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ROB STEWART: I got lost
in the ocean.

I was underwater.

Took a wrong turn,
got stuck in some currents.

By the time I surfaced,
I was a mile and a half

away from where
I should've been.

I thought I was gonna die.

The only option I had
was to not give up.

That was very much
a metaphor for
what we're going through now.

'Cause if you give up,
100% you're dead.

I think we're in that
situation right now.

You can't give up.

ROB: So we just snuck
into Costa Rica.

The first time since 2002,
14 years ago,

to check out what's going on
with the fin industry here

and what we might be
able to do about it.

And we had a local contact
set up to do interviews for us.

So, the word is already
in the Costa Rican
government now that...

I'm here
and that Sharkwateris here,

and we're making Sharkwater 2.

We're not here without
a filming permit,
we already know the country.

So we gotta watch our back.

ROB: 15 years ago,

I began a quest
to save sharks
from shark fin soup,

a Chinese delicacy.

Millions of sharks
were being finned,

where they were pulled
out of the water,
their fins were cut off,

and were thrown back
into the oceans to die,

destroying the populations
of some of the most
important predators

the planet has ever had.

And I thought that if
I could change the public's
view of sharks

if I could make them
love these animals
like I did...

See that they're beautiful
and amazing and magnificent
and important,

then maybe they'd wanna
fight for their protection

like they fight for pandas
and elephants and bears.

Well, the movie, you know,
it took me five years,

and nearly killed me
half a dozen times.

We had to run from the country
while the coast guard

was firing machine guns at us.

And it, you know,
turned into this crazy story

that shows you how much
money there is in the
exploitation of sharks.

The film, Sharkwater,

brought the plight of sharks
for shark fin soup
into the spotlight,

resulting in the creation
of conservation groups,

government policy changing
all around the world,

and an empowered youth
that knew they could
change the world.

Today, shark finning is banned
throughout most of the world.

But now, sharks are in
more trouble than ever before.

We're killing up to
150 million sharks a year,

but scientists can only
account for 70 million
of those.

There are 80 million
sharks every year
that are getting killed,

and nobody knows why, or where
those sharks are going.

ROB: And what's changed
in Costa Rica in
the last ten years?

RANDALL ARAUZ: Well,
it's changed dramatically
from Sharkwater.

We're actually turning into
marine conservation leaders

in these conventions.

The Costa Rican
is doing a great job.

Unfortunately, we had
a new president step in,

and in the matter
of a stroke of a pen,

in one year, many of these
policies were reversed.

We saw Costa Rica export
900 kilos of hammerhead
shark fins

against the CITES convention.

They actually did
two exportations,
um, to do this.

The government of Costa Rica
just decided to ignore
its commitments with CITES

and the international
community,

and Costa Rica just decided,

"We're gonna export
these hammerhead shark fins

"because they're
public interest."

And they did.

RANDALL: And they even got
the president of Costa Rica

to sign a statement saying
that the government was no
longer going to protect sharks

in international conventions.

And that's when
we really flipped,

because the work that
we had done for ten years
over three presidents,

in a matter of months,
it's all, you know,
torn to pieces.

Costa Rica's not going
that way anymore.

Um, is shark finning
still happening in Costa Rica?

Uh, it's happening,
but without the permission

and without the support,

and without the, uh,
willingness of the
Costa Rican government.

Finning is happening simply
because it's an illegal action.

And just as it happens
with narcotrafficking

or any other action,
it continues to happen,

and I regret it.

And the authorities
of Costa Rica

are taking all the necessary
steps to prevent it.

REGI DOMINGO: It's always
the same with them.
Say one thing and do another.

ROB: We're headed
to Puntarenas

because we'd figured out that
if you want to bring illicit
fins into Costa Rica,

all you have to do is land
them in port on the weekend

when the fisheries body
that looks after fish

isn't working.

So we're gonna rock up
to Puntarenas,
pull out our cameras,

and see if we can film
anything illegal

happening on the weekends
and happening without any
official body watching.

ROB: Are you going
to be your real name?

No.

I'm gonna be Laurette.

