Costa Rica is more sea than land: 93% of the entire territory is sea. The marine territory is almost 11 times larger than the terrestrial one. And a portion of that treasure was portrayed in one of the most spectacular audiovisual productions on the oceans worldwide.
The arrival of turtles in the Ostional National Wildlife Refuge appears in the sixth episode of the prestigious Blue Planet II series of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), the state channel of the United Kingdom. It premiered on December 3rd. In addition, a Costa Rican photographer, Sergio Pucci, was part of the production.
Blue Planet is a documentary on nature, released in September 2001. It was described as the
first comprehensive series on the natural history of the world’s oceans.”
Each episode lasts about 50 minutes and are narrated by David Attenborough, a veteran British journalist and naturalist. It has won multiple Emmy awards and others, for his quality, photography, employed technique and music.
Ostional is featured in the chapter entitled Costas. Sergio Pucci was in charge of the direction and registration of the video of the arrival of Kemp’s ridleys in that beach community of Guanacaste.
They contacted me to support them as an advisor because they wanted to film the arrival from the air .When they told me it was for an episode of Blue Planet, my legs shook with emotion,”
recalled Pucci, who is coauthor of the books Costa Rica Aérea I and II and created the short film Amor de temporada.
The BBC just wanted advice, but the photographer convinced them to work with a Costa Rican team . Pucci assumed the direction of the project supported by Jimmy Rosales and Ronny Sánchez, drone operators of the company Cinemacopter and Julio Madriz. They recorded the material in four visits of four days over two years.
The window of exposure to the issue of turtle conservation that we carried out in Costa Rica is even more important, because images such as those we provide for Blue Planet raise awareness in the world about the importance of caring for the species,”
said Pucci.
The seas and oceans cover three quarters of the surface of planet Earth; they harbor almost 90% of the species that we know and are our main source of oxygen.