Meet Barbie Pig: new documentary reveals the wonders of life on the Pacific seabed

<p>A magical new film captures the secret life of the deep sea in a stretch of the ocean at risk from industrial mining</p><p>A magical film that explores the wonders of the deep sea through the eyes of a team of scientists and an underwater robot called Isis will be shown in selected cinemas across the UK next month.</p><p>The documentary, How Deep Is Your Love, offers a playful, irreverent and bittersweet look at our anthropocentric view of Earth, as it switches perspective from humans to deep sea animals and back again. It follows a research team from the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London, who sail for 12 days to reach a remote region called the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/25/more-than-5000-new-species-discovered-in-pacific-deep-sea-mining-hotspot">Clarion Clipperton Zone,</a> a biodiversity-rich area of the Pacific between Hawaii and Mexico. It takes Isis five hours to make the 3-mile (5km) descent to the bottom of this harsh world, where sunlight cannot penetrate, and where nodules rich in minerals mark it out as a hotspot for industrial mining.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/22/meet-barbie-pig-new-documentary-reveals-the-wonders-of-life-on-the-pacific-seabed">Continue reading...</a>