The whitetip reef shark project is featured this week in a 12-minute segment on the National Geographic Channel.

Show:  "Dens of Danger" (from the Dangerous Encounters series with Dr. Brady Barr)

Channel: National Geographic Channel (Channel 73 on Oceanic Cable; 347 on Oceanic Digital Cable)

Dates and Times: All times are Hawaii Standard Time:

Thursday, August 18, 4:00 PM, 7:00 PM  (already aired)
Saturday, August 20, 10:00 AM (already aired)
Thursday, August 25, 12:00 Noon and 11:00 PM

For Eastern time zone, add six hours to the times above.

For other time zones and CHANNEL INFORMATION you can check your local listings by typing in your zip code at www.zap2it.com and then searching for the National Geographic Channel (NGC).

Description:

Dear friend and/or Whitetip Project contributor, I just wanted to let you know that the whitetip project will be featured in a 12-minute segment on the National Geographic Channel this week.

The show should feature us measuring and photographing captive whitetips at the Maui Ocean Center, tissue-sampling wild whitetips with a speargun, and riding around on dive-scooters, all in that short little segment!

We had a really good time and a great crew doing the filming, so hopefully the segment will reflect that.

Filming took place around the Makena area on Maui this past March and is part of a one-hour special called "Dens of Danger" featuring scary animals that live in caves, holes, burrows, etc.

I tried to talk about the photo-ID project and our continued quest for photos as much as possible during filming, so hopefully some of that survived the editing process. They'll probably try to make whitetips look "dangerous," which isn't easy to do, but could be entertaining.

Anyway, I hope you all watch it and get excited about sending us more whitetip photos!!! We're still collecting them from all of the Main Hawaiian Islands.

Aloha,
Nick

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Last updated August 26, 2005 04:19 AM HST