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Unmissable BBC show Spy In The Ocean sees robot whale play with wild friends

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After Spy In The Wild enthralled viewers, the team have turned their attention to our oceans, deploying bigger, better and more sophisticated animatronic spy creatures.The new four-part nature series is produced by John Downer and sees spy creatures like sperm whales, blue crabs, coconut octopuses, cuttlefish and manatees take to the waves to get a closer look at their real-life counterparts. “In all my life, I’ve wanted to get closer and closer to animals and see them and to film them from inside their world,” explains John. “What the spy creatures do is get you into their heads and that’s always a dream.

We’re all part of this world, and it’s important to recognise that in this world of crisis, we have all these animals out there to be valued and respected.” Most of the animals believe that the spy creatures are one of them, and sometimes people also have a hard time telling which ones are real and which aren’t. “There was a funny incident with our spy dolphin,” recalls series producer Matthew Gordon. “We couldn’t deploy him quickly enough, so we had to put him in the back of a pick-up truck to move him down the coast. “We suddenly had a police officer turn up and say, ‘We’ve been having reports that there’s been a group of people smuggling dolphins.’ We showed the dolphin, and sometimes it was a bit animated as well, so he had to have a closer look because it was so believable.

We nearly got arrested!” The series has some incredible moments like a sperm whale leaving her calf under the watchful eye of the spy creature and introducing it to her family. “If you’re a film crew, you get into the water and the whales transit past.They don’t stop, they keep going,” says Philip. “But with the spy whale they went past,.

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