiger shark arrives and you won't believe the incredible encounter Jonathan has with this enormous, hungry animal.

E07

Sea Turtles

10/23/2009·13m

In Malaysia there is an island known for more sea turtles than virtually anywhere on Earth. Jonathan visits this amazing ecosystem to learn about the life cycle of sea turtles. He is surprised to discover an amazingly complex and competitive environment.

E08

Mangroves

10/23/2009·6m

Where the tropical ocean meets the sea, a peculiar kind of plant thrives in shallow, salty water. These mangrove plants are incredibly important for shoreline protection and baby fish habitats. Jonathan investigates life in mangroves by visiting both Caribbean and Pacific mangroves.

E09

Wolffish

10/23/2009·9m

They have big, sharp teeth, long eel-like bodies, and they look like they could bite your fingers right off—but Jonathan can pet them. They're Wolffish, and Jonathan visits both Atlantic and Pacific species. You won't believe the amazing encounters he has with these friendly but mean-looking fish.

E10

Cenotes

10/30/2009·12m

They have big, sharp teeth, long eel-like bodies, and they look like they could bite your fingers right off—but Jonathan can pet them. They're Wolffish, and Jonathan visits both Atlantic and Pacific species. You won't believe the amazing encounters he has with these friendly but mean-looking fish.

E11

Venomous Fish

10/30/2009·8m

While most fish are completely harmless to people, there are some species that are mildly to extremely venomous and can actually kill humans. Jonathan travels the world to meet some of the most venomous fish in the sea.

E12

Greenland Sharks

10/30/2009·8m

Jonathan travels to Canada in search of the Greenland shark, a huge, lethargic shark that lives in arctic waters. It takes days of effort, but finally, in dark, cold, murky water, Jonathan finally meets this elusive animal, and its nothing like he expected.

E13

Sea Stars

11/6/2009·8m

At first glance, starfish, more properly called sea stars, aren't doing much of anything. But Jonathan's investigations reveal a slow-motion predator that hunts and attacks its prey. Traveling the world, Jonathan investigates sea stars from the tropics to the Antarctic and uses time-lapse photography to reveal an amazing complexity to the world of the sea star.

E14

The Real Nemo

11/6/2009·7m

Thanks to the Disney/Pixar movie Finding Nemo, virtually everyone has heard of the clownfish. Jonathan travels the Pacific to investigate the behavior of real clownfish. Even though they don’t actually talk in real life, they are beautiful and fascinating fish to observe.

E15

Feeding Frenzy

11/6/2009·11m

Do shark feeding frenzies really exist? Will sharks turn into a bunch of cannibals if they start competing for food? Jonathan wants to find out, and travels to Micronesia for an experiment. You won’t believe the fantastic result!

E16

Lobsters

11/13/2009·11m

In the north Atlantic, the American Lobster is the undisputed king of crustaceans. It's also a tremendously important commercial catch. While all the other fisheries are collapsing, why are lobsters resisting the trend? Jonathan goes out with a Maine lobsterman to learn why, and he dives down below to find the biggest lobsters he has ever seen. This segment won a New England Emmy Award!

E17

Remoras

11/13/2009·7m

Sharks and many other large ocean animals have sucker-equipped fish called remoras sticking to them. What are the remoras doing? Do they harm the shark? Jonathan goes on a mission to investigate remoras and their role in the food web. He even sticks one on himself.

E18

Stingrays

11/13/2009·9m

Jonathan visits the world-famous "Stingray City" in Grand Cayman with world-renown marine artist Dr. Guy Harvey to learn about Dr. Harvey's research on Stingrays and how they cope with massive numbers of tourists.

E19

Antarctica

11/20/2009·27m

In this season 2 finale, Jonathan treks all the way to Antarctica to investigate life south of the polar circle. Along the way he dives in the majestic kelp forests of Patagonia, where crabs rule the sea floor. Once he arrives in Antarctica, his adventures continue. He swims with penguins, dives under an iceberg, meets a massive jellyfish 3 feet across, and has an incredible encounter with a Leopard seal, the apex predator of Antarctica. This program won a New England Emmy Award!

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Season One

15 Episodes

2008

E01

Blue Shark Adventure

5/17/2008·10m

Jonathan joins Charlie Donilon on his shark charter boat in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and learns about how shark tagging has shed light on the biology of and behavior of Blue sharks. Tagging has shown that these incredible swimmers actually migrate completely across the Atlantic ocean. Jonathan tries his hand at tagging a shark and then swims with Blue sharks. We also learn that Blue sharks are not nearly as vicious as they have been reputed to be, and the divers are actually able to pet the sharks!

E02

Ginnie Spring Cavern Exploration

5/17/2008·8m

Jonathan Bird’s Blue World: Cavern Exploration is a story about aquifers and the flow of water from within the Earth to the surface. In this adventure, Jonathan explores Ginnie Springs, a place in Florida where warm, fresh water flows from underground to the surface, creating a surface river. The head of the spring is a popular place for swimming and diving. Jonathan explores the spring underground to see the kind of life in the waters of the spring as well as to investigate the source of the water. This segment features a type of diving called overhead environment diving which can be hazardous. A separate feature on overhead environment diving accompanies this segment, explaining the risks and safety procedures

E03

Giants of the Depths

5/17/2008·9m

The Sperm whale holds many records. It is the deepest-diving whale on Earth, the largest toothed whale on Earth and has the largest brain on the planet too. On top of that, it has a reputation for being a vicious beast, thanks in part to Herman Melville's Moby Dick. But the real Sperm whale is a lot different than people think. It has a highly-evolved social life, operates at depths where nobody can see them most of the time, and uses sonar which is so sophisticated that it makes the Navy's electronics look like toys. Sperm whales are very hard to find and even harder to film. On the island of Dominica in the Caribbean, Jonathan repeatedly attempts to get close to the elusive whales, until finally he succeeds and has an incredible experience eye to eye with a giant who investigates him with powerful sonar clicks.

E04

The Shark and the Whale

5/24/2008·9m

In the warm and blue waters off Hawaii, Oceanic White Tip sharks often follow behind pods of Pilot whales. For the longest time, biologists have had no idea what is going on. Are they eating the whales? Are they stealing food from the whales? In an expedition to follow the sharks and observe them, Jonathan finally figured out what is going on, and you won't believe the disgusting truth!

E05

Swimming with Jaws

5/24/2008·11m

Perhaps best known for its role as the antagonist in the film Jaws, the Great White shark is probably the world's most feared animal, and easily the most fearsome of the sharks. Jonathan travels to Mexico to meet a Great White up close and personal. Nothing can prepare him for the sheer size and strength of a fully grown Great White shark! He learns how white sharks are being studied and how they react to both people and sea lions.

E06

The Shark with the Tall Tail

5/24/2008·10m

The Thresher shark may very well be the strangest looking shark in the world, with a tail almost as long as its body. This shark is very rare, almost never seen by divers....until now. Using advanced diving technology, Jonathan visits a remote reef in the Philippines where Thresher sharks show up every morning to be cleaned by small fish.

E07

A Sharkwreck Mystery

5/31/2008·10m

In this exciting segment from the first season of Jonathan Bird's Blue World, Jonathan and his team set up an experiment to attempt to learn why Sand Tiger sharks hang out around certain shipwrecks off the coast of North Carolina. They dive during the day and at night to discover the secrets of these mysterious shark aggregations.

E08

Swimming with Sea Cows

5/31/2008·10m

Jonathan travels to Florida to learn about the West Indian Manatee and the threats it faces from boat strikes, and habitat loss as well as efforts to protect and save the manatee.

