PLANET OCEAN 

AVAILABLE APRIL 9, 2013 ON BLU-RAY^™AND DVD

FROM UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT 

Directed by highly acclaimed photographer, filmmaker and environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand (Home) and narrated by actor Josh Duhamel (Transformers, Life As We Know It), Planet Ocean is a cinematic adventure that invites viewers of all ages to change the way they look at the ocean and appreciate its greatest natural mystery.  Planet Ocean will be available on Blu-ray™ and DVD on April 9, 2013 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Through dazzling aerial and underwater imagery captured in extreme geographical conditions worldwide, Planet Ocean delivers an unprecedented journey into the least known regions of our planet. The stunning documentary aims to captivate as well as provide understanding of humankind’s relationship to the ocean and stress the urgency of making sustainable change.  Brought to life with dynamic and relatable narration, this groundbreaking film can be enjoyed by the entire family.

Planet Ocean will be available on Blu-ray™ and DVD.

·       Blu-ray™ disc unleashes the power of your HDTV and is the best way to watch movies at home, featuring perfect hi-def picture and perfect hi-def sound.

·       DVD offers the flexibility and convenience of playing the movie in more places, both at home and while away.

BONUS FEATURES (BLU-RAY™ and DVD):

·       THE MAKING OF PLANET OCEAN

·       IN THE SKIES ABOVE RIO:  Breathtaking images of Rio de Janeiro’s magnificent shores will inspire you with wonder and delight.

·       UNDERWATER:  Uncover the natural mysteries of marine life with Planet Ocean’s team of underwater cinematographers.

·       SHANGHAI:  Extraordinary aerial photography of Shanghai’s busy harbor underscores the significance of ocean commerce.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION – BLU-RAY^™:

Street Date: April 9, 2013

Copyright:  2013 Universal Studios.  All Rights Reserved.

Selection Number:  61126490 / 61126510 (CDN)

Running time:  1 Hour, 33 Minutes

Layers:  BD-50

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Widescreen

Rating:  Not Rated

Languages/Subtitles:  English, Italian, Castilian Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Russian, and Swedish

Sound:  DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

TECHNICAL INFORMATION – DVD:

Street Date:  April 9, 2013

Copyright:  2013 Universal Studios.  All Rights Reserved.

Selection Number: 61126491 / 61126512 (CDN)

Running time: 1 Hour, 33 Minutes

Layers: Dual Layer

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen

Rating:  Not Rated

Languages/Subtitles:  English, Spanish, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese

Sound:  Dolby Digital 5.1

View the trailer here HERE.

Omega Speedmaster and Omega Seamaster

I never used to consider myself a watch man. There was a time when I could not imagine spending thousands of dollars on something whose basic function was simply to tell the time: something most items around you can also do, from the mobile phone in your pocket to the microwave oven in your kitchen.

That all changed about 10 years ago. The company I was working for had been doing very well and I decided to cash in a portion of my stock options. Suddenly I had cash, more cash than I had ever had at any moment in my life, and I felt the occasion called for some kind of ostentatious, yet respectfully commemorative purchase. That’s how I came to buy my first Omega, the Speedmaster.

Omega Speedmaster

 The reason I gravitated towards Omega is easy to understand: it’s the watch brand I most associate with my heroes. My father, who passed away when I was 19 years old, wore an Omega Dynamic. Omega was also the watch of choice of the astronauts of the NASA space program.

Although the Omega Speedmaster was initially developed as a sports and racing chronograph in 1957, it was later endurance-tested (alongside Longines and Rolex) for use in space. The Speedmaster was first worn in space by Wally Schirra, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, in 1962. The Speedmaster would also be a mainstay of the Gemini and Apollo space programs.

The Speedmaster is best known as the “Moonwatch”, because it was used during the maiden Apollo 11 mission and the first wristwatch worn on the moon. (A little known fact is that Neil Armstrong elected to leave his Speedmaster behind in the lunar module. Thankfully Buzz Aldrin decided to wear it during his moon walk.)

Sharp-eyed movie buffs will also see the Omega Speedmaster worn by stars Scott Glenn, Ed Harris and Dennis Quaid in The Right Stuff (1983) and Tom Hanks in Apollo 13 (1995).

There are many variants but the Omega Speedmaster Professional model is the actual “Moonwatch”. I wear the more practical Automatic version.

Omega Seamaster

The Omega Seamaster was introduced as a dive watch in 1947.

Nowadays it is impossible to think of the Omega Seamaster without thinking of James Bond. But few remember the Seamaster only became affiliated with 007 in 1995, with the debut of Pierce Brosnan as the iconic super-spy. Until that point, Sean Connery and Roger Moore wore a variety of sport watches, most notably the Rolex Submariner.

