Sam Wild while filming Season 1 of South Sea Spearos. Photo: supplied
Sam Wild is a spear fisher, underwater cameraman and commercial paua diver, who is as comfortable under the water than he is at the surface.He's part the team that makes South Seas Spearo, a series about spearfishing - season one of which has just wrapped up on Duke TV, but is available on TVNZ on demand. Sam is 28 - he grew in Mapua, catching spotties, swimming and whitebaiting with family when he could. He studied marine biology at Victoria University, which is when he started spearfishing off Wellington's south coast - often to feed the flat.
