THE SWARM – Season 1 Episode 1 – limited spoilers
Three ominous events begin the story. 750 kilometers north of Lima in Huanchaco, Peru, three men take their caballitos de totora (reed boats) into a calm sea. One dives down to free his net which has snagged on some rocks, and is swarmed by a school of mackerel and drowned. 7500 kilometers further north, an orca is found dead on a Vancouver Island beach. Marine biologists Jack Greywolf O’Bannon (Dutch Johnson) and Leon Anawak (Joshua Odjick), from the (fictional) Vancouver Island Marine Institute discover that the whale was killed by fishermen after it attached their boat. And in the Shetland Islands half a world to the west, Charlie Wagner (Leonie Benesch) has some equipment snag on a marker buoy’s anchor line. Tying her boat to the buoy, she dives down to clear the snag, and while she is submerged the buoy stops flashing. When she returns to the surface she finds her boat untied and floating some distance away.
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