“An eye-opening film…visually stunning… this movie will change the way you see ouroceans.”
- Bonnie Laufer,Tribute Magazine
For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What itturned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth.Driven by passion fed from a life-long fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historicalstereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters andreveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas.
Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the mostshark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding theworld’s shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and theGalapagos Islands, Ecuador.
In an effort to protect sharks, Stewart teams up with renegade conservationist PaulWatson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Their unbelievable adventure togetherstarts with a battle between the Sea Shepherd and shark poachers in Guatemala, resultingin pirate boat rammings, gunboat chases, mafia espionage, corrupt court systems andattempted murder charges, forcing them to flee for their lives.
Through it all, Stewart discovers these magnificent creatures have gone from predator toprey, and how despite surviving the earth’s history of mass extinctions, they could easilybe wiped out within a few years due to human greed.Stewart’s remarkable journey of courage and determination changes from a mission tosave the world’s sharks, into a fight for his life, and that of humankind.
