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BERTIE GREGORY: I’m combing the big blue
for an elusive super pod
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of spinner dolphins five thousand strong.
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Okay. So, we’ve got a bunch
of surface activity up here.
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There’s birds just piling into the water.
The... Geez! Look at that!
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BERTIE: This is epic.
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It’s massive ball of lanternfish.
The favorite food of spinner dolphins.
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But where are they?
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Look, look, look.
Here come the dolphins.
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NICO: They're coming.
We're gonna have a good surprise.
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-Are you ready?
-(THEME MUSIC BEGINS)
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BERTIE:
I’m Bertie. Filming animals is my job...
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That is not a chase you see every day.
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...and I take it really seriously.
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Look, I'm trying to film penguins.
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-(GROWLS)
-Oh, and I've missed it!
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Well, that was quite close.
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BERTIE: I want to tell wildlife stories
in a rapidly changing world.
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That sounded like a big crack!
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BERTIE: These are my adventures.
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(THEME MUSIC ENDS)
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BERTIE: I’m leaving England
and heading to the mighty Pacific Ocean...
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five thousand miles away
off the coast of Central America.
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Well, it’s pretty daunting to be searching
the biggest wilderness on Earth.
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But this place covers
half the surface of our planet.
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It's the open ocean, the high seas!
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BERTIE: I'm looking for a spinner dolphin
super pod.
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That’s when multiple pods merge
for a brief moment in time
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to form a single, enormous pod
with thousands of animals.
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Filming a spectacle like that
would be a dream come true.
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Unfortunately, our oceans are in trouble
and these events are getting
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rarer and rarer, but the reason we’ve come
to this particular spot
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is because it’s where dolphins
still gather in mind-blowing numbers.
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BERTIE: Nobody knows exactly why
super pods form,
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but it usually happens
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when there’s lots of food around.
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So we're searching the shelf break
between Quepos and the border of Panama.
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That’s where the shallow sea floor
suddenly drops away.
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This strip of cold deep water
has special qualities
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which could draw lots
of hungry dolphins in.
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More than a mile below us,
the seabed is far from flat.
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There's canyons and troughs
and mountains and volcanoes
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and the currents are whipped through
all those structures
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and that fires some of the water
in certain places upwards
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and that brings food near the surface.
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BERTIE: In other words,
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it’s a big blue desert
with oases hidden beneath the waves.
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That’s what the spinner dolphins
are looking for.
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And I guess all of that sounds lovely
in theory.
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Find one of the oases.
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Film the dolphins. Job done. Go home.
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BERTIE: But it is a huge gamble.
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We’re too far from land
to keep going back for supplies,
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so we’ve got just three weeks to scour
six thousand square miles of ocean.
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How on Earth are we going
to find these dolphins?
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BERTIE: And my guide, Nico,
has another top tip,
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look for birds.
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It’s easier to spot them on the skyline
and they often follow dolphins to food.
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After searching for four days straight,
it’s go time!
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-BERTIE: Johnny!
-JOHNNY: Yeah?
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-Johnny dude, dude, bait ball, bait ball.
-JOHNNY: Whereabouts?
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Straight off the bow,
straight off the bow. Okay.
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Crazy amounts of bird action,
there’s so much splashing.
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Are you good? Do you need any help?
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-JOHNNY: Yeah, no, I'm good.
-Okay, okay.
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BERTIE: It’s time to scramble
the fast boat and get in the water.
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Okay, there’s loads of surface activity.
And a bait ball’s forming.
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It’s when all the predators, dolphins,
tuna, push the fish,
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the prey species, up to the surface
and they all gather in a ball
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and the water starts to boil.
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Okay. So now, Nico and Maiky
are just figuring out
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where to drop me 'cause these bait balls
move around so much
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that if they drop me too close,
then we might interfere
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with the behavior,
which we never want to do.
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But if I’m too far,
then I might never see it.
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(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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BERTIE: No sign of dolphins,
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but it is teeming
with yellowfin tuna down here.
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It’s like looking through a kaleidoscope
of silver and gold!
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(MUSIC CONTINUES)
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BERTIE: And right in the middle
is a tornado of mackerel.
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That’s dinner if you’re a tuna.
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(MUSIC ENDS)
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BERTIE: It’s intense!
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From above and below.
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Every mackerel is trying
to get inside the bait ball.
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It's the only way they
can defend themselves.
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Or at least it was!
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They’re looking for protection.
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They’re using me as a human shield!
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I don’t want to mess this up for the tuna.
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I don’t want to get whacked
by one either.
