Shark News - January 25, 2016

Oceanic white tip shark goes nose-to-nose with diving instructor

UPI.com

25 (UPI) -- A diving group in the Red Sea had a close encounter with an oceanic white tip shark that appeared to rub noses with the diving instructor.

 

Fishermen say they were attacked by huge shark but experts say it was hunted

The National

FUJAIRAH // Mystery surrounds how a three-metre-long shark ended up dead on a boat, with the sailor saying it leapt aboard and attacked his crew ...

Marine Wildlife Conservation: Jon Dohlin Talks Sand Tiger Sharks, Conservation Efforts And New ...

Science World Report

The New York Aquarium calls itself home to many sand tiger sharks, ... fatalities to their name, according to the Shark Attack Survivors database. In fact ...

Oldest shark pair in Europe go on show at Plymouth aquarium

Western Morning News

The National Marine Aquarium's lemon sharks have now entered the large Atlantic Ocean tank, going on public display for the first time. The pair have ...

How shark spotters protect beach-goers in South Africa

MSN.com

An organization in the Cape of Good Hope is using a special net to repel sharks from beach-goers, while preventing animals from getting tangled in it.

 

More aggressive shark encounters being reported on Maui

Hawaii News Now

On Saturday, a shark bit a visitor's stand-up paddle board near the Four Seasons Resort Maui in Wailea. Authorities said the Minnesota man and his ...

 

20ft Basking shark washed up on shores of Clyde could have been blown off course by storms

Scottish Daily Record

SCIENTISTS think the giant shark, which was discovered by walkers on the beach between Largs and Skelmorlie at the weekend, could have been ...

 

Brian Keating swims alongside La Paz's mysterious whale sharks

CBC.ca

The wildlife columnist for CBC's The Homestretch and Radio Active spent the past week swimming alongside whale sharks in the Sea of Cortez at La ...

Shark News - January 22, 2016

Great White Shark

Sharks Head Straight Home By Smell

Scientific American

Sharks that could smell headed straight back home when taken a few miles away, while some that had their sense of smell blocked took slower, more ...

Great White Shark Breaches Caught On Camera

MSN.com

DRAMATIC underwater footage captures the moment a Great White shark turns into a real-life Jaws – jumping out of the water to ravage tuna bait.

WATCH: Exploring 'Uncharted Waters' with PH whale sharks

Manila Bulletin

The ocean is a majestic and mysterious place that has yet to be fully explored by humans. At present, we have only explored less than five percent of ...

Shark surveillance to continue until Easter for North Coast

Northern Star

AERIAL surveillance will continue until Easter on the coast amid heightened concerns of recent shark activity in the area. Parliamentary Secretary for ...

Tags give insight into basing shark behaviour

BBC News

Basking sharks are the world's second biggest fish - the whale shark is the largest - and can grow to 11m (36ft) and weigh up to seven tonnes.

Queensland's second oldest surf life saving club celebrates 100 years watching over the waves

ABC Local

A fatal shark attack in 1937 that rocked the community would prove one of the ... "They loaded the shark onto the boat and brought it back to the shore ...

Shark News - January 21, 2016

Albino White Shark Pup

Confirmed: 'Albino' great white shark washes up in Australia

Earth Touch

While spending the day in Australia's Port Hacking, New South Wales local Luke Anslow happened upon a rare find. A small shark had washed up on ...

Sharks in the Spotlight at SoFo

East End Beacon

The South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center is hosting a talk with renowned shark researcher Greg Metzger, who has spent the last 13 ...

Fisherman hooks great white
The Australian (blog)

Dramatic moment shark leaps out of water to catch tuna bait

Daily Mail

Dramatic underwater footage captures the moment a Great White shark turns into a real-life Jaws ¿ jumping out of the water to ravage tuna bait.

Humewood, Pollok and Kings beaches now open after shark scare

RNews

Still, that set several residents joking on social media at how three beaches could be closed because of just a metre-long shark when in countries like ..

