![]() And the cameraman thought this is really bad news because it's right in its mouth,” Honeborne said. “And the cameraman filmed this for a bit and thought, actually, this is really worrying, isn’t it? He tried to take the bucket off of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale thought this was a great game. Speaking of peril, there was one harrowing event with a playful sperm whale baby that wanted to interact with a camera, and brought over a plastic bucket to chew on.It comes out of the water and, wallop, it gets that bird. I mean, it would take a bank of computers to do that, and yet that's what the trevally does. They're going to have to calculate where it's going to be, when they're going to have to take off in order to catch it. “It's got to be refractive index, whether it bends the light as it comes out of the water. It's got to be refractive index, whether it bends the light as it comes out of the water,” he said. Sir David Attenborough has been narrating nature documentaries for a very long time - is there anything that really stuns him still? “Those trevally calculating the speed of a bird which is in the air.And without getting into great, boring, geeky details, we tried to figure out how an orchestra could play stylistically different that would be more appropriate to the nature of water. ![]() And so we came up with this sort of idea of a more pointillistic way of playing the instruments. It was more about how people would play it. When asked what kinds of instruments work best to illustrate underwater sound, he told explained, “it wasn't so much about the instrument. ![]() Image via BBC America For composer Hans Zimmer, that could sometimes be a challenge to match. And if you kind of listen in to that frequency, you can hear this extraordinary cacophony of fish singing, which is amazing. And we've got those sound recordings and they're in the film. “We have a four‑way directional hydrophone that allows us to pinpoint which fish is making which noise And actually, we've worked with scientists who have been discovering that there's a whole dawn chorus of fish song on the coral reef, for example. “We spent a lot of time recording sound underwater,” Honeyborne said.
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