Hey everyone - Sharkwater is finally out on DVD and Blue Ray with tons of special features! Please support the cause, get the dvd, show it to people, and help us push the movement to save the oceans. We don’t need to hug trees anymore, we need a revolution, and that necessitates your help.
Good afternoon,
Sharkwater is beeing diffused in France since today. I’m just getting out from the cinema and wanted to thank you. Thank you for your movie. Thank you for the fight, for what you have done in Costa Rica, in Galapagos. You managed to communicate your love and passion which contrast with the crualty of other parts of the movie. I really hope it will make people change their way of thinking about sharks and put some governments to implement some measures to stop those massacres. Sorry for my english !
Hello,I have been interested in sharks since I was a kid. I agree with you Sharks are beautiful creatures ! It`s a shame People are hunting and killing them. They should be hunting them with a camara.If I ever git the chance I would love to Dive with you, Secerly, David Barone
Hey!
I’m french too and studying Marine Biology, i’ve just seen the movie…GENIALISSIME! Trough small groups,associations, beliefs, we try to do our best to make people realize their impact and try to change a little the selfishness of the world about environment. Please, spread the information, scandalize people and increase snowball effect! Changes will happen when small groups fight for one cause with a world wide scale.
Cécile
PS:congratulations for the movie, so important to change public opinion about shark concern.
Hello Rob!
I was invited to the DVD release party in Toronto last night and I am SOOOOOOOO disappointed I wasn’t able to attend and give my support. My wife and I are passionate about this cause, but have never been “kicked in the pants” enough to REALLY get out there and DO something. Until we saw your film, we have been content to spread the word and donate money to worthy causes, but now we want to get out there and get our HANDS DIRTY!! Can you personally endorse any organizations who might need volunteers? We’d probably be up for anything, from licking envelopes to being a deck hand on the Sea Shepherd’s next adventure.
Thank you so much for the work you have done. You should be very proud.
Happy trails,
Libbie
Hello Rob,
I’m french (excuse for my english)
Congratulations for your film (I’m cry a lot)
Now I think it’s important for saving sharks.
Thank you for all, for your movie and your fight in costa rica.
Good Luck.
Hi Rob!!! Just got to see the DVD, and I was amazed!!! I’ve learned so much about something I honestly knew little about. I heard you were making an appearance in Vancouver, and I was just wondering if you we planning any other signings in Canada (I’m in Edmonton) because I would really like to shake your hand.
Take care mate!
Steve Mannette
Hi Rob,
I seen your movie to the theather yesterday and it rocked me!!
Thank you for your wonderful work!
This planet needs man like you to fight butchers of ours ecosystems.
Take care and never give up!
@+
PS:sorry for my english
Hey Rob!
Jeff here. We met at the DVD release party in Toronto. Congratulations on the release of the DVD. Thanks for signing my Sharkwater coffee table book…for those of you that don’t have one yet…get one it’s a BEAUTIFUL full color book.
Rob just to remind you here my site that was inspired by SHARKWATER:
Shark Murder is a website that exposes companies that engage in the business of shark fining. http://www.sharkmurder.com
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!! You’ve got my card…lets go diving!
Jeff & Dani.
i saw your film yesterday, and i support you all my heart. You did a wonderfull work, it’s so painfull to see the business controls the earth.
But you’re right, if we do pressure, by our consume, our acts, we can change the things. I hope you successfull in your fight, and continue, you’re not many people like you. It’s very important you continue to be mediated. In France we don’t know you, try to come to the TV. Nicolas Hulot is the best ambassador for the nature in our country, the most popular i mean, so…I hope you’ll be known more and more.
Hi Rob,
Your documentary has just released this week in France. I’m just back from the cinema.
I think I’m pretty aware about ecological matters, but I have to say your film was really a shock, I dont think anyone can be “prepared” to face that. To see so much ugliness in such a beautiful place. To see so much pain for the sharks and other species captured. So much barbarity.
I guess you must wonder, just like us watching your documentary, “who the f*ck those people think they are?”. I mean it’s so difficult nowadays to think that some people doesnt feel concerned at all about the future of our planet. About the fact that an animal who has survived millions years, must have shaped our planet, in a way or another. It’s so horrifying to realise that the sea remains lawless whereas most of wealth is below the water… Unfortunately, those people are more interesting in another kind of wealth.
Anyway, just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your amazing work and dedication. We need more people like you and Paul Watson. I’m convinced you are the kind of person who can make things change. Hope I can help in a way.
May the Planet bless you.
Take care ;o)
Hey there,
yesterday Ive been to the cinema and watched the movie together with a friend of mine. She totally loves sharks. Well I am still have a lot of respect concerning sharks. But with this movie you changed my mind a bit. Thank you for that! Well I never thought that sharks are the big killers,like a lot of people calling them.
I want to thank you also for reminding me that the biggest monsters in the world are we. That we have to wake up those who prefer to close their eyes and stoped listening.
