Lady of the lanterns

Truk offers the world's best wreck-diving, says Leigh Bishop, and this most famous of lagoons also holds some of wreck-diving's best-kept secrets. He returned recently to photograph its deepest wreck more...

Tiger shark v baby albatross

The odds are far from even when sharks ambush fledgling birds, as the BBC's Ellen Husain reports in her final diary on the making of South Pacific more...

Black water, open ocean

After the big-animal encounters , a nocturnal outing promised tinier fare for the BBC's South Pacific film crew. Director Ellen Husain gets her night vision more...

Pipe dream

Can you have too much of a good thing? John Bantin started to wonder after experiencing an embarrassment of macro riches at Tawali more...

Life in the pass lane

It has to be one of the world's great drift dives, but the ferocity of the current through Rangiroa's Tiputa Pass took Michael Salvarezza and Christopher P Weaver by surprise. Pictures by John Bantin more...

Turtle cleaning station

It looked like a far more relaxing assignment for the BBC's South Pacific film crew, after the angst of the tuna seine nets. It didn't quite work out that way, says director/marine biologist Ellen Husain more...

Purse Seiner

Filming inside a giant 200m-deep fishing net may not top everyone's diving dream-list, but for ELLEN HUSSEIN, directing the BBC's forthcoming South Pacific series, it was one of her most incredible experiences yet more...