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‘Secret Ocean’ explores underwater worlds of wonder

JMC and Holly and hammerhead shark
JMC and Holly and hammerhead shark JMC and Holly and hammerhead shark

If you go

* What: Jean-Michel Cousteau’s “Secret Ocean 3D.”* When: Opens Friday, Sept. 30.* Where: Tennessee Aquarium’s Imax Theater, 201 Chestnut St.* Admission: $11.95 adults, $9.95 children 3-12 nonmembers; $8 members (all ages); free for Imax Club passholders.* Phone: 1-800-262-0695.* Website: www.tnaqua.org/plan-your-visit/ticket-information.

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Jean-Michel Cousteau’s “Secret Ocean 3D,” a new giant-screen film premiering Friday, Sept. 30, at the Tennessee Aquarium’s Imax Theater, is a chance to view some of the world’s most amazing marine communities with a scuba-diving legend. The film is narrated by oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle.

Filmed over three years in vibrant marine communities from the Bahamas to Fiji, this is the first Imax 3-D film directed by Cousteau. The conservationist chose to focus on the secret world within the ocean that is perhaps the biggest story of all – that the smallest life in the sea is the mightiest force on which we all depend.

More than 30 species of fascinating sea creatures, some no bigger than 1 inch, were filmed for the first time using new technologies. The crews captured animal behaviors in 3-D that have never been seen in theaters thanks to ultra-HD 5K cameras, slow motion, macro and motion-control techniques.