As soon as the DVD will be available here in Germany I will buy them for sure. If thats a way to support the sharks, then I will. Cause even the fact that I had to close my eyes from time to time while watching the movie, cause the pics were so sad, I think its a damned awesome movie. A perfect mixture from whats left in the ocean and the people still want to destroy and kill just for profit and the important message of the movie.
I will try to do my best to spread the news. Therefore I love the internet. Spreading the news and these facts need to be spread!!!
Thank you very much!!!
Hi Rob,
Just watched this movie last night on DVD with several other scuba buddies, and it made all of us very sad, and all of us are trying to spread the word now. The movie was spectacular, and I’ve already gotten several people to add it to the top of their NetFlix queue. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie that touched me in this way, and I’ve been spending the entire morning today doing research on what you talked about in the movie, and trying to figure out how I can help. I was very sad to discover that the company I work for (Yahoo) has a partial stake in a company which is one of the world’s foremost web suppliers of shark fins (Alibaba). I’ve emailed several higher-ups at the company using my internal mailing address to see if we can get those listings removed. My parents who were always of the mindset “sharks are dangerous” are now going to watch the movie, and contact the wildlife groups they’re members of to see what they can do.
Thank you for speaking up for a majestic creature who can’t speak up for itself. We’ve already ordered the DVD to have a copy at home and are looking for more ways to make a bigger difference.
Rob
I just had the opportunity to watch your movie this past weekend with my girlfriend who is very passionate about Sharks and has been for a very long time. I started reading and getting into Sharks myself after we started dating but only on a small scale. Last month I a surprised her with a vacation to Florida to find prehistoric Shark teeth along the beaches of Venice, on the way back we stopped off at the Aquarium in Chattanooga TN. That’s when I started to get an appreciation for Sharks and how truly awesome these creatures really are but it wasn’t until I saw your movie that I realized that they are not barbaric animals but rather very intelligent creatures. I’ve watched a few documentaries about Sharks on Discovery and the like but all had divers either in chain mail suits or behind a cage. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that Sharks are actually shy and afraid of us. Thank you for showing me a new perspective of Sharks that I never had an opportunity to experience. I never would have imagined that people could be so barbaric and destroy fragile eco-systems for their personal financial gain nor did I know that there is not a single International group that protects the wildlife in the oceans. This summer I wanted to devote some time to a notable cause but didn’t know what direction to take, your film has shown me exactly what direction I need to go.
Andy
thanks for this documentary, i really had to burst into tears at the end, people really need to open their eyes before it’s too late.
Rob,
I first heard about you and your love of sharks on the canadian show The hour and was waiting for the chance to see your movie!
Well,I’ve just watched it…and it made me incredibly sad! Sad over the waste of all those sharks and other sea creatures, but mostly sad for the human population and its ignorance…all this for a soup and lies! Sad for my ignorance, because before I heard of you I didn’t know this was going on… What other atrocities are going on in the world that I don’t know about? I am deeply worried about what is going to happen to us on earth. However, it is with people like you, and your crew, people with courage and passion that my faith in humanity persists. Faith that we, our children and our chirldren’s children will still be here in a hundred years, because we will have found a way to live in harmony with nature.
I have one message to the world: Open your eyes, your ears, your heart and your mind, stop being greedy and change your ways…I know it is not easy, but we have to do it together! It is a matter of survival!
THANK YOU!!!! for this sad but so beautiful documentary I will tell everybody about it!
Hello Rob
I watched your movie yesterday in France. It was so great, I think lots of people discovered sharks and things they couldn’t imagine about them. Thank you for giving the chance to see them as they are and not as our society has always wanted… I love sharks since I was 9 years old , and when I say that sharks are my favourite animals people don’t understand, I hope they will see your movie and finally understand that sharks don’t deserve to be feared, hunted and killed.
Thank you for your movie and your fight, I hope it’ll make things change!
Caroline.
Hi Rob,
Just bought and watched the DVD - Thank you so much for making the movie!! Great and important work. You even convinced my wife even though she did not like sharks at all. The scenes at Cocos Island where the Hammerhead sharks get together is simply amazing. Hopefully future generations will be able to see it…
With best regards from Atlanta,
Gunnar
Hello,
We have just seen your movie at the cinema (in France, it takes a long time to have good movies on the cinema…)!
Thanks for your determination and your sharks’love. We can only wish the public opinion to change…
Thanks a lot.
Hi Rob,
First of all I hope that your leg is still Ok. Secondly, thank you for your movie. I saw it yesterday and I really appreciate it because it is very impartial (the facts are there)and show the shark as they are as I know them (I love sharks!!!! as you do))
I hope that many people wil go and see it. As you did in Costa Rica when you go somewhere the opinion regarding the sharks beging to chang. So keep on.
Sorry for my English I am french:-)
Take care
BRAVO for the moovie we just seen with my mother; I am a 14 years old girl and now I love sharks.
We will tell everybody to go and see the movie in Paris
Best regards from France
Stéphane
hey rob,
I’ve already seen the movie, it completely moved me, but now i’m ECSTATIC its on DVD finally! your movie made me see what is really going on in our oceans today, and to see sharks while i dive is one of the most extraordinary and special moments to me. i hope to help with the awareness of our problems today, thank you SO much!!
