Emily Franke, assistant producer, Humans
I worked on the humans episode, which is all about our impact on the planet. A lot of what we were filming was pretty sad and unpleasant, although there were hopeful moments.
We went out on the Sea Shepherd boat, which works to patrol against illegal fishing in Gabon. We filmed there for almost three weeks. The Gabonese government provides law enforcement, so there were 10 marines on the boat, and also five fisheries officers.
We would spend 24 hours [a day] patrolling the seas. When we saw a fishing boat we wanted to board, we would all pile into the small faster boats from quite a distance to try and catch them unawares.