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Synopsis
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.
Through it all, Stewart discovers these magnificent
creatures have gone from predator to prey, and how despite
surviving the earth's history of mass extinctions, they
could easily be wiped out within a few years due to human
greed.
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.
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