-sarah
Thank you for your movie!! my english is so bad i just want to say that i support your actions and your movie is appreciate in France.
i hope you continue your fight. Good luck!
Thank you Rob,
Your movie was real and honest, I cried for the first time for a Shark! Something I would have never have done before. I am now more fascinated and curious about these amazing creatures. I felt a really heavy burden in my heart when I saw how all of those Sharks were being slaughtered and left to suffer in the Ocean. It looks like we lots of work to do here… Thank you for opening my eyes and even perhaps one day saving my life;)
I interested in sharks since i was small and i did my own study about sharks on my own. In asia, it seems like not much publicity or conservation about sharks. Majority of the people here are not educated and given enough information about sharks. I really hope Rob can make a tour to Malaysia and educate us. I really wanted to see the future or sharks are being guaranteed. Thanks. And a nice film u have there
Hello
Just to say BRAVO, i’m french i’m 17 and I love your job.
Perhaps after my studies I will hope to do same job.
Au revoir, continue your blog i follow you !
Hi,
sharkwater is an important film and I really appreciate your work and I can imagine the consequences of your successes. But there are always caveats (as elsewhere with success). Please do not stop doing the right thing. No matter how much money you receive from lobbyists, please keep on fighting for the right cause. With reason and passion for a better world. For education and understanding. Because this is the most important thing for human kind and our planet: education and understanding. Sharkwater educates and produces understanding. Therefore it is a masterpiece of documentational film making. Thank you so much.
Peter
I had no idea.
I do now.
Thank you.
good morning, I’m french and I saw your film yesterday and I holds has say to you that I have cry. your film is epoustouflant it really made me on life and sharks reflechir. I wish you good continuance and I espere a big succes for your film .
I just watched this last night.
I used to be afraid of sharks (I’m vegan for ethical reasons and never wanted them harmed…even amidst my fear).
Today, I’m no longer afraid and it feels so empowering!!! I want to run to the ocean now. Thank you!
I will be spreading the word about this documentary on my blog and to everyone I know.
Thank you for your courage in making this film with all that you endured. You’re a hero for sharks, the environment, and many more.
Cheers!
Kristen Suzanne
Kristen’s Raw
I just saw your film … it rocked my world! I’ve always been passionate about sharks, and your film helped me pull a lot of my friends on board!
Rock on! And thank you for all you’re doing to save our shark friends! Keep up the good work! *hugs*
Hi Rob,
I am a Toronto native and fellow Shark enthusiast, having been mesmorized by their beauty, their grace and their survival on this planet.
I am a radio host on The Fan 590 as well as on-air talent for Sportsnet. While I cover and specialize in a completely different topic than Sharks, it has always been considered my ‘other passion’.
I do a variety of public appearances, speaking engagments and site visits and would really like to get some T-shirts and handouts with Sharkwater, SavingSharks.com etc. I would not only wear the shirts but would love to hand out any swag about this topic to everyone who walks before me.
Anything I can do to spread the word and get this info out there…:)
Wishing you and your team continued success.
Regards,
Joe
Hi Rob:
I feel ashame what happened in Costa Rica, corruption and big mafia are in there doing there weak buiness, politicians, lawyers, judges they all bend over backwards for them, but there is still local people who wants to do something to save the shark and the marine life of the country.
I watched your DVD is wonderful too bad you didnt add Spanish in the languages section, we need to spread this movie to them too. Great documentary.
In Taiwan here… not such a shark friendly country.
The film is awesome, beautiful and powerful but you need to get some Chinese subtitles slapped on this thing because the only way you’re going to stop shark finning is to stop the appetite for shark fins and and as far as I can tell its 90% Chinese.
Better yet, team up with some Asian activists and use your amazing photographic skills and energy on another film aimed AT Asia. There are a lot of people here, especially in Taiwan, who ARE concerned about the environment and endangered species, but like many people the world over, they just happen to be ignorant of sharks.
In a sense, your film frustrated me because watching it from here in Asia, the source of this demand and hence brutal industry, I could tell it won’t make much difference here. Another story needs to be written that speaks TO the people here, young and old.
best
saw the movie, loved it. and cant sit here and wait anymore i want to stop the shark killing. its drivving me crazy.
i know im only 15 and i wanna do somethng.
if there is anything i can do PLEASE MESSAGE ME
please ive loved them ever since i was born and new wat sharks were.
its killing me to know there dieing out there.
im truylly willing to give my life away for a shark.
i give my word and promise to the sharks i will help them and do
everything in my poweer to stop em. once im dune school. im going out
there to help em all over the wrld.
iver been hoping to do sooner like NOW. but no one has the same pashion
i do with sharks
untell i saw the movie lol. wow that sound GAY. but its true.
i new and belived that sharks did no harm i hates the movie jaws
BC ITS ALL BULL. i hate that people make up lies and say there mean eaters.
well if u wereint so retarted and left them in there inviroment i dont think there will be so mayb lies.
people make mistakes so wtf i cant a shark or few.
ive posted this website on myspace. facebook. and trying to get my computer
working for nexopia.
i’ve beent elling al my friends and my family memebers and everone eulds
i talk to bc i keep my word. im not lettng them down.
