About
An avid writer, surfer and ocean voyager, David McGuire is the founder of the conservation non profit Sea Stewards and is an advocate for a healthy ocean. As Captain, Dive Master and Cinematographer, David has explored the world ocean on numerous sailing voyages collecting media with an emphasis on ocean awareness.Educated in Marine Biology, he holds a masters degree in Environmental Health and has worked in education and public health at the University of California at Berkeley for over a decade. David is the writer, producer and underwater cinematographer of the award winning documentary Sharks: Stewards of the Reef, and was writer and cinematographer on a film on California Marine Protected Areas, and Palmyra Atoll. David has written, filmed and produced a new documentary on the Sharks of San Francisco Bay and has worked as cameraman on feature films such as 180 South and A Beautiful Wave. His underwater filmwork on San Francisco elasmobranches and ecosystems continues and he frequently donates his work for conservation causes. As Field and Research Associate with the California Academy of Sciences, David is Project Manager of a shark research program on the San Francisco Bay and has initiated a new sharks awareness campaign: Shark Sanctuary San Francisco. Through expedition sailing and video production, Sea Stewards is exploring and explaining our ocean world, influencing policies and practices from sustainable fishing to marine protection. Through Sea Steward Studios, our Media Production work is used to influence sound policies and sustainable ocean practices. Current work includes a series on Sea Turtle Conservation in Mexico, a film with partners Team Fish Finders using local fishermen to promote catch and release and a documentary on local sustainable seafood and a Cordell Banks Expedition.
Website: http://www.calacademy.org
All Contributions by David:
Got Mercury? The New EPA Ruling And The San Francisco Bay
This week, after decades of legal delays and foot dragging by the coal and power industry, the EPA unveiled a new rule protecting public health from mercury and other toxins.
Post on Dec 23, 2011
Various Voyages of Sea Turtles
Strange creatures have been visiting the Sanctuary waters this fall.
Post on Nov 29, 2011
The Season of the Gray Whale
One of the more remarkable migrations among marine animals occurs each year right outside the Golden Gate.
Post on Nov 17, 2011
Sharktober Continues in November
To sharks, it's still Sharktober. Weather permitting, we will continue our expeditions through SF Bay Whale Watching over the next few weekends looking for turtles and sharks.
Post on Nov 02, 2011
Sanctuary for Whales, Sanctuary for Sharks
Yesterday I led another expedition out into the Gulf of the Farallones on the Outer Limits with Captain Jimmy. Primarily billed as whale watching, these trips are really about the entire ecosystem, and when I’m aboard, we talk shark, because sharks are what I love, study, advocate and protect through my non-profit Sea Stewards.
Post on Oct 26, 2011
Guadalupe Island: Protecting Sharks through Ecotourism
Last week I joined four Italian photographers, three Japanese and six Americans on a Mexican Shark watching vessel to enter underwater cages, and experience what it is like to be in the water with a Great White Shark.
Post on Oct 11, 2011
Rise Above Plastics
Plastic is forever, with virtually every piece of petroleum-based plastic ever made still in existence. That's why it's so critical to oceans and beaches that we dramatically reduce our use of plastics, especially single-use plastics.
Post on Sep 15, 2011
Clean it Up
Plastic in the ocean doesn’t go away, it just gets smaller. Approximately 70% of this plastic sinks to the bottom where it sits like a time bomb waiting to be assimilated.
Post on Sep 07, 2011
Shark Week and the State of Sharks
This week millions of viewer’s eyes will be turned to "Shark Week", the Discovery Channel's most popular program. With shows like "Top Five Eaten Alive", "Killer Sharks and Rogue Sharks", the program continues to dish up blood, teeth and fear, while perpetuating the irrational perception that sharks are killing machines.
Post on Aug 02, 2011
The State of the Ocean
The ocean is our planet’s heartbeat, and the future heartbeat for billions of humans.
Post on Jul 14, 2011
After Earth Day, Celebrate the Other 71% with World Oceans Day
It's time to celebrate our ocean with World Oceans Day.
Post on Jun 08, 2011
Report from the Philippines
Here in the field, time passes slowly but the need to explore, explain and protect natural systems like Philippine coral reef systems is urgent.
Post on May 25, 2011
ABC: Adventure, Biology and Conservation
What makes us care about wildlife so much that we dedicate years of study, a hundred hours a week of time for little pay or even recognition?
Post on May 18, 2011
Got Sharks?
What is it about sharks that inspire such controversy? Sharks make good press.
Post on Apr 13, 2011
Protecting Sharks' Marine Protected Areas and "Paper Parks"
There have been success in countries with resources to enforce and convict violators within marine protected areas, but many of these areas are in name only – "paper parks."
Post on Mar 16, 2011
Shark Fin Trade Puts Sharks At Risk
Sharks are seriously at risk in the world ocean to overfishing and the growing threat of shark finning.
Post on Feb 23, 2011
Oil and the Sanctuaries Expansion Bill
Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma, is pushing to expand marine sanctuaries and permanently ban offshore oil drilling off much of the North Coast.
Post on Jan 26, 2011
Feeling Crabby? Dungeness Crab Season Is Upon Us
Got Crabs? It's that time of year again for San Francisco’s favorite crustacean: the Dungeness crab.
Post on Nov 16, 2010
When A Sanctuary Is No Longer A Sanctuary
All is not well in our national marine sanctuaries. This summer and fall there have been at least six ship strikes on whales in the Gulf of the Farallones, the Monterey Bay and near the Channel Island National Marine Sanctuaries.
Post on Oct 20, 2010
Diving in Cordell Bank
Over the past five days I have had the incredible experience of diving on a location few have ever had the opportunity: the Cordell Bank.
Post on Oct 13, 2010
