Cruise lines are big business, and growing in popularity – millions set sail for an exotic holiday every year. This series reveals for the first time another dimension to cruise ship voyages – the extraordinary creatures that live in ports of call. For the first time all is revealed by adventurer Nigel Marven. He voyages on board a luxury cruise liner, jumping off at each port to meet the locals and take passengers and crew to search for astonishing animals living in holiday destinations. He takes ballroom stars to dance with fishes and say hi to baby sloths, and the Master of the vessel on a mission to catch a cobra! Elsewhere an opera tenor performs for a python and a Las Vegas magician meets giant lizards. Nigel plunges into Costa Rican jungles, dives
beneath Caribbean waves, scrambles up Scandinavian cliffs and over Mediterranean mountains – but there’s limited time in port and the ship can’t wait for him, so his mission to seek out special animals is always a race against the clock.