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They weigh about two hundred pounds.
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It's time to get out.
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That was crazy.
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(SIGHS) So intense.
The moment we got in there, there’s...
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well, you see one tuna
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for every hundred that’s under...
under the surface. In one piece Johnny?
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JOHNNY: Yep, so far
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BERTIE: Our spinner dolphins
often hang out with tuna,
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but they could rock up at any time.
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And we really don't want to mess this up
by jumping back in too soon.
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We’re just waiting for it to stabilize,
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make sure there’s enough predators
pinning that ball to the surface.
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Nico’s seen something.
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All right, well, it’s not spinners.
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We've got a big bunch of spotted dolphins
and they are locked in on those mackerel.
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Time to get in. Let’s go, let’s go!
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(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
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(DOLPHINS SQUEAKING)
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BERTIE: These dolphins should keep
the mackerel hemmed in.
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They’re so calm compared to the tuna...
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but they know exactly what they’re doing.
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(SQUEAKING CONTINUES)
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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BERTIE: They’re working in groups...
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herding the mackerel like sheepdogs.
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(MUSIC CONTINUES)
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(DOLPHINS SQUEAKING)
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BERTIE: That gives the tuna something
to aim for too.
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(MUSIC CONTINUES)
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(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
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BERTIE: Two top predators
working side-by-side.
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It’s carnage for the mackerel.
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The more that get eaten,
the fewer places there are to hide.
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-(MUSIC CONTINUES)
-(DOLPHINS SQUEAKING)
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(MUSIC ENDS)
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BERTIE: It’s only been what,
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20 minutes since
the dolphins got here?
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I think it’s all over.
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I don’t think I'm gonna be
forgetting today in a hurry.
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You know when you see a feeding frenzy,
a predation on land,
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often you're quite far away
and you're using a long zoom lens.
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But underwater it's completely different,
you know,
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you're limited by the water visibility,
you have to be right in amongst it.
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And to feel the tuna that were as big
as me zipping past,
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and me almost getting knocked out
of the way
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and then feeling the sounds
of the dolphins echolocation,
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their clicks buzzing in my belly.
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Yeah, it doesn’t get
much better than that.
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BERTIE: We’ve hit a productive patch
of ocean
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and if there’s dolphin food here,
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there’s a good chance of finding
that spinner dolphin super pod.
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But with sundown approaching,
it’s time to head back
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to the big boat and prepare for tomorrow.
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I don’t want to drift too far
from this spot overnight,
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but this is the high seas.
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There’s over two miles of water below us,
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and nothing for a traditional anchor
to grab onto.
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So, Theo’s deploying the only form
of tether we have.
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It’s a sea anchor.
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And rather than latch onto a rock,
it latches onto the ocean currents.
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(AIR HISSES)
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BERTIE: The problem we’ve got is that
on the surface,
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the boat acts as a giant sail.
So, if the wind picks up in the night,
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we could just get blown off
into the middle of nowhere.
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So, this big parachute acts as an anchor,
a drag,
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to keep us in the dolphin hotspot area.
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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
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BERTIE: Our search is on hold for now,
but spinners hunt through the night.
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There could be a super pod
out there right now,
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powering their way through the waves.
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(MUSIC ENDS)
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BERTIE: We get cracking early.
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Thanks to the sea anchor,
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we’re still close to where we saw
that bait ball yesterday.
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BERTIE: Well, Captain Oscar
has spotted something.
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I’m gonna check it out with the drone.
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Well it’s definitely dolphins.
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Just go a bit closer, tip down.
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Whoa!
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Wow. Look at all of them!
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That is a lot of spinner dolphins!
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Well, it’s not a super pod,
but if 30 pods like this join together,
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then bam! You know, you get a pod
a mile wide, maybe even bigger.
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That’s what we're looking for.
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It's time to practice my filming skills
for the main event.
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Oh, cool! There’s a couple
of tiny little babies. They’re teeny!
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And they’re cruising so tight to mum
they’re like, "Mum, wait for me".
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I doubt they've ever seen land.
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They must think the big blue
just goes on forever.
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Drones are just such a crazy perspective,
I mean from the surface there’s--
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okay, there’s quite a lot
of dorsal fins but,
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the moment you get over the top,
suddenly it’s like,
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“Wow, look at all of them.”
You’ve just got no idea.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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BERTIE: This drone is definitely going
to help me show
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the mind-blowing scale
of a super pod when we find it.
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But right now,
I want to capture the behavior
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that gave spinner dolphins their name.
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For that, I’ll need
another game changing tool.