Shark finning and killing them are horrible. I heard about that a shark accidently killed someone, and if i heard that before i watched the movie sharkwater in science. i would of just said that sharks are dangerous creature but now i want to stand up and fight for them. it was an accident and i think killing any animals is horrible and it should be illegal. Cause if they kill sharks that will make a big mess cause the sharks are on top of the food chain and if the sharks get killed and go extint what would be on top of the food chain?
Dear Rob,
I saw your movie and my perspective changed. At first I had mixed feelings about sharks and shark attacts, but after watching the movie the movie I have a different perspective now.
Hello Rob,
I am a diver (since 1992), a lover of nature and a mother of 3 young children. I took the eldest (8years old) to the cinema today in Paris to see your documentary. I cried. He cried. I told my son how important it was for future generations to preserve our planet, sharks included. He promised me he would do so (and would never eat shark fin soup!).
I really think you did a great job and sould try to push schools into showing your film to children as most parents are ignorant on the subject (and would rather take their kids to watch a Disney film!).
I wish you all the best.
Hi Rob
I desperately wanted to view Sharkwater in the theatre, but I wasn’t able to. I was on the waiting/hold list for a copy at the library and was ecstatic when it came in!
Everything from the content, the narrative, the videography, interviews, music…makes such an amazing journey. I am glad your life is not going to be the same! I hope you are able to gain all you hope for from your life and your love of the magnificent creatures.
I haven’t had the opportunity to meet a shark besides seeing some through a clear wall, but they are beautiful creatures. I would love to swim with/around some. I’d like to witness a birth.
PS You are very well-rounded from your knowledge to your skills to your physical appearance. (Don’t people have a nickname for you? Shark Stud or something? I can’t remember because it was months ago that I saw a quick news story).
Take care of yourself!
Hi there,
I’m living in Singapore and would love to buy the DVD but don’t know where to find it.
Is the DVD being distributed in Asia? If so, can you tell me where to find it in Singapore.
Thanks so much and can’t wait to see your film.
Great film. Maybe this is simplistic idea, but…what’s being done from within China to discourage the Chinese from eating shark fin soup? Understanding that the culture doesn’t want to be told by the rest of the world to stop this ages-old tradition, it seems the message needs to come from within. Why not give incentives to young Chinese bloggers to spread the word - that this practice is not only not Green, but that it’s archaic and outdated (an unlucky, if you want to go that route) and that anyone who serves Shark Fin soup at their wedding or banquet is a douchebag. Get em young! Target teachers and early education, reach out to teens who congregate on social web pages or whatever their version of Facebook/MySpace is. Hand the young Chinese this shark issue to confront their elders with.
Please forward this message.
Hey!
I’m a French girl too (excuse my bad English…); I watched the movie last night which is currently playing in my little town. I came out and felt distressed. I’d like to thank you warmly for sharing us this wonderful movie and your huge passion. I grew up with a love for marine animals (specially dolphins) but I didn’t know so much about sharks.
I really hope it will make people aware of what’s going on and make more people react.
I don’t understand why governments don’t worry about marine life and all those slaughters. So many selfish people…
Thank you so much. Don’t give up the fight.
I’m wondering if the movie is screening in Asia…
I am infurriated. I can not believe as people we let this go on in todays world. I have never had the inniattive to do anything for any cause before. After seeing this movie I can not look at myself in a mirror, and call myself a good person, if I dont do something to help. These poor helpless creatures. I would like nothing more then to get my hands on these pople cutting off fins and smiling as they throw a live beautiful creature back in the water to die. I hate humans right now. Sharks are helpless against humans, they are not the hunters they are portrayed to be, as this film shows they are the hunted.
Thanks I needed to let this out. I am so frustrated I want to scream.
Everyone should see this film. Tell all your firends and put it on your face book. SO easy. So effective.
(sorry for my english)
U’re documentary is the best (amazing)
Sharks are my passion since long time but with my studies
Hey
U’re documentary is the best (amazing)
Sharks are my passion but with my job and my studies i didn’t have many time for this account.
I finish my studies september end and now i want make something for sharks!!!!!!!!!
I’ve 27 years old and i things it’s time for move, i dont’ no how but i want!!!!!!!!!!! If u have any idear…..?!
Now i wait the DVD in FRANCE fir w
sorry problem with my computer….
