Legends of the Deep: Deep Sea Sharks

Legends of the Deep: Deep-Sea Sharks is a 2015 British nature documentary programme made for BBC Television, first shown in the UK on BBC Four on 19 July 2015. The programme is narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

Legends of the Deep: Deep Sea Sharks
Genre	Nature documentary
Narrated by	David Attenborough
Composer	Joe Hisaishi
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English & Japanese (subtitled)
No. of episodes	1
Production
Executive producers	Hiromichi Iwasaki, Gen Sasaki, Keizo Izuta, Chris Weber, Yoshiaki Sugai
Producers	Yoshio Yuki, Leslie Schwerin, Tatsuhiro Beniko
Running time	52 minutes
Production companies	BBC Natural History Unit, BBC Worldwide, NHK
Original release
Network	BBC Four
Release	19 July 2015 (2015-07-19) – 29 October 2017 (2017-10-29)

This documentary follows a Japanese team of scientists studying deep-sea sharks off the Pacific coast of Japan in Suruga Bay and Sagami Bay. The team utilized midget submarines as well as remote cameras placed near a sperm whale carcass to observe these sharks in their natural environment. Several of the species featured in this programme are bluntnose sixgill sharks, goblin sharks and frilled sharks, which Gill Crawford of RadioTimes comments, "when you see these creatures, you may wish they’d all stayed under wraps".

External links

• Legends of the Deep: Deep Sea Sharks at BBC Online