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-(MACHINE WHIRS)
-BERTIE: A gyro stabilized camera,
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that smooths out shots
on a rolling ocean.
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There you go.
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Okay. Watch out.
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-TASH: Got it?
-Yep.
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BERTIE: It’s worth a few bob, so I've got
Tash here to help me maneuver it.
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You’ve got a lot of spinning just over
there, if you turn the camera left.
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Well, unlike with the drone,
where you can see
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absolutely everything that’s going on.
Jib down a little bit, please, Tash.
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Now we’re at water level, trying to get
that super intimate low angle.
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You have no idea where the dolphins
are gonna come up.
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So, I’m just picking a plane of focus
and then waiting for the dolphins
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hopefully to come up in focus.
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There's a bunch of different theories
as to why they jump and spin.
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Some say that it’s to try
and get parasites off their bodies.
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Others say that it’s for communication.
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Others say that it’s just for fun!
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That one must have spun three times
in the air.
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It’s reckoned that they can spin six
or even seven times in one jump.
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-(JUBILANT MUSIC PLAYING)
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BERTIE: One thing's for sure,
whatever the reason for spinning
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it must be important to them,
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because they start to practice
at a very young age.
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Aw, that is just the cutest!
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There’s a tiny little baby
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and it keeps doing little jumps.
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BERTIE: Filming the spinners
like this is great,
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but I won’t get another chance
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to practice swimming with a super pod.
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I've gotta get in the water now.
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-JOHNNY: Okay?
-BERTIE: Okay. Cool.
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(DOLPHINS SQUEAKING)
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(DOLPHINS CLICKING)
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BERTIE: Dolphins use clicks to navigate
and whistles to talk to each other.
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The sound is immense.
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(DOLPHINS CLICKING AND SQUEAKING)
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BERTIE: They’re fast too.
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At full-pelt they can hit
over twenty miles an hour.
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But I can’t even keep up with them
at cruising speed!
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(GRUNTS)
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Oh, man!
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That is so epic.
234
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To see that many dolphins,
all underwater.
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But that pod, just a few hundred animals,
is just a fraction of the size
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of the super pods
that these spinners can form.
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Somewhere out here is a pod
of thousands and thousands
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of spinners,
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and I really,
really want to find it.
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(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
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BERTIE: That brief encounter has taught me
some valuable lessons.
242
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Filming spinners on the surface
is tricky, but doable.
243
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Diving with them though?
Not so easy.
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Before we try again,
I’m gonna head back to the big boat
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to prep my secret weapon.
246
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So, our biggest challenge
247
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with filming the dolphins underwater
is keeping up with them.
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I can't swim fast enough.
249
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So, this could be the answer
to our problems.
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It’s an underwater scooter.
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So, there’s a really powerful propeller
at the back.
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I’ve got my camera attached to the front.
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And, in theory, I’m gonna be able
to keep up with the dolphins.
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And it really is just “a theory."
It's also possible
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that a catastrophic failure
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will send all of my camera gear down
to Davy Jones's locker.
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If that happens, it’s game over.
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So, yeah. We’re gonna take it slow
and see if it works.
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And the thirteen-year-old boy inside me
is also very excited
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just to be using
a sea scooter underwater.
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BERTIE: Here we go.
First, check for leaks.
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We’re looking good.
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It's holding together at slow speed.
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Now to try it in full James Bond mode.
265
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Dolphins cruise
at about six miles per hour.
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I’m only managing three
with the scooter,
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but that’s at least triple
my maximum swimming speed.
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So, it’s a definite improvement.
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JOHNNY: All good?
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-It’s quite a lot of fun.
-MALE VOICE: Hand me that.
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And yeah, you just hold down
the accelerator and feel like a dolphin.
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Um, so hopefully the dolphins accept it.
273
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It seems really quiet underwater,
which is important. (EXHALES)
274
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Yeah, so I think it’s gonna work.
275
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BERTIE: What a day! My first swim
with spinners in the morning.
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Re-enacting scenes
from Thunderball this evening.
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I think we’re all set.
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Now all we need to do is find
that spinner dolphin super pod tomorrow.
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(MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING)
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BERTIE: A new day brings fresh doubt.
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For the next four days, life aboard
the Aguila follows a familiar pattern.
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We get up early.
283
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Morning!
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BERTIE: Grab a coffee.
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He doesn’t normally do that,
it’s just 'cause we’re filming.
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Head out on deck. And stare at the sea.
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The big, beautiful,
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and apparently lifeless sea.
