I’m yet to see this film as it has not made it to Africa yet, was a privileged to spend 2 seasons on the high seas working with the legendary Hugh Pearson and a multi-talented international team of scientists and media human’s
On day one of the main shoot I crashed an Inspire 2 drone into the ocean at sunset which is a low point of my career. Made up for it later on getting the first ever footage of Blue whales in this region.
The area offshore of the Seychelles Plateau is largely unexplored by filmmakers, scientists and divers. Exploited by the purse seine tun fleets of European countries this vast watery wilderness is home to a huge diversity of marine mammals. Over the 5 weeks of shooting we made sightings of Blue whale, sperm whale, Brydes whale, orca, Short Finned Pilot whale, Rissos dolphin, Pigmy Sperm Whale, longmans beaked whale( a massive superpod on the surface), False killer whale, Pigmy Killer whale, Spinner dolphin, spotted dolphin, oceanic Bottle-nose dolphin and perhaps a few more assorted dolphins I’v forgotten about.
Humbling to scratch the surface of intelligent life in this blue wilderness.