Video Clip of Shark Giving Birth Goes Viral

The Korea Bizwire

The clip has been shared extensively, with comments such as “It is so cool to see a shark give birth” and “So curious to see a shark giving birth for the ..

Costa Rica Will Host Important Shark Conservation Meeting

The Costa Rica Star

The Second Meeting of Signatories (MOS2) to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks will be held in the capital ...

10-foot whale shark spotted in Palm Jumeirah

gulfnews.com

“The whale shark was more than 10 feet long, and was swimming by the boats at the marina with small fish surrounding it. I was told that someone ...

Bull shark caught in Tombigbee River

Alabama Outdoor News

If you've ever fished a trotline in the Tombigbee River, you probably hoped to catch something with whiskers, not teeth. According to Alabama ...

WWF Event Seeks to Convince Malaysians to Take Sharks off Menus

Clean Malaysia

Sharks are wonderful creatures and they do not belong on a plate. That was the message of a three-day program organized by the World Wide Fund ...

Let's talk about that seven-metre great white shark in Australia

Earth Touch

Beachgoers in Australia fled the water this past weekend after a massive great white shark was spotted just off the Adelaide coast. Rumoured to be ...

Basking Sharks: Scientists uncover secrets of the gentle giants

Western Morning News

Scientists from Exeter have been using satellites to track basking sharks in a pioneering project. The three-year programme has uncovered new ...

MSC places embargo on shipments of shark-related products

MSC

MSC places embargo on shipments of shark-related products - read more at MSC. We are a world leader in global container shipping and dedicated ...

Northland fisherman's close encounter with great white shark

New Zealand Herald

As Northland fisherman Philip Wilson watched a 4m great white shark chomp into the decaying carcass of a whale, he was not fearful but in awe of the ..

Survivor of shark attack to speak in Midland

Simcoe.com

Nicole Moore survived a shark attack in 2011 and went on to write a book about the experience. She will share her story at the Midland Cultural Centre ...

Brisbane River teeming with bull sharks in summer, fisherman says

ABC Online

An avid fisherman claims summer is the best time to catch bull sharks in the Brisbane River. Rob Stevens and a group of mates have been fishing from ...

Shark News - January 17, 2015

Whale Shark


Seven-metre great white seen off SA coast

NEWS.com.au

A seven-metre great white shark has been spotted off Adelaide's coast by a helicopter patrol. The shark was seen 100 metres offshore at the Marino ...

Swimming With the World's Biggest Fish, the Whale Shark

National Geographic

Bay of La Paz, Gulf of California — Jumping into the Sea of Cortez to swim alongside a massive whale shark is like being in a National Geographic ...

Sharks Book and Activity Set Extends Educational Play

Toys & Games Magazine

Available Q1 2016, Sharks takes young readers, five years old and over, on an in-depth discovery of one of nature's most intriguing ocean predators.

Shark Sighting Mokapu Beach

Maui Now

Maui Now received reports of a shark sighting at Mokapu Beach in South Maui on Saturday morning, Jan. 16, 2016. Bystanders report that a tiger ...

Shark News - January 13, 2016

Hammerhead Shark

Great white shark's predatory behavior captured by underwater drone video

The Guardian

Great white sharks appear to use darkness and depth to ambush prey, marine biologists have learned, thanks to unprecedented footage by an ...

Citizen science: You can take part in a global sevengill shark identification project

Two Oceans Aquarium

Around the gill, eye and mouth area, sevengill sharks have a black freckling pattern, which researchers believe is unique to each animal, much like a ...

Researchers Want To "Build" Their Own 3D Shark with Beastcam

Gizmodo

He wanted to make 3D models of those sharks, which would allow him and other biologists to compare shark body shapes in detail, study how sharks ...

Around the Pier: Meet Andy Nosal, the Scripps Researcher with a Passion for Science ...

Scripps Oceanography News

However, unlike fellow beachgoers, Nosal is there to conduct research on leopard sharks, a harmless species of shark that congregates at the Shores ...

