(dramatic music)
- Oh my god, that was crazy.
My name is Kaleb Lowy.
- And I'm Mateo Lowy.
- We have a lot of questions about the world.
How do they do sex?
How do they what?
- How do they do sex?
- Our parents say we're more than they can handle.
Kaleb, sharks don't eat humans on purpose,
they eat them by accident.
- That's literally what I just said.
- [Mom] Who wants to drive first?
- [Both] Me.
- I was the one who asked to drive first.
- [Captain] All right, pick a number between one and seven.
- He always wins.
- [Captain] Come over here.
- [Kaleb] So they basically decided
to crowd source parenting.
(shouts)
- Good job.
- [Mateo] So when we asked about sharks,
they happily put us in a cage surrounded by great whites.
- Shark!
- This is what I did to say I see a shark,
I
see
shark.
- [Mateo] Unfortunately for them, we came out of the cage
asking more questions.
So they called Dr, what's his name?
(laughs)
Let me do that again.
- [Kaleb] So they called Doctor.
- Craig O'Connell, I'm a shark conservationist.
- [Kaleb] Also known as the Shark Doctor.
(laughs)
- We run a really exciting program out here
where we're doing a lot of research to try and conserve
some of the local shark species.
So we're not only taking youth out here in the water,
but we're also working with some of the commercial fishermen
doing whatever we can to save Montauk's waters.
- How does a female shark chose which male
she wants to make a baby with?
- She doesn't really get to choose.
The males come up to the female
and they bite the fin of the female, right?
They turn that female over into tonic immobility
so the shark pretty much goes to sleep
and they mate.
- Huh?
- That's pretty crazy huh?
- And inappropriate.
In the two days we spent with Dr Craig
we learned how scientists study sharks.
- [Craig] Cool huh?
How many people get to look inside
of a shark's mouth like that?
Something else I learned while doing my research,
when you capture sharks,
they get really stressed out and sometimes
they don't survive, so we as scientists are
kind of learning new ways to capture and tag these animals
so that these animals can swim off and be happy.
- Scientists tag sharks to figure out who's who,
where they go, and how to save them.
- One more, yes, we tagged it guys!
This is the problem with sport fishing for sharks
is a lot of people don't want to deal with the animals
after they hook 'em and they just cut the line
and this animal will have a bunch of hooks
in it's mouth and it's gonna get sick from it.
So we got one hook removed,
Oh, oh, oh, it's gonna bite.
That's it, watch out guys.
- [Man] Should we let her go?
- Yeah let him go.
Healthy, happy, hookless and tagged.
- [Man] It's a beautiful thing.
- Good job,
good job.
(claps) All right.
- [Kaleb] Dr. Craig also showed us
another gadget scientists use
to study sharks called fin cams.
- [Craig] The fin cam is really cool.
It allows us to see exactly what the shark is seeing,
so we're putting them on a lot of animals.
And it lets us know how these animals survive.
If there's other sharks in the area
we'll be able to identify those sharks
and learn what's in their environment.
- [Kaleb] Fin cams are also really hard to get on a fish.
- [Man] He's coming this way.
- Ah that was close,
he's too far, keep 'em, keep 'em,
turn.
- [Mateo] Our high point of the day
was getting all the hooks out of the sharks mouth.
- [Kaleb] Our low point of the day
was something really heartbreaking,
- [Woman] What happened Mateo?
- They thought it was funny to kill someone.
A living creature.
Would you think it was funny if someone killed you
and laughed, no.
- [Kaleb] Oh they're gonna make shark fin soup, dad.
- [Dad] They're not gonna make shark fin soup.
- [Kaleb] Then why are they cutting off its fins?
Dr. Craig said that the Thresher Sharks are not endangered
but are vulnerable, like the Great Whites.
The fishermen who caught the shark were licensed
so there's nothing illegal with what they did.
- [Mateo] But it still made us sad.
(dings)
Our parents say that we are stewards of this planet,
- [Kaleb] What's a steward?
- [Mateo] Our parents are basically saying
that we're taking care of this planet.
- [Kaleb] Hmm, sounds like rain
taking care of flowers.
- [Mateo] Are you just acting for it?
- [Kaleb] No that's actually true.
Rain is a steward to flowers, (laughs)
and leaves and plants and animals.
- [Mateo] As always we end our day with a family tradition.
- [Kaleb] Of losing another camera.