Kathryn & Nicholas gave a fantastic talk on sharks with lots of amazing slides and videos of sharks. It totally changed my view of sharks and heightened everybody’s awareness as to how important sharks are to maintain a healthy, balanced marine environment

Incredibly informative and effective presentation. You could see the kids would go on to apply their new awareness to every situation involving sharks in the future…so effective and awesome for Shark conservation worldwide!

Your visit was great in that it sparked a lot of learning before, during and afterwards. The teachers and parents learned heaps too. The children’s pictures best depict their learning  as some pictures are quite detailed. The shark playground play changed immediately after you had gone from chasing each other to catch and eat to children talking about that sharks rarely kill people. You  two are doing a great job educating us here in New Zealand

Thank you very much for taking the time to come and join us at the Brighton Surf Life Saving Club last Friday evening. The feedback from those who attended has been really positive and many, including myself, now have a different respect for what previously has been a very much feared risk of swimming in our beautiful ocean.

The knowledge, experience and passion that you both obviously have for these amazing animals is so obvious and your willingness to share that with us in such an informative manner is to be acknowledged.

They were very interactive with the kids and really valued their questions (and statements!). They used lots of great visuals and were very passionate about their subject. We really appreciated the way they differentiated the presentation for the different age groups. I learned heaps from them and will think differently about sharks in the future!

Thanks Nick and Kathryn. I really enjoyed the way you conveyed facts…e.g. with having visuals, putting numbers up and asking children for the question, striding out the length of sharks. Lots of questioning and involvement from the audience. The kids in my class really enjoyed it and so did I. It initiated lots of conversation in my class afterwards. Thanks and all the best!

Thank you so much for the awesome presentation, Kathryn and Nick! It was VERY informative and age-appropriate as well so the children learned a lot and so did I. I loved the way that you asked the children a lot of questions making them think about it and you valued all the questions and answers from children. You are doing a fantastic job making a difference and I believe it works!

Thank you Kathryn and Nick…what a fabulous presentation. So informative and well paced. You kept the children interested and involved. My class were so enthusiastic about the knowledge they gained and lots of follow up discussion occurred.

On behalf of our Looe Marine Conservation Group volunteers, I’d like to thank you once again for generously giving up your time to visit us here in Looe. The feedback has been fantastic and we were so pleased to have a good attendance on the night. Events like these help to enhance our profile locally and certain topics are guaranteed to generate more interest than others ! but it all goes toward getting more people involved in marine conservation efforts so thank you for the contribution you made to bringing in a large audience! Have a great time on your travels, good luck, good health, good fortune. And remember to book us in for the post return talk!

Thanks again for coming yesterday, all the teachers and students enjoyed your presentation and found the information you shared both valuable and interesting! Happy travels and best of luck in your endeavours to help spread the word and create more people in the world that are Friends for Sharks

In February 2015, Kathryn and Nicholas gave a talk at The Natural History Museum, London. The talk was part of the Life Sciences Seminar Series, and the audience was the NHM researchers, curators and volunteers. Kathryn and Nicholas are passionate and engaging presenters, and their enthusiasm for wild life is infectious. I hope they will be able to visit the Museum again soon and give a public talk this time around. Meanwhile I wish them all the best with their World Tour!

Thanks for coming to our school today (Ao Tawhiti – Discovery campus). I was gutted not to stay for the whole thing – I had to go get my parents from the airport. As a lifelong shark-phobic, your story was almost beginning to get me to change my mind. I love your passion, it makes your talk very genuine and engaging. My two girls were FULL of shark facts this afternoon. Incidentally, my parents, fresh from a stint in the Galapagos Islands, had recently had a ‘shark talk’ too and the four of them were trading stories about how “nice sharks were really” – there are other people out there singing your song too which is good to know. Enjoy the rest of your tour and particularly the NZ bit (it’s as beautiful here as Cornwall, but with less people).

We were all fascinated and blown away by just how much knowledge and passion you shared