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BBC announces commission –  ‘The Man Who Loves Kelp’

Posted on: May 30th, 2023

The BBC has announced their commission of our half hour documentary ‘The Man who Loves Kelp’ Image preview

A story told through the eyes of 73-year-old lorry driver and free-diver, Eric Smith and his daughter Catrine Priestley, tells of a once magical underwater forest, teeming with life that used to flourish off the south coast, until the trawlers came. By 2019 the area was reduced to a barren desert, with 96% of Sussex’s kelp gone. Eric, who has been diving since he was 11, could no longer stand witness to the destruction. His lobbying of the government body, Sussex Inshore Fisheries & Conservation Authority (IFCA) helped initiate a landmark plan to ban trawling in Sussex to let the seabed recover.

In The News- 

https://tbivision.com/2023/05/24/bbc-orders-doc-exploring-plight-of-britains-kelp-forests/#close-modal

https://www.televisual.com/news/big-wave-plants-underwater-forest-on-bbc1/ 

https://worldscreen.com/tvreal/bbc-one-commissions-the-man-who-loves-kelp/ 

https://www.c21media.net/news/bbc-takes-deep-dive-with-the-man-who-loves-kelp/ 

https://realscreen.com/2023/05/24/bbc-commissions-vr-dating-doc-unreal-big-wave-preps-the-man-who-loves-kelp/