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A Lateral Line
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Bill Fisher and Joe Romeiro say
“It’s hard to deny the attraction of sharks, and even
harder to try and change the negative attitudes so many
people have about them.” Their feature, “A Lateral
Line” features footage of the beautiful Blue Shark, a
sleek, nomadic species that makes one of the longest known
migration journeys – up to 1800 miles! They are often
found in aggregations and are voracious feeders. The
blue shark is one of the shark species found as bycatch in
pelagic longline fisheries, which has made it easy to
exploit them for the international shark fin trade. This
footage was shot at numerous locations, predominantly in
New England, California, Mexico, and South America.
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Sharks have fascinated both Joe Romeiro and Bill Fisher
since childhood. They learned to dive as a tool to get
closer to them and experience their power and mystery
first hand. After meeting on a dive expedition in Fiji,
Joe and Bill teamed up to produce films that help aid in
the conservation of sharks and the marine
environment. They portray sharks the way they see them,
not as mindless killing machines, but as an important and
critical element of our oceans eco-system. More
importantly, they want to use their experiences to help
show others that many sharks are threatened, and some even
face extinction. In 2009, their short film “Death Of A
Deity” won the EMERGING UNDERWATER FILM MAKER award at the
inaugural BLUE Ocean Film Festival in Savannah, Georgia. |
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