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Steve explores the radical variety of sharks that call the Atlantic Ocean their home and marks the start of a global journey in the so-called shark capital of the world, the Bahamas.

Steve Backshall embarks on a mission to learn whether the sharks of the Indian Ocean are capable of adapting to rapidly changing conditions like climate change, overfishing, and pollution.

Steve Backshall heads to the Pacific Ocean to understand the reasons behind shark hotspots as he visits Cocos Island, administered by Costa Rica and a favourite of scuba divers.

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Steve Backshall reveals that sharks are marvels not monsters.  Diving in the three largest oceans he encounters a dazzling diversity of sharks, uncovers their secret lives and the threats they face in our rapidly changing world.

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How to get Strictly star Steve Backshall's new book and live tour tickets

'Deep Blue: My Ocean Journeys' is released later this month.

During an appearance on tonight's (September 22) episode of The One Show alongside presenters Alex Jones and Roman Kemp, the naturalist sat down to discuss his new book 'Deep Blue: My Ocean Journeys' as well as his dangerous encounters with marine creatures.

"Over the course of my life, the world's oceans have changed dramatically. We've lost 60% of the world's wildlife," he said. "But in the same time... we've also learnt that there are things we can do to make our seas flourish."

Backshall talked about how the book details his interactions with marine creatures, starting from an encounter with a shark at age nine during a family trip to Malaysia.

Deep Blue: My Ocean Journeys

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"There's one [dangerous encounter] that really stands out," he said, talking about a time he'd been diving in Botswana where he thought his cameraman had been attacked by a crocodile.

"I saw myself having to tell his kids that Daddy had been savaged by a crocodile," he said, confirming that he would be discussing the story during his upcoming tour Ocean .

"It was pure luck that we all survived."

Backshall is heading out on a tour across the UK and Ireland next month, promising a "fantastic opportunity" for fans of all ages to "dive deep into the wonderful world beneath the waves."

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Starting on Saturday, October 14 in Hastings, the tour will be heading around the UK and Ireland during October and November, heading to cities including Cambridge, Northampton, Sheffield, Swansea and Dublin.

Tickets are available here and via his website .

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Steve Backshall to headline Shark Trust’s flagship event: For the Love of Sharks

Join a host of amazing, shark loving, speakers including Steve Backshall and the Shark Trust team for an evening celebrating shark conservation at the Royal Geographical Society in London this November.

• Date : 29 th  November 2024
• Time : 6-10pm
• Location : Royal Geographical Society, London
• Tickets : https://www.sharktrust.org/Event/flos24

The event will be a celebration of all things shark. Those lucky enough to get hold of tickets will hear from engaging guest speakers with a passion for sharks. 

The line-up includes (*subject to change if unforeseen circumstances arise)

Steve Backshall: One of television’s busiest presenters, BAFTA award-winning wildlife expert Steve has been passionate about the wild world ever since he was young. 

Steve’s impressive TV career has taken him all around the world, investigating a wide array of species and environments. Steve has filmed over 100 hours of children’s wildlife programmes with the BAFTA award winning Deadly 60 franchise and recently, with Sky Nature, for his new series ‘Whale with Steve Backshall’. He has been a patron for the Shark Trust for 10 years.

Simon Rogerson: is a photojournalist specialising in natural history, diving and the sea.

He is editor of SCUBA magazine, the official journal of the British Sub-Aqua Club. Simon started his career as a crime reporter but gravitated towards his ‘less depressing’ interest in underwater exploration, joining the staff of DIVE magazine in 1999. In 2005 he was named ‘Editor of the Year’ in the PPA’s Independent Publishing Awards. Simon also works as a freelance writer, contributing frequently to the Sunday Times and Telegraph, in addition to BBC Wildlife, Esquire, and a host of international diving magazines. He is the author of a book, Dive Red Sea, published by Ultimate Sports. Now based in Berkshire, Simon has been a Patron of the Shark Trust for 20 years. 

More speakers to be announced soon. Head to the Shark Trust website to learn more.

The evening will also allow guests the final chance to see the Oceanic 31, shark art exhibition. Some of the artwork will be auctioned/raffled at the event, while the rest will be auctioned online to raise money for the Shark Trust Oceanic Programme. 

For the Love of Sharks is an evening with something for everyone who is interested and fascinated by sharks. Join the Shark Trust, their Patrons, Trustees and Staff, along with a host of supporters for this celebration of shark conservation.

For more information or to buy a ticket:  https://www.sharktrust.org/Event/flos24

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How to watch Shark with Steve Backshall

Shark with Steve Backshall is a new four-part natural history TV series from Sky, presented by the BAFTA-winning naturalist Steve Backshall. Expect dramatic photography and gripping stories as Steve dives with great white sharks, hammerhead sharks, tiger sharks and many more.

