{"id":34042,"date":"2025-08-31T04:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34042\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T04:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:03:11","slug":"underwater-cameraman-ken-osullivan-we-found-basking-sharks-in-courtship-off-clare-we-couldnt-find-whales-so-i-said-heres-a-few-sharks-ill-have-a-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34042\/","title":{"rendered":"Underwater cameraman Ken O\u2019Sullivan: \u2018We found basking sharks in courtship off Clare. We couldn\u2019t find whales, so I said, here\u2019s a few sharks, I\u2019ll have a look at this\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nJust Saying\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ken O'Sullivan is at home in the ocean. Photo: George Karbus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/60169cd5-fd6f-4328-b10e-c6fa1793d576.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ken O&#8217;Sullivan is at home in the ocean. Photo: George Karbus<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ken O\u2019Sullivan is a documentary filmmaker, underwater cameraman and ocean conservationist who lives in Lahinch, Co Clare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I grew up just outside town in Ennis, Co Clare, the youngest in a family of eight. It was full of love, a wonderful upbringing. I have a huge connection to my father who came from Fenit \u00adIsland, Kerry. I spent the summers of my youth there in a kind of a \u00adHuckleberry Finn-type existence with my uncles and aunts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just Saying Ken O&#8217;Sullivan is at home in the ocean. Photo: George Karbus Ken O\u2019Sullivan is a documentary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,26596,23942,133,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-34042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-liadan-hynes","12":"tag-people-culture-magazine","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}