DVDs and Book
The series was available as a 3-disc DVD set (BBCDVD1089, released 3 December 2001), including interviews with the production team, a photo gallery and three additional programmes:
- Making Waves: the making of The Blue Planet (50 mins)
- Deep Trouble: an ecological documentary (50 mins)
- Blue: a five-minute theatrical short
The first DVD has now been superseded by a 4-disc Special Edition (BBCDVD1792, released 3 October 2005), which features three extra programmes:
- The Abyss
- Dive to Shark Volcano
- Amazon Abyss
In the US, there is a different 5-disk Special Edition (BBC040754, released October 2, 2007). It contains the featured presentations as well as a 5th disk containing 4 special presentations:
- Amazon Abyss: discover an array of creatures living in the Amazon
- Dive to Shark Volcano: venture to Cocoa Island, an underwater volcano
- Beneath the Tides: explore an estuary in winter
- Antarctica
The accompanying book, The Blue Planet: A Natural History of the Oceans by Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill and Martha Holmes (with a foreword by David Attenborough), was published by BBC Books on 27 September 2001 (ISBN 0-563-38498-0).
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