Big Pacific

In the Marshall Islands Moray Eels are learning to hunt on land.

Violence is part of life in the Pacific.

Those that live in the Pacific must choose whether to avoid conflict or rise to meet it.

We yearn to unravel the mysterious Pacific, but she doesn't give up her secrets willingly.

The challenge of finding food drives all life in the Pacific.

The challenge of finding food drives all life in the Pacific.

In the Pacific, the quest to multiply has spawned a stunning array of unusual behaviors.

In the Pacific, the quest to multiply has spawned a stunning array of unusual behaviors.

Big Pacific travels to 20 countries, filming an ocean that covers one third of our planet.

Follow the adventures of the filmmakers behind Big Pacific.

Plunge into the Pacific to see the ocean’s rare and dazzling creatures.

The marine iguana is the only one of its kind with adaptations to thrive in the ocean.

Manta rays feed nearly constantly on prey so minute it is just a haze in the water.

In Hangzhou Bay, brave surfers wait for the annual return of an ancient sea monster.

Shedao, also known as Snake Island, is home to 20,000 Pit Vipers.

Off the coast of Japan, the white-spotted pufferfish is at work creating a masterpiece.

Each year olive ridley sea turtles return to their natal beach. How they find it shore is

Humpback Whales migrate from northern feeding grounds to Hawaii for a chance to mate.

Californian sea otters give new meaning to “love bite.”

Cameramen Peter Kragh and Ernie Kovacs set out to film a mysterious pufferfish.

The crew travels to Snake Island to film pit vipers preying on migrating songbirds.

Beyond a coral reef, a tomb of lost turtles leaves more questions than answers.

A yellow-eyed penguin family nests in a secluded New Zealand forest.

A mass spawning event happens on an empty shoreline in the Gulf of California.