E09

The Bandana Game

5/31/2008·9m

In the Bahamas, a group of wild Spotted Dolphins play "keep away" with a bandana--a game they invented with seaweed and people started playing with them. Jonathan travels to the Bahamas with dolphin expert Wayne Scott Smith to meet these playful animals and try playing the Bandana Game with them.

E10

Wilma the Whale

6/7/2008·10m

What happens when a Beluga whale, normally found far north in the arctic, suddenly shows up in a Bay in Nova Scotia? What happens when she starts swimming with people and approaching boats full of tourists? This segment shows how one incredible friendly whale transformed a town, and captured the hearts of children and adults alike.

E11

The Prinz Eugen

6/7/2008·8m

Once the pride of the German Navy, this 700 foot long heavy cruiser was used by the U.S. as a test target for not one but two atom bombs at Bikini atoll. Today, at the bottom of the ocean, the radiation levels of the Prinz Eugen are low enough for safe exploration. Jonathan joins historian Mark Miller on a trip to explore this mysterious shipwreck. What they find about the condition of this wreck is surprising.

E12

The Mysterious Hammerhead

6/7/2008·9m

Of all the animals in the oceans, the hammerhead shark may be one of the strangest looking. The exact purpose of the wide, flat head is a mystery, but several theories abound. We travel to the shark-infested waters of the Galapagos in Ecuador and to a research station in Hawaii to learn about the unusual habits of these sinister-looking sharks. Jonathan swims in schools of hundreds of hammerheads, and yet the sharks ignore him. What are the sharks up to?

E13

The Airplane Graveyard

6/14/2008·10m

During World War Two, a fierce battle between American and Japanese forces on Kwajalein atoll left a trail of debris on the deep lagoon floor. This lagoon now has one of the largest collections of well-preserved aircraft in the world. As part of the first ever film crew allowed onto this secret military base, Jonathan explores a B-25, F4-U Corsair and Dauntless dive bomber still sitting on the bottom of the ocean near Roi-Namur, as if ready to take off.

E14

Killer Clams

6/14/2008·7m

Giant clams are no myth. In New England, people love clam chowder, but in the Pacific, some of the clams are as big as a suitcase! On an expedition to Micronesia, Jonathan goes in search of Giant Clams. These clams are so big that people used to think they caught people--and it almost looks like they could. It turns out that the problem is too many people eating the clams.

E15

The Shark and the Lamprey

6/14/2008·11m

In 1998, Jonathan made a remarkable discovery about Basking sharks, the second largest fish on Earth. While diving with Basking sharks in the frigid waters of the Bay of Fundy, Jonathan saw parasitic lampreys on the backs of the sharks. This had never before been documented, so he returned the next year with a shark biologist and a lamprey biologist to attempt to recover living lampreys from the backs of Basking sharks. They didn't think Jonathan could do it. Wait until you see what happens!

Season Five

18 Episodes

2015

E01

Tiger Sharks in the Bahamas

9/4/2015·11m

Back in 2008 when we last worked with Tiger sharks, things were different. We were thrilled just to be in the water with Tiger sharks and no cage. But in the past few years, interactions with Tiger sharks have become much more engaging. Now the sharks are being hand fed and handled by divers. In this exciting segment, Jonathan learns how to flip a Tiger shark from experienced shark handlers Connor Cassidy and Rich D'Argento aboard the Dolphin Dream.

E02

Crystal Cave of Abaco, Bahamas

9/4/2015·15m

In this spectacular episode, Jonathan joins world-renown cave explorer Brian Kakuk to investigate the Crystal Cave of Abaco, Bahamas--considered the most highly-ornamented underwater cave in the world! The stunning crystal formations in this cave are simply stunning! It is considered one of the top cave diving destinations in the world.

E03

Muck Diving in Florida

9/11/2015·13m

Diving around a sandy, muddy, or rubbly sea floor is often called "muck" diving--even though there is rarely any actual muck. There are all kinds of unique and interesting animals that live in this habitat. Jonathan joins muck expert Jeff Nelson to visit a world-renown muck diving site under the Blue Heron Bridge in Riviera Beach, Florida to find all kinds of weird and outlandish animals like sea horses, octopuses (octopods!), Batfish, snake eels, sea hares, and stingrays. But his main interest is finding a jawfish with eggs. You won't believe how the male jawfish guards his eggs!

E04

Iceland... The World's Clearest Water

9/11/2015·12m

In this exciting Blue World adventure, Jonathan travels up to Iceland in search of a dive site called Silfra which supposedly has the clearest water in the world! But it's cold!

E05

Tiger Shark as a Camera Operator

9/18/2015·10m

Books and magazines often say that Tiger sharks will eat anything. They have been referred to as the "Garbage cans of the ocean." Multiple references have been made to them eating license plates of all things. In this exciting episode, Jonathan goes out to the Bahamas to see if a Tiger shark will eat a GoPro camera. Then he tries to put a camera on a shark and turn the shark into the team's newest cameraman...I mean camerashark!

E06

Florida Cave Diving

9/18/2015·13m

In this northern Florida diving adventure, Jonathan teams up with cave diver Wayne Kinard and explores Ichetucknee Spring, otherwise known as "Jug Hole" in Fort White, Florida This is Jonathan's first real cave dive in Florida, and he learns how these caves are different from the caves in the Yucatan and Bahamas. It's an epic cave diving adventure!

E07

Cave Training in the Bahamas

9/25/2015·21m

In the season 5 premiere episode, Jonathan travels to Abaco, Bahamas for an intensive sidemount cave diving class with world famous cave explorer/instructor Brian Kakuk.

E08

Mayan Underworld

10/2/2015·22m

In this spooky underwater adventure, Jonathan travels to Merida, in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, to explore cenotes that were used by pre-Columbian Mayans for human sacrifices. Reaching the cenotes requires rappelling down into the Earth and lowering all the gear. The underwater exploration requires advanced cave diving techniques and the cinematography in this environment is extremely challenging, particularly the lighting. This beautifully-shot adventure will leave viewers on the edge of their seats!

E09

Flower Garden Banks

10/9/2015·17m

In this exciting underwater adventure, Jonathan explores the seamounts of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico, including Stetson Bank and the Flower Garden Banks. He encounters amazing coral reefs, barracudas, frogfish, parrotfish and witnesses a coral spawning event.

E10

Sea Hunt Forever Festival

10/9/2015·9m

From 1958 to 1961, Sea Hunt, starring Lloyd Bridges as underwater action hero Mike Nelson, was one of the most popular television programs in the world. It created a generation of diving enthusiasts. Today, the history of Sea Hunt and the vintage scuba gear of the era are celebrated at Sea Hunt Forever, a festival that takes place at Silver Springs State Park, Florida, the original site of much of the underwater filming for the TV program. Jonathan joins the fun at Sea Hunt Forever where he witnesses underwater knife fights, spear guns and even an underwater torch!

E11

Sand Tiger Sharks

10/16/2015·14m

Jonathan heads to North Carolina to explore the offshore shipwrecks of the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" which have become home to Sand Tiger sharks. The sharks are unwitting bodyguards to small fish seeking protection from predators and have developed a clever way to hide from the fish and to hover with perfect buoyancy control.

E12

Marine Biology in Turks & Caicos

10/16/2015·9m

Jonathan visits the School for Field Studies in the Turks & Caicos Islands to learn how college students conduct field work in their pursuit of degrees in marine studies. He helps tag sharks, study conch and investigate marine protected areas!