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We’re basically just stood here
with our eyes like this,
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from the moment the sun comes up
to the moment the sun goes down.
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BERTIE: And tiny clues are gonna lead us
to a super pod.
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A strange ripple, a random splash,
a hungry flock of birds.
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But, well, what are the chances?
294
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We’re on a massive ocean,
but no sign of life.
295
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(GROANS) This is very, very tedious.
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Not gonna lie, I'm starting
to get a little bit concerned.
297
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We’ve spent a lot of time,
and we’ve searched a massive area.
298
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But with that said, while we’re moving,
the dolphins are also a moving target,
299
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so they might very well be
in a place that we’ve already searched,
300
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we just didn’t intercept them.
301
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BERTIE: We’ve checked the charts,
and set our course,
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for another underwater canyon
where ocean currents
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should force dolphin food
to the surface.
304
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But we haven’t seen a single spinner,
let alone a super pod.
305
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Our morale needs a boost.
306
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And it finally arrives in the form
of bottlenose dolphins.
307
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They’re using the bow wave
of our boat to speed themselves along.
308
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It saves them energy and gives us hope.
309
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If they’ve found food here,
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there’s a chance we’ll find
the spinners too.
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We've just bumped into
a big group of dolphins.
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-JOHNNY: Bertie!
-Yeah?
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-JOHNNY: Pilot whales right in front.
-Pilot whales?
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-JOHNNY: Yeah. With the dolphins...
-Where?
315
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JOHNNY: ...right on the bow.
316
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Oh man, no way.
317
00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,559
Okay. Things just got very interesting.
318
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The main pod of dolphin
are about three o’clock, Bertie,
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we’ve still got a couple
of pilot whales here.
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(GROANS) Crazy.
321
00:20:37,946 --> 00:20:40,115
We’ve got more than just a couple.
322
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I can see at least thirty from the drone.
323
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BERTIE: Pilot whales are a type
of dolphin too.
324
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But they hunt in the deep sea
up to three thousand feet down.
325
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Finding food is incredibly hard work
for them.
326
00:21:01,678 --> 00:21:06,308
They must be hanging out up here
to rest and catch their breath.
327
00:21:12,897 --> 00:21:15,317
That’s given the bottlenose dolphins...
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a chance to mingle.
329
00:21:18,570 --> 00:21:20,989
That is extraordinary,
330
00:21:21,990 --> 00:21:24,159
it looks like
they're playing a game of chase.
331
00:21:30,665 --> 00:21:34,878
Two different species playing
with each other, that is just mad!
332
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I don’t know if that’s
ever been recorded before.
333
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(LAUGHS) Whoo!
334
00:21:41,926 --> 00:21:43,219
Look at that!
335
00:21:43,345 --> 00:21:44,637
JOHNNY: They’re having a great time.
336
00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:48,641
BERTIE: Ah! Front flip!
337
00:21:55,106 --> 00:21:58,985
BERTIE: Some dolphins will harass
porpoises, even bully whales,
338
00:21:59,486 --> 00:22:01,529
but there’s no animosity here.
339
00:22:05,033 --> 00:22:08,370
It just looks like just
good old-fashioned fun.
340
00:22:16,294 --> 00:22:19,381
Even though pilot whales can weigh
as much as a hippo,
341
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they’re nervous with divers.
342
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So, I’ve got to tread carefully
when I get in the water with them.
343
00:22:28,181 --> 00:22:31,059
We’re going in really slow,
keeping the engine really low revs,
344
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because they can be really shy.
345
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So, everything we're gonna be doing
has got to be as quiet as possible.
346
00:22:38,233 --> 00:22:40,443
Gonna slip in the water
without making any splash,
347
00:22:40,944 --> 00:22:43,196
so hopefully they want to hang out.
348
00:22:51,371 --> 00:22:52,372
Okay?
349
00:22:53,832 --> 00:22:57,001
BERTIE: Having the bottlenose here
could work in my favor.
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00:22:58,044 --> 00:23:01,923
If they’re cool with me around,
it’ll put the pilot whales at ease.
351
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,928
I'm gonna stick close
to them until I’ve been introduced.
352
00:23:16,896 --> 00:23:18,565
It’s beautiful.
353
00:23:19,524 --> 00:23:22,360
Some are just hanging out
in this big blue void,
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like massive airships.
355
00:23:26,823 --> 00:23:29,367
Others are still
chilling with the dolphins.
356
00:23:33,163 --> 00:23:35,707
I wonder if this is more than play.
357
00:23:38,501 --> 00:23:40,295
They’re touching each other.
