Sharkman Dan

Sharkman Dan Underwater & Drone Cameraman with a thing for sharks. Passionate ocean advocate & public speaker. TEDx speaker on great white shark behaviour.
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Footage used on BBC, ITV & Discovery.

04/07/2024

Nesting Guillemots in Pembrokeshire, June 2024

03/03/2024
Happy to announce I am now an ambassador for Essex Wildlife Trust!
25/02/2024

Happy to announce I am now an ambassador for Essex Wildlife Trust!

A massive welcome to our new ambassador… Dan Abbott Sharkman Dan 👏🦈

Dan is a marine advocate and underwater wildlife cameraman, who got into the industry after spending time with great white sharks in South Africa! 🌊

His footage is often used in wildlife documentaries, and he also guides shark snorkelling trips.

Watch his TED talk 👉 bit.ly/3IawsLB

Who’s getting in? DJI Neal Watson's Bimini Scuba Center Bimini Big Game Club
18/12/2023

Who’s getting in?

DJI Neal Watson's Bimini Scuba Center Bimini Big Game Club

A few more chances to join us with the blue sharks
14/09/2023

A few more chances to join us with the blue sharks

29/08/2023

Over one million views 😳

26/08/2023

I was asked my opinion about the dolphins attacking porpoise yesterday for BBC. So I talked about sharks 😉

As you may have seen from my recent shark reels, I am now back in the UK 🇬🇧. Which means I am once again open for bookin...
14/08/2023

As you may have seen from my recent shark reels, I am now back in the UK 🇬🇧.

Which means I am once again open for bookings for shark talks in schools, colleges, universities, dive clubs, and anyone else interested in sharks or underwater filmmaking workshops.

Email me for more info and bookings 🤌🏼 www.danabbott.uk 🦈

Blue shark snorkel dates just got announced! Join me and Alice Cimino off the Pembrokeshire coastline. Learn about: - Sh...
25/06/2023

Blue shark snorkel dates just got announced!

Join me and Alice Cimino off the Pembrokeshire coastline.

Learn about:
- Shark conservation
- Underwater filming techniques
- Shark behaviour

Trips and places are limited, so book asap! ✌🏼

UK folk! Time to find your wetsuit/mask/fins, and keep your camera batteries charged 💪🏼
09/06/2023

UK folk! Time to find your wetsuit/mask/fins, and keep your camera batteries charged 💪🏼

They’re starting to arrive! 🦈🥳

Add your email to our list (link in bio) and keep your equipment ready and camera batteries charged! 💪🏼

24/05/2023

Stingray Cam vs Dan Cam 🎥

I’ve loved being able to borrow this model stingray from my friend and filmmaking genius Agusti Torres. We’ve been able to get much closer shots of the rays in the sand and even seen large groups that we haven’t seen with our own eyes. A true spy in the wild.

Fourth Element Atomos Nauticam GoPro Lumix UK

15/05/2023

There’s two sides to this turtle 🐢

While offshore in the Mediterranean we came across this loggerhead turtle, missing a front flipper. Turtles are surprisingly tough creatures, and can easily adapt and adjust to losing a flipper.

What they can’t deal with, is consuming plastics and micro plastics, which are EVERYWHERE in the Med. This turtle probably lost its flipper to discarded fishing gear.

Follow Palma Aquarium Fundación to see how you can help turtles, and what to do if you find one in trouble.

On expedition with Save the Med Foundation
2nd camera Oriol Torres

Nauticam Atomos

09/05/2023

Not long till the blue sharks arrive in British waters! 🦈

You can join me & Alice Cimino in the Celtic Deep, to spend time with these incredible creatures 🙏🏼

We will also be on hand to give tips and tricks for filming underwater, and some background into the conservation of these sharks.

Add your name to the subscription list and be the first to sign up to our trips 📝

👉🏼 https://pembrokeshireboatcharters.co.uk/snorkel-with-sharks/?fbclid=PAAaY-1qrldK_s15qyMzfDucJSuDsmSOLHKG3jQ6KzXdaEjxaIPU7_rFqeXxs

02/05/2023
A short film I made which played at the Ocean Film Tour is now on YouTube. Featuring the legend that is Biel Morey. Watc...
23/04/2023

A short film I made which played at the Ocean Film Tour is now on YouTube.

