Shark Bytes - March 29, 2008

Shark jumps into boat full of children
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
By Rebecca Milne A shark jumped into a boat, terrifying the four children and two fishermen aboard, near Waiheke Island last week. The 1.5m thresher shark ...


Hunt on to preserve shark numbers
NEWS.com.au - Australia
SHARK researcher Adam Smith is on a mission – to change the public perception of sharks and get a more accurate picture of the number of the predators ...


It's the hunting of the shark...
Portsmouth News - Portsmouth,England,UK
A family fun day hunting for shark egg cases has been organised at Pagham Harbour, near Bognor Regis. The cases are common in the harbour. ...



Beachgoers abuzz about sharks
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Rumors of great white shark sightings along the Southern California coast in recent weeks are the buzz of the beach, leaving a few surfers spooked. ...



Shark Dive Part Deux
By tcpatton
I finally got my shark dive video uploaded to Google Video. It just gets cooler every time I watch it, and it really makes me look forward to going diving again this summer. Rather than send you chasing across the blog, ...


Expedition Shark blog!
By WENDEE HOLTCAMP
You can follow my adventures in Australia's Coral Sea as I blog live for Discovery Channel on shark research being filmed for Discovery's 2008 Shark Week program Expedition Shark, along with underwater photographer Cat Gennaro. ...


OC Lifeguards Say Shark Story Hoax, Expert Disagrees
KNBC.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Orange County lifeguards said Friday that they have no plans to close the beach based on online reports of a great white shark attack off Huntington Beach ...

Dangerous shores for Jaws

Dangerous shores for Jaws
Olive Press - Orgiva,Granada,Spain
Once bitten, not exactly shy, the world’s most famous shark attack survivor tells BOB MADDOX why we must embrace the fearsome predator… or risk losing the oceans themselves. ...

Shark Bytes - March 28, 2008

Swimming with sharks: is it ever safe?
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida records, on average, fewer than 200 attacks a year worldwide, of which less than five per ...



An Insider's Perspective on Sharks
Washington Post - United States
See a sand tiger shark and more on a behind-the-scenes tour at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. (National Aquarium In Baltimore) Comments that include ...


The shark rides again
ABC Online - Australia
By Matt Wordsworth I don't want to start sounding like The Shark Files after our story on the massive bull shark but there is another big tale under the ...

Snorkeling Teen Finds Shark Tooth
The Associated Press
PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) — David Wentz was snorkeling off Marysville Beach in the St. Clair River last August when what he thought was an odd-looking rock ...

Shark Bytes - March 26, 2008

Something Personal
The Smart Set - Philadelphia,PA,USA
“But a great white shark patrols those waters,” I tell them. I had seen the shark story in the Cape Cod Times upon our arrival at the cheap motel at Orleans ...




Robben Island: Where Nelson Mandela was held prisoner for nearly 20 years.
Swimmers brave Robben Island swim
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Accomplished swimmer Achmat Hassiem - who qualified for the Beijing Paralympics later this year - and who lost part of his right leg in a shark attack in ...

Shark Bytes - March 25, 2008

Lauren Smith studied dogfish, a type of small shark.

Sharks 'may predict the storms'
BBC News, UK
Lauren Smith, 24, is close to completing her PhD studies into the pressure-sensing abilities of sharks. If her studies prove the theory, scientists in future could monitor the behaviour of sharks to anticipate severe weather fronts. ...

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Shark Bytes - March 24, 2008

44 Days Of Freedom Took A Young Great White Shark South Of Baja
eFluxMedia - USA
By Dee Chisamera One month and a half after the Monterey Bay Aquarium released a young specimen of great white shark into the ocean, they reported its ...


Great white shark speeds south
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
A GREAT white shark released from the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California six weeks ago has already swum past the southern tip of Mexico's Baja Peninsula ...



Released Great White Shark Makes Incredible Progress
dBTechno - Boston,MA,USA
Washington (dbTechno) - The great white shark that was released from the Monterey Bay Aquarium in February definitely knew what it meant to swim and don’t ...



Blue Planet Aquarium becomes home to world's deadliest fish
Wrexham Leader - Wrexham,Wales,UK
Stonefish are believed by many to be the deadliest fish in the world, and they are set to provide a rival to the sand tiger shark for the title of most ...



