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Take your neighbour's children. And they will ask you why this happens...
This is a film a documentary, by Rob Stewart.
Rob was at the screening this morning and rarely have I seen such commitment.
He is 28 and the film has taken him 6 years to make and get released. It is being distributed by Disney here and I am very shocked they would handle something so political. And I am pleased.
This film will shock and sicken you and I still say take your kids.
It started when Rob was shooting something completely different on the Galapagos Isles and one day, out on the ocean, they came across an illegal fishing boat which cut its lines and ran. They started to haul in the lines...
60 miles of line later. Read that again. 60 miles of line later, 16,000 baited hooks later, 160 sharks later, Rob wanted to know why.
I do not think knowing this will spoil it for you.
I am trying to give some idea of the enormity of what he uncovered.
Take a guess at how many sharks are killed every year.
You are wrong. Whatever you guessed, it's more than that.
The figure is 100,000,000.
And what for?
Shark fin soup.
This is not a joke.
It is a meeting of governments and the mafia. Really.
And one thing is even worse.
Sharks sit at the top of the ocean food chain.
Plankton is at the bottom.
If sharks are wiped out and their numbers are down 90% then other species that eat plankton will thrive.
Plankton turn carbon dioxide into oxygen. 70% of our oxygen.
Enough of the spoilers.
This film will enlighten, scare and sicken you.
I know I will never eat at another restaurant that serves shark fin soup.
It is also beautifully shot using the most expensive digital cameras on earth.
Children as young as 2 or 3 were there and rightly.
They will not thank you if this trade is not stopped.
And you will never criticise the Sea Shepherd people again after you see some of this footage.
See this film. Tell your friends to see it. It is one that will live with you for a long time.
You can find out more details at www.sharkwater.com
I hope you do.
Follow Ups:
I hope you all manage to see this film.I am very pleasantly surprised=- that Disney are on board for it.
The film is beautifully shot where that is possible (not for example when it's a hidden camera filming illegal fin selling).
The film is in parts upsetting especially for small kids but it is not violence-porn of the type of the average shoot-em-up or slasher flick and I did not see any really bad reactions from the children at the screening.
There was actually a school group there albeit of slightly older kids.
There are sequences as beautiful as any underwater scenes you will find anywhere. And a lot of them are shot here in Australia.
Just thought I'd drop that in.
Rob Stewart is on a promotional tour at present and is keen to make the film available to political groups, governments etc.
The film also has long chunks about Sea Shepherd who are often merely classed as activists but who are shown here in a completely different light. Very interesting.
At least somebody cares more for our planet than a quick buck, but at the same time many of the fishermen are very poor people. There is a section where a diver gets the bends and the crew from his boat... oh... too many spoilers.
Get ye off and see the film.
I thought this was a National Geographic production.
It is available on Blu-ray.
-------------Call it, friendo.
Rob Stewart made a particular point that Discovery and (I think) Nat Geo did not want to become involved in its production.
Disney is distributing the film here.
At least that is what I thought he said.
There's footage of these types of boats bringing in the sharks, cutting off the fin(s) and tossing them right back in the ocean. Very sick and sad indeed.
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is that once the sharks' fins are cut off, and they are thrown back into the sea, they can't swim and therefore "drown." How could such a magnificent predator and expert swimmer drown?
Horrible cruelty. It saddens me. Like killing elephants for their tusks and rhinos for their horns.
... are literally sickening.
One scene of fins drying on a warehouse roof... and with government cooperation with the Taiwanese mafia...
I believe it is available On Demand on our digital cable network, which shows indie films that have just been released in the cinemas, but at a premium rental fee. One way or another I intend to watch it and thank you for bringing this to my attention.
...and I will
... My kids got upset watching Free Willy so I don’t think I will take them to watch sharks getting butchered.
I do understand some of the fishing practises around the world are appalling.
We live on the water and my eldest was fishing this morning. He caught three nice 30cm+ silver bream. He released all of them.
If the flick ever makes it to disc I will give it a squiz.
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