The marketing coup by Omega to associate its brand with such a massive film icon was due in part to shifts in the film-making industry. In short, film companies had discovered the magic of product placement, where brands offer millions of dollars to strategically place their products within the story. Rolex, whose watches used to grace many Bond films before 1995, simply wasn’t interested. Omega was. And the rest is history.

The Omega Seamaster has been featured in every James Bond film since Goldeneye (sometimes serving as a life-saving gadget, such as an explosive detonator or high-powered laser). You will, of course, catch a quick glimpse of the Seamaster during a number of scenes in the latest Bond flick, Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig.

The Seamaster comes in a variety of models and colors. Mine is the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean.

Stainless steel pre-owned 2007 automatic gentleman’s Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean bracelet watch, black dial with hourly applied luminous batons, date aperture positioned to three o’clock, bordered by a minute track, unidirectional bezel, tonneau shaped case, fitted to a steel link bracelet with folding clasp. Choice of optional leather strap included.

• Case width 46mm
• Case Height 15mm
• Black Dial with Date
• Automatic Co-Axial Movement
• Black Unidirectional Rotating Bezel
• Stainless Steel Case
• Stainless Steel Bracelet
• Sapphire Crystal
• Helium Escape Valve
• Water Resistant to 600m/2000ft
• Condition 9.5/10
• Original Box, Pictogram Card and Warranty Card
• Spare Links
• Choice of optional leather strap included.

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By Graham Hill

A note from the editor:

After sailing 8,000 nautical miles, The Plastiki – carrying a 10-member crew  – arrived triumphantly in Sydney harbor on July 26^th, completing a 130-days voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

After engaging in a role-playing game with actress Glenn Close during the TED Mission Blue Voyage, entrepreneur Graham Hill joined fellow Selection Committee member and adventure ecologist David DeRothschild and his Plastiki crew on a groundbreaking voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

“I’m not a werewolf,” said Glenn Close, her eyes not leaving mine for a second. My mind reeled. Could I trust her? She seemed calm and confident. Or was that a slight smirk in her smile?

Close, myself, several environmentally engaged celebs such as Edward Norton and Leonardo DiCaprio, along with AOL founder Steve Case, tech savant Bill Joy, and a number of philanthropists, were among the 100 or so aboard a Lindblad Expeditions ship in the Galapagos this past April for the TED Mission Blue Voyage. The five-day conference had been organized by TED and Dr. Sylvia Earle, the deep-sea-diving pioneer and 2009 TED Prize winner. Close and DiCaprio had taken a break from plotting ways to save the world’s oceans for a mean game of Werewolves and Villagers, a highly addictive role-playing game. The game won, Close, talented actress that she is, smiled mischievously. Total werewolf.

This scene, frankly, wasn’t one I had ever imagined myself in. But being the founder of one of the more popular green websites, TreeHugger.com, had, strangely — and wonderfully — brought me together with a lot of people I never dreamed I’d play role-playing games with below decks on the equator. And thankfully! The increasingly vivid environmental nightmare we were heading toward has prompted many of our society’s influencers to see how they can help, and the TED Mission Blue Voyage was the first of two such inspired gatherings I’ve been privileged to drop in on lately, the second being the Plastiki, my pal David de Rothschild’s recycled-plastic-bottle “cataraft,” on which I was just crossing the Pacific.

Unlike many maps, globes are not distorted. Take a look at one. Spin it around. Notice that there’s way more blue than brown. Center it over Hawaii, and the Pacific covers your whole view. The oceans cover fully 71 percent of the globe. It ain’t Planet Earth; it’s very clearly Planet Ocean. Without the oceans, we’d quite simply go extinct, and this is the fundamental issue that both the TED Mission Blue Voyage and Plastiki are addressing.

In the Galapagos, Sylvia Earle wanted to galvanize support for saving our oceans by creating a global network of marine protected areas dubbed “Hope Spots” — think national parks for regions of the ocean — and over the five-day event, she got a major head start. The event featured your standard intense battery of TED talks (ocean-focused), lightened with interludes by Chevy Chase, Damien Rice, and Jackson Browne and peppered with guided snorkeling excursions, diving trips, and nature walks (per Cousteau: we protect what we love).

Between premiering Jake Eberts’s latest masterpiece, Oceans; showing videos of Mike Rutzen playing with a variety of monstrous sharks; displaying fantastic ocean photos by Brian Skerry; and raising a cool 17 million (yes, million), the TED-curated talks delivered. Among much else we learned that our fisheries have been decimated, that two-thirds of our oceans are out of any nation’s control and therefore are frustratingly difficult to regulate. We learned that we insanely subsidize our two-and-a-half-times-too-large fishing industry to the tune of $35 billion a year, while a mere $16 billion could protect more than 20 percent of the seas.

