Veteran broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has shared in a discussion with Prince Wiliam that he almost drowned when he was given faulty diving equipment at the beginning of his career. The Guardian newspaper reports that the 99-year-old veteran broadcaster was discussing his latest documentary Ocean when he recalled an incident on a 1957,

Sir David Attenborough reveals to Prince William he nearly drowned while scuba diving in 1950s - The near-death experience took place on the Great Barrier Reef when the broadcaster was 31

Prince William and Sir David Attenborough explore the urgent peril of the world’s oceans, ahead of World Oceans Day and William’s speech at a global conservation summit