--- description: Mark Carwardine was in one the most popular "blue whale" hot spots and yet couldn't find any whales. Or so he thought. title: This Whale Photobombs a TV Host Complaining About No Whales image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch a Whale Photobomb a TV Presenter as He Moans About Not Seeing Any Whales by [Joanna Plucinska](/author/joanna-plucinska/) ## Joanna Plucinska Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 20, 2015 8:38 AM CUT by [Joanna Plucinska](/author/joanna-plucinska/) ## Joanna Plucinska Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 20, 2015 8:38 AM CUT BBC presenter and zoologist Mark Carwardine was in one the most popular blue whale hotspots in the Pacific Ocean and yet couldn’t find any whales. Or so he thought. “It just makes it so challenging. It makes it quite exciting in one way, but it’s very frustrating in another,” Carwardine said to the camera. “You know they’re here, you just jolly well can’t find them.” But as soon as he explained to viewers that they likely wouldn’t see any whales that day, a spout shot up. The camera then pans to show the very thing they thought they wouldn’t see — a giant, majestic blue whale. “Oh look,” he sheepishly giggles. “There is one!” Carwardine, a noted zoologist, was working with a camera crew to produce a new BBC show called _Big Blue Live_, _The Independent_ reports. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4004340/whale-bbc-presenter-surprise/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4004340/whale-bbc-presenter-surprise/"},"headline":"Watch a Whale Photobomb a TV Presenter as He Moans About Not Seeing Any Whales","datePublished":"2015-08-20T08:38:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:38.580Z","description":"It turns out the whale was right on time","url":"https://time.com/4004340/whale-bbc-presenter-surprise/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","pacific ocean","BBC"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joanna Plucinska","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joanna-plucinska/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4004340/whale-bbc-presenter-surprise/","name":"Watch a Whale Photobomb a TV Presenter as He Moans About Not Seeing Any Whales"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Inside the Canine Mind","description":"Professor Brian Hare at Duke University studies people's pet dogs to understand how canines think","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dTemQHb7/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2009-09-11T01:23:04.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dTemQHb7.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4004340/whale-bbc-presenter-surprise/","duration":"PT2M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4004340/whale-bbc-presenter-surprise/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```