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Away from all land, the ocean.
远离一切陆地，海洋。
It covers more than half the surface of our planet,
地球表面多半被海洋覆盖着，
and yet for the most part it is beyond our reach.
至今海洋的许多地方我们还无法触及
Much of it is virtually empty, a watery desert.
许多地方实际上很荒凉，水之荒漠。
All life that is here is locked in a constant search to find food
这里的生命被迫不停寻找食物，
a struggle to conserve precious energy in the open ocean.
在这广袤的大洋中只为获得宝贵的能量。
The biggest of all fish, thirty tons in weight, twelve meters long, a whale shark.
这是最大的鱼类，30吨重，12米长，鲸鲨。
It's huge bulk is sustained by mere microscopic creatures of the sea. Plankton.
它的巨大身躯上是靠吃一种很小的海洋生物长成的。浮游生物。
Whale sharks cruise on regular habitual routes between the best feeding grounds.
鲸鲨经常在它的最好的进食地点之间洄游
In February, that takes them to the surface waters far from the coast of Venezuela.
二月，鲸鲨从遥远的委内瑞拉海岸来到这片浅海。
Others are already here.
这里已经有访客了。
