Sharkwater - Rob Stewart

[vaironman]

A beautiful documentary movie, written and produced by Rob Stewarts with captain Paul Watson. A powerful movie with beautiful marine scenes. One man fights for righteousness.

 

http://www.sharkwater.com/

Edited January 17, 2009 by vaironman

[zygote2k]

Anyone remember Treadwell? Seems like he had a similiar thing with bears and look where it got him.

[vaironman]

Can't be afraid of what you believe in and passionate about.

[Steve G]

They were showing this film on the flight to the UK last week but I was dead tired and fell asleep. I wish I hadn't zonked though. It looked interesting.

 

There was a Nat'l Geographic Series called Shark Week that rocks. I have been watching that with my son on DVD rented from the library. It was on about 4 DVDs each with 4 segments that were 1/2 hour to an hour I think. Watch those and you'll get the basic picture:

1. Most sharks are tiny things and harmless to humans.

2. The big cool sharks are difficult to find and film, but VERY cool to watch when you do.

3. "Man-eating" sharks (bulls, tigers, and whites) are really just man-tasting. They only do damage by accident. They can't help it if they have sharp teeth and poor eyesight (and we look like seals).

4. Sharks have no predators except man, who cruelly catches them, cuts off their fins, and discards their carcasses -- horrific.

 

I've only been in the water with sharks twice, but my close-up with a black-tipped reef shark was a moment I will treasure forever, a real treat. They are beautiful animals.

[Hoyden]

I am a big shark fan and have been in the water with 10 species (it really isn't that big of a risk for divers who aren't spearfishing) and seen a couple more from the boat. I highly recommend watching Sharkwater - you can buy it from Amazon for $14. Shark Week used to be very cool, but now most of the shows are over-sensationalized stuff - last year there was "Surving Sharks" with the guy from Survivorman, "How not to Become Sharkbait", "Day of the Shark" (about 6 recent shark attacks)... you get the idea - not like the old science based stuff they used to show during Shark Week. There is hope for improvement since the National Aquarium in DC's Andy DeHart is now the scientific consultant for Shark Week. It remains to be seen how much they listen to him. There are other places on TV that you can find good stuff on sharks - Nick Baker's Weird Creatures is good place to start - he did a great show on basking sharks.

 

A good website for basic shark facts is elasmo-research.org.

 

Jackie

Edited January 22, 2009 by Hoyden

[OUsnakebyte]

Shark Week used to be very cool, but now most of the shows are over-sensationalized stuff - last year there was "Surving Sharks" with the guy from Survivorman, "How not to Become Sharkbait", "Day of the Shark" (about 6 recent shark attacks)... you get the idea - not like the old science based stuff they used to show during Shark Week.

 

I could not agree more with this assessment. I found this year's Shark Week to be all about sharks doing harm to people, how not to be eaten, what kind of damage they can do - all the classic Jaws fear stuff that doesn't do much for helping sharks' images and/or showing how important they are to ocean ecosystems and their alarming decline - shark finning anyone? I recall there only being one truly educational program that even remotely addressed these.

 

All in all I was disappointed with Shark Week this year. Hopefully that will change in the future...

 

Cheers

Mike

Edited January 23, 2009 by OUsnakebyte

[OUsnakebyte]

I just watched Sharkwater last night. Very impressive. And, so very, very sad to see these top predators being removed purely for human selfishness.

 

An important note from this movie is this removal of top predators from the ecosystems, and the cascading effects throughout the web.

 

We need sharks.

[Hoyden]

The DC Environmental Film Festival is airing Sharkwater on Tuesday March 10 at 10AM at the Warner Theater for free if anyone would like to see it on the big screen.

 

Jackie