Jurassic World "Beneath the Surface" Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Sheela Shrinivas Directed by Michael Mullen Release date: December 3, 2021

The campers have escaped Isla Nublar on the yacht...but will it take them to Costa Rica as they hope?

Read the story summary at the Jurassic Park Wiki

Didja Know?

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is a CG-animated TV series that aired on the Netflix streaming service from 2020-2022 for five seasons and one special. While the first couple of episodes take place before and during the events of Jurassic World, the rest of them take place shortly after that film, and about three years before the events of Fallen Kingdom. Netflix is currently producing episodes of a sequel series, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, whose first season began in May 2024.

   Each episode of the series opens with the words "A Netflix Original Series" over what appears to be a T. rex footprint in the jungle mud. 

    The Universal Pictures logo that appears after this is altered from the usual to have the Earth globe with a continent that looks very roughly like the supercontinent Pangaea may have looked in the Triassic-Jurassic periods of the Mesozoic era, 200-150 million years ago.

    As the Universal Earth globe spins, a second "continent" seen is actually a stylized DreamWorks Pictures logo (a boy sitting with a fishing pole on the crescent Moon), followed by the Amblin Entertainment logo.

The dinosaur that bursts out of the Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous gates at the beginning of the opening titles of each episode is a Tyrannosaurus rex, possibly the infamous Rexy herself, but we don't see its right side close enough to see if it has Rexy's raptor scars incurred in Jurassic Park.

Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode

Brooklynn
Ben Pincus
Darius Bowman
Yasmina Fadoula
Kenji Kon
Sammy Gutierrez
stowaway compy

Brooklyn's dads (mentioned only)

Daniel Kon (mentioned only)

Mitch Wyley (in portraits only, deceased)
Tiff Wyley (in portraits only, deceased)

Mosasaurus

Didja Notice? 

The yacht's stowaway compy seen here for the first time was introduced by a faint roar at the end of the previous episode "Stay on Mission".

Kenji refers to himself as "Captain K" in his capacity as captain of the yacht since he is the only one of the campers who has some sailing experience.

    As Brooklynn works on fixing the yacht's sonar, Kenji asks her how she learned to do that kind of stuff, adding, "Did you unbox the Titanic or something?" The famously "unsinkable" RMS Titanic sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912 after hitting an iceberg. Brooklynn herself made an oblique reference to the historic ship earlier when she joked about manning the conn herself and shouting "Iceberg! Iceberg!"

    Speaking of sonar, it is actually an acronym (SONAR), standing for "sound navigation and ranging" or "sonic navigation and ranging".

Brooklynn reveals to Kenji that when her family moved to London, she had a hard time making friends and spent a lot of time helping her dads in the garage.

Looking for the stowaway compy, Sammy and Yaz search a room that appears to have been Mitch and Tiff's room. Obnoxious portraits of the two big game hunters are seen hanging on the walls. 

At 10:53 in the episode, Yaz shows Sammy a drawing she made of the entire group on day one during the ferry ride to Isla Nublar. The gang's all there, but Kenji should not be! He didn't ride the ferry, but was flown to the island on one of his father's helicopters, as seen in "Camp Cretaceous".

When the yacht gets stuck in a kelp bed, the campers worry that sharks may be present, as they tend to hang out around kelp forests. Needing a volunteer to go underwater and free the propeller from the kelp, Yaz demurs, muttering, "Sharks? I'll pass. Saw this movie as a kid that really messed me up for life." She is likely referring to Steven Speilberg's 1975 film classic, Jaws. 

At 14:03 and 14:26 in the episode, the dirt stains are missing from Yaz's clothes and skin.

At 19:59 in the episode, we see that the Mosasaurus has an inner set of teeth. This is a true characteristic (pterygoid teeth) of the species used to help grip struggling prey and pull it down the throat, similar to a snake's inner teeth on the upper jaw palate.

At 21:13 in the episode, a strange lighting artifact in the CGI is seen in the sky for a split second, just before the Mosasaur's head splashes back down into the water. It is likely part of the splash effect that was programmed to appear a couple of frames too soon.

Notes from the junior novelization Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous - The Deluxe Junior Novelization Volume Four by Steve Behling Cover illustration by Patrick Spaziante 2022 Page 5 recaps the events of this episode and the previous two episodes

Didja Know? 

Oddly, Volume Three of the Camp Cretaceous novelizations did not cover the final two episodes of Season Three ("Whatever It Takes" and "Stay on Mission"), nor are they covered in Volume Four except for a one page summary of the events of these two episodes, plus our current episode ("Beneath the Surface")...yes, the first episode of Season Four is also not covered!

Characters appearing or mentioned in this book excerpt, not in the episode

mercenary soldiers (mentioned only)

Dr. Wu (mentioned only)

Memorable Dialog

I've always wanted a signature look.mp3

I can't leave my post.mp3

soulmates.mp3

unbox the Titanic.mp3

I learned how to look awesome and drive a boat.mp3

Brooklynn unboxes Kenji.mp3

I thought we were done with dinosaurs.mp3