ROB: How about when
they ask you for your ID?

So do you think they'd
have to take my ID?

ROB: Just trying to
watch your back, Regi.

ROB: People don't realize
there's so much money in
the trade of animals,

there's so much money
in the trade of fins.

It's a billion-dollar industry.

There's multimillionaires
playing mafia rings

like puppeteers trying
to exploit the resource.

ROB: You've got
to be kidding me.

REGI: I'm not surprised.

We're gonna meet
Williams Flores,

who, when we were
last in Puntarenas,

told us about
these mafia warehouses

drying shark fins.

And so now we're back
in Costa Rica, we're
gonna go meet him

and see how
the situation has changed,
where they're drying fins,

and what we might
be able to do

to help save sharks
in Costa Rica.

-Hello.
-Hi.

-How are you?
-Good. Come here.

-REGI: Thanks.
-MAN: That's yours.

MAN: Get a life jacket.
It's better.

-For what? To look
like a tourist?
-To seem more tourist.

Sure. Good idea.

ROB: Which one is the Varadero?

BROCK CAHILL:
That one, right there,
Franju.

ROB: Sharks are worth
an enormous amount of money,

and it's mostly for their fins.

And, you know,
a single pound of fin
is worth over $200 US.

So, to fishermen
around the world
in third-world countries,

you can pull up a shark,
cut off its fins,

throw the rest
of the body back,
dry the fin.

You don't need
refrigeration systems
on your boat,

so even the most
decrepit boats
can go out there

and make enormous
amounts of money.

And it's... Sharks
are being fished everywhere.

ROB: Oh, look,
he's got something.

What is it?

REGI: Looks like
a hammerhead to me.

ROB: So, you wanna
buy it off him?

He looks like
he's interested in...

ROB: Blacktips?

REGI: Ehm, no, this is
a little hammerhead.

They have 30 of these ones.

ROB: 30, and they're
little blacktips, right?

-REGI: Yeah.
-ROB: Yeah. Okay.

ABRAHAM STERN:
You have to be careful.

Okay.

That's a must.

You cannot go...
Especially if you're gonna
be shooting in Puntarenas.

You already know how
dangerous it is right there.

You guys run for your life.

I remember one shooting...
You were meeting,

or you went into
a warehouse, I think so,

and you saw the
shark fins on the roof.

And you guys were
running, literally.

So we have to be careful.

Costa Rica is a good country.

Unfortunately, there's
very bad layers in it.

WILL: Ready, Rob.

ROB: Holy shit,
there's one clear panel

and I think there's
fins in it.

ROB: When we realized
how much money
there was in fins

and all of these operations,

and how much money was
going to Costa Rica
for the fin industry,

that was a major eye-opener.

ROB: Wow, that's a lot of fins.

ROB: You think of Costa Rica
and you think, you know, lots
of conservation happening.

You don't expect one of the
most progressive countries

down there to
encounter that, but we did.

REGI: We have to
leave this place right now.

ROB: What's going on?

REGI: This hotel is from
the owner of Mariscos Wang.

It's Diego, so it's one
of the big mafia

in Puntarenas.

BROCK:
That makes perfect sense.

We have been sleeping here,

so it's not nice.

You know,
we've been here thus far.

WILL: Yeah,
but we were flying drones
off the roof yesterday.

What do you mean?

We're being a little more
conspicuous today.

Taking off
remote control helicopters

off the roof
and flying over the ports.

So, now,

a few people have
seen us do that.

REGI: I think we have
to check out and go
our separate ways.

For sure.

REGI: After that,
I got death threats,

and I had to leave Costa Rica.

The next time I saw Rob
was just before the last dive.

ROB: I was a fish nerd
when I was a kid.

I was chubby, I stuttered,

and I ended up liking animals
more than people.

I had a goldfish bowl,
I think, from the time
I was zero,

and just fell
in love with fish,

and looked into that world
and saw these creatures

that I didn't really understand,
that could breathe water,
that could fly.

I had the opportunity
to go underwater

and hang out in the
Caribbean as a kid.

Because I was so young,
I wasn't allowed to dive.

