{"id":87906,"date":"2017-02-04T01:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T06:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=87906"},"modified":"2017-02-04T01:05:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T06:05:28","slug":"family-confirms-toronto-filmmaker-rob-stewart-dead-after-dive-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/04\/family-confirms-toronto-filmmaker-rob-stewart-dead-after-dive-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Family confirms Toronto filmmaker Rob Stewart dead after dive in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The family of Toronto filmmaker Rob Stewart says his body was \u201cfound peacefully in the ocean” Friday after he disappeared this week while diving off the coast of Florida. (Photo: Rob Stewart\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ISLAMORADA, Fla.\u2014The family of Toronto filmmaker Rob Stewart says his body was “found peacefully in the ocean” Friday after he disappeared this week while diving off the coast of Florida.<\/p>\n

A Facebook post by Stewart’s sister Alexandra asked for privacy in order to grieve.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no words,\u201d the post said. \u201cWe are so deeply grateful to everyone who helped search, and happy that Rob passed while doing what he loved.\u201d<\/p>\n

His death was also confirmed by a publicist for the director.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Coast Guard said a body was found Friday about 90 metres from where Stewart, 37, was last seen. It did not immediately confirm whether the body discovered was Stewart’s.<\/p>\n

Stewart was last seen Tuesday when he had just returned to the surface after a dive about 70 metres down near Alligator Reef in the Florida Keys.<\/p>\n

Stewart’s diving partner lost consciousness as he got into the dive boat, his sister previously told The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n

Coast guard Capt. Jeffrey Janszen said as others tended to that man and gave him oxygen, Stewart disappeared, and his family believes Stewart may have lost consciousness as well.<\/p>\n

The boat quickly called for help and the U.S. Coast Guard responded.<\/p>\n

Stewart was in Florida filming a follow-up movie to his 2006 documentary \u201cSharkwater” called “Sharkwater Extinction,” said his sister.<\/p>\n

He was also known for his documentaries including “Revolution” and his memoir \u201cSave the Humans.\u201d<\/p>\n

He devoted his career to warning the world about threats facing sharks, other ocean life and humanity in general.<\/p>\n

\u201cSharkwater,\u201d which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, became an international hit and prompted people around the world to lobby their governments for bans on shark finning.<\/p>\n

Stewart said he and his colleagues risked their lives to make the film: they visited a Costa Rican warehouse that trafficked in illegal shark fin and confronted poachers on the high seas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis century we’re facing some pretty catastrophic consequences of our actions,\u201d he said in a 2012 interview with The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re facing a world by 2050 that has no fish, no reefs, no rainforest, and nine billion people on a planet that already can’t sustain seven billion people. So it’s going to be a really dramatic century unless we do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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