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NATURE & WILDLIFE
shark invasion

Sydney, 2009. At the end of an unusually hot summer, three terrifying shark
attacks in as many weeks caused a wave of panic to sweep through Australia’s
biggest city. Not since the summer of 1963, when a 32 year old actress lost her life
to a vicious shark attack in knee-deep water, had Sydney been gripped by such
collective fear.

This film follows a specialist shark research team as they conduct the most

comprehensive and technologically advanced study of sharks that’s ever been
undertaken in Australia. Led by marine biologists and shark experts, they want to Definition Episodes
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know if sharks and humans can safely co-exist. Fishing in Sydney Harbour the Producer YOP
team capture, tag and release twenty-five bull sharks. Fitting the sharks with Ultramarine Films 2011
internal tags, they follow the predator’s movements through the city’s waterways
using an extensive underwater surveillance system.

Exploring Sydney’s ominous shark history and its people’s obsessive relationship
with the water, this documentary considers the uneasy...