From 2003 until 2008 Mike Gerken lived and worked in Truk Lagoon in the recreational diving business and amassed one of the largest collections of underwater video, archival film and still images ever assembled and spent four years producing this documentary on Truk Lagoon. See excerpts from the film below.
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Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, and others take a trip to the coast of Sumatra, where they find themselves surfing beautiful waves, and lose the urgency they have come to live with being professionals.
Chasing Great is an insightful portrayal that weaves Richie McCaw's life story into his final season as an All Black, revealing the determination and mental toughness of an international sporting legend who still sees himself as an 'ordinary guy' from small town New Zealand.
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For the past four years, Sugar Shack Productions has been contributing to the industry by producing high quality snowboard films.
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Wrecks of Truk Lagoon - San Francisco Maru
This is one segment from the documentary film THE WRECKS OF TRUK LAGOON that covers the fate of the famous San Francisco Maru that was sunk in Truk ...
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