Ep. 1: What Is the Ocean?

By: Professor Ben Garrod, Ellie Sans

A deceptively simple question....

The series starts by answering a question: ‘What is the ocean?’

We know it’s big, salty and wet but how did it get so big, why is it salty and why is it so important to life on earth? And what do we know about how these three things made the ocean the perfect place for the beginning of life itself? We meet the scientists studying the conditions in deep sea hydrothermal vents to find out where and how it all began.

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Informative and fun

I came here after listening “A grown-up guide to dinosaurs”, from which I learnt a lot and which was a blast to listen, and this series doesn’t disappoint either - I’m learning and it’s fun, there’s this light-hearted tone and the spirit of curiosity and discovery, and we also get to meet the scientists behind the information. It’s overall a joyful experience. I really appreciate what professor Ben Garrod does with this and other series.

Teach Oceans. Right!

I just wanna say if this grown up guide to kids is in fact truth? The history and science of the oceans should be taught properly. More on this in the next 4 chapters. I love the ocean and I want to work with them one day. But I don’t accept the much agreed upon older than old Earth with eras and eons of time that die out all life to spring up new ones. I know there was a big flood that killed most life that was not spared in the time of creation. Hence the explanation to why there was a mass extinction, and an increase of what’re covering most of the planet. No one has seen the formation of the Earth this was all told to them as witness and as scribes dictating the story from the author telling them what to write as word felt word. There is something out there. Evolution is not it.