Swimming With Monsters

Swimming With Monsters

Documentary 2013

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Wildlife expert and adventurer Steve Backshall attempts the unthinkable and dives underwater to swim alongside the most monstrous animals on our planet. He'll get closer than ever before to some seriously dangerous creatures, capturing dramatic and stunning wildlife footage.

Documentary 2013

Starring Steve Backshall

EPISODE 1

Anaconda

Naturalist Steve Backshall heads to a remote area of Brazil to search for the anaconda, then takes a swim with the large snake.

40 min · 9 Sept 2014
EPISODE 2

Hippo

Naturalist Steve Backshall visits Africa to take an underwater dip with the fiercely territorial and wildly unpredictable hippopotamus.

34 min · 13 Jan 2019
EPISODE 3

Shark

Steve will attempt to get a huge shark to swallow a state of the art thermometer to see if they are really cold blooded.

41 min · 9 Sept 2014
EPISODE 4

Squid

Steve travels to the Sea of Cortez to study the hunting behavior of the voracious Humboldt squid; he tries to avoid being dragged into the abyss as he uses himself as bait.

40 min · 9 Sept 2014

Steve Backshall

Host
Sophie Todd

Director

About

Swimming With Monsters

DOCUMENTARY

Wildlife expert and adventurer Steve Backshall attempts the unthinkable and dives underwater to swim alongside the most monstrous animals on our planet. He'll get closer than ever before to some seriously dangerous creatures, capturing dramatic and stunning wildlife footage.

Information

Studio: Animal Planet
Released: 2013

Languages

Original Audio: English (United States)
Audio and Subtitles