Featuring the legend that is Biel Morey.

Watch here - https://youtu.be/UWKCgQAQ3ik

Lumix UK Atomos Save the Med Foundation

14/04/2023

A few weeks ago I had the huge honour of being involved with the release of several nursehound sharks into the wild.

I filmed these sharks when they were still in their eggs as part of a breeding program, so to be there for the release was really special.
This was a huge project with a lot of collaborators!

For the release, a specially designed cage was lowered to 60m, with our cameras mounted everywhere to capture the moments they were out into the sea.

Huge congrats to everyone involved. I’ll remember this one for a long time.

Currently in Sumatra, filming a special story of humans and some stunning big cats. With the brilliant Sarah Roberts. Lu...
03/04/2023

Currently in Sumatra, filming a special story of humans and some stunning big cats.

With the brilliant Sarah Roberts.

LumixLumix UK DJI Atomos

17/02/2023

Your classic ‘subject enters frame then leaves frame’ shot featuring a large female hammerhead 🎥🦈

Atomos Fourth Element Nauticam Neal Watson's Bimini Scuba Center

16/02/2023

Some news…

Myself & Alice Cimino will be in Pembrokeshire this summer, hosting and organising snorkel trips with Pembrokeshire Boat Charters into the Celtic deep to find blue sharks (and dolphins/whales etc).

If you are interested in joining us, your first step is to get yourself onto our list of divers we will contact when we see the conditions are good.

You can do that here 👉🏼 https://pembrokeshireboatcharters.co.uk/snorkel-with-sharks/?fbclid=PAAabA12ekNmwjYg7oqOXUgdl8hWZ1arez-PkUH7A9R4xHL_SgNlgON3PnSwc

We are also planning some workshops on filmmaking underwater, more details on that to come later.

✌🏼

14/02/2023

A mother Risso’s dolphin & her calf 🐬

While offshore on Sunday, these two came past us out in deep water. The calf is probably less than a year old, still staying close to mum.

Images & data from this sighting have been passed on to Alnitak who are studying Risso’s here in the Med.

Shot on DJI

17/01/2023

The Fish & The Octopus 🐟🐙

This short sequence shows the incredible interactions between painted comber and common octopus in the Mediterranean Sea.

A HUGE thank you to Jeff Rona (Sharkwater) for doing the music, and to Alice Cimino for the VO.

(Watch in HD, obviously).

23/12/2022

The great white shark is one of the most awe inspiring creatures on this planet.

Populations are dropping around the world, and seeing yesterdays 5m individual caught in Tunisia is especially worrying.

In the Mediterranean white sharks are listed as critically endangered.

05/12/2022

Some mobula mobular magic ✨

A male and female dance together in courtship behaviour rarely seen in the Mediterranean Sea.

Finding and filming these majestic animals is never easy, so to be able to film them doing this was extra special. We know very little about the Spinetail devil rays in the Med, but capturing this supports strong evidence for mating here.

Filmed on expedition with Save The Med Foundation onboard Bonnie Lass Charters.

This behaviour was presented at Sharks International by Gabriel Moray.

Shot on
Lumix Nauticam Atomos

Truly honoured to have played a very small part of Sharks International 2022 this week in Valencia representing Save The...
23/10/2022

Truly honoured to have played a very small part of Sharks International 2022 this week in Valencia representing Save The Med Foundation.

A great 4 days with inspiring talks, meeting old and new friends, plus a huge congratulations to Biel for presenting data on the manta project in Mallorca & Alice Cimino presenting her project on shark meat.

Huge well done to everyone involved 🙏🏼

Save Our Seas Foundation The Shark Trust

29/08/2022

There are 10 different species of hammerhead shark, this one is yhe greatest.

The critically endangered Sphyrna mokarran.

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Part 2 \\ filming White Shark Video delivering his piece to camera about coexistence with sharks, while surrounded by oceanic blacktips. This was filmed in 2017 for the film Monsters in aliwal shoal, South Africa. Under the supervision of African Watersports

I’ve always had a hard time getting on board with the whole ‘mistaken identity’ theory. Suggesting that sharks are stupid and don’t know what their food is. In reality sharks really don’t make many mistakes, they simply can’t afford to. A bite on a human in my opinion is very rarely a mistake, it’s a way for a shark to test a possible prey item, and in extremely rare cases, a predatory attempt. It really is a credit to the intelligence of sharks that so few mistakes are made given the amount of opportunities they have to make them. TEDx talk given at TEDxFolkestone in June 2019.

