Some Videos

[SimonSpear]

Hi all

Well as a new member here I thought I should post some videos for you all to take a look at.

Porbeagles in Peril

and here's a blue water one...

Earth?

There's quite a few more on our website if you want to take a look.

Any comments would be welcome!

Cheers, Simon

[Helen]

Hi Simon,

Great videos. Really enjoyed watching them thanks. Will have a look at some of your others soon. Found the porbeagle one really interesting.

Helen

[TimIngmire]

I think I've seen the porbeagle one before. Who wouldn't love to go see that and off our own shores as well!

Very nice videos Simon.

Tim

[Cussy]

Simon,
What can I say? I'm no film maker, so this is from purely an observers point of view. I thought all the videos were excellent. The editorial in Earth? is cracking, a great mix of different locations, including some nice UK stuff. I must admit the scene where the Porbeagle was being dragged out of the water wasn't pleasant viewing, but in context was worth seeing.
Thanks for sharing,
Rob

[triplefin]

just watched the Porbeagle footage - lovely, well done!

[SimonSpear]

Thanks for the nice words everyone and I'm glad you enjoyed them

Cussy you raised a valid point - it was uncomfortable viewing at times but just so you know none of the sharks were caught just to film them. They were being caught to attach satellite tags, which was the first time this had ever been done in the NE Atlantic and it's only been done literally a handful of times elsewhere in the world. Almost nothing is known about where Porbeagles come from and where they go to and there have been some interesting results so far from the tag results, although I can't say too much yet as it's the basis for someones phd and needless to say they want to keep things quiet until they publish.

I also felt uncomfortable at times when the sharks were on the line and on the boat. The really interesting thing though is that the longest we ever had a Porbeagle 'on deck' was just over 3 mins. It seemed like hours at times, but that's not a bad result in terms of getting them out, tagging them and then getting them back into the water. The satellite tags show that all of the sharks were healthy when they went back into the water, which is a good thing to hear.

Hopefully we'll be running this expedition for the next 5 years and at the end of that period hopefully we'll have a lot better understanding of these sharks and some hard scientific facts that will help us get them protected for the future.

Cheers, Simon