E13

Shark's "Tonic Immobility" in the Bahamas

10/23/2015·19m

In this shark-filled adventure, Jonathan travels to the Bahamas to meet Neal Harvey, a world-renown shark handler who will attempt to teach Jonathan how to put Caribbean Reef sharks into a relaxed state known as tonic immobility!

E14

Diving with Nasa

10/23/2015·6m

Astronauts are trained underwater at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, TX.

E15

Giant Pacific Octopus

10/30/2015·21m

In this epic adventure taking place on two coasts, Jonathan investigates the world's largest octopus, the Giant Pacific Octopus! He begins by meeting Sy, one of the octopuses at the New England Aquarium in Boston with cold water aquarist Bill Murphy. Then Jonathan and Bill travel to the Seattle Aquarium to two of their octopuses Lucy and Odie with Seattle Aquarium aquarist Kathryn Kegel. Bill and Jonathan join Kathryn and her team on some dives in Puget Sound to survey wild octopus populations. Along the way, Jonathan witnesses an incredible octopus fight and gets a small glimpse into the social lives of the Giant Pacific Octopus! Get ready for an incredible Blue World adventure!

E16

Shark Electrosensory Systems

11/6/2015·9m

In the Bahamas, Jonathan joins shark biologist Dr. Stephen Kajiura from Florida Atlantic University to perform an experiment which demonstrates how the electrosensory system of sharks works.

E17

Helmet Diving

11/6/2015·13m

Jonathan explores the history of diving by heading down to New Jersey to meet up with the Garden State Underwater Recovery Unit to try diving in a vintage Mark V helmet! It's a completely new experience!

E18

Oil Rigs

11/6/2015·10m

In the Gulf of Mexico, Jonathan visits several oil rigs to scuba dive on the structure and learn how these offshore platforms attract marine life as artificial reefs.

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Season Four

25 Episodes

2014

E01

Maldives

2/15/2014·12m

At a remote atoll in the Maldives, Manta rays gather in large numbers for just a few weeks each year to feed on plankton that accumulates in a small lagoon. Will Jonathan manage to time his visit right and find the mantas?

E02

Indian Ocean & Indonesia

2/15/2014·15m

In this exciting adventure, Jonathan travels to Manuk, a tiny, uninhabited volcanic island several hundred miles from the nearest populated island in Indonesia, on a mission to discover why the waters of this remote place are teeming with thousands of venomous sea snakes!

E03

Bull Sharks

2/22/2014·14m

Jonathan travels to Mexico for an up close encounter with Bull sharks, infamous for the fact that they are known to be the most dangerous species of shark to humans. He gets to try a chain mail anti-shark suit, and meets a biologist who is studying the sharks to learn more about their population and habits.

E04

Astronauts

2/22/2014·12m

At NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, astronauts train for space walking underwater, in a giant pool about half the size of a football field. Jonathan gets a rare and fascinating look into this high-tech diving as he ventures underwater with astronauts.

E05

Hawaii

3/1/2014·13m

Hawaiian Monk seals are a critically endangered group of warm water seals that are only found in the Hawaiian archipelago. Only about 1,200 of the animals remain. Jonathan sets course for the Forbidden Island of Ni'ihau to meet some of these reclusive animals, and gets a fascinating insight into the lonely world of the Monk seal.

E06

Bonaire

3/1/2014·8m

Jonathan travels to Bonaire to meet an exceptional group of injured military veterans who are learning to scuba dive as a form of physical therapy.

E07

Massachusetts

3/1/2014·8m

Jonathan joins a group of volunteer divers as part of an international event called the Great Annual Fish Count to take a census of marine life across the globe. His mission: dive the chilly waters of Massachusetts with a pencil...and count fish!

E08

Artificial Reefs

3/8/2014·16m

In the Florida Keys, several ships have been sunk intentionally as artificial reefs to provide habitat for fish and entertainment for scuba divers. Jonathan visits three wrecks of different ages to see how these wrecks turn into reefs and what it means to the local marine life.

E09

Free Diving

3/8/2014·11m

Jonathan travels to the island of Bonaire to take a course in freediving from Karol Meyer, a world-champion freediver. Soon he learns how to hold his breath and dive—with no scuba tank!

E10

Saving the Sturgeon

3/15/2014·17m

Jonathan travels to upstate New York to learn how biologists are working to save the sturgeon in the St. Lawrence river. During a dive he films an amazing spectacle that has never been recorded before--Lake Sturgeon spawning!

E11

Coral Farm

3/15/2014·9m

Jonathan visits an underwater farm in Key Largo where they grow coral! He joins the staff of Coral Restoration Foundation in helping to transplant and propagate staghorn coral which has become threatened in the keys.

E12

Belugas

3/22/2014·10m

At the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut, Jonathan gets up close and personal with Beluga whales as he learns what its like to train and take care of these thousand pound marine mammals.

E13

Cousteau's Blue Hole

3/22/2014·10m

Tucked away in the forest on Andros Island in the Bahamas is a small circular pond. But this particular pond is actually a Blue Hole, over 400 feet deep. Jonathan explores the depths of this Blue Hole, first explored by legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, and finds some fascinating biological processes going on way down deep.

E14

Spinner Dolphins

3/22/2014·8m

Off the Big Island of Hawaii, Jonathan cavorts with a pod of playful Spinner dolphins and learns how they hunt at night and sleep during the day by shutting off half their brains at a time!

E15

Aquarius Reef Base

3/29/2014·17m

Jonathan visits Aquarius Reef Base--the world's only undersea lab where scientists live in saturation for days or weeks at a time, studying the ocean. It's an amazing combination of science fiction and undersea adventure!

E16

Skates and Rays

3/29/2014·10m

In this fascinating biology segment, Jonathan explores the world of skates and rays. From the plankton-eating Manta ray to the Electric Torpedo ray, these animals have a variety of surprising adaptations for survival in the ocean.

E17

Bahamas

4/5/2014·18m

In a remote part of Andros Island in the Bahamas, a deep crack in the ground leads into a beautiful and stunning underwater cave system. Jonathan joins a veteran cave explorer to plumb the crystal clear water in the depths of Stargate Blue Hole.

E18

Sea Sponges Around the World

4/5/2014·10m

A sponge might not look like much, but these simple animals with no brain or ability to move have lived on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. They can hunt prey and spawn, and Jonathan demonstrates how in this fascinating segment about the biology of sponges!

E19

Costa Rica

4/12/2014·10m

At the remote, lush, uninhabited Cocos Island, 300 miles off the coast of Costa Rica, Jonathan witnesses a nightly hunting ritual. Dozens of Whitetip Reef sharks join together into roving gangs to hunt fish in the reef. But sometimes the fish are pretty good at getting away.

E20

South California

4/12/2014·10m

Off the coast of southern California, Catalina Island is known as one the greatest places in the world to see Kelp Forests. Jonathan travels to Catalina Island to explore these fantastic undersea forests of plants and meets the animals that live there, including a Torpedo ray that attacks his camera!

E21

St. Lawrence River

4/12/2014·9m

The St. Lawrence river connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes and as such has been a major shipping channel for hundreds of years. The bottom of the river is littered with the remains of ships that ran aground or were lost during storms. Jonathan explores some of the wrecks and gets a unique look into history.

E22

Blackbeard's Shipwreck

4/19/2014·18m

In this fascinating new adventure, Jonathan joins a team of underwater archaeologists who are excavating the sunken wreck of Blackbeard's pirate ship the "Queen Anne's Revenge" off the coast of North Carolina near Beaufort. He assists underwater and then tours the lab where artifacts are conserved for display at the museum.

