Octonauts is an animated CGI children's television programme produced by Brownbag Films, based on a series of books by writing team Meomi. It centres around a team of undersea adventurers whose stated mission aim is to 'Explore, rescue, protect'. During the course of each 11-minute episode they seek to aid and assist any and all kinds of marine life that they come across, whilst searching for places that no-one has ever been to before, and documenting any new creature that they find. The live inside a large ship called the Octopod, and have smaller submersibles called Gups that they can travel short distances in. They are also, for the most part, a collection of talking, anthropomorphised animals.