12 March, 2012 1:34PM AEST  Capturing the Great Barrier Reef
North Queensland Queensland shark biologist and cinematographer
Richard Fitzpatrick is hoping his latest documentary - The Great
Barrier Reef will help people better understand the reef and how
it is changing in the face of environmental threats.    • Print
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Share  Eight years in the making, the production team were able
to capture aspects of the reef environment never before filmed
after the BBC and Discovery Channel joined the project two years
ago.  "The BBC what they bring is money, which buys you time"
explains Dr Fitzpatrick.  "And the more time you can spend in
the environment gives you the time to make the sequences. And to
also be out there for opportunities that arise that unless you
have serious sea times, they wouldn't come about."  In the final
two years of production the crew spent more than 100 days at sea
and over the eight years collected 3000 hours of footage which
were ed