358
00:23:41,588 --> 00:23:44,215
That's how dolphins
strengthen their bonds.
359
00:23:45,884 --> 00:23:49,179
Is it possible these guys
have been friends for years?
360
00:24:00,398 --> 00:24:04,277
It’s amazing to share
such an intimate moment with pilot whales.
361
00:24:07,697 --> 00:24:11,659
They'll soon zoom back down
into the deep to continue hunting.
362
00:24:19,751 --> 00:24:25,507
Right now though, it looks like
there’s other important whale business.
363
00:24:28,051 --> 00:24:31,763
You can learn a lot about an animal’s diet
by looking at its poo....
364
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And pilot whales make rather a lot of it.
365
00:24:44,859 --> 00:24:48,404
I’m gonna check out my findings
and prepare for another dive.
366
00:24:52,951 --> 00:24:55,912
Well, the most fun part of that
was one of the whales
367
00:24:56,162 --> 00:24:59,582
did a huge poo right in my face
and I swam right into it.
368
00:24:59,874 --> 00:25:02,210
And full of the poo were these.
369
00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:04,295
It’s a squid beak.
370
00:25:04,879 --> 00:25:06,339
It’s right in the mouth of the squid.
371
00:25:06,422 --> 00:25:08,383
There’s none of those guys
at the surface right now.
372
00:25:08,466 --> 00:25:09,592
They’re all super deep.
373
00:25:09,968 --> 00:25:11,678
So these pilot whale
are diving super deep,
374
00:25:11,803 --> 00:25:14,055
eating the squid and coming back
to the surface to breathe.
375
00:25:16,558 --> 00:25:18,851
BERTIE:
With calm seas and calm whales,
376
00:25:19,102 --> 00:25:21,854
I’m going to pull out all the stops
on the next dive.
377
00:25:22,564 --> 00:25:24,899
Scooter's ready and the cool thing
about this scooter,
378
00:25:25,066 --> 00:25:30,488
the reason we can do this potentially
with these whales, is because it’s silent.
379
00:25:34,033 --> 00:25:36,995
BERTIE: If this works, it’ll bring
a whole new dimension
380
00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:38,580
to filming the spinners too.
381
00:25:49,215 --> 00:25:51,843
It’s working even better than I hoped.
382
00:25:54,053 --> 00:25:56,472
I feel like a pilot whale.
383
00:25:56,806 --> 00:26:01,603
(SLOW TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING)
384
00:26:03,104 --> 00:26:07,692
BERTIE: It used to be thought that the pod
was piloted by a single leader,
385
00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:09,193
hence their name....
386
00:26:13,364 --> 00:26:18,328
We now know that’s not true,
but there is a strong family bond
387
00:26:18,411 --> 00:26:19,829
that keeps the pod together.
388
00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:23,750
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
389
00:26:28,838 --> 00:26:33,426
BERTIE: There’s one whale
that stands out though, an adult female.
390
00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:45,521
I think she’s scoping me out, checking
that I’m harmless.
391
00:26:47,398 --> 00:26:50,276
But it feels like she’s looking
into my soul.
392
00:26:50,610 --> 00:26:55,031
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
393
00:27:02,413 --> 00:27:05,041
This whale family seems to trust me.
394
00:27:09,545 --> 00:27:11,506
As maybe the ultimate honor,
395
00:27:12,173 --> 00:27:15,051
they’re falling asleep
in front of my eyes.
396
00:27:19,972 --> 00:27:22,141
They are mind-blowing.
397
00:27:22,850 --> 00:27:26,104
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
398
00:27:36,239 --> 00:27:37,949
(MUSIC FADES)
399
00:27:38,491 --> 00:27:40,493
BERTIE: I think it’s time
to leave them in peace.
400
00:27:46,999 --> 00:27:49,627
-It worked! (CHUCKLES)
-JOHNNY: It worked, yeah?
401
00:27:54,215 --> 00:27:55,758
It’s like being a pilot whale.
402
00:27:56,718 --> 00:28:00,263
The biggest one, I think
she was a female, came right over.
403
00:28:00,346 --> 00:28:04,642
And I could see her eye,
just checking me out, twitching around.
404
00:28:05,059 --> 00:28:10,022
And we just had this moment
and I’ve never seen anything like that.
405
00:28:10,148 --> 00:28:11,315
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
406
00:28:11,482 --> 00:28:14,110
Just looking into the eye of something
that is...
407
00:28:14,944 --> 00:28:16,320
clearly so intelligent.
408
00:28:16,446 --> 00:28:18,281
They just ooze intelligence.
