A treasure chest of news on Blue Ocean film festival

"Scientists are realizing that the best way to get their work out is a visual medium, with entertainment and science," festival director Arlene Burns says.

The films put the ocean's treasures squarely in our line of sight and load our memory banks with images and information that make its incomprehensible vastness come alive, in visceral action shots, weirdly beautiful deep-sea scenes, gawkingly breathtaking panoramas and sobering reports of malfeasance.