TAKE a mesmerising journey around Ireland’s fascinating sea waters thanks to underwater film footage and scenes by the world renowned underwater cameraman Ken O’Sullivan.
His unique live show, Into the Deep comes to Lime Tree Theatre on Saturday February 3.
It is a mix of film and stories from his 18-year career, during which he also pays tribute to his family’s 250-year history on Fenit Island, Co Kerry.
Audiences will hear magical tales of Ken’s exploration of the stunning underwater world and encountering enormous whales and monstrous sharks.
Ken will show videos and give insight and backstories into what it’s like trying to navigate the North Atlantic Ocean to find and film some of the largest animals ever to have lived, including blue and fin whales.
Audiences will also hear Ken’s first-hand account of his unforgettable dive in 2016 when he was the first cameraman in the world to film and document a group of 35 thirty basking sharks engaged in a courtship ritual off the Clare coast.
Education and conservation have been at the heart of Ken’s work since 2005, long before it was popular to tell stories of damage and even devastation in natural history documentaries. He will talk about some of the great challenges facing our marine animals and habitats.
Ken comments: “I’ve been passionate all my life about the ocean, and I am really excited to be bringing my live tour around Ireland and to share the magic of the ocean with audiences.
“We have a precious natural resource on our doorstep, and it is important to preserve it and to educate people about the unique marine life that exists in our waters.”
During his career Ken has produced documentaries that tell stories from Ireland’s ocean. He also championed ocean conservation long before mainstream broadcast documentaries covered the damage within our oceans and natural world.
He has produced and filmed seventeen documentaries, including North Atlantic – The Dark Ocean which was broadcast on RTE this summer.
His work has been broadcast in 25 countries and has won awards all over the world, recently winning the Grand Prix award at the Wildlife Film Festival Rotterdam, beating BBC’s “Arctic: Our Frozen Planet”. He also worked as a cameraman for the BBC Natural History Unit.
Ken’s 2019 book “Stories from the Deep” is critically acclaimed for its lyrical writing and descriptions of nature and animal encounters.
