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ALL ABOUT DUNG Its a dirty job but somebody's go to do it.... in March, ICON wrapped shooting on ALL ABOUT DUNG here in Borneo. Scubazoo were employed as location managers on the shoot which got presenter Monty Halls up close and personal with excrement of all kinds. The Borneo leg of the programme involved Monty abseiling down into Gomantong cave where he got to examine the mini ecosystem which has developed around the droppings of thousands of siwftlets. Update: ALL ABOUT DUNG will be broadcast on the 30th June @ 9pm EST in the US
COVER SHOT Kudos to Adam Broadbent this month as his colour saturated blenny gets the honour of the Scuba diver Australasia cover. Not content with that, Adam also has his portfolio featured while Jason Isley contributes an article on an old haunt of his, Mabul, and Roger Munns sneaks in with a shot of a rhinopias eye in the art section. Buy a copy from your news stand today or sign up for the e-magazine if you live further afield. 
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THE END OF THE LINE Scubazoo were recently involved in filming for 'The End of the Line' - a theatrical release about the devastating effects of overfishing. The shoot took place in and around the beautiful Philippine island of Palawan and included a four day trip to the remote and pristine atoll of Tubbataha. 'The end of the line' is now being edited in the UK. Watch this space for release details...
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MAGAZINES April was another bumper month for Scubazoo's publications wing. "The Mimic Myth" featured in Asian Geographic's nature section. Written by Roger Munns with images by Jason Isley, Roger Munns and Simon Enderby the article goes behind the scenes of last years Animal Planet shoot for Nick Baker's Weird Creatures in Lembeh. Click here for a look at the article online. Also this month, Adam Broadbent's featured twice in Scuba Diver Australasia. His picture of a soft coral crab was featured as a full page art photo, and a review of the Baa Atoll in the Maldives contributed to the Best of Asia pacific section of the magazine.
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MAX'S BIG TRACKS In March 2008 Scubazoo project managed Electric Sky Productions' Max's Big Tracks which follows professional tracker Ian "Max " Maxwell around the world as he tracks down some of the worlds most endangered animals. Scubazoo Director and senior cameraman Simon Enderby joined Max and the film crew as location manager and second cameraman as they plunged into the Sabah Rainforest with Non Governmental Organisation SOS Rhino to track and attempt to film the incredibly rare and endangered Sumatran Rhino. Led by chief scientist Dr Thaya, the camera crew and rangers trekked deep into the jungle exploring vast tracks of likely rhino habitat. Constantly flicking and picking off blood sucking leeches and battling the daily rainforest downpours the team trudged through mud, rivers and streams, up steep ridge lines and down vertical waterfalls. Exhausted at the end of the day the team would collapse into their makeshift accommodation, consisting of plastic sheets and hammocks. Daily sightings of both large and small rainforest animals, birds and numerous insects kept the cameras whirring and the deployment of camera traps along likely animal tracks and wallows ensured the team captured some truly amazing images. Over the past 6 months Scubazoo has been working very closely with SOS Rhino Borneo which carries out groundbreaking and essential fieldwork and conservation initiatives here in Sabah as it tries to save the last 30 remaining Sabah based Sumatran Rhino from extinction. With only 300 estimated to be left in the wild the Sumatran Rhino is expected to be the next to face extinction because many of the remaining populations are so fractured and separated that they no longer represent viable breeding populations. Click here to find out how you can help.
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ASIAN DIVE EXPO 2008
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FISH BOMBING FOOTAGE ON CNN Dramatic footage from Scubazoo's environmental stock library is to air internationally on CNN Friday 7th March as part of CNN Heroes. This weeks episode focusses on Todd Barber the chairman of the Reef ball foundation which helps regenerate coral reefs the world over. One of the main causes of Coral reef degradation in SE Asia is dynamite fishing - a practice instigated by WWII GI's in the Philippines and unfortunately copied by local fishermen ever since. Scubazoo's footage of fishermen in the act of fish bombing and the resulting damage to the coral reef is just part of our large environmental photo and video stock library. The short programme will be airing several times on Friday. Check your local TV listings guide for more info.
MATING TURTLE SEQUENCE Monday March 3rd sees the airing of Life in cold blood - Armoured giants which features a turtle mating sequence filmed by Roger Munns and Russ Campbell. Here Roger talks about the experience: This was a big moment for me personally and Scubazoo, to be involved in shooting part of the final chapter of Sir David Attenboroughs's epic overview of life on earth. We knew we would have a good chance of getting the shots we needed at Sipadan and given our proximity to the island it was a case of waiting for the right weather conditions during the mating season and being on call, ready to get down to Sipadan at a moments notice. Unfortunately the mating season for green turtles coincides with typically poor weather and rough sea conditions but after a couple of abortive attempts we finally hit it right and got the shots we were after. Filming the mating sequence was a serious effort in terms of filming and fitness. Once coupled together the mating pair are virtually oblivious to their surroundings and we covered several kilometres over the course of the morning with more and more males joining the frey all the time. Exhausting stuff but the footage we got exceeded our initial expectations and the sequence was picked out as one of the top ten clips from the five part series.
Location: Sipadan - Seaventures dive resort JO SARSBY PERSONAL MANAGEMENT NOW REPRESENTING SCUBAZOO Scubazoo are proud to announce that we have joined forces with Jo Sarsby personal management. Having worked in production internationally for a variety of broadcasters, mainly in the factual and documentary fields, Jo has been involved in some of television’s most exciting and award-winning wildlife & documentary programme making. This experience has given Jo a unique insight into what makes a great presenter and Jo Sarsby Personal Management now represents some of the most high profile names in the business including Steve Leonard, Monty Halls and Michaela Strachan. Based in Bristol, the centre of natural history television production in the UK, Jo will now be representing Scubazoo's interests both in the UK and beyond.
