Discovery Channel is back in the underwater spying business with its upcoming special, “Dolphins: Spy in the Pod.”
Premiering Saturday, March 7 at 8 p.m., the special — like last year’s “Penguins: Waddle All The Way” — utilizes robotic fish outfitted with cameras to give viewers the most intimate look at bottlenose and spinner dolphins in the waters of Mozambique, Costa Rica, the Florida Keys, the Pacific Ocean and Shark Bay, Australia. In addition to an animatronic dolphin, the special utilizes robots that look like a nautilus, turtle, stingray and tuna.
According to Discovery, viewers will get rare access to the life and behaviors of dolphins, including:
The first-ever images from inside a spinner dolphin pod; exclusive film footage of a spinner dolphin leap; and stunning, never-before-seen footage of a dolphin superpod filling the ocean with glistening speech bubbles. Additionally, the underwater “Spy Nautilus” camera recorded rays, cobia fish and dolphins swimming together, capturing the first film footage of this gathering.
John Downer Productions, the team behind “Penguins: Waddle All The Way,” produced “Dolphins: Spy in the Pod” for BBC and Discovery Channel.