Wild Caribbean reef fish anywhere in the Caribbean. The final island to be featured is Trinidad, cut off from South America by rising sea levels 2,000 years ago. Its island fauna include many mainland species such as red howler monkeys, capuchins and scarlet ibis. Coral reefs, which thrive in the warm, shallow waters around Caribbean Islands, are the subject of the second programme. Hard corals are the reef-builders, and grow their tough external skeletons by extracting nutrients from algae growing within them. Time-lapse footage shows coral polyps emerging at night to trap drifting plankton. Marine life featured includes Caribbean reef squid, octopus
Dutch–Venezuelan crisis of 1908 Dutch–Venezuelan crisis of 1908 In 1908 a dispute broke out between the Netherlands and Venezuela when the Venezuelan president, Cipriano Castro, cut off trade with the Dutch island of Curaçao on the grounds that it was harbouring political refugees from Venezuela. Venezuela expelled the Dutch ambassador, prompting a Dutch dispatch of three warships - a "pantserschip" (coastal defence ship), the "Jacob van Heemskerk", and two protected cruisers, the "Gelderland" and the "Friesland". The Dutch warships had orders to intercept every ship that was sailing under the Venezuelan flag. On 12 December, the "Gelderland" captured the Venezuelan coast guard ship "Alix"