Today was the first day of our allotted five weeks to capture the final imagery for the Earth’s Great Event feature on the Sardine Run off the east coast of South Africa. Last year the underwater team was plagued by bad visibility, as was the shoot in April recently in Plett, so this shoot really needs to deliver. Launching out through the harbour, we headed out into the deep and were greeted by very workable visibility which in the afternoon light became truly lyrical. Even later in the afternoon, on the edge of Didier’s working window we teamed up with the topside crew who had found a working pod of common dolphins, and were rewarded with what are probably our first magical underwater images on this shoot. In this image, Didier Noirot is captured filming a segment of the pod as they blast through the blue cavern of ocean in around 100m of water, 25km’s out to sea.