Peter Verhoog teams up with his wife Georgina Wiersma. They have long worked in their company Underwater Magic, that specializes in stories and publications about life under the surface.

Per January 1st 2011, the couple has taken over the helm of the well-known Save Our Seas Foundation, a Swiss-based non-profit organisation, that specializes in the research, protection and conservation of mainly sharks and rays. Peter and Georgina are delighted they can now use their expertise for this cause! Visit Save Our Seas Foundation for more information.

In 1999 Peter Verhoog and Georgina Wiersma published their first book 'Green Seas', revealing the paradise of the Dutch seas under their green underwater sky. In 2005 'Underwater Magic, the Art' was published, a high quality photo gallery of Peter's images, for which text and design were done by Georgina. In 2010, Sharks - Close Encounters was born.

Peter and Georgina met in Egypt, along the then still deserted coast of the Red Sea, a place where they have also lived for an extended period of time, in a Bedouin tent. They also organised several special trips to Sudan, focussing on reef sharks and hammerhead sharks, to South Africa to see and photograph the breaching great whites and other special sharks, to Mexico to portray the famous Pacific manta rays and California sea lions, to Jordan to document the biotopes of the vast sea grass fields and to Thailand to take pictures of the graceful leopard sharks and silvertip sharks.

Another highly succesful project is their Wet Web Magazine, published bimonthly for Dutch and Belgian dive and nature lovers, that has 15,000 enthousiastic readers for each issue. The Magazine is a full-fledged, interactive high quality magazine, that can be downloaded for free without registration.