The only way I could
go down there and hang
out with these fish

was holding my breath
and swimming down.

And it just...
It was the most
magical world possible.

You know, you're in a
three-dimensional world,
you can fly.

And, uh, as a kid
that just enthralled me.

I met my first shark
when I was nine.

I saw the shark out
of the corner of my eye,

and it swam in my direction.

And the second it made
eye contact with me,
it freaked out,

and swam the other direction.

For me, that whole experience,

five-foot Caribbean Reef shark

terrified of
a nine-year-old kid,

removed all the fear
I had of sharks in the ocean

and allowed me
to go explore it further,
fall deeper in love.

ROB: And I'm here
in Cat Island
in the Bahamas

because one of the most
amazing sharks in the world,

the oceanic whitetip shark,
come here only in
the month of May.

Now, the oceanic whitetip shark
was once the most abundant
large predator on the planet.

They were everywhere,
but because they have
massive fins

that are highly valued
in the fin industry,

oceanic whitetip shark
populations in the Atlantic
and Caribbean

have dropped 99%.

When I heard these creatures
were spotted in this area,

my team decided
to take a chance

and see if we could
capture them on film

so others could
see the reality

behind what Jacques Cousteau
once called,

"The most dangerous
of all sharks."

Having never filmed them before,
and with a serious reputation,

I'm a bit cautious
as I learned to
understand these sharks.

Oceanics turned out
to be absolute sweethearts.

They had the most expressive
and curious eyes
I've seen in any shark.

And you can really
feel them reading you.

They're also a little cheeky
and very intelligent.

The most important thing
for me when filming sharks

is to try to understand
what life is like for them,

how they see the world,
and what makes them special,

because my goal
is to make people fall
in love with sharks.

And for that, people
need to see a bit
of their softer side,

a bit of their intelligence,

and maybe see a bit
of themselves in the sharks.

MARK QUARTIANO:
Something big today, baby.
Something big.

Stand by, we're gonna
hang 'em high.

I got a good feeling
today, baby.

Oh, do we have to?

Well, they say 100,000,
but I don't think that's true.

I say more like 50.

-ROB: 50,000?
-Yeah.

ROB: What kind of shark
you'd like to catch today
more than any other?

MARK: Right now?
Uh, I'd like to catch, uh,
either a mako or a tiger.

Hammerheads are probably
the most common sharks
we catch out here.

No. Negative.

No, hammerheads
aren't endangered.

There's plenty of them out there
and we catch them every trip.

That's all
Shark Weekpropaganda.

MARK: I mean,
you know, you gotta
put it in perspective.

I mean, this is
just an animal
that's on Earth

for... For what reason?

For man to eat.

I mean, sure,
there's a decline
in the sharks

because of the commercial guys
are whacking them
pretty good.

And there's a demand for them.

So, you put a trophy
price on something,
it's gonna die.

Simple. Show me the money.

We normally get a bite
right about now.

Sometimes, you know,
you're gonna
wait a long time for a bite.

Like today,
when there's no current.

Water's kinda dirty.

A lot of trash in the water.

And, uh, you just have to wait.

What do you think it is
people like about going
and fishing for sharks?

Sharks are the apex
predator, you know.

They always had been
and they always will be.

What was that?
You got a bite there?

Watch out! Get the nose Ryan.

Getting a bite right now.

I got a bomb. I got a bite here.

He got a bite.

Take a line. Take a line.
Big fish here. Big fish.

All right, get set up,
guys. Get set up.

Oh, yeah. Big fish here. Whoo!

Right in his head.

Easy now, easy.
Very slow is good.

Cheer up. Cheer up.

Get ready to get it here.

I am ready.

How long is this going to take?

Sometimes, they'll come
right up to the boat,

you get an identification
on them,

and it might be
another hour after that,

it's really, really,
uh, average fight

with this setup,
with this type of rod
and reel combination.

Average fight
on your average shark,

which is a lot of
different variables, obviously.

It's about half-hour
or 45 minutes.

They could go a lot quicker
or go a lot longer.

ROB: People tell you
your whole life
to be afraid of sharks.

