5 years in the making, Minds In The Water is the story of one surfer's international journey to help protect dolphins, whales and their ocean environment. Shot on location in Australia, the Galapagos, Chile and Japan, the film captures a key moment in one person's life when apathy is no longer an option. Pro surfer Dave Rastovich went from observer to activist when he embarked on a personal mission to help stop the worldwide commercial slaughter of dolphins and whales. While unsure at first, Rasta quickly found his activist sea legs and helped build a core team of filmmakers, journalists, musicians, eco-pirates and celebrity surfers to help spread the message. All this has been documented in the film, Minds In The Water.
In surfing circles, “Rasta” is most often considered the ‘hippy guy’ who shunned the traditional competitive route to stardom despite a stellar junior career that included a World Junior Surfing Championship title. These days he is very much the freewheeling, green-thinking antithesis to the ratings hungry, competitive industry norms – a life choice that was the basis for the celebrated surf film “Blue Horizons” where Rasta’s early career trajectory was juxtaposed alongside that of the late, great three-time ASP Men’s World Champion, Andy Irons. By 2005, Rasta’s passions led him to co-found the Surfers for Cetaceans (S4C) movement. As a voice for the global surfing community, the group serves to highlight marine and coastal-related environmental issues and it was via think-tank discussions with co-founder and fellow activist, Howie Cooke that the idea for TransparentSea was born. Other highly effective S4C collaborations of which Rasta has been directly involved inc
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