The Dorsal Fin

Just a quick reminder that Disney’s “Oceans” hits the home video market tomorrow on DVD and Blu-ray! “Oceans” features some fantastic underwater footage of a wide variety of marine life, including various shark species. Additionally, Disneynature has announced that they will donate $0.50 to The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt a Coral Reef program for each copy of “Oceans” purchased through October 25, 2010.

Stay tuned for full review of the movie and bonus features in the next few weeks.

Disney Nature’s Oceans hits theaters today (April 22, 2010). Disney Nature will donate a portion of ticket sales (U.S. and Canada) during opening week (April 22-28) to The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt a Coral Reef program. This is a great opportunity to catch a film with what appears to be some ground-breaking underwater footage and support a worthy cause at the same time!

YouTube user, OperaJes, has posted a music video to an original song, Deep Blue, (apparently, composed by the YouTube user, aka JesVega) using raw footage of marine life from the European Space Agency’s multimedia library. The ESA and director Jacques Perrin teamed up to film the footage for the movie Oceans, which has already hit theaters in some European markets and will be released in U.S. theaters on April 22. Included in the montage of ESA clips is some excellent footage of a diver gracefully swimming side-by-side with a healthy-sized female great white shark.

According to Time.com, Jacques Perrin’s sea-life documentary, Océans, opened to a warm reception in French movie theaters last week. Océans drew in 105,000 viewers in the first 48 hours, in France.

The film which will be released internationally in the coming months, took 2 years of planning and 4 years of filming to complete. Advanced underwater-breathing equipment which allowed divers to film without expelling air bubbles into the water and new underwater filming technology were employed throughout the filming of the documentary which hopes to set a new standard for nature films. The film features marine life of all kinds, including footage of cage-less human and white shark interaction. Oceans also features footage of several other species of sharks including some great whale shark footage and some amazing schooling hammerhead footage.

Disney Nature will be bringing Oceans to the big screen in the U.S. on April 22, 2010.