Pretty well everything
we've been receiving
from the media,

from just about everybody,
is that sharks are dangerous,

and they're gonna kill you
and they're gonna eat you.

But the reality
is totally different.

You know, they've been here
for actually 400 million years.

They survived five
major extinctions on Earth

that wiped out most
life on the planet.

They've seen life
on Earth rebuilt
from scratch five times.

450 million years
of shark's presence on Earth,

we've decimated them 30 years.

Shark populations dropped
90% in 30 years. 90%.

How could this be happening?
How could this be happening?

ROB: Sharks, in particular,
a lot of them in particular,

-hammerheads seem
to not survive...
-MARK: After you catch 'em?

ROB: After you catch 'em.

MARK: If you just keep
by the boat for a few
minutes or so,

their chance of survival
is really, really
slim to none.

-Yeah?
-Yeah.

You almost have
to cut 'em off at the boat

and let them keep
going swimming.

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

You stop and take a picture,

and try to get their hooks out
and all that stuff.

It's probably not
gonna survive.

Yeah. And that's
okay with you?

-If the sharks don't...
-Well, what're you gonna do?

You can't, um,
put a sign on the hook and say,

"Hey, I don't want any
hammerheads biting this bait."

I mean, how're you
gonna do that?

MARK: Well done.

Well done.

Pretty work, guys.
Pretty work.

ROB: Maddie, what's happening?

Grab the other side.

MARK: Nice work, Maddie.

It's a wrap.

By the time you released,
he swam away really good.

Good job.

Hey, you gotta break
a couple of eggs if you
wanna make an omelette.

Remember that, all right?

Good job.

That was really
fucked up, bro.

I have seen, like,
a hammerhead like that
once in my lifetime,

in the distance,
on the Great Barrier Reef,

for about 15 seconds
before it swam off.

And that was the closest
I've ever been to a hammerhead,

and that was terrible.

He's thrashing around
at the end, thrashing around.

And he just, like, gave up.

That's the worst thing about it,

like, you can film that
on a commercial fishing boat,

and it's still messed up,
which I understand why
they do it.

But when people do that
kind of stuff for fun,

I have absolutely no
contemplation of what's going
through that person's head,

why that's fun for someone.

MADISON: Rob said

it was good to see me
having so much care and sadness
over an individual.

And I could still cry
over one animal after
all we have seen.

It was like an older brother.

ROB: The killing of sharks
is, I think,

is one of the biggest
concerns that we should have

on the planet
ecologically today.

We depend on ecosystems
for survival.

We depend on other species.

They're part and parcel
of ourselves,
of our daily lives.

Removing sharks is removing
part of the framework

that allows life
to exist on land.

It's the animal that sits
on top of 70% of the oxygen

in the air that we breathe
from phytoplankton
in the oceans.

If you remove once species,
the consequences ripple
through entire ecosystems.

And right now, we're removing,
you know, the most important
predator the planet has.

And the consequences
are going to not just affect
oceanic ecosystems,

they're going to affect
our ecosystems and ourselves.

ROB: We're now killing up
to 150 million sharks a year,

and it's not just
shark fin soup anymore.

Sharks are now being killed
and renamed and fed to us,

so we don't know
we're eating shark.

This is a massive scandal
representing tens of millions
of sharks every year.

ROB: Eating sharks
is a bad idea.

We're eating endangered
super predators.

We're eating animals
that can take 40 years
to reach sexual maturity.

They can have very few young.

Most of the pollution
we've ever made as a species

has gone into
the environment untreated.

And that accumulates
in living animal matter

and concentrates as you
go up the food chain.

By the time you get to sharks,
they're enormously toxic.

With things like lead
and mercury
and even neurotoxins.

So it's important that we
keep sharks out of our food.

They're enormously toxic.

Let's recommend
to women and children,
don't eat them at all.

It's really important to bring
this message to the public.

Here are the fins.

-ROB: It's worth a lot of money.
-MAIKE: Here, it's $5.

-$5?
-Yeah.

-MAN: This is $5 here.
-Max.

-So $5 here,
and in China, 200 bucks?
-Yeah.