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When is Shark with Steve Backshall on TV?

Sharks is a brand-new four-part documentary series on Sky Nature , with all episodes available from 7 November.

What is Shark with Steve Backshall about?

BBC Wildlife editor Paul McGuinness asked presenter Steve Backshall what we can expect to see in the series...

"What you won’t see is anything about shark attacks or man-eaters, or sharks in any way posing a threat to us as human beings. I wanted to make a series that was, pure and simple, about the beauty and wonder and majesty of sharks and the threats they face.

"We’ve taken on all of the iconic species – the great hammerheads , the tigers, the bulls, the great whites, the oceanic white tips. But we’ve also taken on some of the lesser-known species – the lantern sharks, cat sharks, epaulette sharks, pyjama sharks – the ones that people may not necessarily know about.

"And my hope is that it will bring onside a whole bunch of people who don’t even really realise quite how much they like sharks."

How much did you dive with sharks in this series?

"It’s a combination. People have been bandying around the term ‘new chip’ to talk about synthesis kind of projects where you have elements of blue-chip natural history, which I will be purely voicing over and where I wasn’t present, and moments where I am interacting with sharks in their environment.

"And so there is a combination of those grandest, most majestic images of sharks in their natural habitat, filmed by the very best natural history camera people in the world, over time, to have a chance of seeing their behaviour.

"And then interactions in the moment, whether that be trying to release oceanic white tip, nurse or dusky sharks that have been entangled or are carrying hooks, or whether it be down on the bottom with tasselled wobbegongs or in a cave in South Africa alongside ragged-tooth sharks. So I hope that there is something in there for everyone, from biologists and shark saviours, through to people who know very little more than Jaws and great whites."

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How much of Shark with Steve Backshall was filmed around the UK?

"One whole programme has been solely shot in British waters – and not just the obvious basking sharks and blue sharks but things like lesser-spotted cat shark and skates, rays and other shark relatives that we have here in our seas.

"As well as delving into the natural history of things that people may not realise are vagrant visitors into our shores, things like the Greenland shark . That was really important to me, that one, and I think particularly for your readers because a lot of people, even biologists may not realise quite how many species of sharks we have in our seas. I’m a shark fanatic and I didn’t realise that we’d had scalloped hammerheads coming through our waters and that we’d had Greenland sharks washed up on our shores."

Read the full interview, in which Steve Backshall explains how Instagram may hold the key to sharks' survival, in the January issue of BBC Wildlife magazine , on sale 16th December.

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Who is Steve Backshall?

Steve is a hugely popular British TV presenter, explorer, naturalist and writer. A hero to younger viewers who can't get enough of his Deadly 60 , Deadly Dinosaurs and various other children's natural history programmes, Steve's other credits include Blue Planet Live , Big Blue Live , Down The Mighty River with Steve Backshall , Expedition Borneo , The One Show and The Really Wild Show . He was also a contestant on the 2014 edition of Strictly Comes Dancing .

He is the author of a number of wildlife and fiction books. He is a mountaineer, rock climber and enjoys extreme sports. Among his many awards are two BAFTAs, an honorary PhD from the University of Exeter, a gold Blue Peter badge and, most recently, an MBE. He is married to Olympic champion rower Helen Glover MBE.

Which species of shark will appear on Shark with Steve Backshall ?

The many species featured in the series include the following:

Great hammerhead ( Sphyrna mokarran )

An apex predator reaching 6m long, it is thought their uniquely shaped electroreceptor-packed head may help them to detect prey hidden beneath the sand.

Scalloped hammerhead ( Sphyrna lewini )

At 4.2m long on average, the scalloped hammerhead has eyes on the top of its head, which gives it a 360-degree view of the world.

Great white shark ( Carcharodon carcharias )

Arguably the world’s most famous shark, due in part to the Jaws films, the great white is the world’s largest predatory fish and can grow to lengths of 6.4m.

Blacktip shark ( Carcharhinus melanopterus )

Each year, thousands of blacktips migrate along the east coast of the USA, hunted by rival great hammerhead sharks.

Whale shark ( Rhincodon typus )

The world's largest shark, the whale shark can reach 20m long and weigh 42 tonnes. 75% of the world’s population are found in the Indo-Pacific.

Lemon shark ( Negaprion brevirostris )

These sharks reach a maximum of 3.4m long and live in mangrove forests, which offer baby sharks safety from predators for several years while they mature.

