ABOUT US
Since the early nineties Oceans Discovery has defined
underwater filming technologies, scientific exploration of our oceans
and the production of educational television programs
Oceans Discovery (OD)
OD is a film production company focusing on educational and entertaining television programming, promoting the conservation of our planets underwater natural resources and the protection of our remaining cultural marine heritage. But OD is going beyond the film production of underwater discovery and archaeology, it is trying to find ways in which our cultural treasures and the marine environment could be preserved, whereby the local communities could benefit and have the incentive to ensure protection of their underwater resources.
Television Experience and Marine-Technical know-how
OD’s more than twenty years of filming experience in the documentary genre and the success of its “Oceans Of Mystery” television series, meanwhile being broadcast in over 112 countries around the world, are evidence for their expertise and competence. But OD does not only draw from its own accomplishments and experiences it has contacts and access to many institutes, museums, experts and scholars which the company has been working with for many years. This work and OD’s over a decade lasting and continuing presence on Discovery Channels world-wide, has led the company into other venues as well. Oceans Discovery has been chosen to design and implement new and innovative digital multimedia technologies and services for a newly planned marine-research institute in the Caribbean, thus creating a for the region unique educational centre of excellence. The technologies and services for this project have been designed with the purpose of establishing a relationship between the envisioned educational facility and the tourist/visitor/student. This process could be defined as a means to establish access, context, and outreach by using cutting edge digital information technology whereby the Centre presents its "virtual attractions/applications" to encourage an interactive dialog with visitors and students alike, by inviting them to experience a virtual environment that is related to a real experience that can be used as both - knowledge base and as a communication tool.
Design study for interpretation centre/university (watch film clip: OD Reef Life)
Developing Innovative U/W Film and Display Technologies
OD has, over the past few years, developed and created the means for the implementation of innovative underwater film and display technologies. One key element of this task is to place live HD-cameras at various underwater spots, so that they would transmit marine-life images, either wire-less or by means of fiber-optic-cable, directly into the classrooms of an institute, university, interpretation centre or the lobby of a corporate sponsor, thereby creating scientific imagery for the high-definition film and photo libraries and subsequent film productions needed for research and education.
Design samples for educational venues: Parks, Interpretation Centers, Museums
Oceans Discovery - Image Library
Oceans Discovery's image library virtually contains ten-thousands of high-resolution images and high-definition video clips of marine life. This vast collection of marine creatures, corals and sponges as well as many other generic images from various Caribbean Islands, are available for educational projects.
Broadcast-related Training Demonstration during Filming
The training of local and regional filmmakers and students is just one of the stated intention of Oceans Discovery and, as an example of that intent; the project foresees during the upcoming filming period, the involvement of selected students to demonstrate how such broadcast training programs would work in reality and in the future. The various training programs will subsequently be carried out with assistance and support of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) and the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU).
The Project becomes the Training
Selected students, which could come from universities, local schools, organizations, institutes and private companies, will have the real opportunity to work with an internationally established and experienced film team and the newest HD-broadcast technology in order to gain experience by actively participating in everything from story development to camera handling on land, underwater, in the air and on the water. They will also be involved in post production and learn firsthand about computer animation and even how special effects are prepared on site.