MAIKE: A pound
of the little ones,
it's 50 cents.

-50 cents?
-Here in...

Baby hammerheads.

MAIKE: As we have learned,

there has been
two confiscations.

I checked the confiscations.

Why do they keep the fins here?

MAIKE: Because this is
the coast and ocean department

of the environment ministry.

Okay.

MAIKE: And it's
in their custody.

ROB: We're here
in a parking lot
in Panama City

with hundreds of thousands
of dollars of shark fins

confiscated from people
that were trying to check
these into airlines

and fly them to Asia.

This is a seizure
of 800 pounds
of shark fins in Panama

representing $300,000
in shark fins.

Uh, many of which are illegal
and on the endangered
species list,

including the scalloped
hammerhead shark,
our favorite species.

These are all
Scalloped hammerheads?

Yup. In essence, they should.

MAIKE: They are
huge hammerheads.

And there's 40,000 fins here?

38,868.

Oh, my God.

MAIKE: So we've seen
many different shark species,

um, of many different sizes.

Among these, probably
the largest hammerhead fins

that, at least, I have seen.

So, the newborns,
the lighter ones.

They seem to really get
a little bit depressed

when they see these
little, small...

-MAIKE: Just the tip
of the iceberg.
-SEBASTIAN: Yeah.

This is a lot of shark fins.

Yeah, I've never seen
something like that before.

RON: When we started
making Sharkwater,

there were four countries
that have banned shark finning.

When we were finished,
there were 16 countries that
have banned shark finning.

Now, there's more than
90 countries around the world

that have banned
the process of finning,

but none of them have banned
the importation of fins,

which means you can fin
as many sharks as you want

as long as you put the fins
on a shipping boat

before you bring them
into port, not a fishing boat,

which is a massive loophole.

WILL: So those
are reefer containers

that Rob's identified as
being full of frozen shark.

Think Rob's gonna get pinched?

That guy's obviously playing
close to security, right?

-ART GAETAN: Yeah.

I'm a little bit
surprised he is.

WILL: Yeah, he is.
He's not afraid of anything.

Holy crap.

That's a fin.

Just laying on the wharf.

WILL: So we're all
shark biologists here.
Any idea what species?

JOE PRATT:
Not shark would be the guess.

WILL: Oh, God. Holy...

JOE: Yeah, that's not
blue shark, Brother.

WILL: No, that's not a blue.
We've seen plenty of their fins.

What do you think?

That's a dorsal
from something, I'd say.

What's this?

ROB: Blue shark tags.

WILL: Tiburon azul,yeah.

ROB: Stating that blue sharks
that were landed here
were caught in Spain.

WILL: Oh, creepy.

ROB: We're nowhere near Spain.

JOE: So, apparently,
they're not really
trying to hide it.

Does this shit make you nervous?

No.

What's happening?

WILL: Where's the Japanese boat?

ROB: Right there.

And you can see
the trans-shipping boat.

They're right now
with each other,

and the freezer container
ship has got a crane

over top
of the Japanese boat right now.

WILL: Oh, shit, dude.
They're unloading right now.

ROB: At the end of the dock,
they're unloading blue sharks.

Fuck, what are these boats?
There's tons of them.

A car has
pulled up behind ours,

just randomly beside us.

He looks Costa Rican.

Oh, great.

ROB: Hello. Hi,
nice to meet you.
What's your name?

-MAN: Roden.
-ROB: Roden.

-ROB: Slippery.
-MAN: Slippery.

ROB: Wow.

So much money.

Is this full or it will
be all the way full?

MAN: All the way full.

ROB: All the way. Wow.

ROB: They're all big
blue sharks in that container.

Blue sharks are cute,
they're dopey, big eyes.

They don't really
ever bite people.

They're loading
the shipping container

full of tens of thousands
of pounds of blue sharks

onto a shipping boat
to leave the country.

The word is out
around the world,
that sharks mean money.

You know, we spent
four years, 15 countries,

trying to figure out
what the biggest environmental
issues were out there,

only to discover that one
of the biggest destructors
of our life support system

is in our own backyard.

