As tourism and fishing are banned here, 这里的旅游和捕鱼是禁止的 the reef is about as close as you'll get to the Pacific as it used to be, before humans arrived. 在人类到达之前，暗礁就比你接触太平洋要近得多。 Part o...
Some atolls are round, their rings unbroken... 有些珊瑚环岛是圆的，它们的环形没有打破 while others have been bent out of shape by ocean currents and earthquakes. 其余的已经被洋流和地震弄得弯曲走样了。 And a few s...
Schools of snapper take the lead... while a wall of fusiliers mops up the remains. 啮鱼群带头...一大群红梅鲷做着残羹的扫尾工作 Across the South Pacific, time continues to work its magic on rock. 掠过南太平洋，时间不停地在...
The fight over, it's time to get down to business. 战斗结束，到办正事的时候了。 Spawning is a brief affair. 产卵是短暂 Then the eggs are left to the mercy of the current. 然后卵就留给了宽容的水流 Life in the lagoon depe...
This is Bora Bora... a volcano in what could be called late middle age. 这是大溪地，有一座被称为迟到的中年火山。 The sloping flanks have slipped further into the sea, pushing the reef away from the shore. 倾斜的侧坡滑到远处...
But the Triton's trumpet is an invaluable control on these starfish. 但大法螺在这些长棘海星身上有无法估量的控制 And the crown-of-thorns isn't the only coral killer on the reef. 长棘海星不是唯一暗礁珊瑚的杀手 The ra...
Daylight reveals another reef predator. 白天显露出另一种暗礁掠食者 Crown-of-thorns starfish... coral killers. 长棘海星，珊瑚杀手 Climbing over their prey, 爬过它们的猎物 they secrete digestive juices that turn the inside...
Grey reef sharks. 灰礁鲨 The reef's top predators, these sharks patrol the waters on strong currents. 暗礁的顶尖掠食者，这些鲨鱼在逆流中巡视海域 But without all the life on the reef here, they could never exist in such numbers...
Mauna Kea's future can be glimpsed in the Society Islands of French Polynesia. 莫纳克亚山在法属玻利尼西亚的社会群岛上能依稀一瞥 The peaks of these islands once rose much higher than this from the ocean floor. 这些岛的山峰曾...
Bugs blown up here don't stand a chance. 臭虫不可能出现在这 Stunned or trapped in snow, they slowly die. 昏厥或受困于雪中，它们缓慢地死去 But not everything succumbs to the cold. 但不是每个东西都臣服于寒冷 These...
