Today’s spectacular, eye-popping documentary feature “Ocean with David Attenborough” only took 3-plus years, three directors, several ships, fearless divers, camera crews and the 99-year-old icon to tell an incredible but true story perfectly timed for its NatGeo premiere, the day before Sunday’s World Ocean Day celebrations.

“We had this idea three-and-a-half years ago with David Attenborough to tell this incredible 100-year-story of the ocean,” director Colin Butfield said in a joint phone interview.

“Our first act really is all about discovery, particularly in David’s lifetime. How we’ve gone from knowing almost nothing about the ocean to a really deeply understanding and finding these incredible habitats within it.

“The second part is immersing us in the destruction they’ve got. The

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