Great white shark

Andy CasagrandeAmerican two-time Emmy-winning wildlife cinematographer and shark diver known for Discovery Channel's Shark Week

• Casagrande says humans are clearly not on sharks' menu because otherwise attacks would be a daily occurrence.

  “clearly we're not on the menu because if we were and sharks realized that humans were a viable prey item, there would be attacks every single day”

  Danny Jones Podcast: #430 - "Eaten Alive" Shark Week Filmmaker on Footage They Can Never Release | Andy Casagrande (Sep 11, 2026) · Listen from 2:58:34

• Casagrande says no one has documented great whites mating and that fin-mounted remote cameras are the likeliest way to capture it.

  “no one has ever documented great whites getting it on”

  Danny Jones Podcast: #430 - "Eaten Alive" Shark Week Filmmaker on Footage They Can Never Release | Andy Casagrande (Sep 11, 2026) · Listen from 2:41:58

• Casagrande argues sharks matter because they balance ocean ecosystems that supply most of the oxygen humans breathe.

  “Sharks, they're balancing the oceans, right? And without the oceans being healthy, we have less air to breathe”

  Danny Jones Podcast: #430 - "Eaten Alive" Shark Week Filmmaker on Footage They Can Never Release | Andy Casagrande (Sep 11, 2026) · Listen from 1:12:53

• Casagrande says sharks' fearsome reputation vastly exceeds their actual lethality, killing fewer than ten people a year.

  “it's like they have the best marketing team on the planet they kill less than single digits every year yet they're the biggest baddest motherfuckers monsters ever to have lived”

  Danny Jones Podcast: #430 - "Eaten Alive" Shark Week Filmmaker on Footage They Can Never Release | Andy Casagrande (Sep 11, 2026) · Listen from 1:06:52