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Separating fact from fiction,

the goal of the Castaways team was to capture evidence

that huge crocs were living on these little-known islands

Braving the highseas,

cameraman Wade Fairley made the 1,000-mile crossing from Australia to the Solomons

The Solomons are a chain of almost a thousand remote islands

Wade would need the freedom of a boat

to stand a chance of finding these mysterious crocodiles

Joined by producer Mark Brownlow,

they started their two-week expedition in the Western Provinces

With few scientific leads,they would have to rely on local knowledge

The crocodile tales began, interpreted by Wade, a fluent pidgin-speaker

Following the tip-off of the four-metre tail-less crocodile,

they decided to track him down that night,

when these reptiles are most active

To minimise disturbance,

they scanned the mangroves with infrared light, invisible to crocodiles

Aside from a mysterious splash,

the only confirmed sightings were juveniles

Where were the adults?

Over the next two nights,

the tail-less croc continued to elude them