Films take break from believability
UW Badger Herald - Madison,WI,USA
There’s a shark attack… during spring break! That’s really all there is to the made-for-TV film which cleverly adapts the archetypal shark scare concept made ...

Shark Bytes - March 23, 2008

Pedro's Perils and Pearls: Dangerous waters - Sharks and more at Pedro Banks
Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica
"Wi used to dive together and is him save mi when some shark attack mi," Rose tells The Sunday Gleaner. The attack he describes is similar to Blackwood's ...


Released by aquarium, baby Great White Hustles to Mexico
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
(03-22) 19:30 PDT -- One of California's best wildlife stories of the year, tracking the coastal adventures of a young great white shark, took a stunning ...

Shark Bytes - March 20, 2008

Monterey Researchers Track Freed Great White Shark
CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
MONTEREY (BCN) ― The white shark released back into the wild in early February by the Monterey Bay Aquarium has already traveled past the southern tip of ...

Great White Shark Released In Monterey Swims To Cabo
SFist - San Francisco,CA,USA
But as luck would have it, a recently released great white shark made its way from the Monterey Bay Aquarium to the warm waters just south of Baja. ...

Aquarium's freed great white swims past Baja
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
(03-20) 12:38 PDT MONTEREY -- A great white shark that was released from the Monterey Bay Aquarium in February is now south of Baja, the aquarium said today ...


Monterey Aquarium Great White Makes It To Baja
NBC Sandiego.com - San Diego,CA,USA
The great white shark that was once on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium made it to the Baja peninsula in a third of the time it took its predecessors, ...

Shark Bytes - March 17, 2008

5 fishermen, 2 plumbers and a jogger land shark
Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
But Bill Athanasslies' catch near Point Lonsdale pier on Tuesday — a 250-kilogram, three-metre-long bronze whaler shark — was too toxic for human ...


Boy, 8, may have been bitten by shark
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA
The most recent shark attack in Lee County was July 1, 2005, when a young Austrian tourist was bitten on the right ankle.


Defending the Wild
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
Floating in the ocean and watching a large bull shark swim towards you with its back arched is to be in the wild; where you are not the centre of the world ...


We're not going to need a bigger boat
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA
Quite a whopper of a fish tale is landing in inboxes around Maryland about a great white shark caught in the Chesapeake Bay. Before you get all panicky, ...


In-form Fitzgibbons faces shark survivor Hamilton
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
By Amanda Lulham AUSTRALIAN junior world surfing champion Sally Fitzgibbons will tackle shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton of Hawaii in today's ...



Brisbane River shark's death sparks debate
NEWS.com.au - Australia
The University of Florida international shark attack file recorded just four deaths from sharks world-wide in 2006. Mr Gorrie agreed, saying the shark's ...


Encourage shark shield use: deputy coroner
ABC Regional Online - Australia
Jarrod Stehbens, 23, was scuba diving, collecting cuttlefish eggs for a research project, when he was taken by a great white shark in the Gulf of St Vincent ...



Great White Shark stroked by scientist: Photo
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
It is the moment a scientist patted a ferocious Great White Shark that burst out of the water alongside his boat off the coast of Australia. ...


Shark shield 'may not have saved diver'
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... eggs as part of a research project at Adelaide University when he was attacked without warning by what is believed to have been a Great White shark. ...


Shark caught off Latsi
Cyprus Mail - Nicosia,Cyprus
Last August, British tabloids had claimed that a Great White Shark was causing panic and chaos on the beaches of Larnaca, but the Cyprus Tourist ...


Dolphin leads whales out of hot water
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... Chinese invaders. ound themselves confronted by a great white shark off the coast of New Zealand claimed they survived thanks only to a pod of dolphins. ...


Under the Sea at the Aquarium of the Pacific
Valley Star (subscription) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
If you want to touch any of nine types of sharks, like the bull shark and the sand tiger shark, visit the Shark Lagoon, part of the outdoor explorer cove ...


Sharks' demise unsettling
Brunswick News - GA, United States
"It all started with 'Jaws'," she said, recalling the 1975 fictional movie about a great white shark that attacked swimmers and boaters. ...



Ancient giant's tooth found
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
A ranger on the island told him it belonged to a megalodon, a huge, extinct relative of the great white shark. "It's probably been on the beach for a few ...


YouTube video of great white shark death helps feds reel in fines
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
Witness the case against a Fort Lauderdale charter captain and his mate, who were cited for killing a great white shark caught by one of their customers. ...