#0045 - Elliot Sudal @acksharks - Viral Video Fame Used For Conservation

Tom Rowland Podcast

Waypoint TV

Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Elliot Sudal is also known as @acksharks on Instagram. After a video of him catching, handling and releasing a shark on Nantucket went super viral on social media and then to conventional TV, Eliot found himself on over 80 TV shows and other interviews. Along the way, Elliot has also been on reality TV surviving 8 days on a life raft, catching sharks in Louisiana and more. Today he is fishing full time and creating video content for social media and YouTube documenting his tagging activities.

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0:21.0	and the people who call it home.
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0:46.4	I forget how it happened. The captain was talking to some guy who had just heard about
0:50.8	National Geographic was casting for a show.
0:54.0	Something to do with Ocean Survival.
0:56.0	I'm like, okay, sounds cool.
0:59.2	Long story short, I ended up on the show
1:00.9	called The Raft. I was on a Life Raft for eight days, a four-person
1:05.7	life raft with two people on it for eight days, 30 miles out Puerto Rico.
1:09.9	I was the pilot episode to see if the concept was possible and like they didn't know how long
1:16.0	they were to keep the people out there they didn't know like anything about the show like they were
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