As divers, we have personally witnessed the decline of the oceans and have seen sharks become increasingly rare. Sharks have become scarce even in their favorite refuges, such as Galapagos and Cocos, where predation by humans is supposed to be illegal.

When our interest in sharks grew to the point where we wanted to do something, we realized that it wasn’t as easy as it should be. There are good resources and organizations about sharks. But we couldn't readily find a path to make a difference, a central place for easy-to-digest knowledge, or tools that we could use to spread the word ourselves. Protecting sharks may be a long, hard struggle, but finding a way just to begin shouldn't be challenging and cumbersome. And, there was no global movement that we could join that welcomed our participation, outside of accepting money. We thought there should be an organization that did all of these things. And so, Shark Savers was born.

Shark Savers is a 501c3 public charity registered in New York.

• Shark Savers is open to everyone. We are creating a grass roots movement to enable people to make a difference to save the sharks, and the community for people to find each other and magnify their efforts.

• Awareness. Education. Action. We are developing programs to accomplish each of these three areas of focus. We want to create awareness around the plight of sharks, create accessible education about how diverse and interesting they are and why they are worth saving, and to create campaigns with specific goals. See the Shark Savers goals.

• Shark Savers harnesses passion. Passion is powerful when it can be channeled to a useful end. We want to help create ways for people who are passionate about sharks to put that passion into action.

• Shark Savers will make a real difference. No more petitions to nowhere. We plan on creating campaigns that have specific goals and will continually recalibrate our actions to produce measurable results.

• We can't do it alone. We will work with partner organizations wherever possible to be efficient and increase our chance of success. And, we can't do it without you.