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Aug 15, 2017 · Rob Stewart, the Canadian filmmaker who became famous for his documentary “Sharkwater,” died while filming “Sharkwater Extinction” at the Queen of Nassau wreck off the coast of Islamorada. Stewart, 37, was diving to 229 feet (70 m) on his third dive of the day.
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At 37, Stewart was in the prime of his life as an activist and filmmaker, and he died in what seemed a senseless diving accident. Media reports suggested that diving neophyte Stewart was...
Nov 12, 2021 · Rob Stewart, the Canadian conservationist and filmmaker renowned worldwide for his documentary Sharkwater, about the illegal shark finning trade, died through drowning as a result of hypoxia (a lack of oxygen), according to autopsy results.
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Quite recently, two defense documents were filed in the Stewart case that offer information about Stewart’s qualifications as a technical diver. It turns out that, far from being a neophyte, he held multiple technical certifications at an instructor level from Technical Divers International (TDI.) Certifications included Draeger Dolphin rebreather ...
Critics have counterargued that Stewart’s experience was related to open-circuit diving, not rebreathers. While that’s a valid argument, Stewart did have nearly 50 dives and a year of training on his rEvo rebreather unit, and much of the deep-diving theory is the same regardless of what apparatus a diver uses. Appreciating the risks of decompressio...
These latest documents also allege that Stewart did not disclose a preexisting medical condition — a predisposition to black out. He talks about it in his book “Save the Humans” but, according to a court filing by Sotis, never mentioned it in his medical release when he began training. According to the court filing, “Robert Stewart, either in whole...
Oct 22, 2018 · Rob Stewart, the charismatic Canadian filmmaker and conservationist behind “Sharkwater,” died tragically in a diving accident in the Florida Keys in 2017. But what really happened that day?
Aug 9, 2017 · The local medical examiner for the Florida county where Rob Stewart died this past February has determined the filmmaker and conservationist came up for air too quickly after a deep dive, suffered hypoxia at the surface and subsequently drowned.
Feb 3, 2017 · What Happened to Rob Stewart? The director of the acclaimed documentary 'Sharkwater' disappeared mysteriously after a deep dive off the coast of Key Largo on Tuesday. For 72 hours, crews scoured...
