Jonathan Bird's Blue World aired on public television in the USA from 2008-2017 (through season 4) and then we moved to YouTube where we found…
We get to go diving all over the world and see new things. We learn something everywhere we go. We meet interesting people. We believe that the…
Hi Blue World fans! Cameraman Bill here. You may have seen me from such episodes as Giant Pacific Octopus, or The Georgia Aquarium. Jonathan and I…
In August of 1494, Columbus landed on an island somewhere south of Haiti and killed eight "sea wolves" which were sleeping on the sand.…
Since sharks are an ancient group of animals, people often assume that they are primitive in some way, but this assumption couldn't be further…
Merida is in the northwest part of the Yucatan peninsula, about three hours west of Cancun. About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid crashed in…
Local dive shops boast that one of their dive sites has some of the clearest water in the world. The place is called Silfra (pronounced Sil-vruh…
As I kneeled on the sandy bottom, peering through my viewfinder, I felt a bump on my foot. I looked around and saw I was surrounded by five Tiger…
Over the past few seasons of Blue World production, we have done several segments in cenotes and cave-like environments in Mexico and the Bahamas.…
Few people would deny that I have an interesting occupation. At the very least, it makes a good ice breaker at parties. When I tell people that…
We are working on an exciting new project! It's Blue World's first theatrical release film. For now we would like to keep some of the…
Back in the 1980s when I started diving, and therefore began subscribing to dive magazines, it was hard to miss the fact that Cocos Island was the…
Alas, our program involves an incredible amount of travel and expense. Furthermore, I actually hate being away from my kids, so I don’t like…
For every season of Jonathan Bird’s Blue World, we do a couple “big expeditions” which are typically extended-length shoots where…
I spent a large portion of the summer of 1999 sitting on a rocking boat in the North Atlantic searching for Basking sharks. I wanted some great…
We just returned from a challenging but productive shoot in the Florida Keys where we shot two new segments for season 4. The first segment is…
Kerry and I have just returned from an exciting shoot in Indonesia where we filmed a segment about an incredibly remote island called Manuk Island…
This week the Blue World team shot a fascinating segment that we had been working towards for a long time. Several years ago we heard about the…
Back in 2010, the Blue World team headed down to Small Hope Bay Lodge on Andros, Bahamas to do a segment on Blue Holes. We dove The Guardian, one…
In late October, the Blue World team consisting of Julia Cichowski, Todd Kelly and Jonathan headed out to Guadalupe Island in Mexico on a mission…