E23

Night Mantas

4/19/2014·10m

At night off the Kona coast, divers use lights to attract vast clouds of plankton, which in turn attract dozens of Manta rays to feed on the plankton. Jonathan travels to Hawaii to meet these Manta rays, including one particular animal named Lefty who has been coming to this site since 1979.

E24

Invasive Species

4/26/2014·10m

Jonathan travels to the St. Lawrence river in upstate New York and the island of St. Thomas in the Caribbean to investigate invasive species like zebra mussels and lionfish and how they affect the ecosystems into which they have been introduced.

E25

Deep Sea Exploration

4/26/2014·17m

In this exciting Blue World adventure, Jonathan Bird hitches a ride on a submarine down to 1,000 feet at Cocos Island, Costa Rica, where he finds strange fish and even sharks!

Season Six

24 Episodes

2017

E01

Muck Diving in the Philippines

9/29/2017·13m

Jonathan is muck diving in Dumaguete, Philippines again, but this time he is investigating the muck at night! He finds all kinds of cool animals, including a hunting octopus, a pair of Ambon scorpionfish, cuttlefish, bobtail squid and much more!

E02

The Annual Alewife Run in Maine, USA

9/29/2017·10m

Jonathan heads to downeast Maine in scenic New England to visit the Pennamaquan River, where hundreds of thousands of Alewives are making their way upstream to spawn.

E03

Humpback Whale Rescue!

10/6/2017·9m

When the Blue World team aboard the Live-aboard dive boat Sea Escape encounters a Humpback Whale helplessly entangled in marine debris, they launch a daring rescue operation with the assistance of the Solmar V. This segment follows the adventure of freeing the whale from certain death entangled in fishing line, buoys and kelp!

E04

Great White Shark Diving Near Guadalupe Island, Mexico

10/6/2017·15m

Ten years after filming Great White Sharks at Guadalupe Island in Mexico for the first season of Jonathan Bird's Blue World, Jonathan and the team return to Guadalupe to see how it has changed. Are the sharks still there?

E05

Searching for Zebra Sharks in the Indian Ocean

10/13/2017·12m

Jonathan and Cameraman Bill travel to the Daymaniat Islands in Oman in search of Zebra Sharks (also called Leopard sharks in some parts of the world). The diving in Oman is fabulous! They encounter huge schools of fish, cuttlefish, sea turtles and finally...the elusive Zebra shark. All while diving in 110° F heat!

E06

Goosefish Off the Massachusetts Coast

10/13/2017·12m

Jonathan goes in search of one of the most elusive fish in the North Atlantic: the Goosefish (sometimes called a Monkfish). He travels to the wreck of the Patriot on Stellwagen Bank where he finally meets the weirdest fish in the sea--the American Anglerfish.

E07

Exploring Devil’s Hole Cave in Nevada, USA

10/20/2017·33m

This amazing Behind-The-Scenes Blue World adventure takes viewers to Devil's Hole Cave (sometimes called Devil's Hole II) in Nevada to explore the aquifer that lies beneath Death Valley! The Blue World team is working on their first giant screen film for IMAX® Dome (OMNIMAX®) theaters, featuring the most incredible cave diving adventures around the world. This epic Blue World episode takes viewers behind the scenes of our shoot in Nevada.

E08

Hunting for Megalodon Shark Teeth

10/27/2017·20m

Jonathan Bird goes to South Carolina with Cameraman Tim to meet Alan Devier, a world-renown shark tooth hunter and dive for fossilized Megalodon shark teeth in the murky depths of the Cooper River.

E09

An Underwater Coral Farm in the Caribbean

10/27/2017·8m

Jonathan and his family volunteer to help on a farm--an underwater farm!! On Bonaire, the Coral Restoration Foundation is growing coral to replenish damaged reefs, but it's a labor-intensive project that takes volunteer help. It turns out the kids are really good coral farmers!

E10

The Amazing Comeback of Gray Seals

11/3/2017·17m

In this epic adventure, Jonathan investigates the resurgence in the New England Gray Seal population that is happening after more than 40 years of protection under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. He joins a team of NOAA researchers on Muskeget Island near Nantucket who are studying the population growth with aerial surveys during the pupping season. He dives with seals at the Isles-of-Shoals in Maine and learns how the seals affect the other populations in the ocean such as fish and sharks. Not everyone is thrilled about the return of the seals, but they sure are adorable and curious!

E11

Shark Performances in the Philippines

11/3/2017·8m

Jonathan travels to Oslob, Cebu, Philippines to swim with wild Whale sharks that are actually fed every day for the tourists. We used to joke about "chumming" for an animal that eats mostly plankton, but in Oslob, they are actually doing it, and making thousands of people into shark lovers along the way.

E12

A Red Sea Expedition

11/10/2017·14m

In this exciting episode of Blue World, Jonathan, Todd and Bill travel all the way to Egypt to dive the Red Sea, visit the pyramids and ride some camels! Along the way they meet dolphins, sea turtles, sharks and dive some of the most colorful reefs in the world!

E13

Red Sea Night Dive!

11/10/2017·10m

In this dark and spooky episode, Jonathan goes night diving in the Red Sea to find an octopus on the prowl, and a moray eel hunting fish, as well as many other strange and exotic nocturnal animals!

E14

Family Adventures in Bonaire

11/17/2017·20m

With both of the kids now certified to dive, Jonathan and Christine take their whole family on a dive trip to Buddy Dive Resort on Bonaire. They go shore diving, boat diving and night diving. The kids build valuable scuba skills and they check out some awesome marine life!

E15

Endangered Manatees in Florida Waters

11/17/2017·9m

In this fun-filled manatee adventure, Jonathan teams up with 7 year old Elizabeth from "Elizabeth Swims" on a trip to meet Florida manatees. At Three Sisters Spring in Crystal River, Jonathan and Elizabeth come face to face with these huge gentle sea cows as they relax near warm water springs during cold weather.

E16

Searching for the Rare Blind Crayfish

11/24/2017·8m

In this exciting cave diving episode, Jonathan, Zach and Todd venture into Little River Spring in Florida on a cave diving search for the rare endemic Pallid Cave Crayfish. If you like Blue World cave diving episodes, you are going to love this one!

E17

Odd Shark Behavior

11/24/2017·9m

Jonathan investigates the mystery of why Great Hammerhead sharks often swim tilted to the side. Featuring the groundbreaking research of biologist Dr. Nicholas Payne with the help of legendary underwater cinematographer Andy Casagrande, this video explains the impressive way that hammerhead sharks tilt to save energy when they swim and the reason they have to keep swimming.

E18

Exquisite Leafy Seadragon

11/24/2017·10m

In an epic expedition down under, the Bird family goes on a search for the most exquisite seahorse in the world--the Leafy Seadragon! Just south of Adelaide in South Australia is a place where the "Leafies" can be found! But the water is cold and the wind is blowing!

E19

Tiger Sharks with Coyote Peterson!

12/1/2017·19m

This is the episode you have been waiting for! An epic collaboration video between the Brave Wilderness team and the Blue World team! Jonathan teams up with Coyote Peterson, Mark "Vins" and Mario to help filming the start of their new series Blue Wilderness! To kick things off, we all travel to the Bahamas to dive with Tiger sharks at "Tiger Beach" aboard my favorite dive boat, the Dolphin Dream. And you won't believe who shows up along with the Tiger sharks.

E20

Night Diving With Sharks

12/1/2017·10m

In this episode of Blue World, Jonathan and Cameraman Bill are night diving with sharks in the Bahamas! And just for added fun, we are taking the Brave Wilderness team with us! It's sharks after dark! And we witness a spectacular chase between a Lemon shark and a Southern Stingray.

