Costa Rica, Texas, Washington D.C., Colorado, Cocos Island. A few of the places visited during the past three weeks. Meetings, family visits, and lots of work mixed with pleasure. The recent trip to Cocos produced lots of footage and Pictures. Some amazing experiences were captured, and some good friends made with people that are trying to do their part in helping the worlds oceans. Right now Cocos Island is full of life. It is currently a La Nina year which means that the ocean is slightly colder than normal, and this is bringing unusually large numbers of life to cocos island for this time of the year. This video contains a few clips from this past trip to Cocos and is a sample video of Rogue Studios underwater footage shark bank.
Most of these shots are from Cocos and Mal Pelo Island. They are alone in the quantities of large pelagic life that they attract. This is partially due to the fact that they are well out of range of most fishing boats. The boats that do make it to the islands to fish, do have a huge impact though. We see it in the amount of lost fishing line we see, and the occasional victims that are still attached to the long lines. Recently a large Tuna boat was documented and apprehended while fishing inside the park. The evidence against the boat was overwhelming, yet it has since been released and it looks like the $5,000,000.00 fine they were given will be waved. The politics that have to be dealt with in order to simply keep the law upheld are frustrating. Rogue Studios is currently helping produce a "shock" video though that hopefully will help either scare or embarrass some large sea food wholesalers and restaurants into being more selective and careful when they choose who to buy their seafood from. One step at a time...... Here are some more pictures.
Sea Hunter Captain Christiano Paoli took this picture of a Silver Tip shark just as I was entering the water above.
As the different sea birds hunt at sea, they regularly fight over their catch. Here a Boobie (far right) has just vomited its catch after being ruthlessly pursued by the much larger Frigates. The Frigates snatched the fish out f the air immediately and then moved on to harass the next Boobie. The Frigates cannot dive to hunt, so they rely on the Boobies to hunt for them. It is a regular event of hunting and survival at sea.
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