Dan Beecham

Dan Beecham is a British underwater cinematographer specialising in shooting wildlife sequences for documentaries. For two years Dan worked exclusively on the BBC's Blue Planet II (2017) series - spending more that 500 days in the field - working in over a dozen different countries, shooting sequences for four of the seven episodes of the multi award winning series. Dan operates from bases in Cape Town and the Azores and is an owner / operator of a range of specialty underwater film-making equipment. Dan offers a wide range of expertise to shoots, with experience as a drone operator, skills in motion control time-lapse work, as well as long lens work. He is equally comfortable and experienced working with large animals in dynamic situations such as bait balls and cetaceans, as he is with technical underwater shoots involving rebreathers, underwater time-lapse gear and macro scope systems, in order to cover intimate behavioural sequences from every angle. Dan has more than 20 years of field experience - the last 15 of which has been spent diving, exploring and shooting in many of the worlds best diving locations. Recently Dan has been on shooting assignments for productions including 'Seven Worlds' for BBC Studios, 'Hostile Planet' for Plimsoll Productions / National Geographic and Into the Okavango and upcoming projects for Netflix and BBC Studios.