409
00:28:18,781 --> 00:28:20,366
And you know,
we’re in the middle of nowhere,
410
00:28:20,533 --> 00:28:23,536
that could be the first time
that whale has ever seen a human.
411
00:28:24,078 --> 00:28:27,749
First time I’ve ever seen
a pilot whale underwater, so.
412
00:28:29,167 --> 00:28:31,794
Yeah, I hope her encounter was...
413
00:28:32,462 --> 00:28:34,672
as cool as mine was.
414
00:28:38,342 --> 00:28:40,678
BERTIE: Those pilot whales
were a huge bonus,
415
00:28:41,429 --> 00:28:42,764
but we’re running out of time
416
00:28:42,930 --> 00:28:44,265
to find that super pod.
417
00:28:47,351 --> 00:28:50,062
It feels like the ocean is taunting us.
418
00:28:51,898 --> 00:28:54,901
I’m considering just permanently attaching
this pole to my body,
419
00:28:54,984 --> 00:29:00,448
so I don’t even have to use my hands.
Jump again please, Mr. or Mrs. Dolphin.
420
00:29:01,199 --> 00:29:02,533
It’s a common dolphin.
421
00:29:02,867 --> 00:29:05,453
About three or four times a day,
we all get very excited
422
00:29:05,828 --> 00:29:07,205
because we see dolphins.
423
00:29:07,830 --> 00:29:11,125
But then unfortunately,
whilst it’s always cool to see a dolphin,
424
00:29:11,334 --> 00:29:12,960
they turn out to be the wrong ones.
425
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,047
Common dolphins, they jump much higher.
426
00:29:16,130 --> 00:29:18,132
They do these big leaps
so you can actually tell
427
00:29:18,257 --> 00:29:20,718
from a really long way away
if it’s a common dolphin
428
00:29:20,843 --> 00:29:23,930
as opposed to a spinner.
The other way to tell,
429
00:29:24,138 --> 00:29:26,390
the common dolphins,
if they jump and they show you
430
00:29:26,599 --> 00:29:27,642
their belly,
431
00:29:27,767 --> 00:29:29,685
if it’s white you immediately
know it's a common dolphin.
432
00:29:32,730 --> 00:29:37,360
What is that over there? Big high jump.
It's a common dolphin not a spinner.
433
00:29:38,361 --> 00:29:40,988
You know, watching any dolphin
is living the dream.
434
00:29:41,405 --> 00:29:43,491
-Big splash.
-Nightmare.
435
00:29:44,242 --> 00:29:45,910
BERTIE: Unless you've got a deadline.
436
00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:48,287
(WHISPERS) Common dolphin.
437
00:29:51,541 --> 00:29:54,377
Oh! I saw one jump really high!
438
00:29:56,337 --> 00:29:57,255
(GROANS)
439
00:29:57,421 --> 00:29:59,799
I’ve never been so disappointed
to see a dolphin.
440
00:30:01,384 --> 00:30:03,719
JOHNNY:
441
00:30:05,596 --> 00:30:06,597
BERTIE: True that.
442
00:30:06,722 --> 00:30:11,018
But we came all this way
to film a spinner dolphin super pod.
443
00:30:12,854 --> 00:30:16,607
And with time slipping by,
serious doubts are creeping in.
444
00:30:21,529 --> 00:30:23,406
This is all getting a bit frustrating.
445
00:30:23,781 --> 00:30:27,410
Somewhere out here,
are thousands and thousands of dolphins,
446
00:30:28,244 --> 00:30:31,622
but we just can’t find them.
And the more we look around,
447
00:30:31,956 --> 00:30:35,001
trying to find a needle in a haystack,
448
00:30:35,167 --> 00:30:38,838
the more I begin to feel
like maybe we might not find
449
00:30:39,839 --> 00:30:43,134
the super pod of spinner dolphins
450
00:30:44,218 --> 00:30:47,346
that’s rumored to swim around
and gather in this spot.
451
00:30:48,764 --> 00:30:51,684
BERTIE: Although, if the ocean
has taught me one thing,
452
00:30:52,018 --> 00:30:54,812
it’s that your luck can turn at any time.
453
00:30:58,983 --> 00:31:02,695
Here we go, last day.
And we’re all on lookout duty.
454
00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:10,494
Maybe this turtle taxi is a good omen too.
455
00:31:17,293 --> 00:31:18,294
What is that?
456
00:31:20,296 --> 00:31:23,049
They’re diving ten o’clock,
Bertie, moving towards nine.