I think the biggest issue
we have on the planet right now

aside from the environment,
is our lack of awareness
of what's going on.

We don't know about
our individual actions,
about our consumption,

about our government
and corporations

destroying our
life support system.

If we did, our morals
would engage,

and we'd be guided
to a world that works.

We'd hold our friends
and our family,

and our governments
accountable for this stuff.

We just don't know
what's going on.

ROB: It's 3:00
in the morning.

My parents were here
all the time, yeah.

What I've always told them,
I just have this belief
that I'm gonna be okay,

and I'm sure
I'm gonna be okay.

I mean, I had times
that I almost died
and ended up okay,

and sort of reinforce
that belief that I'm
gonna be okay.

I know exactly how
I'm gonna die,

when I'm gonna die.

Uh, it's sunrise,

and we're about to jump
in the water
in Santa Monica Bay,

on the other side
of Catalina Island...

To go see what is
caught in drift nets,

nets that are a mile long,

that just hang
as a curtain at night

and catch anything
that swims into it.

It's a hugely destructive
method of fishing

that kills dolphins,
whales, turtles, sharks,

and all sorts
of things under

the guise of catching swordfish.

So, knowing how we've
already so decimated the oceans,

this method of fishing
should not be happening,

and it definitely shouldn't
be happening in Los Angeles.

The only reason it's happening
is 'cause people don't see it.

They don't know
what's happening here.

And we're gonna change that.

Some fisheries
will waste 85%

of what they bring
to the surface as bycatch.

Right now, we're wasting
54 billions pounds
of dead fish every year

that's brought out
of the ocean and killed
and thrown back

because it wasn't
our target fish.

We wanted the more
expensive ones.

We threw back all these
amazing animals.

MAN: Come on, let's go.

-ROB: Are they shooting?
-MAN: Yeah, yes.

MAN: Let's go!

ALL: Let's go! Go, go, go!

ROB: So we just filmed
a thresher shark
and a blue shark

on a drift gill net

right outside
of Los Angeles.

And while we were doing that,

all of a sudden, the boat
was immediately on top of us.

They were firing shots
at you guys on the boat.

Um, both the blue shark
and the thresher shark
were still alive,

so you can see their mouths
opening and closing
and then struggling,

and the blue shark
had the mesh caught
in its mouth.

And the thresher shark,
it was mangled,
all messed up

from thrashing around
within the net.

Really sad to see

an endangered majestic
superpredator

stuck in a primitive
fishing method

in the town
that I'm living in.

It's crazy.

-WILL: How do you feel?
-I don't feel good.

It's super emotional,
it was really hard to watch
that thresher just dying.

But we're gonna stop this.

BROCK: That was the last time
Rob and I went diving together

in our own backyard.

Sure.

Make sure it's fresh.

WOMAN: Hey guys, this is Ashley,
how can I help you?

Yeah. Hey, I was wondering,
do you guys have any
sharks in stock?

ROB: So they could recommend
going to this one over this one?

Could you tell me what
kind of shark you have?

Black-eyed shark.

I am just curious
as to what you might
have in stock for shark.

Yeah, hey, I was wondering
what sharks you guys
have in stock.

Awesome. And it's
fresh-caught daily
in this time of year, right?

All right. Thanks a lot.

All right we'll be
by in a bit. Bye.

ROB: I'm wondering
if anybody back there knows

what this species of shark is.

Yeah, it's a wild shark.

Hi, can I have one
of your vegan meals, please?

ROB: Thank you, thank you. Bye.

Do you know what this is?

WILL: Do you know
what swai is?

ROB: What the heck is swai?

WILL: Iridescent shark.

What do you have
that's got fish in it?

It's Alaskan Pollock.

Alaskan Pollock.

-That's in a box.
-In a box, okay.

Okay, we are in Florida,

and we just bought
a bunch of pet food,

and fast food,
and fish products,

and we're gonna test them
to see if there's
shark in them.

DIEGO CARDENOSA:
We're right now at FIU.

Florida International
University.

My name is Diego Cardenosa,

I'm a PhD student from
Stony Brook University
in New York.

