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When ocean explorer and filmmaker Mike deGruy dies unexpectedly in an accident, his wife returns to the edit room to mak | dG1fdDR3WXNOLXYtMWM
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00:00There was a moment I felt the risk is not worth it to the families to get that phone call.
00:12He quit being scared. I don't know how he looked fear in the eye, but he did.
00:16I've been lucky enough to film sharks like this for 30 years.
00:20The problems of getting those sort of shots depended on people like Mike,
00:24and of course there weren't many people like Mike.
00:27He was an explorer because he liked to come back with the stories.
00:34It's something that nobody had ever seen before.
00:38Mike liked the deep because it was a final frontier.
00:42To me it's one of the great mysteries of the sea, why we have so neglected the ocean.
00:48When I heard on April 20th that an oil rig had exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, it got my attention.
00:54This injury to the Gulf, where he grew up, he took personally, and he wanted to do something about it.
01:01This was the footage I couldn't stop watching in the edit room.
01:04To the insane amounts of money.
01:06Because Mike had so obviously become a different guy.
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