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Graham Ferreira was a South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
n journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
 and film maker. After leaving school in the early sixties he was involved in many music bands but then moved on to join the South African Police Force but, dissatified with this career, he resigned and opted for journalism instead. He was for many years with the Cape Times
Cape Times

The Cape Times is an English language morning newspaper owned by Independent News and Media and published in Cape Town, South Africa. The first edition of the newspaper was published in 1876 by then editor Frederick York St Leger....
. He was always keenly interested in environmental issues and, as society "greened" in the sixties and seventies, became the first journalist in South Africa to be designated "an environmental reporter" for a major newspaper.






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Graham Ferreira was a South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
n journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
 and film maker. After leaving school in the early sixties he was involved in many music bands but then moved on to join the South African Police Force but, dissatified with this career, he resigned and opted for journalism instead. He was for many years with the Cape Times
Cape Times

The Cape Times is an English language morning newspaper owned by Independent News and Media and published in Cape Town, South Africa. The first edition of the newspaper was published in 1876 by then editor Frederick York St Leger....
. He was always keenly interested in environmental issues and, as society "greened" in the sixties and seventies, became the first journalist in South Africa to be designated "an environmental reporter" for a major newspaper. He took this role seriously and reported on issues relating to the environment and ecology
Ecology

Ecology is the science study of the distribution and Abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their nature environment ....
. This brought him into conflict with various vested interests and lead to a personal spat with the Prime Minister, P. W. Botha.

Ferriera was one of the journalists involved in the experiment that lead accidentally to the creation of the myth of the Submarine Shark in False Bay
The Submarine (shark)

The Submarine is the name given to a particularly large and aggressive great white shark that is falsely claimed to have dwelled in False Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa, during the 1970s and the 1980s....
 in the seventies.

In his early years Ferriera was a very accomplished rock climber and SCUBA diver
Scuba diving

SCUBA diving is Underwater diving, or taking part in another activity, while using a scuba set. By carrying a source of breathing gas , the scuba diver is able to stay underwater longer than with the simple breath-holding techniques used in snorkeling and free-diving, and is not hindered by air lines to a remote air source....
 and he later used his talents and his knowledge of the outdoors in southern Africa to make a number of documentary movies. Some were made on the reefs
Coral reef

Coral reefs are aragonite structures produced by living organisms. In most reefs the predominant organisms are colonial cnidarian that secrete an exoskeleton of calcium carbonate....
 of Mozambique
Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest....
 and others in the deep caves of northern Namibia
Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean coast. It shares borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south....
. The latter films included the first underwater footage shot in famous sinkholes and caves such as Harisib and Guinas.

Ferriera currently lives in Cape Town
Cape Town

Cape Town is the second most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the metropolitan municipality of the City of Cape Town. It is the provincial Capital of the Western Cape, as well as the legislature capital of South Africa, where the Parliament of South Africa and many government offices are located....
 and works as an internal communications specialist for Full Circle Communications. He has a daughter, Viki Ferreira, who currently attends Durban Girls College and is in an up and coming band called "Stealing Sevens"