We collect shark fin samples

and we do generic
bar coding on them,

so we assess the composition

and the proportion of species
in the shark fin trade.

All right. Let's do this.

Okay.

So, right now, we're
testing your samples
of pet food,

um, some shark fillet
purchased in supermarkets,

um, some tuna salad.

So the idea's to try to see
if we can find any trace
of shark DNA in those products,

um, and to identify, if
there's any shark DNA
in those products,

try to identify it at least
to a species or genus level.

So basically, what this does,
is once we put it
in the thermocycler,

-it will boil to 100 degrees.
-Okay.

So that destroys the tissue,
or whatever the sample is,

-and breaks the cell open.
-Yeah.

And captures everything
that is not DNA

and leaves you,
like, a clear...

A clear, um, liquid,
let's say, with the DNA.

This is the one
you're gonna use for it,

for your PCR afterwards.

ROB: Okay.

If there's a shark DNA
in this thing,

-it will let us know.
-ROB: Yeah.

Now just mixing a little bit
of, uh, shark DNA cocktail.

33% of the pet food product
tested positive for shark DNA,

including blacktip
and mako shark,

which is a vulnerable species
known for very high
mercury levels.

We also found traces
of blacktips,
scalloped hammerheads,

milk and blue shark DNA
in the beauty care
products we tested.

ROB: Fishing study have showed

that shark populations
have dropped

an estimated 90%
in the last 30 years.

100 million sharks
get killed every year,
and nobody notices.

It is astronomical.

And this is a huge
consumer awareness issue

that can be fought
and can be won.

We're not just killing sharks
for shark fin soup,

we're killing sharks
for a myriad
of crazy reasons.

Sharks are now being killed
and renamed, and fed to us,

things like rock salmon
and flake,

so we don't know
we're eating shark.

Sharks are also
turning up in pet food,

live stock feed, fertilizer,
and even in cosmetics.

We're smearing endangered
superpredators on our faces
without knowing it.

So it's important
for all of us,

if we want to ensure
a healthy environment
into the future,

to make sure
that things we buy,

the foods we buy,
the cosmetics, are shark-free.

Insist in a world
that's shark-free,

and insist that your
cosmetics, your fertilizers,

your pet food,
your livestock feed,

doesn't contain shark
or shark parts.

These are rebreathers.

They recirculate
the air that you breathe

and inject the quantity
of gasses that you want,

depending on the depth
that you're going to.

In that way, you get
a lot closer to fish and sharks

because you
don't make bubbles,

which are very scary
for animals like that.

Uh, and you could stay
a lot longer.

You could stay down
for six hours almost.

As long as you want
or need to.

So we're gonna use
this new technology to go deeper
than we've ever been before

to film a creature that people
have rarely seen in the wild,

the sawfish,
one of the most endangered
sharks in the world.

WILL: So, I'm...
I'm gonna save a splash.

Still sitting 46 feet
off my mark,

so I think we're secure
as I can get us.

Let's do it.

COAST GUARD:
Mayday, mayday, mayday.

COAST GUARD: This is
United States Coast Guard

communication station
sector key west.

We request a boat.
We need assistance. Over.

REPORTER 1: Watch standers
at Sector Key West
Command Center

received a report
of a missing diver.

The diver is identified
as 37-year-old Robert Stewart

from Toronto, Canada.

REPORTER 2: Canadian
filmmaker has gone missing

while diving in Florida.

The US Coast Guard is
searching for Rob Stewart
right now

off the coast of the...

REPORTER 3: Florida Keys.
The US Coast Guard tells us
they're using a helicopter,

a boat, a team of divers,

and in the last hour,
they've just added
a plane to that search.

The Coast Guard says...

REPORTER 4: Stewart
and four others were
diving into Florida Keys

off the coast of Islamorada.

As their dive came to an end,

he resurfaced and signaled
that he was fine.

REPORTER 5: Stewart disappeared
while the boat crew attended

to his instructor

who had exited the water
but then collapsed on deck.

The friend said
that he jumped in,
but couldn't find him.

He wasn't seen again.

