Episode 1
AQUATIC ILLUSION

In the stunning pacific islands, a quest begins to find the true meaning of fishes incredible colours. In such conspicuous, vibrant display, how do marine animals feed, attract mates and simultaneously avoid being eaten?

Crypsis, camouflage, mimicry and masquerade: witness colour as an integral part of social behaviour. Unravelling the paradox of disguise and display, discover a world of illusion, where all is far from what it seems.

Episode 2
INTO FISHEYE

To understand a world not designed for human eyes, we need to see it from a different point of view.

Invisible colours, eye metamorphosis, secret wavelengths and vision beyond anything we can perceive; how they see, what they see and the astonishing discovery that in their world, we’re blind…. Introducing footage exclusive to ‘Water Colours’ and entirely new to science, ‘Into Fisheye’ is a dive deep into the fishes eyes and the astonishing revelation about what they really see.

Episode 3
A COLOURFUL LANGUAGE

Expertly manipulating colours, marine animals cleverly change the way they look. They use patterns and pointilism to express emotion and mood and transform character, depending what they want to say.

From the stunning Pacific to Australia’s exclusive Marine Research Stations, the team join leading Scientists in a dynamic search for answers. Colourful patterns are measured and analyzed, complex displays are deciphered, behaviour understood. In a sensational world premiere, illusive messages are interpreted, bringing the revolutionary discovery that colour is the cryptic language of the fish!

This inspirational episode is a powerful, exhilarating eye-opener - opening our eyes to a language of colour, for the first time ever, we learn to hear what they say.

Episode 4
THE CHANGERS

Setting sail aboard the magnificent ‘MV Santa Maria’ marine explorers Guy and Anita research and explore the enigma of colour change.

Controlling how they look, altering patterns on a whim and instantaneously ‘turning on’ spots and stripes, marine animals share words of love with a mate on the left; simultaneously shout warnings to an aggressor on the right. How does the master of camouflage become colours he can’t see? Why so radically transform, in the blink of an eye?

Colour is the language of love and emotion, tricks, scams, anger, pleasure and fear. Talking and gesturing in ever-changing display, what are the animals saying, how do they change colour, and why?

Episode 5
MAGIC BLUE WAVE

Compulsive viewing transporting us back to premier ocean discovery - In a world where communication is ruled by colour display, marine animals have adapted to the underwater blues, by changing colour themselves - and, by changing colour, itself!.

Revealing mind-blowing behaviour never seen or filmed before, astonishing images new to science and extraordinary phenomena, still far from understood, ‘Magic Blue Wave’ is a sensational world premiere, exploring the magic of underwater fluorescence and the inconceivable ability of marine animals to change one colour, into another.

From Green Blennies becoming pink, to the exhilarating first ever 600m deep fluorescent shark, as marine animals change the very course of nature itself, vivid, electrifying images only heighten the ultimate questions of how they do this, and why.

Episode 6
INVISIBLE WAVES

How can we truly understand a language of colour, if marine animals talk and display in colours we can't see?

At the cutting edge of marine science, ‘measuring’ the wavelengths to ‘see’ the colours we can’t perceive reveals hidden signals, invisible displays, polarization and UV. Flashing ultra violet messages indecipherable by predators, communicating in patterns visible only to select eyes, the fish talk animatedly in cryptic channels of colour.

Using the latest technology to interpret a language beyond our visible spectrum, in the most intimate, exhilarating understanding yet, discover the 'secret' language of fish...