This Mary 2025 documentary is another alarming insight into the devastation capitalism is wreaking on the world’s oceans. Featuring Sir David Attenborough, Ocean is also a genuinely jaw-dropping visual spectacle.

The two sides there work to highlight what it is we’re destroying. This remarkable, vibrant world of sea that’s evolved over billions of years. And in the last 50, corporations have bumbled into it like drunken morons to get rich quick.

That’s what Ocean explores, along the way revealing remarkable new insights into these mysterious waters and some very inspiring imagery.

Ocean With David Attenborough Explores Natural Beauty and Capitalistic Devastation

The documentary is a cinematic sequel to A Deeper Dive with David Attenborough. This one is directed by Toby Nowlan and Colin Butfield, with the British production company Silverback Films heading up the project.

Attenborough is now 99 and certainly doesn’t look it, with a full head of hair and sharp mind. He’s in reflective form, recalling his life, career, and the sea of change he’s observed since 1926.

Alongside Attenborough’s observations, there’s the footage. The crew must be commended to the maximum for the stunning range of sea life views on display.

For camera crew to get some of these shots, and the incredible cinematography on display, is really quite the achievement. It sets a new benchmark for nature documentaries.

We learn about new species, the range of life on the planet, and the importance of ocean health for humanity’s sake.

That’s when Ocean takes on its environmental front, which is sure to have Conservatives groaning curmudgeonly as they pretend there’s nothing going wrong with capitalism. But this documentary is a devastating example of what this sort of greed-driven, destructive economic climate creates.

Where Ocean really starts to come into its own is with the remarkable footage of deep sea trawling. This plays out like an action movie the way it’s shot, the footage is incredible (but very alarming).

The relentlessly wasteful nature of capitalism couldn’t be more obvious than in this clip. This is a fishing method that’s unsustainable, destructive, cruel, and idiotic.

Much of the documentary is made up weighing human reliance on the oceans, with billions relying on it as a food source. In

Prior to the film’s launch, it was unclear if various governments would agree to protect at least 30% (30by30 as it’s called) of the world’s oceans by 2030. Failure to do this would have the potential for major biological collapse. As Ocean reveals in its closing cards, they agreed in June 2025 as part of the UN Biodiversity COP15.

In the UK, this will be in effect before the end of 2025 (see Government to introduce legislation on High Seas Treaty).

But it does amaze us about politics and the right-wing media’s control over proceedings. 30by30 is the type of thing that’s extremely important and people should be protesting in the streets to support. Instead, millions are panic-stricken about immigration—a relatively minor issue.

Anyway, Ocean and Sir David Attenborough offer a message of hope with this film.

Call it hippy dippy, woke, or whatever else—the message is clear. Screw around with natural environments to make a small group of people very rich and we face major consequences. Not least through the loss of biodiversity that makes the Earth so unique in this impossibly vast cosmos.

The Production of Ocean with David Attenborough

The monarchy isn’t our thing here at Professional Moron, but at least Prince William has been flying the flag for us bald blokes for some time. He suits the look. Sir David Attenborough caught up with him in July of 2025 for a polite chat about nature and stuff.

Filming took place across the UK, California, Indonesia, the Azores, Antarctica, and Hawaii. The crew had full support from the likes of the Marine Biological Association, with the trawling footage (shot in early 2024) open-sourced to support further scientific research. The University of Plymouth’s Dr. Bryce Stewart also advised on the documentary’s script to ensure it was as accurate as possible.

The film had a cinematic release from 24th May, which was followed by launch on National Geographic and other streaming services.

We do fear its reach will be limited to more progressive minds, as right-leaning individuals have made it clear they don’t give a toss about this sort of thing (“drill baby drill” etc.).

But if you do care, and have a sense of morality, this is a must watch. The film was also complemented by a book called Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness, which was written by Attenborough and Colin Butfield.