Les Stroud Online

Friday, Dec 14th 2007, 11:32 am The rest of the day yesterday went off without a hitch. We spent the time scuba diving with the lemon sharks and getting the footage we needed to create the show. Last night was our last staying in the hotel. Now, we're back on the boat and after today's filming is done we will head over to Walker's Cay to film the deadly and unpredictable bull sharks. We'll be living on the ninety-foot boat Dolphin Dream for a few days while we're there. Our underwater cameramen for this trip are Andy Casagrande, based out of Oahu, and Andy Mitchell, based out of Vermont. They come with boatloads of experience having shot numerous wildlife encounters for National Geographic. Our ‘topside' cameramen are Ryan Powers and Dan Branam. Ryan hails from San Diego and I was fortunate enough to work with him on last year's Feeding Frenzy show for Shark Week. He's fresh off shooting episodes of Supernanny so he was ready for the sharks! Dan is from Miami and is a regular shooter for ESPN, he shoots a lot of their offshore material. These two guys do all the ‘topside' footage - mostly me talking to the camera and all the shark action as seen from the boat. And at this very moment they're being yelled at to get moving and shoot the tiger shark that just showed up. And I gotta go and be the host. 9:22 pm Today was yet another great day of filming. We had two tiger sharks come in and rip apart the pairs of fake floating legs we were using to test the theory of whether or not it's better to stay as a group or to spread out during a shark attack. The group survived; the solo pair of legs was destroyed. We then set about testing various coloured lights and how they affect the sharks at night. It's after sunset now, and dark, and we're heading by boat to Walker's Cay. It's about a seven hour trip.
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