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Monday, May 30, 2016

Shark News - May 30, 2016



Tiger Shark Killed While Being Tracked For An International Study
Australian Tiger shark Maroochy was caught and killed on a drum line in ... "The aim of the program is to reduce the possibility of shark attack for ...

How technology could help prevent shark attacks
CHATHAM, Mass. -- From drones and smartphone apps to old-school flags and signs, a growing great white shark population along the East Coast ...

Lifeguards Shorten OC Beach Closure Following Great White Shark Attack
NEWPORT BEACH (CBSLA.com) — Lifeguards reopened a stretch of beach Monday morning following a shark attack that occurred off the coast of ...


Hunting The Hammerhead (Nat Geo 2015) Click screen for fullscreen!
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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Shark News - May 29, 2016


Great White Shark

Breaking: Woman reportedly bitten by great white shark in Southern California
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O.C. beach evacuated after woman injured in possible shark attack
LA Time


How to win a fight with a shark
See a shark and think it's about to attack? Act "big," because sharks respect size and strength, says shark expert George Burgess, director of the ...

All sharks are not alike: A new study shows unique personality differences
Sharks have personalities, too. A group of researchers at Australia's Macquarie University department of biological sciences found that the behavior of ...

Why shark attacks could be on the rise around the world
The International Shark Attack File, the longest running database on worldwide shark attacks, said it investigated 164 reports in 2015. The group ...

Warning to swimmers and dog-owners after pet pooch seriously injured in shark attack at The Spit
A DOG owner has warned of potentially deadly sharks cruising The Spit after ... Shorn's vet said the only explanation for his injury was a shark attack.

Survivor of WWII Shipwreck in Shark-Infested Waters Among Speakers at Veterans Memorial ...
... who sank the Indianapolis, and Alexes Shuman, the daughter of the pilot who eventually rescued the survivors in the midst of a deadly shark attack.

Our Local Sharks Prefer Seafood
But except for the famous 1916 attacks off Beach Haven and in the Manasquan River, no other mortal shark attacks have been recorded in New ...

State expert: The great white sharks haven't arrived in force — yet
But it doesn't mark the beginning of great white shark season. State marine ... The last fatal shark attack in Massachusetts was in 1936. In 2012, a ...

OCEARCH to partner with NC Aquarium, UNCW on shark expedition
WILMINGTON -- Shark research nonprofit OCEARCH will partner with the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher and the University of North Carolina ...

Banned From Some Indonesian Waters, Shark Fishers Simply Move Elsewhere
Each year, millions of sharks are killed in Indonesian waters, home to the world's largest shark fishery. Over the past decade, conservation groups and ...

Stunning Beach in Brazil Has Highest Rate of Shark Attacks in the World
The beaches in Recife Brazil are known to be one of the most shark infested beaches in the world. In 2012, there are 56 recorded fatal attacks in a ...

Shark bite victims talks about recovery
LAKE MARY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - It has been six months since a Colorado tourist who was visiting Florida was attacked by a shark off Cocoa Beach.

Person injured in possible shark attack, Corona del Mar State Beach waters closed
NEWPORT BEACH – A person was transported by ambulance Sunday afternoon to an area hospital following a possible shark attack in Newport ...

Young teenage boy bit by shark at Neptune Beach
This is the first shark bite to happen at Neptune Beach this year, but this news comes during a time where concerns for beach goers are high. Recently ...


Basking Shark dwarfs surfer
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Shark Bytes - March 10, 2015



An eye on Mackay
Now, there's a shark sharing the name. Following a visit to Mackay State High School last month by OCEARCH researchers, a newly tagged female ...
Paul has fun jaw-dropping experience for good cause
The Darras Hall resident joined a few others from across the country, who were also taking part in the shark dive at the Blue Planet Aquarium to ...
Hammerhead shark wants diver's food
A dramatic video has emerged of a hammerhead shark trying to attack a diver in the Bahamas. In the footage,...
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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Shark Bytes - January 10, 2013

Embryonic Sharks Freeze to Avoid Detection Although shark pups are born with all the equipment they'll ever need to defend themselves and hunt down food, developing embryos still stuck in their egg cases are vulnerable to predators. But a new study finds that even these baby sharks can ...

