I attended a screening of Mexico Pelagico this evening at Harvard. The one-hour documentary features a group of passionate Mexico City dwellers who spend their weekends over a three-year period seeing what is to be seen in the open ocean near Mexico’s coastline and islands. They are sufficiently passionate about sharks that they snorkel down to some sizable sharks that have been hooked by fishermen with buoys and free them. Essentially this is underwater dentistry where the patient is big and strong enough to kill the dentist and the dentist also can’t take a breath (no SCUBA gear for these folks most of the time).
The film is a mixture of underwater footage that you might find in an IMAX movie and interviews with the shark/ocean enthusiasts.
Recommended. (Should be available via Netflix eventually.)