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Andy Casagrande is a two-time Emmy winning wildlife cinematographer, producer, on-camera presenter, and shark diver best known for his long-running work on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. He has filmed and produced hundreds of wildlife projects for National Geographic, Discovery, BBC, and Animal Planet. @abc4explore
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OUTLINE
00:00 - Andy Casagrande's path to shark filmmaking
02:41 - Childhood, schizophrenia, and studying psychology
09:37 - National Geographic vs. Shark Week
12:07 - Filming Mick Fanning after his shark encounter
17:58 - Shark encounters while surfing
21:16 - Mark Healey freediving with great white sharks
23:28 - Do sharks get used to humans?
26:52 - Drone footage of sharks near swimmers
33:50 - Michael Phelps' Shark Week swim
37:17 - Why some beaches have more shark attacks
43:10 - Tracking great whites off Naples
53:09 - The tiger shark that nearly killed Andy's wife
59:03 - Tiger sharks vs. great whites
01:02:20 - Putting cameras on sharks
01:04:38 - Jaws, Ocean Ramsey & shark stereotypes
01:09:30 - Why whale sharks have teeth on their eyes
01:12:30 - The fatal Tiger Beach dive
01:18:08 - The Cove & learning to freedive
01:21:41 - Danny ran out of air underwater
01:26:19 - Why don't wild orcas attack humans?
01:32:06 - Blackfish & keeping orcas in captivity
01:33:58 - Working on Dolphin Tale
01:42:06 - Behind the scenes of MrBeast's shark shoot
01:46:47 - The dark side of commercial fishing
01:53:15 - NOAA's shark research fishery
02:00:33 - The Cove & Japan's dolphin hunts
02:05:22 - The psychology of trophy hunting
02:08:10 - The crocodile attack that took a diver's legs
02:17:23 - What happened to Steve Irwin
02:20:39 - Stranded in polar bear territory
02:29:20 - Greenland sharks that live over 400 years
02:36:08 - Why anxiety disappears in the wild
02:38:26 - Filming great white sharks mating
02:43:31 - John Lilly's dolphin experiments
02:48:00 - Do sharks make sounds?
02:52:45 - A great white that consumed a spearfisherman
02:55:45 - The real odds of a shark attack
03:00:37 - Surviving a great white attack in New Zealand Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