So, i saw i wait the DVD in france for watch again and again and explain to my friends this big problem!!!!!!!!
thanks for everything, for u’re sharks’love
take care rob!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have seen your movie and I think it’s about time someone has been so upfront about whats happening to sharks around the world. I have seen a few television shows on Discovery about shark finning, but it’s rare that there’s any shows or movies that are realistic about sharks. Most movies/shows that include sharks ex:Jaws, or Top 10 Most Dangerous Animals on Earth are falsly accusing sharks as being monsters or beasts.This is a huge problem because society has been munipulated by the media to believe that these gentle animals are harmful. It’s insane how people always listen when they talk about the seal hunt because they persieve seals as being cute and friendly, or the “sweet, cuddly” bears going extinct, but when it comes to sharks becomming extinct it seems like many people push that information aside. Many don’t think they are as important as the fury, fluffy animals that are being hunted,because lets face it (lots of people has teddy bears when they were little, not shark toys). Also, parents tell there kids “don’t swim to far out or you’ll get eaten by the sharks”, and so children grow up with this information in their heads and unfortunaly are easily influenced by the medias view on sharks…
When I was 13 I went on a family vacation to Mexico and went snorkelling every day, I always loved swimming and underwater life since I was 3 years old. I took my open waters diving course when I got back from Mexico because I wanted to see what was deeper below the reefs then just seeing this exciting new world from the surface. The first time I went diving I felt like I finally had a feeling of perfection,peacefullness and complete happiness that i had never experienced before,and i wish more people could experience it. Now I am 19 and looking forward to getting the chance to swim with sharks, and will be taking a underwater photography, and advanced diving course, so I can help raise awarness about sharks being finned, hunted and killed in such huge numbers and inhumane ways by discusting, ignorant humans! This should be made illegal in ever country, and people need to realize that just because the ocean is so big doesn’t mean there is a endless supply of sharks, because if there isn’t any sharks it will impact humans and the environment in a really big way.
The way sharks are being treated really discusts me and your movie shows the reality of these amazing creatures. I want to do something about it and if you have any information or know of anything I can do hands-on, or places I can go to help that would be great! You are a huge influence to me and so many others. GREAT WORK! GREAT MOVIE! EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS MOVIE! THANKS!
The same thing happens the whole world over to all animals. People are killing animals and soon there will be none left.
Hi Rob,
Thank you very much for visiting the premier of your movie in Cairns tonight. Your passion is inspiring.
I have been witnessing the slow but steady decline of shark populations in our tropical waters over the past two decades. We all have heard about longlining, shark finning, and the major threat to the species. Your story and the imagery of your movie has brought the message so much closer.
Will start tommorrow to ask our local Chinese restaurants to use replacement recipes for their sharkfin soups.
There will be more, but this is the closest action I can think of.
Thanks for your inspiration!
Dirk
Dear Rob,
I have needed to write you those few lines since I have seen your movie “Sharkwater” at the movie theatre.
I must say that I got out of it different and transformed, divided among hope and despair.
What I have seen has moved me deeply inside. I have been as much emotionally moved by the impressiveness of the visual images, as the scenes of savagery. Many a time, it was difficult to hold down my sorrow, my anger and my distaste, because this movie has reinforced my idea that mankind is a somber machine of destruction.
This movie has reinforced my idea that mankind is ready do to anything for power and money, even to destroy himself. But human is ready to do anything too just for surviving and to make subsist his family. I am thinking about those people from those forgotten countries who can only survive by fishing. What is the solution for them, what is the solution for the marine world ?
Thanks to your movie, I have been able to discover shark, that so majestic animal I didn’t know. I have caught a glimpse of paradise and I have been able to see what the hell looks like. Thanks to your movie, I have touched a dream but I have been under the impression it was a living nightmare too. Some visual images were so unbearable to watch ! I do respect life so much and our planet, I do love so much the animal world ! It makes me sick to attend to the jewels disappearance of this world and to the ravaging of his harmony.
This movie has succeeded to bring me somewhere else. It has given to me the desire to draw the sharks, to paint them. It is deep down my way to save them a little, to eternalize them in a world where they could be the kings, far away from the human madness.
I do need to draw people and things I love, as to forget one day I will lose them, as to forget I have already lost them. I do draw a universe that pulls me out from the violence of this world. By drawing, I would love to restore what mankind destroys. By drawing, I would love to give birth again to what mankind murders.
So I would like to say thank you, thank you for this movie, thank you for your fight to save sharks and for the conservation of our planet. You have saved that piece of hope that was lost in me.
I do hope you will never say die. And if you fall, if your heart bleeds, I hope you will get back on one’s feet, because where you will see a failure, there will be some success, as little as it could be.
I do wish you the best for the future and I hope that all your dreams will come true. God could guide you and enlighten your path when everything it’s dark, god bless you and all those you love.
Just saw the movie on DVD. The subject is fascinating, troubling, and moving. And btw, the documentary maker himself is unbelievably HOT! The guy is so cute that you are mesmerized by that alone. Great stuff.
I saw you doco tonight in Sydney Australia, was really good getting to see you in person and to see the passion you have for this film. Really nice guy, best of luck with your mission! I also cried!
