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Wildlife documentary. Following Tom Doyle's search to find a leatherback turtle off the coast of Ireland.
Leatherback turtles are mysterious ocean wanderers, yet each summer a few are spotted around Ireland's Dingle peninsula. Turtle scientist Tom Doyle needs to catch and track a leatherback to find out more about these endangered creatures, but with so few sighted each summer can Tom defy the odds and catch one? This is the story of Tom's search to find a leatherback turtle off the coast of Ireland and of one summer spent among the extraordinary wildlife of these seas.
Last on
Sat 5 Apr 200817:15
BBC Two except East & Yorkshire
Broadcasts
- Sun 18 Feb 200717:50BBC Two Northern Ireland, England, Northern Ireland (Analogue) & Scotland only
- Sun 18 Feb 200718:10BBC Two Wales & Wales (Analogue) only
- Tue 10 Jul 200719:30BBC Two England, Wales & Wales (Analogue) only
- Sat 1 Sep 200716:25BBC Two except East & Yorkshire
- Sat 5 Apr 200817:15BBC Two except East & Yorkshire