Mary Lee the great white shark cruising off Fernandina Beach Mary Lee, the giant great white shark, is still in the neighborhood -- she was some 18 miles off of Fernandina Beach at 9:50 Thursday morning, on a track that was taking her to the northeast. Though no one knows where she'll go next, one thing's for ...

Great White shark getting comfortable with NE Florida coastline JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. -- The great white shark nicknamed Mary Lee is getting pretty comfortable swimming around in our warm waters. Mary Lee, who measures 16 feet and weighs 3,456 pounds, has a GPS-tracking device attached to her dorsal fin ...

Sharks Tagged Off Cape Cod Tracked To Florida OCEARCH researchers tagged Mary Lee and Genie in September. Scientists just tracked the Great Whites to Florida. Mary Lee is a 16-foot 3,400 pound Great White shark and late Monday night she was 200 yards off Jacksonville Beach. Police asked people ...

Two great whites spotted near Jacksonville Nearly four months after she was tagged with a tracking device in Cape Cod, Mary Lee, a great white shark, was spotted in the surf off Jacksonville Beach on Tuesday and is now less than 10 miles offshore. OCEARCH, a non-profit ocean research company, ...

Conservationists welcome fake shark fin trade Fengtai Administration of Industry and Commerce launched an investigation Wednesday into shark fins after media reports that fake shark fins were being sold in seafood markets. However, as opposed to many fake food scandals in China, experts have said ...

Lifeguards on shark watch TASMANIAN surf lifesavers are on standby for aerial shark patrols, as record numbers of Tasmanians head to the state's most popular beaches. Surf Life Saving Tasmania general manager Tony van den Enden said a number of members had light aircraft ...

Shark kill order a wildlife threat The first order to catch and kill a shark off WA's south west coast could pose a serious threat to other endangered species, according to the Conservation Council. 09/01/13. Sharks caught in catch and kill order. More revealed ...

Shark fin soup a potentially dangerous delicacy Zhejiang authorities found many shark fins sold in the market are artificial products and some contain excessive levels of cadmium, a toxic metal. The industry and commerce department in Zhejiang province conducted a check of shark fin soup, a popular ...

Basking shark's incredible 3000-mile journey A basking shark has shocked experts by making an amazing 3000-mile journey from Ireland to Africa. The 5m/16' long female shark named Banda, was one of five tagged by the Irish Basking Shark Study Group last July, while she was feeding in waters off ...

White shark hunted Drumlines have been baited to catch the shark that has been menacing beaches around Dunsborough, including Meelup, Bunker Bay and Eagle Bay. Fisheries' regional manager Tony Cappelutti said the plan to catch and kill the shark was in response to the ...

OPINION: Majesty and man-eater myth Sharks have been part of our oceans for around 400 million years and today there are more than 500 different species inhabiting the world's oceans, estuaries and freshwater systems. The most recent authoritative text, Australian Sharks and Rays (2009 ...

Sharks caught in catch and kill order Lines which have large hooks on and are anchored in the water were initially set on Sunday catch a shark or sharks which have been seen repeatedly off beaches in Dunsborough. Multiple sightings of a great white shark about three to four metres have ...

Surfers' relief as monster tiger shark caught off Yaroomba A MONSTER tiger shark that has been spooking surfers on the Sunshine Coast has been caught a few hundred metres from shore. The 4.72m giant was reeled in from a drumline off Yaroomba near Coolum Beach. Shark catcher Paddy Dimond, doing his ...

Fears over large tiger shark at Noosa after surfer sightings Local surfers fear a large tiger shark has adopted the bays of the Noosa National Park as part of its territory after two confirmed late-afternoon sightings in the past week. ...

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Monday, December 24, 2012

Shark Bytes - December 24, 2012

Basking Shark

Basking sharks leave Irish waters in search of winter sun

Scarborough, Trigg open again after shark scare

WA ocean heatwave linked to shark attacks

No 'smoking gun' in cluster of shark attacks

Great white encounter for Wellington fishermen

Kapiti fishermen's great white shark run-in

Great White Shark
New hunting ground for great white, the Taraniki Terror

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