Sharkwater Trailer (documentary on shark finning - consider this)

[slowry]

Run time: 02:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggtxA4wuXzY   Posted on YouTube: February 06, 2007 By YouTube Member: sharkwater Views on YouTube: 158120   Posted on DU: March 15, 2007 By DU Member: slowry Views on DU: 3720

 
All in the name of criminal greed. Yet, somehow, those who oppose this insanity are labeled the terrorists :puke:.

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 lifelong 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 in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

In an effort to protect sharks, Stewart teams up with renegade conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Their unbelievable adventure together starts with a battle between the Sea Shepherd and shark poachers in Guatemala, resulting in pirate boat rammings, gunboat chases, mafia espionage, corrupt court systems and attempted murder charges, forcing them to flee for their lives.

[tblue]

1. Wow! I am dying to see this now! Thank you for posting. I'd never heard of it before.

What courage, huh? Would that we all were that brave and committed.

[seemunkee]

2. K&R

Opens next week.

[naboo]

3. This makes me sick

it's been going on for a long time. Greed is the real terrorist, here and in other instances.

[jilln]

4. Remember when Hong Kong Disneyland wanted to serve shark fin soup?

<http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Metro/GE18Ak03.html>

Sea Shepherd was instrumental in getting that insanity stopped.