Masters of Inner Space

They enter the fishes, eels as aliens dependent on bulky life support systems. Video equipment is a further encumbrance …

– From the narration, on the challenges of filming underwater

Nearly all share one basic design: each is a mobile set of jaws attached to a backbone and propelled by muscles and flexible fins. We humans are not designed for living underwater, even though we did evolve from the sea. Our diving gear brings us a little closer to being like a fish, but we still have a long way to go.

– Narrator Peter Hayden

Fishes use colour to attract, to camouflage and to warn.

– Narrator Peter Hayden

Sharp teeth — I hope they don't scratch the port!

– Wade Doak, on a female wrasse biting at her reflection in a camera lens