Sir David Attenborough’s Our Planet film crew had a terrifying run-in with sharks (Picture: PA / Getty)
Sir David Attenborough’s crew faced a nightmare as they were attacked by sharks while filming Our Planet II.
The film crew admitted they feared for their lives when their inflatable boats were attacked by man-eaters while on a six-day trip to an island close to Hawaii shooting footage of an albatross.
Describing it as ‘like something from Jaws,’ the crew were forced to make an emergency rush towards dry land to escape from the tiger sharks.
The show’s producer Huw Cordey told The Sun newspaper’s TVBiz column: ‘The original idea was to do an underwater shoot with the tiger sharks waiting in the shallows at Laysan.
‘But the first day the tiger sharks were around, the crew got into these inflatable boats – and two sharks attacked them.
‘It was like something out of Jaws,’ he added, referencing the terrifying Steven Spielberg film about a beach town terrorised by a 20-foot great white.
The tiger sharks attacked while the crew were on inflatable boats trying to get shots of an albatross (Picture: Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The crew were forced to make an emergency landing and missed shots for the series – but luckily escaped with their lives (Picture: PA)
While everyone on the crew is a professional and has plenty of experience coming face to face with wildlife on these expeditions, it’s no surprise that everyone ‘panicked’ as they were attacked in the small boats.
Cordey explained they had to effectively make ‘an emergency landing,’ and as a result didn’t manage to get certain shots for the four-episode documentary series – but at least made it out alive.
Legendary broadcaster Sir David, 97, is narrating the new show, adding to his jaw-dropping back catalogue of work on the natural world over his decades-long career.
Sir David has been narrating beloved wildlife documentaries for decades (Picture: PA)
It’s unlikely the national treasure will be packing it in soon, as a producer for his previous show Wild Isles insisted on an interview on Lorraine: ‘David will keep going as long as he can.
‘He’s not retiring, that’s for sure,’ he added.
Sir David is passionate about protecting the environment and the wildlife across the word, and recently warned ‘we now have a few short years during which we can still make a choice, where just enough remains of the natural world for it to recover.’
‘This starts and ends with us,’ he said in series Savin The Wild Isles.
Our Planet II is available to watch on Netflix
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The crew were forced to get to land and missed certain shots for the series.