Lunchtime Author Talk with Andrew Penniket: Whales, Snails & Lobster Tales

Join us for what will no doubt be a fascinating talk with author and underwater cameraman Andrew Penniket. He'll be discussing his recent book Whales, Snails & Lobster Tales: Memoir of an Underwater Cameraman.

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In Whales, Snails and Lobster Tales, underwater cameraman and documentary maker Andrew Penniket draws on fifty years of diving adventures across the South Seas, from witnessing the majesty of life under the Antarctic ice to being defecated on by a sperm whale in Tonga. He dances with swimming snails at Kaikōura and reveals the intimate lives of lobsters in the dead of night.

Andrew Penniket is an award-winning underwater cameraman and documentary maker whose career has spanned four decades. Since starting with TVNZ’s Natural History Unit in Dunedin, his work has featured in acclaimed international productions for many broadcasters, including BBC, National Geographic, NHNZ and Discovery Channel. Trained as a biologist, Andrew has combined extensive knowledge of marine life with an artist’s eye, developing a reputation for capturing intimate, behaviour-driven sequences that reveal both the beauty and mystery of underwater life, from the midnight rambles of lobsters to the cooperative hunting of orca tribes. His images and films have been widely used to support marine protected areas, and he is a staunch advocate for increased conservation in the sea.