Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

It's very useful to come back home

You slowly start to care about all the animals,

so that you can actually go up and take a breath.

make breakthroughs.

I think quite stimulating for that huge intelligence.

She'd just pull the thing over.

And then it turns and rushes, and it's got a huge fright.

And then, boom, you know, she was gone.

And... and it was all so taxing, in a way.

It was a relief, because the intensity of going every day and tracking her, um...

Now, was she more active at night?

So they are deadly little octopus predators.

And you've got this young child that's growing up.

that relies on tremendous intelligence.

I realized I was changing.

those predators are ever present.

And now I know how the helmet shell is connected to the urchin

I just thought, "I wonder if anybody could ever track anything underwater?"

She was moving very badly, slowly, very weak.

So she drops in weight, and she loses an enormous amount of strength.

One day, she was following me.

and I'm coming out of the den,

if that drill is precisely in the apex of the shell,

A part of me just wanted to hold her and chase them away.

And she's moving towards me.

I'd just worn myself out.

I needed to learn everything.

be in this ocean.

for 10, 15 minutes.

The big relief came a week or so later,

corralling me so that

prize off those suckers

diving in the shallow kelp forest.

And then the crab thinks, "Okay, everything's all right,"

every species and what they're doing, how they're interacting.

And then you have to start thinking...

I worked with in the Kalahari.

The fish even seemed to be confused.

The boundaries between her and I seemed to dissolve.

It took going in every day to really get to know her environment better.

So when these thousands of threads going off from the octopus

because that's when you know there's full trust.

it was shocking to see small caves really close to her,

I dropped one of my lenses,

To see that develop,

and working out very quickly how best to hunt a very tricky prey.

lobsters just shooting out of the reef.