Table of Contents
Introduction: The Revolution to Save Humanity ix
Part 1 Childhood
1 Out Catching Frogs 3
2 Chain Moray Eels Teach Me a Valuable Lesson 17
3 Ninety Percent of the Time I Would Have Been Fine 23
4 In Awe of Specially Designed Oddities 35
5 Chunk and Satan 42
6 Getting Off an Alligator Is Trickier Than Getting On 48
7 A Snake with a Personality Disorder 54
8 I Finally Get to Breathe Under Water 59
9 Paradise Might Be the Galapagos 69
10 I See Something I Can't Unsee 82
11 Dancing Lemurs 94
12 How I Became a Filmmaker Instead 110
Part 2 Making Sharkwater
13 Sea Shepherd 123
14 My First Naval Battle 129
15 Too Close a Call with the Costa Rican Legal System 136
16 Finally, Finally, Some Sharks Get Filmed 141
17 A Short Trip to the Ugly Edge of Town 158
18 Crisis in Panama 163
19 The Shepherd Loses Part of Its Flock 174
20 Eyefuls of Wildlife and Some Very Bendy Poachers 179
21 At Least Robinson Crusoe Had an Island to be Lost On 190
22 Things Fall Apart 197
23 How to Give Up In Order to Get Going Again 204
Part 3 Revolution
24 It's Way Bigger Than Saving Sharks 213
25 Saving the Humans 232
26 Money and Madagascar 237
27 Surrounded by COPs 244
28 Children Know Best 250
Conclusion: My Own Action Plan 261
Acknowledgements 265
Index 267
