Special announcement and exclusive interview! NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S FIN-FAVORITE SUMMER EVENT RETURNS WITH EVEN MORE SHARK-FILLED FUN, KICKING OFF WITH MARQUEE SPECIAL "HAMMERHEAD SHARKS UP CLOSE WITH BERTIE GREGORY" and they are on the show with us!

SHARKFEST Programming Will Stream July 5 on NAT Geo, Disney+ and Hulu

National Geographic's annual summer event SHARKFEST returns for its fin-credible 14th year, combining jaw-dropping encounters with groundbreaking science and expert-led storytelling that reveal new insights into the behavior, power and conservation of one of the ocean's most fascinating predators.

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Kathryn Ayres is a shark ecologist and National Geographic Explorer who grew up in a small village in northern England. Despite being far from the ocean, she developed a fascination with sharks at a very young age. She holds a first-class honors bachelor's degree in marine vertebrate zoology, a master's degree in marine environmental management, and a Ph.D. in marine sciences. Her doctoral research focused on the use of aerial drone surveys, acoustic telemetry, satellite tracking and stable isotope analysis to investigate seasonal aggregations and migration patterns of blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) in Cabo Pulmo National Park, Mexico.

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It's Shark Storytime! Derk Remmers and Isadora Abuter share their rare encounter with a great white shark (Big Ben) with Dr Scarlett Smash and Dr Craken.

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Derk Remmers, Ghost Diving and dive instructor for GUE (Global Underwater Explorers www.ghostdiving.de

Isadora Abuter, Marine Biologist, Marine Research and Communications Coordinator at Healthy Seas www.healthyseas.org

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Healthy Seas organized the mission, continuing its broader work on ghost-net removal and biodiversity monitoring on Mediterranean shipwrecks. The project was carried out together with Ghost Diving and SDSS (The Society for Documentation of
Submerged Sites) combining marine conservation, technical diving, scientific collaboration and underwater documentation.

Volunteer technical divers from Ghost Diving carried out the underwater recovery operations, while Healthy Seas coordinated the mission and its scientific activities in collaboration with SDSS, which contributed historical shipwreck expertise and
underwater documentation throughout the project.

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Dr Scarlett Smash and Dr Craken chat with a current conservation student Eli Warren, about what a university degree in conservation looks like today. They discuss how conservation programs and job opportunities have readically changed within just the past few years. What should a conservation degree for the 21st Century look like?

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Derk Remmers, Ghost Diving and dive instructor for GUE (Global Underwater Explorers), and Isadora Abuter, Marine Biologist, Marine Research and Communications Coordinator at Healthy Seas share their underwater encounters during their new mission.

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Healthy Seas organized the mission, continuing its broader work on ghost-net removal and biodiversity monitoring on Mediterranean shipwrecks. The project was carried out together with Ghost Diving and SDSS (The Society for Documentation of
Submerged Sites) combining marine conservation, technical diving, scientific collaboration and underwater documentation.

Volunteer technical divers from Ghost Diving carried out the underwater recovery operations, while Healthy Seas coordinated the mission and its scientific activities in collaboration with SDSS, which contributed historical shipwreck expertise and
underwater documentation throughout the project.

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The latest International Whaling Commission science report is out. Dr Scarlett Smash and Dr Craken talk about some of the highlights - including international concern about the US Government removing protection from the Rice's whale, the world's most endangered large whale, which is found only in US waters.

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Do you know your shark movies? Join our drunken hosts Dr Scarlett Smash and Dr Craken as they take a challenging shark movie quiz!

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Simon Allen, Screen Writer and Producer joins Dr Scarlett Smash and Dr Craken to review some recent shark movies: Thrash and The Requin (currently on Netflix). They discuss the scientific accuracy of the movies, and how they compare to the first, classic, shark movie - Jaws.

Podcast Guest:

Simon Allen is a British Screenwriter/Producer. Simon Allen's television credits include include writing and producing on Apple's Emmy-winning spy thriller Tehran (2020), Executive Producing Netflix and James Wan supernatural anthology True Haunting (2025), creating BBC America's RTS winning punk rock queer fantasy comedy The Watch (2020)

Movies Discussed:

Thrash (2026): A creature-feature following a Category 5 hurricane that floods a coastal town and lures ravenous sharks into the water-logged streets.

The Requin (2022): A couple on a romantic getaway find themselves stranded at sea when a tropical storm sweeps away their villa. In order to survive, they are forced to fight the elements, while sharks circle below.

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Finspan's first expansion, Sharks & Reefs release this month and the Designer Michael O'Connell is on the show talking to Dr Scarlett Smash and Dr Kraken.

Finspan Expansion: Players can now nurture colorful coral reefs in each of their ocean's three dive sites. Healthy reefs enable you to play powerful reef fish, unlock fish abilities, and score bonuses at the end of the game. Meanwhile, sharks scatter schools of young (to form even more schools elsewhere) and leave behind food scraps that any fish in your ocean can consume.

Designer Michael O'Connell and artists Ana María Martínez, Catalina Martínez, & Mesa Schumacher highlight a wide array of sharks and fish that coexist in the beautiful coral reefs of the world.

To play this expansion, you need the Finspan core game https://stonemaiergames.com/games/finspan/sharks-reefs-expansion/

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