Spy in the Ocean
Spy in the Ocean is a 2023 BBC Television documentary series produced by John Downer for the BBC, PBS and The WNET Group. It films sea creatures in the wild using camera-equipped, marine life-shaped animatronic robots. It is a sequel to the earlier BBC series Spy in the Wild.
Production
The series is narrated by Scottish actor David Tennant, known for portraying the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctor in Doctor Who and Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Film locations include Australia, Belize, California, British Columbia, Caribbean, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Polynesia, Galápagos Islands, Indonesia, Japan, Malpelo Island, Mauritius, Mexico, New Zealand, South Georgia, and Thailand.
In addition to cameras disguised as inanimate objects such as Boulder-Cam, "spy creature" animal robots utilized include:
Releases
The series premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC.In the United States, PBS rebroadcast the series for Season 42 of Nature beginning on.