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MARKETING & PROMO: National, regional, and subject-specific print features, excerpts, review coverage, broadcast and television interviews Blogger outreach, online ads, and social media campaigns Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements Outreach to subject-specific organizations, markets, and festivals Electronic and print ARCs Excerpts available KEY SELLING POINTS: Stewart was born in 1979, in Toronto, Ontario. He began underwater photography as a teenager, and became a trainer at 18 years old. He attended both Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and Crescent School in Toronto as a youth. For four years, Stewart was chief photographer for the Canadian Wildlife Federation's magazines. He also worked as a freelance journalist, winning numerous awards. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Western Ontario and studied zoology and marine biology in Kenya and Jamaica. Stewart got the idea to make the movie Sharkwater at age 22, when he discovered illegal longline fishing being done in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. He travelled through 15 countries for the next four years, studying and filming sharks and going undercover to confront the shark-fin industry. Sharkwater went on to win more than 40 awards at top film festivals. His follow-up film, 2012's Revolution, built on Sharkwater, examining environmental collapse. In 2013 it was the highest-grossing Canadian documentary and garnered 19 awards from global film festivals. Also in 2012 Stewart released a book, Save the Humans, a biography detailing the importance of sharks in his life and the necessity to make a positive impact in the ocean. In 2016 Stewart launched a Kickstarter to fund Sharkwater: Extinction, a sequel to Sharkwater that was to focus on the 80 million sharks killed every year that are unaccounted for by scientists. He was working on this film at the time of his death. Stewart won more than 40 international awards for Sharkwater and 19 for Revolution. Sharkwater earned Stewart the Best Documentary and the Audience Favorite Award at the 2006 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, the People's Choice Award at the 2006 Atlantic Film Festival, and a Special Jury Award at the 2006 Hawaii International Film Festival. The film was also selected by the Toronto International Film Festival Group as one of the top ten Canadian films of 2006. In 2007 Stewart's film won the Audience and Best Feature awards at the Gen Art Film festival. In 2008 Stewart received a Genie nomination for Best Documentary; a Genesis Award for Outstanding Documentary; and an Environmental Vision award at the 35th annual Vision Awards, held in Los Angeles. By 2013, some 27 countries and the European Union had banned shark finning. International waters are unregulated, but international fishing authorities are considering banning shark fishing (and finning) in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Finning is banned in the eastern Pacific, but shark fishing and finning continues unabated in most of the rest of the Pacific and the Indian oceans. In countries such as Thailand and Singapore, public awareness advertisements on finning have reportedly reduced consumption by 25 per cent. As of September 2018, 12 U.S. states and 3 U.S. territories had banned the sale or possession of shark fins. And in 2019 Canada outlawed the import and export of shark fins, becoming the first country to impose a national ban. Rob Stewart continues to be hailed as the most important voice in shark conservation, in spite of his death, and his efforts continue to impact the ways in which countries around the world deal with ocean-based conservation strategies.

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When Rob Stewart stepped on board my ship Ocean Warrior in 2002 I saw a man driven by three things: science, adventure and a deep love for things that many people saw as dangerously dark monsters. It was Rob's daunting ambition to change the world's view of sharks. He wanted us to see what he saw - beauty, mystery, and in his own words, perfection. Fifteen years later, thanks to his skills as filmmaker and storyteller, combined with his courage and expertise as a diver, he realized the fruition of his quest when he succeeded in changing the world's perception of sharks. It was a conservation crusade of passion for which he sacrificed his life. I participated in the search that found his body on the seafloor, an event out of which rose questions, mysteries and conspiracy theories. Robert Osborne set out to find answers, and in this book The Third Dive we now have a conclusion to the life story of one of the great heroes of marine conservation. --Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society A real-life underwater mystery of why Rob Stewart died. Like the rebreather itself, the book mixes facts, characters and human foibles into a fascinating yarn about Stewart's death. Scuba divers will appreciate the discussion of rebreathers and the stories of Stewart's many dives. The book gives real insights into human foibles that lead to disaster. --William McKeever, filmmaker, founder of Ocean Guardian, and author of Emperors of the Deep: Sharks -- The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

Praise for The Third Dive: An Investigation Into the Death of Rob Stewart: A real-life underwater mystery of why Rob Stewart died. Like the rebreather itself, the book mixes facts, characters and human foibles into a fascinating yarn about Stewart's death. Scuba divers will appreciate the discussion of rebreathers and the stories of Stewart's many dives. The book gives real insights into human foibles that lead to disaster. --William McKeever, filmmaker, founder of Ocean Guardian, and author of Emperors of the Deep: Sharks -- The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians When Rob Stewart stepped on board my ship Ocean Warrior in 2002 I saw a man driven by three things: science, adventure and a deep love for things that many people saw as dangerously dark monsters. It was Rob's daunting ambition to change the world's view of sharks. He wanted us to see what he saw--beauty, mystery, and in his own words, perfection. Fifteen years later, thanks to his skills as filmmaker and storyteller, combined with his courage and expertise as a diver, he realized the fruition of his quest when he succeeded in changing the world's perception of sharks. It was a conservation crusade of passion for which he sacrificed his life. I participated in the search that found his body on the seafloor, an event out of which rose questions, mysteries and conspiracy theories. Robert Osborne set out to find answers, and in this book The Third Dive we now have a conclusion to the life story of one of the great heroes of marine conservation. --Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

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Robert Osborne has more than 30 years of working in long-format television. For much of that time he was an investigative journalist working for the CTV show W5. Hes also worked for Marketplace and Pacific Report. Robert has developed a specialty in directing underwater-based documentaries and holds nearly a dozen certifications, including a cave-diving specialty. Robert has won more than half a dozen awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association of Canada; an award from the Canadian Association of Journalists; and an Award of Merit from the Governor General of Canada. He has also been nominated many times for Gemini awards. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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