 What do naval officers in the South Antarctic Sea, a family in Wilmington, N.C., the oceanographic institute in Monterey, and fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico all have in common? They re all about to be the first to meet a new form of sea life -- it s beautiful, the kids may even want to play with it, and it likes to make the water warm. But what they don t know yet is that they are on the verge of a world disaster. "Surface" is a series full of continuously evolving twists that deliver across several long-term arcs.