Synopsis
Gordon Buchanan joins a family in a tropical paradise to learn how to swim with sharks. Freedivers teach Gordon about sharks and how to survive them.
- Programme: Tribes, Predators & Me
- Series: 2
- Episode: Shark People of the Pacific
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2017
- Geography | Rainforest
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