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Programme and cast - Tooni Mahto
Tooni confesses to being a sea-lover since childhood, having spent many hours investigating rock pools. She is a highly qualified commercial diver and a Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) open vatten scuba instructor. She has logged over 2,000 dives all over the world.
Currently, Tooni is working in marine conservation and education. This is her first on screen role but she's no stranger to being behind the camera. She has worked as a camera assistant and underwater camera operator on a number of TV shows including Survivors: Shipwrecked Sailors.
A keen traveller, Tooni likes to combine work with pleasure. She has led and scientifically co-ordinated a number of expeditions in Africa. Other passions include mountain biking, snowboarding, surf-skiing, photography, reading and writing.
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Britain's Secret Seas
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NatureDocumentary hosted by Paul Rose, published by BBC in 2011 - English narration
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Britain's Secret Seas Featuring glorious underwater photography, this series reveals our native waters as being every bit as dramatic, colourful, and surprising as the oceans of the world
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In the first programme of the series, the team uncovers the world of the giants that reside in and on our western seas. A few metres off the Cornish shore, the team study Britain's largest fish, the basking shark. Despite the fact that they grow up to ten metres long, little is known about them, which makes effective conservation very difficult. In an exceptional encounter, the team is surrounded by up to 12 sharks as they feed on microscopic plankton. Their shark expedition then takes them north to the Isle of Man. Working alongside local scienti
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Expedition end
Mission accomplished
The Oceans BBC film team and presenters Tooni, Paul, Philippe and Lucy have returned safely home following their final expedition together.
This was the last in a series of eight programmes being filmed for a programme due for broadcast on BBC Two in the autumn. The team has spent over a year filming the world's oceans including the Atlantic, Indian, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Southern Ocean and Sea of Cortez.
The Arctic proved the most challenging expedition of all, not least because of the hazards, including attack by polar bear and walrus, the dangers of diving under the moving pack ice and the physical demands of being in this cold and hostile environment.
But the team did achieve the ambitious targets they set, to capture a snapshot of the health of the Arctic, and some unique and surprising high definition film of this icy habitat. Some persistence was required with the walrus but once they found their feeding grounds, the team was able