A Lionfish video field produced by TISIRI's Joe Kistel for National Geographic continues to draw in a far reaching audience. The segment demonstrates how Florida is making lemonade from lemons out of the whole invasive Lionfish situation. Areas that a serving Lionfish actually becoming attractions drawing...
Read MoreGoliath Grouper National Geographic Story
The Sunday following Thanksgiving National Geographic published this story about Goliath Grouper. TISIRI's Joe Kistel was the field producer and cinematographer, Ed Kalakauskis the support diver, and Larry Davis served as base camp support. A big thanks to Collier County, Chris D'Arco, Dr. Angela Collins, and KrackONoon...
Read MoreOver 111,000 Invasive Lionfish Removed From Florida Waters
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced today that over 111,000 invasive Lionfish have been removed from Florida waters since May of 2016. Pretty awesome but it is important to note that figure is only considering documented Lionfish removals. In all likelihood many more Lionfish have...
Read MoreInvasive Lionfish Populations Increasing?
ABC/NBC news story depicting the high numbers of invasive Lionfish TISIRI Divers encountered.
Check out the full news story at the news website here.
9-9-16 Invasive Lionfish have been found offshore the coast of northeast Florida for some time now in substantial populations. However more...
Read More9-9-16 Invasive Lionfish have been found offshore the coast of northeast Florida for some time now in substantial populations. However more...
Lionfish Found in Cold Up-Welling Waters
Yesterday we embarked on a trip to deep waters off the coast of Jacksonville Florida to see if we would find Lionfish in the recent up-welling cold seafloor water temps. We traveled nearly 45 miles east of the coast and visited live bottom and artificial reef...
Read MoreLionfish Outreach and Insight Videos
Below are videos describing the invasive Lionfish situation in Florida and objectives to reduce the negative impact they are causing to regional ecosystems. All the Lionfish footage included was captured by underwater cinematographer (and TISIRI director) Joe Kistel.Aug 2016 Plague-like concentration of Lionfish encountered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFij2ABJrjwJune 7...
Read MoreLionfish Hunt, Sell, Eat… National Geographic Story
TISIRI's Joe Kistel teamed up with National Geographic to create this story regarding the overwhelming numbers of Lionfish in the northern Gulf. The segment follows the journey of the fish from being hunted all the way to the dinner plate.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQJQnm_qC14...
Read MoreTISIRI’S "Sunken Conservation" Television Broadcast
We are excited to announce that "Sunken Conservation" will begin its television broadcast debut on January 14 at 8:30 on WJCT-TV channel 7.1 and/or Comcast channels 8 & 440.
Read MoreScouting for reefs in need of servicing
Last week a team of TISIRI divers made a trip offshore Jacksonville Florida in effort to locate and verify habitat sites for an upcoming reef restoration effort. The goal was to identify reef locations that had fishing line and anchor rope entanglement hazards that could benefit from...
Read MoreNear Death Shark Found with Bullet Wound
12-12-15Today we made a very disturbing encounter at an artificial reef site known as the Casablanca. As shark was found very near death with what appeared to be a head wound caused by a bullet. Below is a brief video clip showing how the shark was...
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