I've had Sharkwater on DVD for a few years and last night I watched it again.  I was equally humbled and horrified by what I saw and how sad it is to see the reality of the trade in sharks.


Filmmaker Rob Stewart began exploring sharks as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous journey.

Driven by passion, Stewart debunks stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas.

Sharkwater takes you into shark rich waters, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world’s shark populations in marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands.

Stewart teams up with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Their adventure together starts with shark poachers in Guatemala, resulting in pirate boat rammings, gunboat chases, espionage, court systems and attempted murder charges, forcing them to flee for their lives.

Through it all, Stewart discovers these magnificent creatures have gone from predator to prey, and how despite surviving the earth’s history of mass extinctions, they could easily be wiped out within a few years due to human greed.

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