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Today we had the wonderful opportunity to meet a very talented artist and conservationist who is just a junior at Jensen Beach high school. Hitomi Ueza, an exchange student from Okinawa, Japan, has won numerous awards for her beautiful water color painting depicting the drive to stop shark finning.

Hitomi has won regional and state competitions by the Parent and Teacher Association (PTA) and the painting is at a national competition now. We are hopeful images like hers will help spread the word to help save and protect sharks worldwide.

Shown in photo from left to right:
Peggy Hess (Hitomi’s host mother), Hitomi Uezu, Jim Abernethy, Keiko Uezu (Hitomi’s mother), Kuniko Uezu (Hitomi’s sister)

This week we had a group all from France book our boat. We had tigers on the first day but the weather was a little rough so we decided to head for calmer water and get some Tiger Shark pictures from the surface. Once the weather calmed down we headed back out and dove a beautiful reef in about 30 feet of clear blue water. We decided to stick around and do a relaxing night dive. We stayed overnight at the reef and woke up to 6 tigers below the boat. They were accompanied by about 15 reefs, 10 lemons and 2 nurse sharks. Later in the week we had 9 tigers on a site we call Shark Mayhem.

 

Sophi, our eight year-old shark conservationist, is in the news again. She has been nominated by her school principal for the Richfield Humanitarian award. We are very proud of Sophi and her drive to save sharks. She is a perfect example that everyone can make a difference.