A BAFTA winning cameraman paid a visit to lucky Shebbear College Junior School pupils on February 6 to talk about his adventures filming the BBC nature documentary series Frozen Planet.

Doug, from Hatherleigh, specialises in underwater film and video and has worked worldwide creating sequences for other award winning BBC series such as The Blue Planet, Planet Earth and Life, and has received Emmy, BAFTA and Cinematography awards for factual cinematography.

Using an impressive selection of photographs, he spoke to pupils about the extraordinary feeding habits of killer whales in Antarctica, specifically the amazing spectacle of filming the whales washing Weddell seals off an ice floe.

Doug spent more than six months in the Antarctic recording brand new killer whale behaviour and filming underwater life beneath the sea-ice at the foot of the Ross Ice Shelf. As well as getting to hear Doug's dramatic stories and amazing photographs, some pupils were also lucky enough to hold his BAFTA award.