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SHARK WEEK! The Fear Returns

7/23/2018

Watch our first Shark Week episode below

It's Shark Week 2018! Every year the question for shark advocates is, "Should be we happy that it's Shark Week or dreading the new shows?" Make sure to watch our first Shark Week (parody) episode - Blood Resurrection. ;) What's your opinion of Shark Week in recent years? Is it getting better or worse? Our parody was inspired by accidentally seeing a few minutes of Shark Week 2017's Phelps VS. Shark right before going diving with Blue Ocean Dive Resort in South Africa so we were a little amped up on the silliness of Shark Week narratives and spontaneously recorded this on our way out to dive with the sharks of Aliwal Shoal. Can you really blame the producers when humans consistently show that they love fear and drama? Maybe, maybe not. All footage shot by Skyler Thomas, Ollie Putnam, and Dan Abbott. Music by Tyler Newman.

Shark Week 2018!

Skyler Thomas lets the audience know how scary it is to encounter sharks he's be diving with for 20 years on Shark Week!

Shark Week! Taking our lives in our hands!

Shark Week. Every year shark tagging is unprecedented no matter how many times it's happened and accomplished nothing

Shark Week Blood Resurrection! We love sharks so much we exploit the shit out of them

Skyler Thomas reveals his experience with a shark for an overly dramatic hour and a half this Shark Week.

Catch the new Shark Week shark advocacy show, 'On Bloody Tides.

Catch the new Shark Week shark advocacy show, 'Blood, Blood, Blood, Blood, Blood."

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What you don't know about endothermy

7/18/2018

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How are Endothermy, Climate Change, and Increased White Shark Sightings Related?
Endothermy is a pretty special physical feature of white sharks, but did you know they aren't born with this capability!?

Instead, it develops as they get older. I learned that for the first time at a lecture where both Dr. Chris Lowe and Dr. Aaron Carlysle presented their research regarding the movements of white sharks (and other lamnid sharks) along the California coast and how water temperature affects these movements. Why is that significant?
There's been a bit of hype the last two years regarding increased sightings of white sharks in California, sometimes in areas and times of the year, we don't expect them. There's a pretty good chance these are juvenile white sharks that have altered their normal course, but why? For that, you'll have to watch the video.

Many people won't take the time to read research papers, so I turn the research into quick videos like these, but, for those of you interested in learning more, here's a link to Dr. Lowe's work
http://www.csulb.edu/shark-lab

And Dr. Carylsle's presentation can actually be found on Youtube via Moss Landing Marine Labs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPBjVVKLmX8

Specifically, thank you, Dr. Lowe, for sharing your Power Point presentation. Footage shot by Skyler Thomas for White Shark Video unless otherwise stated. Segments of both the researchers' data appear in the video. White shark footage in the bonus section provided by Skyler Thomas and Andy Dellios.

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SHARK WEEK! The Fear Returns

What you don't know about endothermy

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