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Blue Planet II execs admit crew planted rubber ducks in the sea supposedly from 1992 ship
A filmmaker on the hit BBC show admitted the 250 plastic toys weren't from the cargo ship, but placed in the sea to make a point
THE producers of Blue Planet II have been caught in a faking row over hundreds of plastic ducks they planted in the sea for filming.
A segment of the hit wildlife show featured the ducks bobbing in the Pacific off Costa Rica.
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Narrator David Attenborough told the story of 7,000 plastic toys which washed overboard from a ship during a 1992 storm and were still being found all over the world’s oceans.
But fans took to Twitter to complain the filmmakers had created the impression they spent months hunting down the ducks.
Jon Schwarm wrote: “You can’t tell me you didn’t put those rubber ducks in the sea yourself. Not buying that one.”
Sam Archer joked: “So whose job was it to follow the yellow ducks around for 15 years then?”
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Blue Planet filmmaker Sarah Conner revealed the truth about the scenes on Twitter, writing: “Picked up all 250 ducks after filming them.”
A BBC source said: “We’ve been very open online about the fact these scenes were filmed to illustrate a point.”
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