E21

Hammerhead Sharks in the Bahamas

12/8/2017·13m

On an exciting dive trip to the Bahamas with the Brave Wilderness team on the dive boat Dolphin Dream, the Blue World crew encounters a famous Great Hammerhead named Patches. And this shark is one friendly fish!

E22

Playing With Dolphins

12/8/2017·11m

In this zany action-packed episode, Jonathan heads to the Bahamas with Cameraman Tim, Cameraman Bill and the Brave Wilderness team to play the Bandana Game with wild Spotted Dolphins!

E23

Global Search for the Rare Dugongs

12/15/2017·14m

In this amazing adventure, Jonathan teams up with world-renown IMAX filmmakers Howard and Michele Hall on a filming expedition to Busuanga, Palawan in the Philippines searching for the elusive and rare Dugong. Although Dugongs are closely related to manatees, they are much more difficult to find and exceptionally shy. The Blue World team has their work cut out for them on this trip, but the reward for patience is a truly incredible look into the lives of dugongs, and a shocking discovery!

E24

Cave Diving in Florida, USA

12/15/2017·13m

Jonathan teams up with Wayne Kinard from Amigos Dive center to do a cave dive at Wes Skiles Peacock Springs State Park, making a traverse from the the "Peacock 1" entrance to Olsen Sink and back. (A traverse is where you enter the cave at one entrance and then you swim underground to another entrance.) Along the way Wayne shows off some of the interesting parts of the cave!

Season Seven

28 Episodes

2019

E01

Giant Cuttlefish in South Australia

1/20/2019·13m

It's the Season 7 premiere! Jonathan and the whole family head to Australia to dive with the world's largest cuttlefish spawning aggregation near Whyalla, South Australia. These are some huge cuttlefish!

E02

Blue Grotto Sinkhole in Florida, USA

1/20/2019·13m

Jonathan and Cameraman Zach explore Blue Grotto, one of the most popular dive training sites in Florida, as well as home to a hidden, secret cave dive! We get to meet Virgil the turtle, go in the diving bell and even meet an underwater superhero.

E03

Giant Manatees in Florida, USA

1/27/2019·13m

In January, 2018, the Blue World team tagged along for the USGS annual manatee assessment process with team leader Dr. Bob Bonde. And we went down to the USGS office to learn about the photo-ID system run by Cathy Beck.

E04

Shipwreck Exploration in the Bahamas

1/27/2019·12m

Jonathan and Cameraman Tim explore a remote wreck in the Bahamas known only as the "Sugar Wreck" since it was carrying a load of molasses when it sank. But the wreck is only in 20 feet of water, so storms have taken a toll on the wreck over the years. What will it look like now?

E05

Mysterious Nocturnal Creatures in the Philippines

2/3/2019·13m

Jonathan is muck diving in Dumaguete, Philippines again, but this time he is investigating the muck at night! He finds all kinds of cool animals, including a hunting octopus, a pair of Ambon scorpionfish, cuttlefish, bobtail squid and much more!

E06

Famous Shipwreck in Bermuda

2/3/2019·13m

In this Bermuda dive adventure, Jonathan takes the whole family on a wreck dive with Blue Water Divers! The wreck of the Hermes is one of the most popular dives in Bermuda, and it will Elise and Liam's first wreck dive!

E07

Elusive Pajama Squid in South Australia

2/10/2019·16m

Jonathan travels down under to South Australia in search of a famous dive site: the Edithburgh Jetty. Night dives under this jetty on the Yorke Peninsula are renown for amazing encounters with a variety of spectacular and odd creatures, including the Pajama Squid. Jonathan is on a hunt to find a Pajama squid and encounters quite a few animals along the way, including more than one species of octopus, mating Bobtail squid, sea horses and much more!

E08

Ice Diving in New Hampshire, USA

2/10/2019·12m

Jonathan is nowhere to be found, so Cameraman Bill treks to Lake Winnipesaukee in the middle of winter to learn how to ice dive!

E09

Endangered Angel Sharks in California's Channel Islands

2/17/2019·10m

Jonathan travels to the Channel Islands in California on a search for a rare Angel shark, which lives in the sand.

E10

IMAX Filmmakers

2/17/2019·12m

Jonathan joins legendary underwater filmmakers Howard and Michele Hall on an expedition to the Philippines where they meet some friendly sea turtles feeding on sea grass.

E11

Reefs in Palau

2/24/2019·15m

Jonathan visits the remote islands of Palau in the Pacific where he dives the amazing reefs and drop-offs from the Rock Islands Aggressor! This is part 1 in a series of exciting Palau adventures!

E12

Mysterious Lake with Non-Stinging Jellyfish

2/24/2019·9m

In another episode of the epic Palau Adventure, Jonathan visits world famous Jellyfish Lake to see thousands of jellyfish and find out of they sting or not!

E13

World War II Era Shipwrecks in Palau

3/3/2019·19m

In the third Palau adventure, Jonathan and Julia explore a few of the wrecks for which Palau is famous, including an amazingly well-preserved airplane wreck!

E14

Mimic Octopus in the Philippines

3/3/2019·10m

In Puerto Galera, Philippines, Jonathan and the gang are on the hunt for one of the rarest celphalopds--the Mimic Octopus, so-named because of its ability to mimic other animals.

E15

Sharks at Palau's Blue Corner

3/10/2019·14m

In part 2 of Jonathan's epic Palau Adventure, Jonathan dives in some high current sites like Peleliu Corner and the German Channel searching for large marine life!

E16

Ocean Cave Diving in the Bahamas

3/10/2019·11m

Zach-of-all-Trades Peterson, Cameraman Zach, and Jonathan head out to Exuma, Bahamas on a mission to discover and dive a brand new ocean cave by searching for ocean blue holes that are off the beaten path. It's a real life scuba adventure!!

E17

Splendid Toadfish in Cozumel

3/17/2019·11m

In the latest Blue World Adventure, Jonathan and Zach head to Cozumel to search for one of the most exotic and rare fish in the Caribbean!

E18

Cave Diving in the Bahamas

3/17/2019·13m

In this cave diving adventure, Jonathan explores ocean caves (sometimes called Ocean Blue Holes) around the island of Grand Exuma in the Bahamas!

E19

Swimming Pigs and a Mysterious Cave in the Exuma Islands

3/24/2019·13m

In the Exuma Islands of the Bahamas, Jonathan and Cameraman Zach explore an ocean cave that extends under an island! And they visit the famous Exuma swimming pigs while they are there!

E20

Reef Sharks in Mexico

3/24/2019·14m

Jonathan and Zach travel to Cozumel in search of the legendary Sleeping Shark Caves. Led by local diving expert JP Maturana of Scuba Life Cozumel, the team goes out on an epic diving adventure!

E21

Thousands of Blacktip Sharks in Florida

3/31/2019·10m

Jonathan visits shark biologist Dr. Stephen Kajiura at Florida Atlantic University and learns how he studies huge schools of Blacktip sharks that appear in the winter off the coast of Florida. Using airplanes, drones and of course boats, Dr. Kajiura has learned why these sharks come to Florida in huge numbers every year.

E22

Stingrays & Sea Turtles in Grand Cayman

3/31/2019·18m

The Bird family (Jonathan, Christine, Elise and Liam) head to Grand Cayman along with Zach-of-all-Trades (Zach Peterson) for a family diving adventure on Grand Cayman Island, where they explore the reefs, walls, and cavern-like coral swim-throughs. They also meet animals such as sea turtles, conchs, garden eels, an eagle ray and a whole bunch of stingrays! It's an epic diving adventure!

