{"id":645258,"date":"2013-03-05T11:04:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T16:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=72316"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:04:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T16:04:05","slug":"learn-more-about-ocean-filmmaker-mike-degruy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645258","title":{"rendered":"Learn more about ocean filmmaker Mike deGruy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mike-deGruy\"On February 4, 2012, ocean filmmaker and educator Mike deGruy<\/a> was killed in a helicopter crash while on assignment in Australia, along with pilot and filmmaker Andrew Wright. DeGruy (pronounced “degree”) was an Emmy-winning science documentarian<\/a> and a mainstay of Shark Week; he also worked on James Cameron documentaries about the Titanic<\/em> and Bismarck<\/em> and life in the deepest oceans. He swam and scuba-dived in oceans around the world … survived a shark attack himself … and brought back footage of unseen underwater worlds that will continue to amaze and educate for as long as there are curious girls and boys.<\/p>\n

\"EdithEdith Widder: How we found the giant squid<\/span><\/a>Fascinated by oceanic cephalopods (like octopus and squid), deGruy and his team were the first to film two rarely seen creatures — the nautilus and the vampire squid — in their home oceans. So it’s only fitting that when he met Edith Widder aboard the Mission Blue Voyage<\/a> in 2010, their talk quickly turned to squids. As Widder details in her new TED Talk<\/a>, deGruy was the reason she found herself on a Japanese expedition to waters south of Tokyo, where she helped film the giant squid for the first time. She has dedicated this talk to him.<\/p>\n

Below, watch Mike deGruy’s TED Talk from Mission Blue<\/a>,\u00a0as well as two more TEDx talks from this wonderful storyteller.<\/p>\n