Beachmasters

The Antarctic whaling fleet had its operational base in the islands of South Georgia.In just a few decades, most of the seals and whales were transformed into oil and products for the industrialised nations.But in the nineteen sixties the killing stopped, and now the animals have returned. Scientists have been investigating the secret life of the elephant seal, an animal that swims over vast distances and finds its prey a thousand metres down in the black ocean.Beachmasters is a dramatic portrait of this extraordinary animal and the other wildlife that has recolonised the Islands described by Captain Cook as, an inhospitable hell on earth.