this amazing thing happened a few years
ago we accidentally found a fluorescent
fish and then that led us to over 200
fluorescent fish including two species
of sharks I wanted to film these sharks
in their natural world with the shark
eye camera and see essentially what the
world looks like through their eye so
humans see in three colors red green and
blue and as soon as we go underwater we
start losing all the other colors
quickly and it becomes dark and blue
these biofluorescent sharks that were
looking at are called swell sharks these
sharks had only one visual pigment and
it was only right at the intersection of
blue and green they’re in a blue world
where everything is blue but they’re
capable of turning blue into green
once we learned what the pigment of the
shark I was like we filtered a very
sensitive camera we had a red epic to
have the same color sensitivity as the
shark at 120 feet in this Canyon we were
just using the blue ocean light and this
was difficult for us humans but the
sharks can still see amazingly well and
that makes sense because they’ve been
down there for 400 million years and
they’ve been living in an environment
with very little light this was a huge
step for us because we didn’t even know
could this well sharks could the
fluorescent sharks
see this and with the study now we know
yes because they can see the
fluorescence among themselves this
almost seems like when it was discovered
that bats were communicating with sound
outside of human detection and that
there was a whole mode of communication
going on and with sharks
it could be something similar how
they’re using it now we can even go
further and further more into this era
where were losing species at a rate that
we haven’t seen in millions of years so
in trying to connect with nature it’s
important to kind of empathize with
nature and even see what these animals
and by putting ourselves behind the
shark’s eye gives us a portal into their
life
you
ago we accidentally found a fluorescent
fish and then that led us to over 200
fluorescent fish including two species
of sharks I wanted to film these sharks
in their natural world with the shark
eye camera and see essentially what the
world looks like through their eye so
humans see in three colors red green and
blue and as soon as we go underwater we
start losing all the other colors
quickly and it becomes dark and blue
these biofluorescent sharks that were
looking at are called swell sharks these
sharks had only one visual pigment and
it was only right at the intersection of
blue and green they’re in a blue world
where everything is blue but they’re
capable of turning blue into green
once we learned what the pigment of the
shark I was like we filtered a very
sensitive camera we had a red epic to
have the same color sensitivity as the
shark at 120 feet in this Canyon we were
just using the blue ocean light and this
was difficult for us humans but the
sharks can still see amazingly well and
that makes sense because they’ve been
down there for 400 million years and
they’ve been living in an environment
with very little light this was a huge
step for us because we didn’t even know
could this well sharks could the
fluorescent sharks
see this and with the study now we know
yes because they can see the
fluorescence among themselves this
almost seems like when it was discovered
that bats were communicating with sound
outside of human detection and that
there was a whole mode of communication
going on and with sharks
it could be something similar how
they’re using it now we can even go
further and further more into this era
where were losing species at a rate that
we haven’t seen in millions of years so
in trying to connect with nature it’s
important to kind of empathize with
nature and even see what these animals
and by putting ourselves behind the
shark’s eye gives us a portal into their
life
you
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