“Wow Wow Wow, those sharks are SO huge, but SO beautiful…see you next year guys!” – Sally, November 2010
“Thanks for the shark diving adventure, my husband’s been raving about his sharky gift all week” – Mary, Bahamas April 2011
“Eight Tiger sharks? Are you kidding me? Eight flippin’ Tigers and I was in the middle of it!” – Daniel Stubbs, Bahamas 2011
Shark Week VW Commercial – Behind The Scenes
Yes, that’s Luke Tipple driving the SOVW or as we knew her “Skittles,” in the Bahamas a few months ago during the filming of the anchor commercial to Shark Week 2012. Seen it yet? From the same team who brought you last years anchor commercial with Gillette, comes a series of very cool design, build, deploy shark commercials that bend the world of underwater exploration. Luke was not alone in this endeavor. Greg “Moondog Mooney,”…
Sport Diver Magazine – Shark Diving with SharkDiver.com
This month outdoor writer Jim Cornfield covered Isla Guadalupe, Mexico and Shark Diver for Sport Diver Magazine. The article was a short update to Isla Guadalupe and commercial shark diving with several industry quotes from CEO Patric Douglas: “Site stewardship is especially important here (Isla Guadalupe) in what is perhaps the most robust shark site on the planet.” Kudos to Sport Diver Magazine for continued positive coverage of the global shark diving industry. It is…
SharkDiver.com Behind the Scenes Gillette Commercial
In 2011 Shark Diver and our film and television team at Shark Divers was asked to tackle a technically challenging commercial shark production by one of the largest advertising agencies in the world BBDO. Over the years we have come to be known within the film and television community as the company that successfully pulls off challenging and unique productions with sharks. From Mythbusters to “walking on water with sharks,” our teams always look at…
Tiger Beach Shark Expeditions 2011 – CEO Trip Report
As the CEO of Shark Diver I have been fortunate enough over the past decade to meet some amazing divers, work with some great dive crews, and experience sharks in ways that few people are fortunate enough to. This spring I spent a month in the company of sharks at Tiger Beach with the M/V Kate. We shot a couple of film projects, entertained a host of excited divers from all over the planet, and…
Shark Diver in the Vancouver Sun
Vancouver Sun March 2011 Eye to eye with the Great White By Craig Reynolds North Americans are closer than they think to what is arguably the best place on earth to experience Great White Sharks. When you tell people you’re going on a shark dive, you can almost guarantee that you’ll get a fairly similar reaction from most people. You’re crazy, they’ll say. But for those of us guys (and yes, girls too) who think…
Marshall Islands “They Be Burning Shark Boats!”
50 sharks. That’s all it took for a Hong Kong fishing company to receive the following from the Marshall Islands who recently declared all of their waters a Shark Sanctuary:
1. One burned boat (TBA)
2. $120,000 fine
3. Permanent banning from the Marshall Islands
A long line fishing boat has been fined 120,000 US dollars and banned from fishing in Marshall Islands water for violating the country’s ban on shark finning.
The Marine Resources Authority Director Glen Joseph says the shark fins and skins confiscated from the vessel that fished under the aegis of the Marshall Islands Fishing Venture will be publicly burned in the near future.
Marshall Islands Fishing Venture is part of the Hong Kong-based Luen Thai Enterprises, which operates long line fishing operations in Majuro and other parts of Micronesia to export sashimi to markets in Japan and the United States.
Shark fins and skins from an estimated 50 sharks were discovered on board the long liner during a regional fisheries surveillance enforcement program in February.
Mr Joseph says they will not relicense the vessel to fish in Marshall Islands waters.
He says the message they want to get out to anyone operating in Marshall Islands waters is that they are serious (about the shark ban), and it is the law.
Meanwhile, Marshall Islands Fishing Venture manager Derrick Wang says it regrets the actions taken by the captain of this particular vessel, and appropriate actions have been taken to ensure future incidents with this vessel and other vessels under of it will not happen.
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