Journey to Shark Eden

National Geographic

Madman

R4 DVD

The major documentary is Journey to Shark Eden which documents a unique journey covering some 3,300 kilometres in 30-days visiting truly remote islands in the South Pacific.

Far from civilisation, a team of scientists, led by Dr. Enric Sala and joined by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Mike Fay search for undisturbed islands which have an abundance of coral, fish and, of course, Sharks. This is a strange world which seems to contradict current scientific evidence; it is a world where predators outnumber prey. This is an amazing world so abundant with life that it gives us a hint of what the island may have been like before man’s intervention.

As they visit these rare island, they find over three times as much coral as any other reef in the Indo-Pacific on Flint Island. While on Malden Island – the test site of three nuclear bombs in 1958 – the team finds a reef exploding with life and ten times more sharks than any other studied reef on the planet. Millennium Atoll offers a surprising refuge for blacktip reef sharks while Starbuck Island has the second largest biomass of any reef ever studied.

This is an amazing journey to what could be best defined as Shark Eden.

The bonus feature on this DVD is called Ultimate Shark and is certainly as interesting as Journey to Shark Eden if not a little more so. While so many people fear the great white shark this is a documentary objectively examining its biology and history. The great white has bloodlines which go back some 400 million years and indeed are older than dinosaurs. The sad fact is that due to their demonization as “cold blooded” killers the major danger to their survival is man. This superb documentary examines their unique biology including a rare direction which includes examination of the great white’s electrical sense. Computer graphics are used to help us understand the unique anatomy of the great white and the unusual structure of its brain. There is also a stunning tagging operation where a truly gigantic great white is hauled on board and tagged with a satellite training system so its movements can be tracked.

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