When she’s looking back at you so hard there’s a little bit of white showing 👀🫶🏼You can usually see what direction a white shark is looking, due to the actual eye being blue, and in this case, the white of her eye on one side. Looking into a white sharks eye is probably the most grounding and humbling thing you can do 😄

Nesting Guillemots in Pembrokeshire, June 2024
Nesting Guillemots in Pembrokeshire, June 2024

Nesting Guillemots in Pembrokeshire, June 2024

A moment of trying to direct White Shark Video deliver his lines to camera, while oceanic blacktip sharks are in full feeding mode 😄🦈Filming in South Africa for Monsters, which might be possible to watch soon.

The all time undisputed QUEEN of Mossel Bay. 👑 When she’s around, you bring your A game, or you lose. White Shark Africa

Watch how fast she disappears 🤯 The colouration (counter shading) of blue sharks means they can disappear quickly into the blue/green water. That electric blue colour is of course how they get their name. Filmed while guiding for @pembrokeshireboatcharters last September. @lumix @atomos.global @nauticamhousings

Common seals enjoying the Scottish sun last week 🌞🦭Lumix Atomos

Yesterday morning while filming some seals, Steve Truluck At Sea spots an Eurasian otter looking for food in the rocks around the waters edge. With the drone already in the air, I managed to follow it for a short while as it looks for food. Filmed on the 7x zoom lens on the DJI Mavic 3.

A female shark named ‘Dotty’. 🫶🏼One of our favourites to see around the boat, so slow and calm in her movements, often mouthing objects to work out what things are. A perfect shark. GoPro

One of my favourite places 🫶🏼Yesterday at Strumble Head in Pembrokeshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Everyone gets excited by dolphins, but no one seems to shout about porpoises. They’re way cooler.

My editing process for this Mediterranean moray eel in a marine reserve in Mallorca. 1. Remove the horrible underwater clunk from the housing. 2. Slow to half speed. I shot 50fps underwater and edit on a 25fps timeline. 3. Add stabilisation, not always possible underwater, but works if you have kept the shot steady. 4. Colour grade in FCX, using the waveforms to get the right exposure and colours. 5. Noise removal. 6. Add sound effects. 7. Music, to manipulate you to how I want you to feel about this animal 🤓Shot on Lumix Atomos inside Nauticam Diving with Mar Balear Dive Center, Mallorca

Humpbacks have been seen all around the Cornish coastline this winter, here is where we filmed Minstrel at the start of March. Cornwall Wildlife TrustBBC CornwallSeaquest SouthwestDJI

Minstrel the humpback whale ✌🏼I got a great email from Dan Jarvis a few weeks ago to say that the whale we filmed on March 5th was an individual they had seen around Cornwall since December, and had named Minstrel. A new sighting for this winter season, and now in the catalog along with around 29 others that Dan and his team have gathered over the years. 👏🏼Cornwall Wildlife Trust Cornwall Mammal Group BBC Cornwall

Behind the Scenes ~ Filming Common StingraysEvery spring hundreds of common stingrays gather in the shallow water around Mallorca in the Mediterranean to reproduce. They are often very skittish and shy, and while it’s possible to freedive with them, a different technique was needed to close up shots. Enter stingray cam. Built and designed by Agustí Torres of Shark Med. Couldn’t have done any of it without the help of Paula 🫶🏼

SPEED EXPLOSION 💥🦈It’s the burst of speed in cold water that give white sharks (and other sharks in the same family) an edge. It’s not quite as simple calling them “warm blooded or cold blooded”, instead they have ‘counter current heat exchange,’ meaning they can keep their body temperature up to 15 degrees warmer than the water around them, which is what allows their muscles this extra turbo boost. “So there should be white sharks in the UK then in that case right?” Please don’t get me started let’s just try and have a nice coffee. Filmed onboard White Shark Africa

Not disturbing marine life is part of getting good shots. Filming in high resolutions allows some cropping in to show the animal closer than it really is. Cornwall Wildlife Trust Seaquest Southwest DJI

If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if your knee came face to knee with a shark, here’s the answer you’ve been looking for.

I only saw one here twice in 3.5 years

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