Oceanic whitetip shark ( Carcharhinus longimanus )

These critically endangered sharks have large pectoral fins, reach 3.2m in length, and return to the Bahamas every year for the dependable food source of dolphinfish, tuna and billfishes.

Epaulette shark ( Hemiscyllium ocellatum )

The small epaulette shark is just 100cm long and a member of the longtail carpet shark family. They are only found in the wild in Australia.

Grey reef shark ( Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos )

A medium-sized shark at 2.55m long, the grey reef shark is a social species that appears docile and calm during the day but turns into an active hunter at night.

Reef manta ray ( Mobula alfredi )

Related to sharks, the reef manta ray grows an average wingspan of 3.4m.

Main image: Steve Backshall on a boat in the Bahamas, with an oceanic whitetip shark in the background. © Sky

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Steve Backshall to headline For the Love of Sharks

1 May 2024 2 minutes

Join a host of shark-loving speakers including TV wildlife presenter, Steve Backshall, for an evening celebrating shark conservation in London this November

The UK’s Shark Trust has announced that BAFTA award-winning wildlife TV presenter, Steve Backshall, will be headlining the charity’s flagship ‘For the Love of Sharks’ event at the Royal Geographical Society in London this coming November.

A patron of the Shark Trust for 10 years, Backshall is one of television’s busiest presenters, with a career that has taken him around the world to investigate a wide array of species and environments. Backshall has filmed more than 100 hours of children’s wildlife programmes, including the BAFTA award-winning ‘Deadly 60′ series and, more recently, his new series ‘Whale with Steve Backshall’ for Sky Nature.

Joining Backshall in the speaking line-up is photojournalist Simon Rogerson, former editor of DIVE magazine and now editor of SCUBA , the official magazine of the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC). A Shark Trust patron for 20 years, Rogerson was named ‘Editor of the Year’ in the PPA’s Independent Publishing Awards in 2005 for his work at DIVE , and is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and Telegraph, plus a host of international scuba diving magazines.

Other speakers scheduled to appear on stage are Ali Hood, Director of Conservation for the Shark Trust, and underwater photographer Kirsty Andrews.

More from the Shark Trust:

• New Shark Trust citizen science app
• ‘Oceanic 31’ Shark Trust art exhibition
• The Shark Trust’s Great Eggcase Hunt returns for Easter 2023
• Shark Trust Great Shark Snapshot results
• Shark Trust welcomes protection for North Atlantic shortfin mako

The evening will also give guests the final chance to see the Oceanic 31 shark art exhibition . Some of the artwork will be auctioned/raffled at the event, while the rest will be auctioned online to raise money for the Shark Trust Oceanic Programme. 

‘For the Love of Sharks’ will be held at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 29 November 2024 from 6-10pm. Tickets are available at £25 for Shark Trust members (£35 for non-members; £15 for children) from the Shark Trust website at www.sharktrust.org/Event/flos24 .

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Join a host of amazing, shark-loving speakers, including Steve Backshall and the Shark Trust team, for an evening celebrating shark conservation at the Royal Geographical Society in London this November.

The event – on 29 November from 6pm-10pm – will be a celebration of all things ‘shark', and those lucky enough to get hold of tickets will hear from engaging guest speakers with a passion for sharks.

The line-up includes (*subject to change if unforeseen circumstances arise):

Steve Backshall

One of television’s busiest presenters, BAFTA award-winning wildlife expert Steve has been passionate about the wild world ever since he was young. 

Steve’s impressive TV career has taken him all around the world, investigating a wide array of species and environments. He has filmed over 100 hours of children's wildlife programmes with the BAFTA award-winning Deadly 60 franchise and recently, with Sky Nature, for his new series ‘Whale with Steve Backshall'. He has been a patron for the Shark Trust for ten years.

Simon Rogerson

Simon is editor of SCUBA magazine , the official journal of the British Sub-Aqua Club. He started his career as a crime reporter but gravitated towards his ‘less depressing’ interest in underwater exploration, joining the staff of DIVE magazine in 1999.

Simon also works as a freelance writer, contributing frequently to the Sunday Times and Telegraph, in addition to BBC Wildlife, Esquire, and a host of international diving magazines. He is the author of a book, Dive Red Sea, published by Ultimate Sports. Now based in Berkshire, Simon has been a Patron of the Shark Trust for 20 years. 

More speakers to be announced soon. Head to the Shark Trust website to learn more.

The evening will also allow guests the final chance to see the Oceanic 31 shark art exhibition. Some of the artwork will be auctioned/raffled at the event, while the rest will be auctioned online to raise money for the Shark Trust Oceanic Programme. 

For more information or to buy a ticket, click here .

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