Profession: Wildlife Filmmaker, Underwater Cameraman
Episode: "Sloth Bear, Great White and Giant Pacific Octopus"
Encounter: Ron rescues a great white shark.

Ron Taylor — who was born under the sign of Pisces, the fish — won his first award for photography in 1962, with the Encyclopedia Britannica-Movietone newsclip "Playing With Sharks."

He won four successive open Australian spearfishing championships followed by the world individual title in 1965.

Blood from speared fish often attracts sharks, and the sharks in turn attracted Ron, who became the first man to handle and film these predators up close in their natural environment.

In 1965, he became the first person in the world to film great white sharks underwater. He did this while hanging from the fishing platform of a tuna boat. It was the beginning of a lifetime working with and filming dangerous marine creatures, especially sharks.

Ron has worked on numerous feature films, including Blue Water, White Death; Jaws; Orca; The Blue Lagoon; The Silent One; and The Island of Dr. Moreau, to name a few.

He now works to have all sharks, including the great white, protected worldwide.

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