How David Attenborough's key life lesson inspired new film Ocean
After living on the planet for nearly 100 years, David Attenborough has shared the life lesson he has learned in new film Ocean.
The national treasure turns 99 on Thursday 8 May, the same day his new documentary is out in cinemas in the UK. Attenborough – whose TV career has spanned seven decade – worked on his 98th birthday on BBC's Asia.
In the trailer for Ocean, Attenborough says: "After living for nearly 100 years on this planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea.
"Through the course of my life we have been on a voyage of ocean discovery. Only now are we understanding what it means for the future of our world."
Ocean With David Attenborough released 8th May 2025
The documentary film is an exploration of the ocean, the challenges it faces and the chance for restoration. It transports you to oceans across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Oceania featuring coral reefs and kelp forests.
One of the main problems the film tackles head on is industrial fishing method trawling. Attenborough's film is a call to action.
In his own words, he explains what the documentary film explores, see the trailer below.
Watch the trailer for Ocean with David Attenborough
"What we have found could change everything, for once you've truly seen the sea, you'll never look at earth in the same way again," he says. "The ocean is our planet's life support system and our greatest ally against climate catastrophe."
Attenborough adds: "Yet it's at a cross roads. We are draining the life from our ocean. Today it is in such poor health, I would find it hard not to lose hope were it not for the most remarkable discovery of all. The ocean can recover faster than we had ever imagined. It can bounce back to life."
It is not all totally bleak though, as Attenborough reveals there is hope. He says: "It may not just recover, but thrive beyond anything anyone alive has ever seen. This is the story of our ocean and how we must write its next chapter together. For if we save the sea, we save our world. After a lifetime of filming our planet I'm sure that nothing is more important."
Toby Nowlan, Keith Scholey and Colin Butfield direct the film and Nowlan produced it.
Ocean with David Attenborough is a Silverback Films and Open Planet Studios co-production. It is in association with All3Media International, National Geographic and Minderoo Pictures.
Ocean with David Attenborough is his latest film. It comes just months after the release of Attenborough's Asia with the BBC in November last year.
The series' producer Matthew Wright had great praise for the presenter and shared how he had worked on his 98th birthday.
He told Yahoo UK: "David is irreplaceable. He's a unique human being. We've got a fantastic cast of up and coming — and some very established — presenters, but they have their own style, and they do their own thing. He's a unique character and long may we continue to work with the great man and, for as long as he wants to work, we will work with him."
An adult and young Asian elephant feeding on the weeds that grow in between the tea plants on a plantation in Western Ghats, India. (BBC)
Also, Webb said: "It's just brilliant to be able to work with David. We were working with David on his 98th birthday. The respect for that man is off the scale... The fact he's still going, still setting an incredible bar for what he does and how he does it. At 98 years old, I just take my hat off to him."
He added: "David contributes so much to the final script that ends up being a narration. [It's] a two-way process where we will write a guide script, and then there's a constant dialogue backwards and forwards with David as we hone it with his input.
"So what you're getting is very much something that feels personal to David, very much his take on things. David is doing so much more than just providing his amazing voice. He's also providing his own tone, his own touch of magic and sparkle that comes through his own writing."
Ocean with David Attenborough is out in cinemas on 8 May. It will also be available on Disney+ and Hulu later this year.
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