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12th Nov 2017

The Blue Planet team picked up every bit of plastic they came across while making the show

Excellent work

Wil Jones

Tonight’s episode of Blue Planet was a particularly sad one. Alongside the usual awe-inspiring visuals, the key message was that essentially the coral reefs are dying, and we’re all terrible people and it’s our fault.

One scene that really gave viewers the feels was where a female fish looking for a place to lay her eggs toyed with a discarded plastic bottle.

The BBC Earth Twitter account – which tweets along with each episode, and well worth following – shared this little factoid:

The series reportedly involved 6,000 hours of underwater film – you couldn’t really blame they did let the odd bottle float past while they got the perfect shot. But no, it seems they did the right thing.