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CoastSeries 10, Episode 5Wild Waters

The team takes on nature at its most perilous on the wild waters of the British coast.

  • Miranda before taking on Britain’s most venomous jellyfish in Dublin Bay
  • Dick investigates the audacious WW2 plan to set Britain’s seas on fire and repel a German invasion at St Margaret’s Bay in Kent
  • Dick with local historian Stuart Smith find a piece of a secret weapon designed to set Britain’s seas on fire
  • Richard on the Farne Islands filming Eider duck chicks as they make their way down to the sea under attack from herring gulls
  • Richard under attack from an Arctic tern defending its eggs
  • During the 18th Century, horses were used to patrol Bamburgh beach in bad weather on the look out for ships in distress
  • Cannons were fired to signal the position of ships in distress
  • Mark finds out how roll-on roll-off ferries cope with the challenges thrown up by wild waters
  • In the name of science, Mark demonstrates how we get seasick

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