[00:00.09]Tiger sharks.
[00:01.91]They're one of the Pacific's most formidable predators.
[00:04.57]The goal was to film them hunting from above and below the water.
[00:10.13]This proved to be the team's greatest filming challenge.
[00:15.28]To film this behaviour,
[00:18.25]the team sailed 800 miles
[00:19.96]to one of the remotest islands in the Hawaiian chain
[00:22.99]- French Frigate Shoals.
[00:25.67]The timing was critical.
[00:27.28]For just two weeks a year,
[00:29.26]a dozen tiger sharks gather round this tiny island
[00:32.59]ready for the albatross chicks' maiden flights.
[00:36.55]So as not to disturb the bird colony,
[00:39.94]a scaffold tower was erected offshore
[00:42.59]in the middle of the shark-infested lagoon.
[00:46.02]This small filming platform was going to be the topside crew's base
[00:50.68]for the next ten days -
[00:52.79]a daunting prospect for landlubber cameraman John Aitchison.
[00:56.29]It's pretty scary being out here when they're really close.
[01:00.14]Sometimes the platform wobbles when the waves hit the back of it,
[01:03.30]and I do wonder about what would happen if I fell in.
[01:05.58]From this vantage point,
[01:07.59]producer Mark Brownlow was able to spot the sharks
[01:10.53]and direct the dive team to the action.
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