Shark Bytes - March 25, 2015

Cape Fur Seal eating a Blue Shark

Killer seals develop a taste for shark guts

New Scientist

It's like Jaws but, this time, the shark is on the menu. In an incident that turns the phrase "shark attack" on its head, a seal has repeatedly attacked, ...

Dead baby whale removed, but sharks remain off Maui beach

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Maui County Ocean Safety officials are warning beachgoers Tuesday about sharks feeding on a whale carcass off Kite Beach near the Kahului airport ...

How Do You Feed a Nurse Shark?

Yahoo7 News

Whilst on a trip to Xcaret, Mexico, Paulo had the chance to witness a nurse shark being fed by a handler. The man seems at ease with the entire ...

Fisheries officers investigate Albany man who caught 4m tiger shark

ABC Online

Brendon Hilder was visited by two officers this morning after media reports showed the four-metre shark he landed on Shelley Beach near Albany.

Healy residents see shark attack while vacationing in Hawaii

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

The shark attack victim recounted the attack in a news article: “The water around me was about four or five feet deep,” he said. “I was looking out to sea ...

Expert says its a great white, but boat 'attack' an accident

Northern Star

Daniel Fleming believes this same shark attacked his boat twice within six months near Pottsville. Photo: contributed by Daniel Fleming Daniel ...

Boardriders to develop new 'shark watch' site

Northern Star

MEMBERS of the community will be able to alert surfers to the presence of sharks through a new website being developed by a boardriding club.

Photo Identification of Sharks

Save Our Seas Foundation

To initially assess the two shark populations and investigate how the natural resources are partitioned between and within these species.

Bethany Hamilton to meet Palm Desert child who lost leg

The Desert Sun

On Oct. 31, 2003, Hamilton, then 13 years old, was attacked by a 14-foot tiger shark in Hawaii while surfing off Kauai's North Shore. But even though ...

Great White Sharks of Gansbaai: No hooking, no handling, no harm.

NatGeo News Watch (blog)

Several of us spent the day on an outing with Marine Dynamics out of Gansbaii to see Great White Sharks near Dyer Island. We anchored in an easy ...

Shark Bytes - March 14, 2015

The world's oceans are still vastly unexplored, with four new species found each day

TheChronicleHerald.ca (registration)

And in the last eight years, over 1,000 new ocean fish species, including 122 sharks and rays, have been added to the world's inventory of marine life, ...

 

An Afternoon Of Sharks, STEM Activities At CCCC

CapeNews.net

Oceanographer David Gallo and shark researcher Tobey Curtis will be the featured presenters at “STEM Journey: Great White Sharks to Deep Ocean ...

 

Bethany Hamilton : Shark Attack Survivor Surfing Pregnant – Picture

SportAct

The amazing Bethany already proved she's unstoppable when she realized her dream of becoming a pro-surfer after losing her arm in a shark attack ...

 

 

Shark Bytes: May 22, 2013

Divers brush with a giant tiger shark during feeding frenzy
Coffs Coast Advocate
IT'S a sight that's said to test the fear factor of even the most hardened diver. A one-tonne shadow from the deep muscling in on a shark feeding frenzy. A group of Coffs Coast divers had an amazing brush with just that - a monster tiger shark. It was ...


 'Soul surfer' Hamilton inspires New Smyrna high school students
Daytona Beach News-Journal
... Smyrna Beach Mayor Adam Barringer, and officials with the Southeast Volusia Advertising Authority presented Hamilton with a donation to her charitable organization, Friends of Bethany Hamilton, which supports shark attack survivors and other amputees.


 Gulf's sharks may get law on their side
Beaumont Enterprise
Enterprise file photo Photo: Pete Churton A bonnethead shark, the smallest of the ten hammerhead shark species, cruises by a boat with an eye on the anglers ...


 Shark Nets: South Africa's Solution to Protecting Both Swimmers and Sharks
PolicyMic
Trialled around the town of Fish Hoek, where a swimmer was seriously injured during a shark attack in 2011, the new nets are similar to those used in Hong Kong and the Seychelles, but will be removed at night. Extending from the water's surface to the ...


 Stranded 'white shark' in Venice actually a salmon shark
Pete Thomas Outdoor
Salmonshark2. A YoVenice blogger on Saturday posted two photographs showing what he identified as a baby great white shark, which he helped rescue after the shark had stranded itself on the shore in Venice, Calif. However, shark expert Chris Lowe says ...


Ban on shark 'finning' stifled in Texas Senate
KENS 5 TV
Ban on shark 'finning' stifled in Texas Senate. Ban on shark 'finning' stifled in Texas Senate. Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS. In this undated photo provided by the University of California, Davis, the dorsal fin of a great white shark is seen near San ..


Huge Great White Shark Moves From Florida To Georgia Waters
Brevard Times
The 16-foot great white shark, named Mary Lee by Ocearch researchers after being tagged off Cape Cod last September, was steadily making her way back towards the Jacksonville, Florida coast last week before making a sharp turn north toward Georgia ...

Shark Bytes - April 13, 2008

Shark attack survivor's words of advice for surfer's friends
PerthNow - Perth,WA,Australia
INSPIRATIONAL shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton yesterday urged the friends of a young bodyboarder killed this week never to lose their love of surfing ...


Shark patrols extended
ABC Online - Australia
The South Australian Government has announced it has extended the current season's aerial shark patrols until the end of April. ...


Batangas exec orders probe of shark slaughter
Inquirer.net - Philippines
By Marlon Alexander Luistro LIPA CITY, Philippines--Following last week’s warning from shark specialist Dr. Simon Oliver that the Philippines might soon ...


New shark: P-171
whaleshark.org
Shark P-171 has been added to the ECOCEAN Whale Shark Photo-identification Library.


Three die when shark-diving boat capsizes
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Chairperson of the Great White Shark Protection Foundation, Mariette Hopley, said the shark-cage diving boat had anchored just before a freak wave capsized ...


Shark men
Break4Fun
“Shark men”, he is trying to prove that sharks - does not crazy eating from the movie “Jaws”…In fact, they are joiners and substance available to anyone who understands their language.


Shark sighting off Coast beach
Sunshine Coast Daily - Queensland,Australia
The shark is believed to be well away from any flagged areas and lifeguards are just following up the report as a precaution. ...