Sharkwater
by Rob Stewart
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DVD details
Actor: Rob StewartDirector: Rob Stewart
Brand: Warner Brothers
Composer: Jeff Rona
Editor: Rik Morden
Editor: Jeremy Stuart
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-08
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth. Driven by passion fed from a life-long fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the e
DVD Reviews of Sharkwater
DVD Review: SAVE THE SHARKS -- WATCH THIS FILM AND SPREAD THE WORD
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an absolute must-see. Biologist Rob Stewart dives with sharks around the world, showing that they're far from the mindless monsters the media has portrayed them as. On the contrary, Stewart and other experts show that sharks are shy, sensitive creatures who kill fewer people per-year than elephants or -- get this -- vending machines falling on people. It's such a crucial film for our time because sharks, in just a few decades, have gone from being the top-predator on earth to one of the most preyed up on. Sharks have survived on earth for more than 400 million years through five mass extinctions. They're older than the dinosaurs. But their population has declined more than 90 percent due in large part to shark finning, the practice of killing sharks for their fins alone, which can fetch up to $300 per pound in Asia where shark fin soup is a delicacy. The finning industry (which wastes the entire shark except the fins) in combination with long-lining and other dubious fishing methods kill 100 million sharks per-year and could quickly decimate the shark population, which would throw off the entire ocean balance in devastating ways. If the top predator isn't around, fish and seal populations could boom, hitting plankton populations which provide us with 70 percent of the oxygen we need to breathe. Stewart argues that protecting sharks is protecting ourselves and he teams up with Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd (see Whale Wars) to expose the illegal shark finning industry and more. The result is a harrowing adventure that will change your perspective of sharks forever. To learn more about sharks and what you can do to save them go to [...]
By Jaimal Yogis, author of Saltwater Buddha
DVD Review: A Must See For Everyone - A True Eco-Adventure!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you haven't seen Sharkwater, YOU MUST!!! It's beautiful, educational, fun, scary, eco-adventure-like and everyone needs to see this. Get educated about sharks like never before. Here is proof of the amazing info you'll learn: My boyfriend wants me to learn how to scuba dive and I used to be terrified...because of sharks. Not anymore! This movie makes me want to hug a shark (if only that were possible - ahhh, I can dream). Seriously though, sharks are incredible creatures NEEDING OUR HELP! This terrific documentary has already won 31 international awards!!! Check out the details about Sharkwater at [...] and then buy it here, watch it, and lend it out to friends. Or, rent it at Netflix - either way - you gotta check it out! I rented it at Netflix and loved it so much that we bought it. Now, I'm back here today writing a review and buying another copy to give as a holiday gift. DVD Review: sharkwater
Summary: 5 Stars
It was because of an article in Sacred Fire magazine that I got to see sharks in a different light; more realistically and away from what I had learned to believe. It is because of watching Sharkwater that I feel compelled to write this.
If my voice could be heard by what is left of the sharks, then, I'd tell them "I'm sorry", even though my remorse would not bring back the sharks made victim to (according to filmmaker Rob Stewart) the 90% decline, over the past 50 years. I've learned this sad fact:
most of the sharks killed have been killed for their fins, so people could have their delicacy, make money and go deeper and further into denial, denying that the day is so close for the air to be so polluted that breathing clean air, which was supposed to be a natural right, would turn into a far away myth, fairytale, and fantasy.
The ocean provides much of the Earth's oxygen, and included in sharks' prey is a type of fish that eats phytoplankton, an important photosynthetic plant that provides oxygene for our already damaged planet.
Where are we going to turn when all the sharks are gone?
Would money heal our Earth?
Years ago, I saw a bumper sticker that read, "Humans are not the only species on Earth. We just act like it." , and so we have and so we do. But when is the end to ignorance and greed?
All the trouble, all the money and all the energy that goes into destroying the beings that make the chain of life (that is sacred), could and would cure hunger, illnesses and poverty. But greed finally would take away life as we know it.
The children would forget the ocean, the forest, clean air, animals and what was always meant to be sacred, LIFE!
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DVD Review: Shepherding the sharks
Summary: 5 Stars
"Sharkwater" is a fascinating Canadian documentary featuring the scuba diver Rob Stewart and the controversial environmentalist activist Paul Watson, the leader of the Sea Shepherd organization. Together, Stewart and Watson want to save - wait for it - the sharks!
