"Sharks Icecold"

Exciting marine expedition on German Television (ARD)

On Monday, January 18, 2021 at 8:15 p.m. Christina Karliczek takes us on an exciting expedition. From the Swedish island worlds along the Norwegian fjords to the Greenland Arctic, the camerawoman accompanies various marine biologists in their work. The report will be broadcast on the first german television.

There is not much we know about sharks until today. Above all, the behavior and population sizes, but also the survival strategies of the predators always pose new riddles to us humans.

Mostly sharks are known to us rather from the temperate latitudes and the tropical areas. About the sharks of the north, we know very little. The experienced underwater camerawoman Christina Karliczek, whose specialty is diving under ice and at extreme depths, wants to change that and embarks on an exciting expedition, which will be broadcast on Monday under the name "Haie eiskalt" (Sharks Icecold) on ARD.

Across the Swedish islands  along Norway's fjords to the Greenland Arctic, Christina accompanies marine biologists in their work. Safely putting sharks into a hypnosis-like stupor by touching them, or tagging them with small satellite transmitters; the professionals, know what they are doing and help us understand the ocean predators and their important role in the marine habitat.

Christina meets spiny dogfish and catsharks. She even manages to film the bioluminescence of the black lantern shark (Etmopteridae), which sparkles blue-green due to special luminescent organs on its belly. In Greenland, Christina and her team finally come across an iceshark or also called Greenland shark. For the first time, she manages to film the fish, which is more than six meters long and can live up to 400 years.

With these breathtaking images, which can be seen on Monday on ARD, one must not forget that sharks are now threatened almost everywhere in the world. Overfishing, bycatch and climate crisis are affecting many species.  Also in Germany shark meat is still sold as "Schillerlocke" and "Sea Eel", shark liver oil can be found as Squalen in cosmetics, and with the export of shark fins the EU is still in third place on the world market.
Actually unnoticed by the public, a race against time has long since begun for some species.

These are unforgettable encounters that the underwater camerawoman Christina Karliczek shares with us in impressive film footage.