Water We Doing?

Chris Harvey-Clark is a research veterinarian and marine biologist based at Dalhousie University. He has ongoing research on the biology of the Greenland shark and the Atlantic torpedo ray. In his second career as an underwater image maker, he has been director of photography in more than 50 marine-themed documentaries. Chris published the first documentation of basking sharks mating in 1998, did the first-in-Canada dives with blue sharks in 2000, filmed mako sharks underwater for the first time in Canada in 2002, and recorded Greenland sharks underwater in natural conditions for the first time in 2003. In October 2020 he cage dove to document great white sharks underwater in Nova Scotia for the first time in Canadian waters. In November 2021 he and navy diver Michael Schwinghammer became the first divers in Canadian waters to encounter a 10-foot great white shark while open-water diving on a shipwreck in Halifax Harbour.