I've heard of people who want to save whales or dolphins, but this is the first time I encounter people who actually want to save sharks. I didn't even know sharks were particularly threatened. Shark the hunter, man the hunted, right?
Not so, according to "Sharkwater". 90% of the shark population is already gone, and several species are threatened with extinction, including the peaceful whale shark (the world's largest fish). The documentary even claims that the complete extinction of sharks might affect the global climate, since shark predation stops other fish from overconsuming plankton. And plankton is necessary to keep the climate in balance.
I'm not sure if I buy that particular argument, or the claim that most sharks are pretty harmless to humans, but it's pretty clear from the documentary that all sharks are threatened by overfishing from the absurd shark finning industry. Conservations efforts are hampered by a variety of factors: shark fin soup and other shark-derived products are part of East Asian culture, the oceans are difficult to control, and many people don't like sharks anyway!
The most interesting part of "Sharkwater" features Paul Watson and his notorious activist group Sea Shepherd. I've heard of Sea Shepherd already 25 years ago, when they were literally attacking whaling ships in Iceland and Norway. Sea Shepherd has always been considered a dangerous extremist group.
Or so I imagined.
In "Sharkwater", Sea Shepherd is actually invited by the president of Costa Rica to protect the Cocos Island from poachers. However, as Watson and his ship approaches Costa Rica, something goes dangerously wrong. The local authorities in the coastal town of Puntarenas suddenly turn coat and start prosecuting Sea Shepherd, placing the entire crew in house arrest! Stewart goes AWOL and soon discovers what's going on: the Taiwanese mafia controls large and illegal shark finning facilities in the town, complete with secret ports. Here we have another and more disturbing reason why conservation efforts fail: sheer corruption. The mobsters presumably bought off the courts in Puntarenas, making sure they turn against Sea Shepherd.
Watson, Stewart and the other activists see no other choice than to leave Costa Rica as fast as possible, which they also manage to do under dramatic circumstances, the Sea Shepherd ship being chased by the coast guard. Instead, they set sail to the Galapagos Island, where they are on friendly terms with the local authorities (!). Undaunted, Stewart decides to go back to Costa Rica in secret, and even sneeks into Puntarenas where the people have started to protest against the Taiwanese mafia and their illegal activities. Taking advantage of the chaos, Stewart finally manages to visit the elusive Cocos Island, where he can be alone with his beloved sharks...
"Sharkwater" does get a bit too romantic for my taste at times, but it's nevertheless one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. Indeed, it often comes close to being an adventure or action movie. To some extent, it's also a propaganda movie for the Sea Shepherd organization. But then, these guys and their chases do make great television!
Five stars.
DVD Review: shark lovers
Summary: 5 Stars
we loved this dvd, so bought a few to give to friends. really makes you think about what we are doing to our environment, and to these wonderfully misrepresented animals. completely converted my fear to deep appreciation. a must see for us all who rely to heavily on todays popular media and close our eyes to the cruelty that is happening every day.
Description of Sharkwater
For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth. Driven by passion fed from a life-long fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical 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. Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations. Stewart's remarkable journey of courage and determination changes from a mission to save the world's sharks, into a fight for his life, and that of humankind.One of mankind's greatest fears--the shark--is convincingly cast in a sympathetic light by the award-winning documentary Sharkwater. Wildlife photographer-turned-filmmaker Rob Stewart is the driving force behind the film, and if his on-camera presence occasionally tilts towards self-aggrandizement, it's countered by the breathtaking quality of his footage of sharks and his compassionate argument for their protection. Stewart's coverage of the sharkfin trade is equally compelling, and scenes of wholesale slaughter of sharks for their fins (a delicacy and alleged medicine in Asian countries) are likely to disturb. Viewers may be split on Stewart's hands-on approach to combating the practice, which includes taking on pirates and police, but his intentions are honorable and do much to bring this alarming situation to light. The DVD includes a '60s-era Navy training film about sharks, which is amusing until one realizes how much its fearful tone has been echoed through decades, as well as a making-of featurette and theatrical trailer. --Paul Gaita
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