Thankyou for coming out after the movie and talking to us in person! it made it all that much real, you speak good infront of ppl too, don’t worry
hehe
oceans are most of beutiful places…but people destroing that!!! hate them,they destoying not just ocean but and all the earth. today i watched this movie in the school i cried a lot but tried stay calm,how people can do this to living things?!! I would…if i could… I will be with you and helping!! people don’t let others do this try to make difference!! i love this earththis nature but i hate people cause they destroy thos beutiful things!! sharks came here first,not humans so why they do this to the shars or turtles or other things? yeah we need eat but not like this!! in the earth is a lot of things to eat! don’t need to kill them for money or for ”nice” food, that movie is awesome Than YOU Rob for this, I never seen that before… I am with you and your friends Hold On never give up and look after yourself…
Best luck for real people who cares about something
Eugenija (sorry for my english)
Hello
First I am sorry i dident saw the movie because in the germen part of swiss is it not in the cinemas (why?). But i will buy the dvd now for watch the movie;-).
now a Question: how i can help saveing the sharks ?
do you now http://www.hai.ch/index.html is this a go organisation?
greets Oliver
thank you for making this movie. It is inspirational to see you and your team working so hard. This is something that I was not aware of until I saw your movie. I will be recommending it to everyone I know. Keep on the great work.
I haven’t watched the film just the trailers i’ve been looking for it here in england i can’t find it but i’m gonna keep trying i love sharks my favourites are great white’s though i want to become a marine biologist and study them i think its funny that people fear sharks but not cars etc… since your more likely to be run over than killed by a shark
hi,
do you know when the dvd and the soundtrack of SHARKWATER will arrive in France? thanks
Rob,
Your documentary was beautiful. It made me think about our connection with these beautiful animals. We just watched it yesterday and it has inspired me and my son Christian to get out and help. I am a recreational diver and I have been fascinated with sharks for many years. Christian has also written about blue sharks and he thinks that we need to stop this senseless killing. We want to thank you for making a documetary that means so much.
Sincerely.
David and Christian
Dear Rob,
You’re a legend. Sharkwater was an amazing documentary. It haunted me and lit a fire in my stomach to want to help. My boyfriend Jim and I are avid divers, surfers and ocean lovers. We recently went diving off the island of Koh Tao in Thailand and had the pleasure and sheer enjoyment of diving with 3 black tip reef sharks. They were the most amazing, beautiful creatures we’ve ever seen. We were completely at peace in their presence.
I’m a fanatic about Shark Week on the Discovery channel. It’s the only time of the year that I don’t leave the house for an entire week. So when I heard about Sharkwater I was thrilled. This documentary is ground breaking, eye-opening and truly needed. Thank you so much for your compassion, love and dedication for making this film and for sharks.
Sincerely,
Nicole & Jim
Orange County, CA
P.S. Sea Shepherd you rock!!!
Hello Rob,
thank’s for your terrific motivation and commitment.
We’re using your movie at our oceanschool - it’s a great tool to wake people up and show them what’s really going on out there.
Still tears in my eyes after watching it severals times now…
THANKS and keep it up,
Tom
Hi Rob
Very inspiring!
i am from Western Australia and am soon to launch an inspirational new journal/magazine. Part of our goal is to strengthen the connection between humans and nature. Your documentary inspires compassion for these beautiful creatures.
The journal is also about bringing a positive focus to life.When I read about the challenges you faced filming the documentary, yet your courage and committment you had to see it through, it was very moving and encouraging.
I would love to help promote your cause.With your permission, I am happy to use information you have already posted on this BLOG.
Keep up the amazing work Rob!
Look forward to hearing from you.
Warm regards,
Belinda
Firstly, thankyou. Thankyou for being the one to finally stand up so proudly and to do so with such passion, strength and beauty. I took my 4 year old daughter to see it at the cinema and she loved it as much as I did. You know you’re on the right track when even a 4 year old can walk out and say “Daddy sharks are lovely! We have to make them safe!”
I recently came across the news on sea shepherd about my very own state (Queensland) trying to organise the shark fin fishery. I have emailed Peter Garrett and various dive stores in attempts to organise a united front against this but I fear I will receive no replies. Keep up the good work,
Gavin.
Thank you so much Rob for this amazing film. What an impact you have had, and what an inspiration to us all. You are my hero.
We all thank you for everything you’ve done so far, and for what you will do in the future.
-Laura James
I also have a big interest in sharks but i have read everywhere that great white sharks are dangerous.Is this true?In your film I never see you swimming with these!And they seem so big and poweful and all the pictures on the internet are of them mad or angry.Anyway I am 100% behind you I never thought it was that bad and your film has shown me it is!I also have a question;if I was stranded in the sea and some sharks come along,what should I do.Will they not approach me.
Thanks,Kieran.
i just wana say ur dvd was awesum i watched it in science,very cool i never knew that sharks did not kill people and ur rite i wus influenced by jaws and assumed they bite,i admire paul watson for not giving up and escaping house arrest . hope u make more vids !
hello Rob,
I’m french. I want thank you for your film. it’s very important for you and it’s very important for a lot of people.
Continue your fight !
