There's a good chance you know Cristina Zenato for her work removing hooks from sharks, but a conversation with Cristina is an opportunity to think about doing good as part of a bigger picture. One littler thing is better than no big thing! When speaking with someone who spends her time engaging in acts of kindness toward other species, the very topic of 'speciesism' is hard to resist. Why are humans so uncomfortable giving sentient credit to nonhumans? All footage is property of Cristina Zenato and Kewin Lorensen except where Skyler shares his own clips. Learn more at Cristinazenato.com

Special guest Eli Martinez shares his stories and footage of several amazing species, not just sharks.
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Officially kicking of this season's podcast is special guest, Eli Martinez. Perhaps best known for his interactions with massive tiger sharks, Eli has branched out and spent considerable time getting to know a wide range of amazing species. You can join Eli on a wide variety of his adventures by going to SDMadventures.com. Be sure to check out some of my other videos with Eli Martinez shared on the end screen.

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Underwater cinematographer and shark diver, Dan Abbott, joins Skyler Thomas on White Shark Video's Shark Cast to kick of this season of tiger shark themed shows.  

Kicking off this season of podcasts we opened up by having a little fun analyzing some rather hairy encounters with tiger sharks and divers.  Yes, we threw out that naughty phrase "shark attack" that tends to draw so much attention, but after all,  the clips we reviewed were originally called attacks.  After watching our analysis would you still consider them to be "attacks"?

Be sure to watch part 2, which premieres next week.

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Ready for an alternative to the garbage "reality TV show" joke that is Discovery Channel's Shark Week?  Try Shark Weeks.  Leading up to and running through the infamous 'Shark Week', a new podcast discussing real shark issues will run a weekly episode.  

​Join your host, Skyler Thomas, for video interviews in the podcast section of the White Shark Video youtube channel.

More details coming soon

After the successful "shark night" at the unofficial White Shark Cafe in North Beach San Francisco, I've switched to selling my original shirt designs on T-Spring.  I gave away a few crates worth of shirts that night to promote the cafe and thus ran out of all physical inventory.
If popular demand requires it, I might start screen printing again, but until then please order on Spring.  And let me know which shirts you love the most.

It's waaay overdue and I'll never get to all of them so finally here is my first offering of the most annoying things I here over and over and over again. Read the full write up and get details on the shirt contest here.

​Analyses of great white shark footage shot by Skyler Thomas shows us there are many fine details in communication that we might be overlooking.

What would your guess be as to what this shark is saying? Once again slowing down footage reveals there is even more taking place with the shark's body language than at first glance. One of the good things about observing white sharks in deeper water is the opportunity to see body language that you might not see up near the surface. As he approaches from a distance we can see that this shark is holding his mouth agape, not just a little bit to breathe, but really wide open. Next we can see that the upper teeth are exposed and remaining in that position as the shark swims by, which is not how the white shark typically looks while it is swimming. ​

Consider the majority of shark footage; even though their teeth are on our minds, the mouth is usually only slightly open and the teeth can't be seen very well, in fact the upper teeth can't usually be seen at all unless the shark is in the act of biting. With white sharks the upper jaw actually unhinges and rotates forward during the biting process so to see the upper teeth and jaw exposed in a non-biting scenario indicates a very specific effort to display those teeth. Next we see a display featuring the gills, referred by some as gill fluffing. Regardless of what you call it, the gills are definitely being used in a display of some sort (twice in this case). I've been referring to this shark as a he, which was not easy to discern at first because the claspers are relatively small and held tight against the body; it was only during the gill fluffing that the claspers lowered enough to be seen. OK, so back to the question. If you had to guess, what message do YOU think that shark is trying to convey?
All footage shot by Skyler Thomas.
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