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Diver and filmmaker Rob Stewart's plans started going to hell in 2002, while he and his film crew were steaming toward Costa Rica aboard the Ocean Warrior, a ship captained by Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Stewart couldn't wait to get underwater and film sharks in high-definition cinematography at the incomparable marine reserves of Costa Rica's Cocos Island and Ecuador's Galapagos Islands.
The Toronto-born "shark geek" and former chief photographer for the Canadian Wildlife Federation magazines wanted to show movie audiences that sharks are tentative toward humans, easily spooked, rather than Jaws-like man-eaters. What he didn't plan to uncover in his new documentary, Sharkwater, is the fact that humans are the far more deadly predators.
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While in Guatemalan waters, the Warrior came across a fishing boat, Varadero, illegally "finning" sharks--a process in which a shark's fins are sliced off and the hacked body, usually still alive, is tossed overboard. Varadero was also... |
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