E23

Cave Bells in Mexico

4/7/2019·11m

Jonathan and Cameraman Todd travel down to Mexico to join cave explorer Christine Loew with an investigation of the mysterious "Cave Bells" of Zapote Cenote! It's another mystery of the Blue World to be explored!

E24

Massive Bumphead Parrotfish in Palau

4/7/2019·13m

In this epic final episode from the Blue World expedition to Palau, the team explores Palau's Chandelier Cave and films the mass spawning of the Bumphead Parrotfish.

E25

Kittiwake Wreck in Grand Cayman

4/14/2019·8m

Eight years after Jonathan dove the wreck of the Kittiwake on Grand Cayman with Jake, he returns with the whole family to see how the wreck has changed in the years since it was first sunk for divers!

E26

World's Longest Submerged Cave in Yucatan

4/14/2019·14m

Eight years after Jonathan dove the wreck of the Kittiwake on Grand Cayman with Jake, he returns with the whole family to see how the wreck has changed in the years since it was first sunk for divers!

E27

Sharks at the Florida Aquarium

4/21/2019·13m

Jonathan and the team visit the Florida Aquarium in Tampa to meet the Sand Tiger sharks as well as other cool animals in a dive in their largest exhibit, the Coral Reef Habitat!

E28

Stingray City with Guy Harvey

4/21/2019·15m

Ten years after visiting Stingray City with famous marine artist Guy Harvey in 2009, Jonathan takes the whole family back to Grand Cayman for a follow up on Guy's research!

Season Nine

21 Episodes

2022

E01

Massive Shipwreck surrounded by BARRACUDA in Portugal!

10/1/2022·14m

It's the season 9 premiere! The Bird family explores an amazing shipwreck on the island of Porto Santo, the northernmost island in the Madeira archipelago of Portugal! It's one of the most beautiful shipwrecks we have ever seen!

E02

We find a tiny OCTOPUS diving in Madeira!

11/5/2022·12m

The Bird Family meets a curious octopus in a dive off Madeira Island in Portugal! Can Liam get the little critter to be friends with him?

E03

Search for the Endangered Antillean Manatee (with SHARKS?!)

11/17/2022·16m

Jonathan and Todd are visiting the island of Caye Caulker in Belize with Sunrise Scuba in a search for the rare Antillean Manatee!

E04

BLIND SALAMANDERS live deep within this cave...

12/3/2022·24m

Jonathan and Todd team up with world-renown cave explorer Edd Sorenson to search for extremely rare blind cave salamanders in Twin Cave, located in Merritt's Mill Pond in Marianna, Florida.

E05

This underwater garden is FILLED with OCTOPUSES!

12/17/2022·15m

The Bird family explores the Sesimbra region of Portugal where they discover a beautiful garden of kelp thriving with octopuses and other marine life!

E06

What's inside the wreck of the Chester Poling?

12/31/2022·11m

The Blue World team explores the wreck of the Chester Poling, a cargo ship that sank just outside Gloucester harbor in Massachusetts.

E07

We drank wine from the bottom of the ocean...

1/21/2023·20m

The Bird family learns about how wine is being aged underwater in Portugal, and visits an incredible underwater wine cellar!

E08

This Spooky Shipwreck is Home to Sneaky EELS

2/4/2023·14m

The Bird family explores the wreck of the River Gurara in the Sesimbra region of Portugal, searching for Conger eels!

E09

The SMALLEST Cave! We reached our limit!

2/18/2023·17m

Jonathan and Todd dive into Jackson Blue Spring in Marianna, Florida to explore a side passage called Parallel Line and see if they can fit through a really small restriction. It's another Blue World cave diving adventure!

E10

Can we survive Edd Sorenson's Rebreather Class??

3/4/2023·40m

Jonathan and Todd travel to Cave Adventurers Dive Shop in Marianna, Florida to train on the KISS Sidewinder rebreather with legendary cave diving instructors Edd Sorenson and Mehdi Zinetti. Will they pass the class?

E11

We found the World's Friendliest Grouper!

4/1/2023·13m

The Bird family continues their diving adventures in Madeira with a trip to meet Elvis the famous Grouper!! Elvis is a large Dusky Grouper (Epinephelus marginatus) living in the Garajau Nature Preserve of Madeira.

E12

We climbed into this Portuguese cave to go diving...

4/15/2023·12m

Jonathan and Todd travel to Portugal to join famous European cave explorer Anton Zhuchkov and dive Alviela Cave in central Portugal! It's an epic adventure just getting to the water, but that's where the real fun begins!

E13

This Beautiful Shipwreck is COLLAPSING!

5/6/2023·15m

The Bird family explores the wreck of the Madeirense off the coast of Porto Santo, an island in the archipelago of Madeira, Portugal.

E14

We complete the GRAND TRAVERSE (w/ Dive Talk)

5/20/2023·23m

With their new KISS Sidewinder rebreathers, Jonathan and Todd join up with @DIVETALK hosts Gus and Woody to tackle the Grand Traverse at Peacock Springs in Wes Skiles State Park, Florida. The Grand Traverse is a 4,800 foot dive in a cave from Peacock 1 all the way to Orange Grove, passing Olsen Sink and Challenge Sink along the way. It's a traverse adventure!

E15

Exploring a MASSIVE Flooded Lead Mine!

6/3/2023·20m

The Blue World team travels to Bonne Terre, Missouri to explore the famous Bonne Terre mine!

E16

HUGE Whale Sharks at Cleaning Station!

6/17/2023·13m

The Blue World team heads to the Galapagos to check out the largest Whale sharks they have ever seen, and witness something that has never been filmed before: a whale shark at a cleaning station. Or at least that's what it appears to be!

E17

This Underwater Cave has a 300ft Tall Room! (Black Abyss)

7/1/2023·13m

Jonathan and Todd join Mehdi Zinetti and Patrick Stoner of Cave Adventurers to explore Emerald Sink in search of a famous room called the Black Abyss. It really lives up to its name!

E18

Baby Fish hide from SHARKS at the Tennessee Aquarium

8/5/2023·19m

The Blue World team visits the Tennessee Aquarium to learn about their unique methods of repopulating the exhibits. Join Jonathan as he walks through every step of the process, from the collection of the eggs to the release of the adult fish.

E19

Arctic Cave Under Ice...with a Tragic Backstory...Plura

8/19/2023·27m

Jonathan and Todd travel to arctic Norway to dive a famous cave in the Plura Valley. In search of the clearest water, they do the dive in winter, so they have to cut through the ice first! Fortunately they are diving with the world's foremost expert on Plura Cave--Finnish cave explorer Sami Paakkarinen!! What an adventure!

E20

Hidden Portuguese Cave Behind a...Toilet Paper Factory??

9/9/2023·15m

Jonathan and Todd take a motorcycle ride across the Portuguese countryside to dive one of the longest caves in Europe. And it happens to be hidden right behind an old toilet paper factory!

E21

Galapagos Marine Iguanas have a RARE Behavior!

10/7/2023·8m

The Blue World team travels to Fernandina Island in the Galapagos to meet the world's only iguana that dives for its food: the Galapagos Marine Iguana!

Season Ten

22 Episodes

2023

E01

Underwater Adventures in AZORES!

11/4/2023·18m

In the first part of a three part Azores Diving Adventure, the Bird family boards a live-aboard sailing/diving vessel called Water & Wind in Sao Miguel, Azores for a week-long exploration of the Azores. This is the premiere of Season 10 of Blue World! Thanks to Portugal Dive for arranging this amazing trip!

