Africa's Primeval Oceans

The scene is the southern tip of Africa. Just off shore, two very different seas meet to form one of the most diverse marine environments on earth. The meeting of icy Atlantic and warm Indian waters not only affect life underwater, they are giant, contrasting forces that shape the land, climate, and all its creatures. This is the story of Cape Point. When Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias and his anxious crew became the first Europeans to lay eyes on this part of the world in 1488, they called it the Cape of Storms.