457
00:31:24,467 --> 00:31:25,635
BERTIE: We’ve got diving birds.
458
00:31:25,968 --> 00:31:28,971
This is our last chance
to find spinner dolphins.
459
00:31:35,311 --> 00:31:37,521
Okay. So, we’ve got a bunch
of surface activity up here.
460
00:31:37,688 --> 00:31:39,440
There’s birds just piling into the water.
461
00:31:39,774 --> 00:31:42,193
There's Boobies, Shearwaters,
all different kinds of birds
462
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,236
pumping into the…
Geez! Look at that!
463
00:31:44,570 --> 00:31:47,490
The amount of activity that’s going on
at the surface is wild.
464
00:31:47,990 --> 00:31:50,493
So, okay. You can film that
over his shoulder,
465
00:31:50,576 --> 00:31:51,744
that looks really cool.
466
00:31:51,953 --> 00:31:53,996
The last few days
have been frustrating,
467
00:31:54,121 --> 00:31:56,374
you know, it’s a beautiful place
don’t get me wrong,
468
00:31:56,499 --> 00:32:01,045
but it's pretty boring just going up
and down staring at empty ocean.
469
00:32:01,170 --> 00:32:05,091
But occasionally, you get little oases
where the life just goes bananas.
470
00:32:05,341 --> 00:32:07,385
And right now, that is going bananas.
471
00:32:08,636 --> 00:32:11,347
Okay. Birds are diving and the bait is up.
472
00:32:11,639 --> 00:32:13,724
-Where is it?
-Right there. Right there.
473
00:32:21,649 --> 00:32:23,693
BERTIE: It’s so quiet.
474
00:32:25,778 --> 00:32:27,363
No whoosh of tuna,
475
00:32:28,197 --> 00:32:29,782
no dolphin chatter....
476
00:32:33,828 --> 00:32:37,581
Just a planet-sized bait ball
of lanternfish.
477
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,721
These guys live in the deep
478
00:32:52,096 --> 00:32:55,850
and usually move towards the surface
at night to feed on plankton.
479
00:32:59,478 --> 00:33:02,231
That’s when spinner dolphins
normally hunt them.
480
00:33:03,607 --> 00:33:06,027
They’re a key part of spinners' diet.
481
00:33:12,575 --> 00:33:15,953
But lanternfish are rarely
at the surface in the day.
482
00:33:24,170 --> 00:33:27,757
The scales in the water show
that dolphins have been feeding.
483
00:33:31,969 --> 00:33:33,429
So where have they gone?
484
00:33:39,727 --> 00:33:42,146
Look, Nico! Look! Here come the dolphins
485
00:33:42,271 --> 00:33:43,355
They’re coming.
486
00:33:43,439 --> 00:33:45,274
We're gonna have a good surprise.
487
00:33:47,318 --> 00:33:49,445
(DOLPHINS SQUEAKING)
488
00:33:49,737 --> 00:33:51,363
BERTIE: That’s music to my ears!
489
00:33:51,739 --> 00:33:54,575
(DOLPHINS SQUEAKING LOUDLY)
490
00:33:54,825 --> 00:33:56,077
BERTIE: The dolphins are back.
491
00:33:57,578 --> 00:34:00,706
They’re not spinners,
they’re spotted dolphins.
492
00:34:06,420 --> 00:34:08,506
It's like watching a sports team!
493
00:34:09,048 --> 00:34:11,801
And the game is, "Stop the fish escaping."
494
00:34:12,384 --> 00:34:15,679
(SQUEAKING CONTINUES)
495
00:34:16,055 --> 00:34:18,307
They’re blowing bubbles from below.
496
00:34:21,727 --> 00:34:24,772
All that rising air spooks
the lanternfish
497
00:34:25,523 --> 00:34:27,441
and keeps them near the surface.
498
00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:32,238
(DOLPHINS SQUEAKING)
499
00:34:37,993 --> 00:34:39,870
BERTIE: I bet the birds are grateful.
500
00:34:42,039 --> 00:34:44,834
(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
501
00:34:46,168 --> 00:34:49,755
BERTIE: A youngster!
Watching Mum, picking up tips.
502
00:34:50,297 --> 00:34:54,176
(DOLPHINS SQUEAKING)
503
00:34:55,928 --> 00:34:58,347
BERTIE: This is a bit
like hitting the jackpot.
504
00:35:07,064 --> 00:35:10,818
Lanternfish are one of the most
abundant fish on Earth,
505
00:35:11,694 --> 00:35:14,155
and they draw a lot of predators in.
506
00:35:16,365 --> 00:35:17,658
Here comes another now...