Sorry for my english
Amelie and Vincent
Hi Rob,
Though we promoted Sharkwater on MarineBio.org, and I was very much behind the film even without seeing it - I just finished watching it on DVD tonight and was blown away. I blogged about it: http://marinebio.org/blog/ and will also mention it in our upcoming newsletter (circulation ~20,000). Let me know if there’s anything else I can do to help get the word out about the film. It was absolutely riveting and, for me, extremely emotional. I applaud your struggle to get this film made; clearly it was not even remotely easy to do. I can’t imagine seeing/filming what you filmed - the brutality and ignorance would have sent me to a straight jacket! And now, reading about the illnesses you suffered, I have even more respect for your tremendous accomplishment. Congratulations and I hope I can help in some small way to raise awareness about Sharkwater and your commitment to protecting sharks.
Joni
Vice President and Editor
MarineBio.org
Hi Rob,
I am the president of an animal welfare student group at Massey University in New Zealand. I would really like to hold a showing of Sharkwater one evening as one of our events. Is this possible to do or do I need special permission? I know that most people go ahead and have movie nights without worrying about this, but I’d like to make sure that this is acceptable first.
Also, I still need to buy a copy of the DVD, but will need to buy one with a Region Code 0 (all regions) or Region Code 4 so that it can play in New Zealand. Do you know where I can buy a DVD with one of these codes?
Thank you and look forward to seeing your movie!
Thanks for helping animals!
Jen
Ps. If you’re ever in this part of the world, we’d love to have you as a guest speaker.
Rob(and crew)
My 12 year old daughter and I went to see Sharkwater last weekend. We are both totally blown away by the magnitude of this slaughter and WILL be doing out bit to save these wonderful creatures!
We live in beautiful Queensland, in Australia, where sadly (and embarrassingly) the Queensland Government is creating a dedicated shark fishery on the Great Barrier Reef
(see www.sharksavers.org to read more about this decision and to join the petition against it).
Thank you so much for continuing to enlighten the world to this issue - keep up the great work.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU
Best wishes
Mandy and Amy
Qld, Australia
Rob,
i want to thank you for your movie. I have been part of www.savingthewhalesagain.com for some time now. and you movie helped me to see the terrible things happening to the sharks too. it is just devastating. please let me know if there is ANYTHING that i can do to help. volunteer…donate..spread the word..help your crew. just let me know i would deeply appreciate it. i am a starter of many petitions and against this terrible thing happening around the world. thank you for your movie. please contact me as soon as possible if you need ANY help. thank-you.
sincerly,
Emily Swanson
emcsat93@hotmail.com
I’m crying. I’m pissed. I’m angry.
I thought if I changed a lightbulb, I could make a difference.
I thought if I bought local made products, I could make a difference.
I thought if I recycled or composted everything I could make a difference.
I thought if I started a blog or Facebook group, I could make a difference.
I thought if I could convince 1 person we were contributing to the destruction of our planet, I could make a difference.
I was inspired by LIve Earth to do something.
I changed a few bulbs.
I was inspired by the Shelter Valley Folk Festival to do something.
I changed to the 100 Mile Diet.
I was inspired by Al Gore to do something.
I changed my lifestyle.
But as I write this there are still tears in my eyes.
I’ve just watched Sharkwater.
I have never considered myself to be an activist.
I thought I was just doing what I could to be a better person.
I’ve made my wife put up with a lot of changes.
You just can’t grow oranges in Canada.
You can only buy a few lettuce leaves in February.
She has to carry heavy returnable glass bottles of milk.
Half the back yard is gone so I can grow a few vegetables.
All most all our activities take the environment into consideration.
I’m going to buy a hybrid soon.
I’ve stopped buying bottled water.
I’ve stopped eating veal and KFC.
I’m switching to Bullfrog power at home.
I’ve eliminated most of my phantom power sources.
I take a locally produced lunch to work 3 times a week, usually.
We are supposed to be an intelligent species.
We should be able to look at what we are doing and fix it.
We should be able to see that some of the earth’s problems are our fault.
But right now, I ashamed to be human.
But, I’ve just watched Sharkwater.
So, I’m going to ask you all to watch it.
Rob and the crew-
Being at 16 years old…
I CAN’T believe how many sharks have been killed!!!
I believe that there need to be more people like you.
We need to REALLY stand for the innocent sharks that are killed every day.. or every week! My family and I are devestated by the fact that this WHOLE ECONOMY is destroying these creatures… and just for their fins?!?! Tossing the shark’s body overboard like that?!?! NO NO NO NO NO! I wanted to tell you that you’ve done an AMAZING job giving an impat to the people in Cuba. I’d never thought that someone so passionate, who ATUALLY cared about these creatures, could take a stand to convice everyone around here what is REALLY going on among the creatures and why the population is decreasing by so much. Thank you for making the film and keep surpassing your goals to complete the dream!
Hello Rob!
Like some people, I’m french, so I am sorry to the quality of my tongue! I am in love with sharks and I want to thank you for your film! It is so beautiful and it shows the true, even if it is difficult to see it. I will buy the DVD as soon as I shall buy it !
A lot of french people have open their eyes about the condition of sharks thanks to you!
Thank you for everything that you do and please, continue to make us dream!
Hi !
What a deep and terrifying movie ………but so real ………and that’s just a little piece of the huge iceberg of “what Human Being is abble to destroy its wonderfull planet” !!!!!