E02

Learning Trimix to Dive DEEPER

12/23/2023·23m

Diving deeper than recreational limits requires a special kind of gas blend known as trimix. In this episode, Jonathan takes a trimix class with renown technical diving instructor Doug Ebersole and gets to visit a famous cave called Eagle's Nest! (Technically, the class is CCR Normoxic Trimix).

E03

Devil Rays at the Formigas Islets AZORES!

1/13/2024·12m

In the second episode of the Blue World Azores Family Diving Trip, we explore the Formigas Islets as well as the Dollabarat seamount nearby. These remote spots are more than six hours by boat from the island of Sao Miguel. We reached these places aboard the Water & Wind Liveaboard, which is one of the only liveaboard dive boats in the Azores! Thanks to Portugal Dive for arranging this amazing trip!

E04

Exploring Freshwater Exhibits at the Tennessee Aquarium!

2/24/2024·15m

Jonathan visits the Tennessee Aquarium to see one of the largest freshwater exhibits in the world, and learn how the aquarium is working to restore local freshwater fish populations. Along the way he also meets a giant Pacific Octopus named Beaver!

E05

Exploring a MASSIVE underwater cave in Mexico!

3/9/2024·19m

Jonathan and Todd join world-renown cave explorer Robbie Schmittner to explore Ro-Ha, a recently-discovered cenote that contains the largest submerged chamber that we have ever seen! (Robbie calls this room "Yab Yum"). It's a half-mile swim to get there, and even more adventure just to get to the cenote itself.

E06

Millions of SHRIMP in the Azores! (Diving Santa Maria)

4/6/2024·19m

In the third and final episode of the Bird Family Azores Adventure on the liveaboard dive boat Water & Wind, they explore dive sties around Santa Maria island. There, they find tunnels containing millions of deep water shrimp, big schools of fish and a giant aggregation of Mobula rays, known locally as Devil Rays!

E07

Mapping an UNEXPLORED Cave for the first time!

4/20/2024·23m

Jonathan and Todd join cave explorer Mike Young to assist with his ongoing exploration of Chun-Ha Cenote located right in the middle of the city of San Miguel on the island of Cozumel. It's Jonathan's first time laying line into virgin cave passages! After it's surveyed, the team can see where it goes on Google maps under buildings, streets and parks!

E08

Diving with MOVIE STAR Joelle Carter!

5/4/2024·23m

In this incredible episode, Jonathan joins Hollywood actress Joelle Carter on her journey to becoming a certified scuba diver. We begin in Hollywood at the aptly-named Hollywood Divers with instructor Hal Wells. Then we fly to Little Cayman Island where we finish the class at Little Cayman Beach Resort with instructors Brad Tulip-Mills and Brassy Dollinger. Along the way, we have adventures!

E09

Cave of Crustaceans Crawling with HUGE Remipedes!

6/1/2024·24m

Jonathan and Todd join cave biologist Fernando Calderon Gutierrez to assist with his scientific research on the incredible amount of life in this cave which survives on something surprising.

E10

UNDERWATER Encounter with Huge CROCODILE!

8/24/2024·17m

Jonathan and Cameraman Todd travel to Playa Del Carmen, Mexico in search of an underwater crocodile encounter with Jorge Loria from Phantom Divers!

E11

Diving an UNEXPLORED cave in Mexico!

9/14/2024·17m

Jonathan and Todd join world renown cave explorer Robbie Schmittner to explore a new cave that he discovered. The entrance (which he named "Wishing Well") turns out to be a new entrance to a large known cave system, much of which is unexplored. We get to explore a brand new section of cave, lay some line in there, and Jonathan even gets to leave his name in the cave on a line arrow.

E12

Diving an Abandoned MISSILE SILO!

2/8/2025·11m

In the newest Blue World adventure, Jonathan and Todd join dive guide Sean Holland with Undersea Adventures in Kennewick, Washington to dive an abandoned cold war Titan 1 missile silo that has filled with water! It's spooky!!

E13

SIXGILL SHARKS swim out of the Abyss!

3/1/2025·14m

Jonathan and Todd venture to Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest on a quest to film the giant Pacific Octopus, but instead find a bunch of curious Sixgill sharks!

E14

Twin Caves SILT OUT Dive!

5/3/2025·24m

Jonathan and Todd explore the long and winding passageway of Skiles Passage in Twin Caves. This is one of the caves located on Merritt's Mill Pond in Marianna, Florida. They have to overcome being unfamiliar with the passage, some confusing cave lines, and a tight, silty restriction. This restriction is impossible to pass without sidemount gear and without silting out the cave. It's a cave diving adventure!

E15

A Quest for EAGLE RAYS in the Galapagos! Can we find them??

5/24/2025·20m

In this exciting episode, Jonathan and Christine Bird travel to the Northern Galapagos on the Galapagos Aggressor Liveaboard dive yacht searching for the famous schooling Eagle Rays of Wolf Island. Along the way they meet some sharks and sea turtles!

E16

ROCKY HORROR Cave Dive at Madison Blue Springs!

6/14/2025·19m

Jonathan and Todd team up with Gus and Woody from @DiveTalk to dive a famously tight section of cave in Madison Blue Springs known as "Rocky Horror." If you are claustrophobic, it's definitely going to be horrific! For us though, it was pretty awesome fun!

E17

Diving the WWII Wrecks of Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon [Part 1]

7/5/2025·23m

The Blue World dive team travels to Chuuk Atoll (sometimes known as Truk) in the Federated States of Micronesia to dive the shipwrecks and plane wrecks resulting from a World War II battle in 1944. The sheer number of wrecks make Chuuk the "wreck diving capital of the world." It's a wreck diving adventure, and the first in a series of five episodes coming from our Chuuk adventure.

E18

Return to the BULL SHARKS of Mexico!

8/2/2025·9m

Jonathan and Todd return to Playa del Carmen to investigate how the Bull sharks are doing ten years after our epic Bull shark adventure!

E19

Diving the Pristine Reefs of CUBA!

9/6/2025·18m

Jonathan and Christine visit the marine protected area of Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen) in Cuba on board the Jardines Aggressor diving yacht to see how the reefs of the Caribbean looked 30 years ago!

E20

Diving Shipwrecks of Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon with a ROCK STAR! [Part 2]

10/25/2025·36m

Jonathan and Todd team up with rock guitarist John Wesley and travel to Chuuk Atoll (sometimes known as Truk) in the Federated States of Micronesia to dive the shipwrecks resulting from a World War II battle in 1944. The sheer number of wrecks make Chuuk the "wreck diving capital of the world." It's a wreck diving adventure, and the second in a series of five episodes coming from our Chuuk expedition.

E21

DEEP Wreck Dive on Roatan with DiveTalk!

11/22/2025·26m

Jonathan and Todd venture to Roatan to join the 2025 DiveTalk Meetup where they make new friends and do some great dives on their DiveTalk Go rebreathers! Not only do they have some amazing reef dives, but the do a 200 foot trimix dive on the wreck of the Josie J.

E22

Using Rebreathers to Dive DEEP INSIDE WWII wrecks of Truk (Chuuk) Lagoon! [Part 3]

12/13/2025·26m

The Blue World team continues exploring the wrecks of Chuuk (Truk) lagoon in this third installment of the Chuuk adventure series. Using rebreathers for some deep penetrations into the wrecks, we find all kinds of cool stuff including airplanes, a medical kit, and a machine shop with the famous "R2D2" compressor!

Season Eight

27 Episodes

2020

E01

Zach Gets Certified

9/6/2020·15m

When we hired Zach as our above water cameraman and editor, we told him that if he learns to dive, he is fired! But he wore us down and now he in finally getting certified to dive. His instructor is none other than Cameraman Zach (yes, we have two Zachs). So we documented the process as a great episode showing what it takes to learn how to scuba dive!

