Film Info

58 minutes
​Kaufmann Productions Pty Ltd
In Association with ABC Australia, Screen Australia, Smithsonian Channel & Terra Mater
Available for Free AND Ticketed events
Synopsis:
For 19-year-old Madison Stewart, nothing feels safer or more natural than diving straight into waters teeming with sharks. Since childhood, growing up by the Great Barrier Reef, she's treated these predators as family. But they're vanishing from existence, and because of their bad reputation, few people seem to care. Follow Madison on her mission to protect our sharks, a battle that began when she put her studies on hold, grabbed a camera, and set out to save these incredible, misunderstood creatures.

Action Items

• Don’t eat shark fin soup—refuse to eat at restaurants that serve it; encourage others to do the same.
• Dive and snorkel with sharks. The more money that goes into shark tourism the more people will realize the value of keeping sharks alive.
• Find out if your country is one of the 17 countries that have banned shark finning. If not, write your local government official asking them to ban shark finning.
• Start a letter writing campaign to the Secretary General of the UN requesting international bans on shark finning and the importation of fins. Click here to send a letter.