Thanks a lot Rob to you and all your team for having been so brave to make this movie till the end !
Go on and let’s hope that Human Beings open their eyes and their Mind very soon, for the Ocean and for the whole Earth !
Cheers
Armelle
I have just finished watching the dvd, and I am at a loss. It was a powerful film, that has left me in shock over such devastation. I just don’t know what to say, other than THANK-YOU for opening my eyes to something, that I just was completely unaware of. (and I am going to make sure everyone I know is aware of this film and watches it, it’s not much, but at least it may help to spread awareness)
KEEP FIGHTING!
I have just finished watching this movie and I have to tell you I can’t remember the last time I cried this much. I’ve always loved the water, in fact I’m convinced if there is such a thing as a past life I lived in the ocean. Sharks have always facinated me and I am deeply disturbed by what is happening to them. It is such senseless slaughter, I mean it isn’t even like we do anything important with the fins, SOUP, for godsake, how did we become so arrogant a race to think that despite the knowledge we have, we can’t even plead ignorance, we can continue on destroying everything we touch. We truly will be the engineers of our own destruction, what a legacy! I’m so sad to think that my children my never have the opportunity to show there children what we had except maybe behind glass. Thank you for what you’ve done, I truly hope we will be able to affect some change if it isn’t already too late.
Hi Rob,
i am deeply moved by your movie - good that you sticked it out till the end and did not gave up.
Since I dived accidentally with a grey shark, I have been captivated by those animals. But to be completly honest I did not knew how serious their situation is.
I started thinking, that as the motives for this to happen are of economic natur and as I am an economist, there has to be something that I can do - I am going to stick to this!
Thank you for your passion!
Andreas
hey , rob
I loved the movie, it was truely moving. I am 15 and i am already trying to persue a carreer in the study of sharks.I didn’t know how bab the fining was until i watched the movie, but what u have done, is ispiering a lot of people including me. anyways got to go, good luck Rob
Hello,Rob(First of all,excuse for my poor english)
I am a Chinese people,I have always been a environmentalists,I felt so bitter after watching the sharkwater,As a chinese, i feel ashamed that there are a huge supply of fish’s fin in asia market.I hate it,and want to do something to stop it,I hope all the peoples of the world aware of this situation and try our best to saving the shark.
We ‘ll give you and your partners strong support,you are heros!
It’s out now: a Dutch www.sharkwater.nl website!
hi rob,
wow what a movie. I love sharks and I always have and when my dad showed me this movie I coulden’t wait to watch it. One of my life long dreams has been to swim with sharks and if they go extinct that will never happen. When I get older I will be a proud supporter of keeping sharks around. So thank-you for such a enspiering movie and try to write somewhere on the site to keep me updated on the shark world.
Hello,
Im not very old, im just 12,
I want to go to work in WWF. I love animals and as soon as i heard that they are going to Extink i dont know what i thought. We are going to far, these japan people continue hurting these Sharks, and for what?? Their fins! That is really mean! Poor sharks… They get thrown into that water whithout their fins, so they die because they loose too much blood or they die because they cant swim, so they starve…
I am discusted by those people.
Isy.
Hey Rob,
I just watched the movie at UCSB. Amazing effort. Thanks for fighting for the cause.
Irfan
Dear Rob,
I am quite sure you get comments like this all the time, but I feel that this is the only way I really have a hope of contacting you.
I have been studying sharks since I was 5 years old. That means 15 years of research and study. I have met and enjoyed conversations with Rodney Fox in Australia, and gone swimming with sharks in the Galapagos.
Sharks are absolutely beautiful and amazing creatures. The love I feel for them is unconditional and all encompassing.
Your film made me cry. The brutality with which these beautiful animals are being treated is inexcusable. I wholeheartedly agree with you that something must be done about finning and long-lining.
I have purchased the Sharkwater DVD, I have emailed and spoken to all of my friends. I have written letters to government offices all over the world trying to save the creatures I love most.
But I feel that it is not enough.
I would love to be able to work with you or some of the shark-saving people that you know in order to help protect these amazing animals. If there is anything you think I can do, or if there is any advice that you have, please let me know.
Thank you for everything that you’re doing. You’re an amazing person and I wish there were more people like you out there.
Sincerely,
-Caitlin Janes.
Dear Rob,
This is the first time i got deeply moved by a “shark” movie .
What a movie ,GREAT! I love sharks and I always have .
I think that you did a really great job on this documentary.THANKS for sharing it with the world.
I just hope that there are ore peoples like you ,and like me who love these animals ,My dream is to work with these animals, but unfortunatelly i dont know anyone who feels as deep as i do for these animals.
I would love to be able to work with you, help you and be there for these animals.
Keep up the great work Rob. THANK THANK!!
Ferenc Mezei (Sweden)
Fer
God must be varry pleased with you for every thing youhave dun
for the sharks. when I wus youngr I woned to work for Greenpeace
it would be a oner maybe some day if I can get to the right people . can you help? if you can ever find the time!
THANK YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS for all your worke
KATE kpeboerman@hotmail.ca