Shark Callers in Papua New Guinea Resist Deep Seabed Mining A fight is beginning in the South Pacific as citizens of the Bismarck archipelago fight for the deep ocean Part 1: Man, shark, ocean. An old duel is fought out in the pacific - neither the scenery nor the protagonists and their weapons have changed. For hundreds of years the shark callers of the remote island New Ireland in Papua New Guinea are practising their tradition which is unique in the world: They catch sharks with songs and their bare hands. They don’t throw spears, fishing rods or nets from their outrigger canoes, instead they hum the songs of their ancestors. Lured with melodies, killed by tough manual fight. It’s all or nothing in the struggle between man and animal: food, ritual, glory, life and death. And it’s about living in harmony with the ocean which soon might be exploited by a mercenary industry. Will deep seabed mining destroy a centuries-old tradition? An unequal fight is emerging in the pacific.