World-renowned underwater cameraman to perform live show in Kilkenny

World renowned under-water cameraman and filmmaker, Ken O'Sullivan, will perform his unique live show Into The Deep, outlining his incredible adventures exploring the North Atlantic Ocean at the Watergate Theatre on March 9.

The multi-award-winning Clare native will mesmerise the audience with his magical tales of exploring the stunning underwater world of the North Atlantic Ocean and encountering enormous whales and monstrous sharks.

Ken – who is also passionate about ocean conservation - will show videos and give insight and backstories into what it’s like trying to navigate the North Atlantic Ocean to find and film some of the largest animals ever to have lived, including blue and fin whales, the largest animals ever to have lived.

The Kilkenny audience will also hear Ken’s first-hand account of his unforgettable dive in 2016 when he was the first cameraman in the world to film and document a group of 35 thirty basking sharks engaged in a courtship ritual off the Clare coast.

The live show is a mix of film and stories from Ken’s 18-year long career. He pays homage to his family’s 250-year history on Fenit Island, Co. Kerry and the ancient maritime culture.

Education and conservation have been at the heart of Ken’s work since 2005, long before it was popular to tell stories of damage and even devastation in natural history documentaries. He will talk about some of the great challenges facing our marine animals and habitats.

Ken has donated his documentaries to education, where they now feature on the secondary school exam curriculum within the Junior cycle Geography and Business Studies courses.

“I’ve been passionate all my life about the ocean and I am really excited to be bringing my live tour to Kilkenny and to share the magic of the ocean. We have a precious natural resource on our doorstep and it is important to preserve it and to educate people about the unique marine life that exists in our waters.”

During his career Ken has produced documentaries that tell stories from Ireland’s ocean. He also championed ocean conservation long before mainstream broadcast documentaries covered the damage within our oceans.

He has produced and filmed seventeen documentaries, including North Atlantic – The Dark Ocean which was broadcast on RTE this summer. His work which has been broadcast in 25 countries and has won awards all over the world and has a worked as a cameraman for the BBC Natural History Unit.Ken’s 2019 book Stories from the Deep is critically acclaimed for its lyrical writing and descriptions of nature and animal encounters, as well as Ken’s honesty about his life as a film maker.

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