After months of preparation and anticipation, Jason Isley, Matt Oldfield and Simon Christopher travelled to the UK at the beginning of September to launch Scubazoo's latest coffee-table book, 'Reef'. Working in conjunction with Dorling Kindersley's PR department, the Scubazoo team had a whirlwind week of interviews, lectures and television appearances, culminating in a launch party at Waterstone's Piccadilly in the heart of London. more On Saturday 27th October 2007, Simon Enderby drove to the fishing town of Kudat - 3hrs north of Sabah's capital Kota Kinabalu - the very tip of Borneo. He joined 7 other speakers to discuss a variety of marine issues related to the surrounding open seas, coral reefs & beaches to conclude the Kudat Environment Week, organised by WWF Malaysia and the newly built Kudat Turtle Conservation Society.
While the other speakers discussed fisheries management, research, the gazetting of marine parks and deployment of Turtle Exclusion Devices (TEDs) in trawl nets, Simon spoke about the role and importance of using images - both film and photographs, to show the beauty, abundance and fragility of the marine environment towards creating awareness and conveying these important conservation messages to people more effectively. Simon also talked about the need to develop responsible eco-tourism around Sabah's coastline and islands to help draw in greater tourist revenue. He suggested this focus will add even greater value to the preservation of the marine environment encouraging tourism operators themselves to become more proactive in protecting the marine environment they wish to share, and profit from. The following day, Simon filmed and photographed over 100 volunteers from Kudat and Kota Kinabalu who began the truly mammoth task of cleaning the local beach just a stones throw away from the S.M. St. Peters school, 5 minutes outside Kudat. Tidal currents, recent storms and a relatively newly constructed seawall had over the last year piled high with water-borne refuse all along this stretch of beach. The sight of walls of rubbish was shocking to say the least, and extremely daunting for the 140 volunteers of adults and children who embarked on clearing this rubbish. After 3 grueling hours of collection and separating into recyclable and non-recyclable categories, nearly 5 tons of rubbish were collected. This consisted of the following: Non-recyclable: 4,688 kg (4.7 tons) By filming, photographing and supporting events like these, Scubazoo hopes to help to raise public awareness and try ensure Sabah's incredible marine environment is protected and conserved for future generations to come. For more information on the beach clean up and Kudat Environment week please click on the following links; http://www.wwf.org.my/index.cfm?uNewsID=4680 http://www.wwf.org.my/media_and_information/newsroom_main/index.cfm?uNewsID=4640 KINABALU INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL- 'SAY NO TO PLASTIC' CAMPAIGN June 25th saw the launch of the KIS "Say No to Plastic" Campaign during the school's annual environmental week. KIS has organised and produced, with the help and financial support of several KK based companies, hundreds of cloth shopping bags to be sold to parents and supermarket shoppers around KK in order to reduce the number of plastic bags given out whilst shopping. KIS aims to reduce the number of plastic bags making their way indiscriminately into the community and subsequently into the environment when discarded. KIS have chosen the sea turtle as their campaign ambassador as vast numbers of plastics end up in the seas and oceans of the world, where through confusion with their natural prey - jellyfish - many sea turtle species mistakenly ingest them, ending in choking and starvation.
Scubazoo Images is one of those KK based companies that feels as strongly as KIS about the unnecessary profusion of plastics within Malaysia and especially Sabah and are actively supporting and helping KIS in their campaign. On Thursday 28th of June, Simon Enderby, visited the school to participate once again in the school's Environment Week. By engaging the children with dramatic and informative short films about sea turtles and other key marine species, as well as highlighting the threats they face, Simon was able to share with the children his passion and dedication to the protection of the marine world. The children in turn showed an incredible interest and ability to absorb crucial information and were able to visualise why their 'Say No to Plastic" campaign was so important to Sabah and Malaysia as a whole. Scubazoo Images are now actively supporting the expansion of the campaign to aid in the production of thousands of these cloth shopping bags so that they are available to every one of Sabah's shoppers with the aim of drastically reducing the numbers of plastics wantonly discarded in the surrounding environment and seas. For more information, please contact Simon Enderby, Kinabalu International School or visit KIS website here. GOA II TRANSMISSION The GOA II transmission are airing on Animal Planet Asia. Dates for the transmission as follows: list of dates. Keep an eye out for photos and the full story of shooting GOA II.
'INVESTIGATING SPACE AND PERCEPTION' - MATTHEW NGUI Jason Isley and Roger Munns recently completed a shoot with internationally reknowned artist Matthew Ngui and Singapore based producer Jon Moore. This shoot was way out of the Scubazoo ordinary, involving no fish or underwater presenters and presented a significant technical challenge to the cameramen.
The concept involved Matthew swimming back and forth across a 15m wide swimming pool, tumble turning at each end until he had covered around 500m. To show this on a large scale Jon and Matt wanted to project this from four individual digital projectors with Matthew swimming seamlessly from one projected image to the next. This required four underwater Cameras to film the swim, each locked off on tripods at exactly the same height and angle. The shoot was a resounding success and was a great experience for the Scubazoo team, Matthew and Jon. We would like to thank Marina Court condominiums for their kind cooperation in providing the swimming pool for the shoot. Please download the attached press release for more information on where you can catch Matthew's exhibition. |
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ADEX is Asia's largest and longest running exhibition for the dive industry and related businesses. Simon Christopher, Jason Isley, Roger Munns and Au Yong Seok Wun will be representing Scubazoo at ADEX 2008 in Singapore. Canvas prints, photo prints and books will be on sale so come by and see us at booth C13.
