About Us

Ken’s Story

Spending the summers of his youth fishing with his father and uncles on Fenit Island County Kerry where his family had lived since 1750, Ken garnered a love of the seashore, the elements and the seasons, which would become a lifelong passion for exploring the ocean and its creatures.

Although generations of Ken‘s family lived from the sea, even surviving the famine by supplementing their diet, he is enormously privileged to be the first of his people to cross that membrane from air down into the underwater world.

And what a journey that would become.

We produced our first feature documentary film, Sea Fever, in 2007. Made with zero funding, it received great critical acclaim and won multiple festival awards.

Since then we have produced six TV documentary series and multiple feature-length documentaries totalling 22 documentary films. All have been critically acclaimed and multiple-award winning.

Natural history firsts
To tell our stories from the North Atlantic, we would go where no one had been before, filming many animals and their behaviour for the first time ever.

In 2016, after 10 years of searching for the fertile areas of the Atlantic, we discovered and documented a massive gathering of basking sharks engaged in a courtship torus. It was the first time it had been filmed anywhere in the world.

We filmed humpback whales bubblenet feeding underwater for the first time ever, helping to understand this key behaviour. Our blue whale photo identification work showed the first ever three-way match of a blue whale in the Northeast Atlantic, helping to confirm migration routes. Ken filmed many other animals and behaviour for the first time in Ireland, feeding fin and Minke whales underwater, porbeagle sharks, stingrays and undulate rays.

All of this work goes toward research and conservation, helping us understand and protect these precious animals.