The new Netflix show “All the Sharks” drew competitors from all over the world, but a member of the championship team came from La Jolla.

“All the Sharks” invited four teams of two members each to photograph sharks around the globe. The rarer the shark, the higher the point value. Points also were awarded based on the number of photos and the number of diverse species captured.

After jumping to an early lead and claiming the most points in the first two episodes, Brendan Talwar, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, and his teammate, marine biologist Chris Malinowski, kept the momentum going to the very end.

The team, known as the “Shark Docs,” outlasted the three other teams across six episodes to take home the shark-shaped trophy and

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