2. What do you find most exciting about searching for river monsters?
Although lakes and rivers comprise less than 1% of the Earth's water, we probably know less about what lives in fresh water than in oceans. This is because some rivers are very hard to reach and can be too murky and/or hostile to see anything using a conventional filmmaking approach. River Monsters is breaking new ground: freshwater is probably the last frontier of wildlife filmmaking. Even big-budget film expeditions to rainforests and mountains regularly miss the spectacular underwater inhabitants. Often the only way to discover the findings is to throw in a line; it becomes a genuine sampling tool. So even in the 21st century, there are genuine mysteries to be solved and discoveries to be made in rivers and ultimately shown to the outside world.