507
00:35:19,285 --> 00:35:20,619
mobula rays.
508
00:35:24,206 --> 00:35:27,877
They were once thought of
as passive plankton feeders.
509
00:35:28,752 --> 00:35:32,047
But show them a bait ball,
and they’re anything but.
510
00:35:34,675 --> 00:35:38,137
Those flaps by their face
are called cephalic lobes.
511
00:35:38,971 --> 00:35:42,057
They use them to funnel fish
into their mouths.
512
00:35:47,021 --> 00:35:48,355
Oh, here we go.
513
00:35:50,191 --> 00:35:53,485
Now the guided missiles
of the fish world have arrived.
514
00:35:55,362 --> 00:35:58,782
Yellowfin tuna, hundreds of them!
515
00:36:04,955 --> 00:36:09,835
Now we’ve got four predators
all after the same food.
516
00:36:13,130 --> 00:36:15,591
You’d expect there
to be a few collisions.
517
00:36:19,845 --> 00:36:23,307
But the only animals getting smashed
are the lanternfish.
518
00:36:23,807 --> 00:36:28,812
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
519
00:36:49,583 --> 00:36:50,876
(MUSIC ENDS)
520
00:36:53,420 --> 00:36:54,797
(DOLPHINS SQUEAKING)
521
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,924
BERTIE: That’s it.
The predators are off.
522
00:36:58,467 --> 00:37:01,637
They've blasted that bait ball
into smithereens...
523
00:37:05,933 --> 00:37:09,603
All that’s left is a galaxy
of tiny fish scales
524
00:37:10,104 --> 00:37:11,438
glinting in the water.
525
00:37:16,193 --> 00:37:20,281
Coming out and searching a place
that very few people ever go
526
00:37:20,406 --> 00:37:23,033
has been a very humbling experience.
527
00:37:23,284 --> 00:37:25,786
And I’ve definitely learned a lot
from the ocean.
528
00:37:25,953 --> 00:37:28,956
You need to be patient,
you need to be persistent
529
00:37:29,373 --> 00:37:31,834
and most of all you need
to be adaptable
530
00:37:32,001 --> 00:37:34,378
because you just never know
what you’re going to see.
531
00:37:38,924 --> 00:37:44,388
BERTIE: And I feel lucky too, overfishing,
pollution, and rising water temperatures
532
00:37:44,638 --> 00:37:48,851
are hammering oceans globally,
but it seems like this little gem
533
00:37:49,101 --> 00:37:50,644
of a place is hanging on.
534
00:37:53,605 --> 00:37:57,609
One of the main goals of this expedition
was to try and film super pods
535
00:37:57,776 --> 00:38:01,322
of spinner dolphins and,
unfortunately, we haven’t managed
536
00:38:01,405 --> 00:38:04,742
that mysteriously they’ve...
they've just disappeared.
537
00:38:05,242 --> 00:38:09,204
And I guess, that’s what happens
when you search in the open ocean.
538
00:38:09,455 --> 00:38:12,958
Those dolphins are somewhere,
and we just haven’t managed to find them.
539
00:38:13,417 --> 00:38:17,504
But the magic of the open ocean
is that whilst it might deny you
540
00:38:17,588 --> 00:38:19,840
some things, it gifts you others.
541
00:38:22,843 --> 00:38:24,803
To know that out here
542
00:38:24,970 --> 00:38:28,307
there are these hotspots of life
that are home
543
00:38:28,432 --> 00:38:32,436
to just the most insane,
magical wildlife encounters.
544
00:38:33,062 --> 00:38:35,314
That's pretty special.
545
00:38:43,947 --> 00:38:44,948
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
546
00:38:45,074 --> 00:38:48,410
BERTIE: Although we were trying
to film dolphins, the biggest surprise
547
00:38:48,535 --> 00:38:51,038
was the number of yellowfin tuna we saw.
548
00:38:51,497 --> 00:38:54,124
Since foreign factory ships
were pushed offshore,
549
00:38:54,583 --> 00:38:57,836
all the local fishermen I spoke to
said that numbers have recovered
550
00:38:57,961 --> 00:38:59,296
in this one spot.
551
00:38:59,546 --> 00:39:02,591
It's a small victory, but shows
what can happen
552
00:39:02,674 --> 00:39:07,137
when we stop factory fishing in an area
and let nature heal itself.
553
00:39:07,304 --> 00:39:10,265
That's good news for wildlife
and local fishermen.
554
00:39:11,392 --> 00:39:12,226
(MUSIC ENDS)