From dancing with sea snails and being defecated on by a sperm whale, life as an underwater cameraman has led Andrew Pennaket to meet some weird, wonderful and pretty scary creatures. After earning biology and marine biology degrees at Otago University Andrew fell into a role filming for the old TVNZ Natural History studio in Dunedin. He soon fell in love with the work and it was to be his calling, ending up filming for studios around the world, including BBC and the Discovery Channel.
It's work that has taken him from swimming with whales in Tonga, to hearing the chilling sound of the Weddell seal through the ice in Antarctica. Now at the end of his career, Andrew has written a book telling the stories of his time under the surface, Whales, Snails and Lobster Tales.
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