Learn the surprising truths behind the monster myths on NATURE’s WHITE SHARK/RED TRIANGLE.
Each year, in the late summer, a region known as the Red Triangle bustles with marine mammal activity. Lying between San Francisco and Monterey, the Red Triangle includes beaches where elephant seals go to molt, and offshore sites where great whites feed on unwary prey. When not prowling the Red Triangle, great white sharks search the kelp forest for sea lions, or roam the open ocean. Their migration is predictable. Each year they turn up at the same place at the same time, occasionally crossing paths with humans who still swim and surf in these dangerous waters.
Experts have spent decades studying these legendary killing machines of the seas and the animals that make up their food chain, including elephant seals, killer whales, sea otters, and sea lions. Their research reveals several surprising facts. Great whites are not always solitary hunters, they occasionally hunt and feed together. Once thought a coastal species, great whites do swim in the mid-Pacific, at depths matching those of female seals. Sea otters were previously considered immune to attacks by great whites. In fact, they are often their victims.
NATURE challenges you to join this exploration of the infamous WHITE SHARK/RED TRIANGLE.
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Producer
MARY HOPE GARCIA
Art Director
SABINA DALEY
Designers
LENNY DROZNER
KAREN MATTSON
RADIK SHVARTS
Pagebuilding
BRIAN SANTALONE
Writers
ELIZABETH OWEN
JOHN UHL
Production Artist
RUIYAN XU
Production Intern
AMANDA WILLIAMSON
Technical Director
BRIAN LEE
Lesson Plans Writers
MAUREEN CARROLL, LAUREL BLAINE,
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Television Credits
Narrated by
BERT PENCE
Written and Produced by
MICHAEL BRIGHT
Photography
DOUG ALLAN
PAUL ATKINS
RICHARD GANNICLIFFT
PETER SCOONES
Additional Photography
YURI FARRANT
FLORIAN GRANER
GREG HUGHLIN
CHARLES MAXWELL
Film Editor
CHRIS GODDEN
Colorist
JONATHON PROSSER
Dubbing Editors
JAMES BURCHILL
ANGELA GROVES
Dubbing Mixer
MARTYN HARRIES
Music
NEIL CARTWRIGHT
Graphics
422 SOUTH
Scientific Consultants
SCOT ANDERSON
DAN COSTA
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Assistant Producer
SUE FLOOD
Research
JO BRICE
EMMA JONES
Production Coordinator
ANNE BAMBER
Production Executive
CHRISTINA HAMILTON
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Series Editor
JANET HESS
Supervising Producer
JANICE YOUNG
Producers
PATTY JACOBSON
JILL CLARKE
Associate Producers
IRENE TEJARATCHI
GIANNA SAVOIE
Production Secretary
KELLY LAFFERTY
Manager
EILEEN FRAHER
Production Manager
JULIE SCHAPIRO THORMAN
Online Editor
BRIAN LONGENECKER
Sound Mixer
ED CAMPBELL
Series Producer
BILL MURPHY
Executive in Charge
WILLIAM GRANT
Executive Producer
FRED KAUFMAN
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Online content for WHITE SHARK/RED TRIANGLE was originally posted November 2003.
