NATURE & WILDLIFE

icy killers

Icy Killers is a first time in-depth look into the hidden world of Alaska’s salmon sharks.

programme information

Duration

1 x 60'

Production Company

Produced by Dangerous Passage Productions and Off the Fence

Executive Producer

Peter Venn

YOP

2008

Episode Information

Once a year, one of nature’s great spectacles takes place on the northernmost coast of the Gulf of Alaska. It’s a collision of two massive migrations, when thousands of ravenous salmon sharks gather to attack millions of Pacific salmon. The salmon are desperately trying to reach their spawning grounds in Prince William Sound. The sharks are there to gorge themselves. In a matter of weeks, they will eat up to 25% of the salmon in the Sound.


So how does the salmon shark function with such efficiency in water that hovers just above freezing? It has a remarkable adaptation: this fish is warm-blooded! In the end, the salmon run on an urgency born of their need to reproduce while the sharks run on hunger. This spectacular film travels with the salmon shark and the salmon at this remarkable natural spectacular.

Website Designed & Powered by mindcorp and OTV Systems - Privacy Policy