Mission Blue

You gushed and poured your heart out over The Cove, you learnt about the fundamental issues of overfishing in End of the Line, and you chuckled at the inspiring plight of Jiro Ono in Jiro Dreams of Sushi. There's been so many incredible ocean, and fishing, orientated documentaries doing the rounds in recent years, so it's no surprise to see that the next one would happen to crop up from one of the most educational platforms online right now, TED.

(Photo Credit: blog.ted.com)

A Netflix Documentary brought to the masses by TED, and award winning Cove director Fisher Stevens, Mission Blue showcases the life of internationally distinguished Oceanographer Sylvie Earle. From her infamy in the late 60s as the world's first newspaper-titled 'mermaid' in an underwater research program, to her back-log of seaweed data, adventures in the Indian Ocean and National Geographic explorations since 1998, Sylvie Earle knows more about the ocean that you probably do the back of your hand.

But Mission Blue doesn't just document a women who dons praise from all those in the ocean industry, it's a stunningly shot reminder of the damage being done to the world's watery masses. From highlighting the surge in 'dead-zones', to commentary on over-fishing, Mission Blue wholeheartedly serves as narration and even frustration over the decline of eco-systems in our oceans; All interspersed with stunning underwater shots of Sylvie's previous work, and current plights at that.

(Photo Credit: http://blog.tedprize.com/sneak-preview-mission-blue/)

This is genuinely a must-see for anyone that considers Shark Week as an annual vacation, owns Blue Planet on boxset and shunned SeaWorld, even before Blackfish. For someone like me, who would have hoped that if she hadn't become a writer, would have become a Marine Biologist, Sylvie Earle is an inspiration and to top it all off, the documentary is darn beautiful at that.