
I was first a biologist, working with endangered species. Then I switched and spent fifteen years making nature documentaries with people like Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough. Then a humpback whale breached onto me when I was kayaking, this led to a life-changing adventure culminating in my becoming involved in efforts to use AI to translate the communications of whales! I wrote about this for my first book. My great passion was always reading and in becoming a writer I get to go deeper and more playfully into my favorite parts of filmmaking – following heroic and fascinating people on their adventures, reading hundreds of complicated scientific papers, and finding ways to connect these. I am married to Annie and live in London with her and our two young daughters, Stella and Astrid.
What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty ‑ ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak —asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication.A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 “When a whale is in the water, it is like an you only see a fraction of it and have