Once Mission Blue concluded, I hightailed it to Christmas Island, Kiribati. Five hours south of Hawaii, this is where I joined up with the Plastiki, a 60-foot catamaran made out of 12,500 reclaimed bottles and a fully recyclable plastic called Seretex.

The cat looked like a pleasure yacht. But one with Magiveresque additions of solar panels, wind turbines, a gigantic terrarium apparatus, and even a power-creating stationary bike. It was crowned with a Buckminster Fuller–inspired geodesic igloo for the crew. In short order, I came to understand that Adventure Ecology’s vessel, while very high-tech in some ways, was more raft than boat. An experimental craft built in San Francisco over the past few years, the Plastiki’s mission was to sail from there to Sydney using only alternative energy (wind, solar, hydro, human) while drawing attention to the plight of our oceans and encouraging us to start thinking “resource instead of “waste” management by emulating our animal brethren and designing for zero waste. The adventure part? The Pacific is absolutely massive, the boat sails a measly three or so knots per hour, and due to the design challenge of hulls full of water bottles, she easily drifts sideways and has serious turning restrictions.

By my fourth day, I’d acclimated to the round-the-clock three-hour watches, the constant salty damp and the incessant creaking, clanging, whistling of our lady Plastiki as she lumbered across the oh-so-ginormous Pacific in a suspiciously Truman Show fashion. The vibe was great onboard, and with partners such as HP and Inmarsat, there was plenty of media streaming outward to CNN, Oprah, the New York Times, Al Jazeera, TreeHugger, and many others. It was also revealing to see how six people can live relatively comfortably in a tiny, tiny space (a roughly 300-square-foot cabin) while only using wind and solar energy.

About 10 days in, coming out of said 95-degree sweatbox of a cabin, I noticed our normally trailing buoy far to port. The infamous doldrums were upon us. And so, with equal parts excitement and fear, we jumped into the water for a swim, excited to get into the massive ocean for a cool-off and for a change of scenery, but fearful that our snail’s pace would be further slowed. We swam around like excited children, leaping off the cabin into the sea, diving deep and hanging onto the buoy, as far as one could safely get from the boat. The water was as blue and has as much visibility as a swimming pool, yet I dove and dove again looking for signs of life. Eerily, we saw nothing at all near the surface, and I understood how parts of the ocean truly can be desert-like.

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From my all-time favorite movie franchise, two of Omega’s limited edition timepieces. Pictured are the Seamaster, Casino Royale edition and the Planet Ocean, Quantum of Solace edition.

Announcing— “The James Bond Limited Edition Watch Registries”

Between 2002 and present day, Omega SA has produced exactly 40,035 sequentially-numbered wristwatches under license with Eon Productions, and associated with the last three 007 feature films.

Where did each individual watch start out? Where are they now? What sorts of “stories” go along with them: From where they’ve been worn, what personal life events they may been used to time, reasons they were subsequently sold—and bought by the next person? Additionally, there are print ads, images, press releases, and specifications to be included as well.

JamesBondWatches.com has created specific Blogs to answer all these questions and indulge passions. A great deal of information is already online in each one right now.

• The 2002 Omega Seamaster watch, limited to 10,007 pieces and released in conjunction with “Die Another Day,” starring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, and in overall commemoration of 40 years of 007 feature films

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• The 2006 Omega Seamaster watch, limited to 10,007 pieces and released in conjunction with “Casino Royale,” starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

  http://222680.blogspot.com/

• The 2006 Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean BIG SIZE watch, limited to 5,007 pieces and released in conjunction with “Casino Royale,” starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

  http://29075091.blogspot.com/

• The 2008 Omega Seamaster watch, limited to 10,007 pieces and released while “Quantum of Solace” was being filmed, starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

  http://collectorsbondwatch2008.blogspot.com/

• The 2008 Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean watch, limited to 5,007 pieces and released in conjunction with “Quantum of Solace,” starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

  http://quantumbondwatchle.blogspot.com/

An overall Registry Index is available at the following link:

http://jamesbondwatchregistries.blogspot.com/

“This is a rather die-hard group of James Bond fans,” observes Dell Deaton, creator of www.jamesbondwatches.com, http://jamesbondwatches.blogspot.com, and these new Registries. “As we reach critical mass with registries and followers to the Blogs, I wouldn’t be surprised if a get-together of some sort was arranged in 2010. I can already think of a great venue here in the United States. Similar collecting groups may see this as a common draw for places in their countries around the world as well.”

Blogs will be updated at most once per day. Each Blog includes an eMail link to get in touch with JamesBondWatches.com for those who have suggestions for information, including photographs, to be included. Contributors may choose not to have their names included.