Rob & Laura leading the shark oath
We had an incredible week at the International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, Montana. The Shark Riddle took home the award for Best Children’s Program – awesomeface! And equally as awesomeface was the crowd’s reaction to our Shark Days presentation. Read more »
Last week we visited the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry with our traveling Shark Days event! OMSI is located near the heart of Portland and sits snuggly on the banks of the mighty Willamette River. Read more »
Do you have hands? Do you like pretending your hands can eat things? Well, here’s a fun way to take your hungry hand hobby one step further! Meet our new shark tattoo! Read more »
When we were visiting an elementary school in Michigan’s Chippewa Valley School district for March is Reading Month, we were greeted by an especially enthusiastic preschool teacher. She and her students LOVED A Pirate’s Quest, especially because the book features the letters “qu” so often, even in the title! She was talking about learning that the letters “q” and “u” go together, and she likes to read books to her class about that idea. Read more »
Great White Shark E-Card
Here is your chance to make it look like you are diving with a shark! Visit our Shark E-Card page and choose from three sharks – the great white shark, the hammerhead shark or the basking shark. Then upload a photo of your face, and you will look like a scuba diver with a shark. We are very excited about this interactive card. It was funded with a grant from the Save Our Seas Foundation, and programmed by Ms. Libbey White. We spent a long time brainstorming what kind of shark e-card would be really fun, to accompany our movie The Shark Riddle, and we finally decided this was the answer. We were inspired by the “Your Face Here” type of cards. Read more »
The Smithsonian Channel recently called us with an unusual request – to create a music video about the largest snake that ever slithered the earth: the Titanoboa! You can imagine our delight! A monster snake longer than a school bus, and as heavy as a car! A snake that would dwarf today’s largest anacondas and boas. A snake that, if it were to slither by you, would be as high as your waist. A snake that could “Swallow me whole!” Don’t worry, for all you snake-o-phobes out there. This one is extinct. Its 50 million-year-old fossils were found by scientists in a Columbian coal mine. Read more »
Shark Riddle tattoo on a fan
The Monterey Bay Aquarium was swarming with 11,000 ocean enthusiasts who came out for the annual Shark Days Celebration. We were part of the weekend’s featured presentations, thanks to a grant from the Save Our Seas Foundation. We must have handed out around 2,000 of our shark hand-tattoos. We had a great turnout for the weekend, so thanks to everyone who came to see us share scenes and stories from our film The Shark Riddle. It’s always a treat hearing a packed auditorium sing like sea-lions in a live rendition of The Great White Shark Song. We taught the crowd to think like Shark Dentists. And we also enjoyed playing our impromtu game show Big Or Small Read more »
We had a great day of celebrating sharks at the Hatfield Marine Science Center on the Oregon coast. We managed several hundred people for the event, despite a severe winter storm that had closed several nearby highways. We were lucky to make it there ourselves! Our film,The Shark Riddle, screened twice, and we had a table set up where visitors could make their own shark hats and bookmarks. We also had our life-sized, 23’ long, basking shark on display for those who wanted to get a sense of how tiny we humans are compared with the giants among fish. Read more »
Jen, Bryce and reluctant Judy meet the basking shark.
In a rare event last week, a giant basking shark was spotted several miles inland on the Big Island of Hawaii. Upon closer inspection, onlookers found this 23’ specimen to be made of fabric and air and accompanying screenings of our newest film, The Shark Riddle.
We’d like to thank the Waimea Ocean Film Festival and The Save Our Seas Foundation for making it possible for us to share our shark presentation with the people of Hawaii. Through a combination of film, breakfast talks, Q&As, receptions, art exhibits and activities, the festival is designed to inspire, educate and engage participants in a celebration of the ocean and island culture, and an increased awareness of the same. Throughout the week, Read more »
Laura and Rob at the Hatfield Marine Science Center
It’s huge! Not full grown, but at 23 feet, it’s still a huge shark! It’s a basking shark, the world’s second largest species of fish, and right now this one lives in my garage. It’s not a real basking shark of course. It’s an inflatable, made of fabric and air. But it looks about as realistic as an inflatable shark can look I think. We spent a couple of months designing this shark Read more »
