Deadly Predators

Steve uncovers the secrets of sharks, the world's most infamous predators. He heads out into the Atlantic ocean to dive with blue sharks, a beautiful but deadly species which can travel up to 10,000km per year looking for food. He finds out how their big pectoral fins allow them to glide gracefully through the water, and how they are now threatened by overfishing for their fins.

Steve goes in search of the fastest Deadly Predators on earth. Using the latest CGI, Steve high-dives off a rugged cliff in Wales next to a gannet, tests the speed and accuracy of a gannet dive in a sky-high experiment in his deadly junkyard using a crane and an old caravan, and takes to the kayak for an amazing animal encounter with thousands of wild gannets.

Steve goes in search of some of the most powerful predators on the planet. At historic Warwick Castle, meet the stellar sea eagle, world's heaviest eagle. Eagle Nikita is an expert at lifting fish up to one third of her body weight out of the ocean to eat. To demonstrate this ability up close, Steve has a time slice rig.

Steve Backshall comes face to face with some of the biggest, baddest and most bizarre predators on the planet by performing a wide range of stunts, experiments and computer generations.

Steve finds out which Deadly Predators have the best weapons on earth. Using the latest CGI, we bring the colossal squid to life, test the strength of its tentacles, and show how its mighty beak could slice through a car like butter. When it comes to weapons, snakes have some of the best on earth. Steve goes in search of the adder, the UK's only venomous snake and an endangered species.

Steve goes in search of the wildest Deadly Predators and takes a closer look at what makes them weird. He goes diving in Dorset to look for one of the sea's weirdest deadly fish: seahorses. They may be small, but seahorses are incredibly successful hunters, using a devastating super-suction method which hoovers up its prey so fast it's almost impossible to film.