E02

Filming Goliaths

9/6/2020·10m

Jonathan and Zach travel to a shipwreck in Florida to film a gigantic (some would say Goliath!) grouper named Wilbur. When they arrive, they discover that Wilbur has fishing gear stuck in his mouth, so they attempt a rescue, and Wilbur becomes their new best friend!

E03

Canal Boats of Lake Champlain

9/13/2020·17m

The Blue World team heads to Vermont to dive the historical canal schooner wrecks O.J. Walker and General Butler in Lake Champlain. In addition to witnessing history up close, they get a rare glimpse of Smallmouth Bass hunting perch on the wrecks.

E04

Seahorses and Pipefish

9/13/2020·9m

Jonathan investigates the world of seahorses, pipefish and sea dragons in this episode which features species from all over the world and explains the biology of the family of fish known as Syngnathidae.

E05

Atlantic Wolffish

9/20/2020·13m

In this new Blue World adventure, Jonathan takes Zach-Of-All-Trades on a dive in Eastport, Maine to meet Gene the World-Famous wolffish, and his next door neighbors, Bob and Jane the Wolffish. Along the way they also examine the variety of marine life that lives in Passamaquoddy Bay!

E06

Aerolito Cave

9/20/2020·12m

Jonathan and Cameraman Todd join cave explorer Christine Loew to investigate Aerolito Cave on the island of Cozumel in Mexico. This cave has more life than almost any cave in the world, including three species of cave-adapted sea stars that are found nowhere else on Earth!

E07

Deep Wrecks Champlain

9/27/2020·12m

In this spooky adventure, the Blue World team explores some deep wrecks in the depths of Lake Champlain in Vermont.

E08

Denver’s High Altitude Aquarium

9/27/2020·14m

Jonathan visits the Downtown Aquarium in Denver, Colorado, where he explores all the exhibits and gets to scuba dive in two of the largest tanks. Will he get to meet the Sawfish?

E09

Florida Aquifers

10/4/2020·13m

Jonathan and Cameraman Todd take a transmitter into a cave so that Zach-of-all-trades and Cameraman Zach can follow them above to see where the cave goes. This interesting experiment demonstrates how the aquifer in Florida stretches for miles underneath farms, roads and even houses. It also demonstrates how the aquifer can be affected by things above it.

E10

Bull Sharks of Florida

10/4/2020·10m

Jonathan and Zach scuba dive with wild Lemon sharks and Bull sharks three miles off the Florida coastline! Shark diving is awesome!

E11

Horse Ferry Shipwreck

10/11/2020·7m

Jonathan and the team visit a rare shipwreck in Lake Champlain called a horse ferry. It was literally a ferry that was propelled by horses walking on a turnstile (sort of like a treadmill). This is the only known wreck of its type in the world. It's a wreck diving adventure! Special thanks to Waterfront Diving Center in Burlington, Vermont for their assistance with filming this episode! Scuba diving.

E12

Jackson Blue Springs

10/18/2020·18m

Jonathan and Cameraman Todd join legendary cave diver Edd Sorenson for a dive exploring Jackson Blue Spring in Marianna, Florida. This is the first magnitude head spring for Merritt's Mill Pond. It's another great Blue World cave diving adventure!

E13

Cave Drift Dive

10/25/2020·12m

Jonathan, and his camera operators, dive a famous and extremely dangerous cave in Florida known as Friedman Sink.

E14

Triple Wreck Dive

10/25/2020·13m

Jonathan and Zach explore some dive sites off Riviera Beach, Florida with Pura Vida Divers. First is a dive site known as Governor's River Walk, containing three wrecks on one dive! The second is Juno Ledge, a great reef with lots of critters, including a Nurse shark. Who knew there is such great diving on the east coast of Florida?

E15

Blackwater Diving

11/1/2020·15m

Cameraman Zach and Annalise head to Hawaii to try "Blackwater" diving while Jonathan and Zach-of-all-trades Peterson head to Florida for the same thing. Blackwater diving is a kind of diving that takes place in water that is extremely deep, in the middle of the night. Creatures of the deep come to the surface. It's spooky and it's fun, and we try not to think about what sea monster might come up!

E16

Ginnie Springs

11/1/2020·11m

Jonathan, Todd and Zach dive Devil's Eye Spring at Ginnie Springs in Florida to demonstrate what high flow caves are like. And then they check out Devil's Ear, with weird swirling colors where the tannic Santa Fe River water meets the clear water from the spring.

E17

Honduran Sea Turtles

11/8/2020·16m

Jonathan and the Blue World team travel to Roatan, Honduras in search of healthy reefs and sea turtles. Once they find the sea turtles, they witness some interesting feeding and social behavior, as well as learn how fish can mooch food from sea turtles!

E18

Shangri-La Cave

11/8/2020·12m

Jonathan and Todd explore Shangri-La cave, the smallest cave on Merritt's Mill Pond in Marianna Florida. It's so small that they can barely fit. This is definitely not for the claustrophobic!

E19

A Search for a Stargazer

11/15/2020·22m

Jonathan teams up with Jeff Nelson, an expert critter spotter, to dive the Blue Heron Bridge, known for the best "muck diving" in the USA. Located in Riviera Beach, Florida, the Blue Heron Bridge is an easy shore dive filled with an amazing diversity of small marine animals--if you can find them! In this episode, Jonathan is searching for one of the rarest animals seen there--the Stargazer fish.

E20

Playful Seals

11/15/2020·8m

The Bird Family goes diving at The Salvages, small rocky islands off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts. They find crabs, fish, lobster and a bunch of curious seals. And there's one thing the seals really find fascinating...our fins!

E21

Gator Hole Cave

11/22/2020·19m

Jonathan and Cameraman Todd are back in Marianna, Florida, exploring a tight cave called Gator Hole. Things get pretty silty, so let's hope they can find their way out...

E22

Jojo the Dolphin

11/22/2020·11m

The Bird Family goes on a February vacation to the Turks and Caicos Islands for some scuba diving, horseback riding and beach fun. On a dive with Big Blue Collective, they search for Jojo the famous wild dolphin!

E23

Blue Hole Adventure in Belize

11/29/2020·21m

Jonathan and Zach are diving from the Belize Aggressor while they look for a friendly nurse shark named Norman. During their search, they find tons of amazing creatures, including eels, flounders, turtles, seahorses, and even a curious Nassau grouper named Rupert.

E24

Exploring a GIANT Underwater Sinkhole in Belize!

11/29/2020·9m

Jonathan and Zach explore the famous Great Blue Hole in Belize, first explored by Jacques Cousteau!

E25

What creatures emerge at NIGHT in Belize?

11/29/2020·10m

Jonathan and Zach continue their journey in Belize with a night dive! They search for fascinating creatures that only come out when it's dark. What will they find?

E26

Darkness All Around

12/6/2020·10m

Jonathan and Todd travel to Caye Caulker, Belize to explore a spooky ocean cave called Winter Wonderland with cave explorer Ilya Rosado and the team from Sunrise Scuba. Winter Wonderland gets its name from the fine silt on the formations that looks like snow. It's the most amazing ocean cave dive yet!

E27

Hole in the Wall Cave

12/6/2020·8m

Jonathan and Todd explore Hole-in-the-Wall Cave, a large submerged cave at Merritt's Mill Pond in Florida. They find a massive drop, many large rooms, and even some cave crayfish! What else will they see in this incredible cave?