REPORTER 6: Three days later,
the search continues,

including hundreds
of volunteers in small craft,
helicopters and airplanes.

His worried parents pray
that he's found alive.

BRIAN STEWART:
It doesn't look great.

But we've got...
He's the kind of person
that would survive.

SANDRA STEWART:
He's super fit
and he's a great swimmer.

And he's done
thousands of dives.

REPORTER 7: T he body of
missing Toronto filmmaker,
Rob Stewart,

has been found in the waters
off of Florida Keys.

REPORTER 8: Tributes have
been paid to the Canadian
filmmaker and campaigner,

Rob Stewart, who's died
while diving off Florida.

Rob Stewart won
many awards for...

REPORTER 12: Deep sadness
in Toronto today

at the funeral
of Robert Stewart,

an acclaimed filmmaker
and ocean conservationist
who died at sea.

Stewart's known
worldwide for...

REPORTER 13: The family
has received messages of support from across the world.

Family and friends say Stewart's job is not done yet.

BRIAN: We should be
so thankful that in
this little galaxy of stars

that our life is
and our friends are,

that we had a son like Rob
at the center of it.

SANDRA: I think his
real legacy will be
all of these other people

that he inspired who will
carry his work forward.

ROB: It was
an amazing journey.

It was very much
a learning process for me

all the way along.

Because in the beginning,
it was sort of, like,
"What? We're all gonna die?"

All the way through,
you know, trying
to figure out,

you know, how we're
gonna save ourselves.

But seeing all the destruction
that humans had wrought

on ecosystems and species
and the lack of care
that was coming,

I sort of developed
a distrust and dislike
of humanity at times.

And then,
through making this movie

trying to educate humanity
about what's happening to sharks

and seeing them
take that cause
and fight for it,

particularly kids,

it really instilled
a lot more hope,

and made me love humanity
a lot more than I could before.

We still have a bright
future if we want it,

but we've got to
do something now.

YOUNG ROB: I'm in
to save the turtle! Whoo!

I'm standing in front
of Darwin's Arch
at Darwin's Island.

This is Darwin's Arch, right?

And Darwin Island?

Now this is
the mecca of diving...

I lost it.

Like I ever had it.

ROB: When I started out,
I wanted to bring people
closer to sharks

than they'd ever been before,

so that, you know,
they could actually see
an interaction to sharks

they've never seen before
and truly understand them.

'Cause when elephant falls
for ivory in Africa

and the world goes crazy.

Elephants kill
200 people a year.

Sharks kill five
people a year.

We kill 100 million of them,
and nobody notices.

The reality behind sharks
is that they're not
predators of people.

If sharks, you know,
ate people,

the oceans would be
a really dangerous place,

and people would be
getting eaten every day.
But they're not.

I think what's unfair
and irresponsible
is wiping out 90%

of the most important
longest-lasting predator
the planet has

for the sake of soup.

Thank you, everyone,

for being part of the largest
rally for climate change
in history.

This cannot end today.

This energy is amazing,

and you've got to
bring it forth into
everything that you do.

That's nothing more
important than conservation

because conservation
is the preservation

of human life on Earth.

People don't understand
how ecosystems work
because they never taught it.

I mean, if you look
at the education system,

why are taught
Shakespeare and Algebra

before we're
taught conservation

or we're taught how
to survive on the planet?

Especially if we know
by mid-century

that our survival is
very much in jeopardy.

High-five.

ROB: This stuff's important.

We depend on
the oceans to survive.
We depend on life.

It's life that gives us
our food, our water
and our air.

This is it. This is it.

This is the generation.
This is the task of your time.

Are we gonna save
the ecosystems we
depend on for survival

or are we gonna live
in lack and starvation

and crisis and fight
each other over what's left?

I believe entirely
that we are all
morally bound together,

and that if we are
made aware of these issues,

we'll make different decisions.

Be conscious of what you eat,

where you put your garbage,
and how you live your life.

Nothing is more
important than this.

There's never been
an issue this big,

and there's never been
an issue that needs your
involvement more than this.

So, everybody, thank you.

You've got an opportunity
to become a hero.

To be a hero.