What lies beneath: Bull sharks lurk in numbers

Port Macquarie News

Solid catch: Anthony Micallef with the bull shark he and son Chris reeled in on Saturday night. A DPI spokeswoman said the species' numbers in the ...

Sharks Use Seamounts as Compass to Navigate Undersea

National Geographic

I went out to a seamount here and in what was an area the size of a small auditorium I found a huge number of hammerhead sharks, at least 500.”.

Finning Endangers Whitetips, Greens Say

Courthouse News Service

"Defenders of Wildlife is encouraged that NMFS has made this positive finding, which is the first step towards the legal protections this imperiled shark ...

Whale sharks surface on Great Barrier Reef during summer

The Cairns Post

AMAZING: A Whale shark spotted by a vessel on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Innisfail, reported to Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

Gold Coast lifeguards carry a shark on surfboard after saving its life

Daily Mail

The gold-medal-winning sprint canoer was on hand to drive the jet ski which took the shark back out to sea after Burleigh Beach lifeguards discovered ...

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority asks fishers to report whale shark sightings

ABC Online

Mr Jones said the massive sharks are known to congregate off Western Australia but less is known about the east coast population or their migration ...

Shark Bytes - March 19, 2015

Scalloped Hammerhead Shark

Shark eDNA study could be conservation 'game-changer'

BBC News

Conservationists are eagerly awaiting the results of a UK study into whether it is possible to track endangered sharks via environmental DNA (eDNA).

Bunbury's Concert for Polly to raise money for shark attack survivor

Bunbury Mail

OVERWHELMING community support will hopefully go a long way towards raising money to buy shark attack survivor Sean Pollard prosthetic arms.

Fisherman instructed to let shark go speaks

WJXT Jacksonville

The shark scare off the coast of Jacksonville Beach yesterday sent spring breakers running out of the water, but a fisherman admitted to Channel 4's ...

Shark Wars: Viral video inspires debate

WPEC

A debate is raging over these apex predators of the deep and the reality of the dangers they pose - or don't--pose after a shark almost bit off the head ...

50 thousand spiny sea urchins and a 4-metre shark

ABC Online (blog)

Volunteers monitoring a plague of black spine sea urchins recently had a brush with an inquisitive 4-metre Great White Shark. Jonathon Kendall ...

Fishing net suspected of killing whale shark near Phuket

Phuket Gazette

PHUKET: A fishing net may have caused the death of a 500-kilogram whale shark whose carcass was found near Koh Pu, off the coast of Krabi, this ...

Kayakers capture incredible footage of giant whale shark off Boca Raton

WPBF West Palm Beach

BOCA RATON, Fla. —A whale shark snuck up on fishermen Adam Fisk and Austin Collins in their kayaks near the Boca Raton inlet Monday afternoon, ...

Fisherman catches shark near swimming area

NBC2 News

Onlookers lashed out at the fisherman who battled a six-foot shark for more than an hour. He tossed his rig off the pier where he was fishing to a friend ...

First recaptures

Save Our Seas Foundation

It's been exactly three months since the end of the first sampling season at the St Joseph Atoll and now we're back to catch more juvenile sharks as ...

Tiger Shark

Ballina looks at ways to stop shark attacks

Echonetdaily

Ballina is keen to become a trial site for 'sonic mesh' technology that could help prevent further shark attacks at local beaches. Ballina's mayor David ...

Man flown to Oahu following shark attack in waters off Hapuna

West Hawaii Today

A Hawaii County Fire Department member scans the shoreline following a shark attack Wednesday in waters off Hapuna Beach State Recreation Area ...

Hawaiian surfer attacked by shark vows to protect the creatures of the deep

ABC Online

When Hawaiian Mike Coots had his right leg bitten off by a tiger shark at age 17 he had no idea he would spend his life trying to protect the creature ...

Tubbataha cameras capture hammerhead shark in park waters

GMA News

A scalloped hammerhead shark was filmed this week in the waters of Tubbataha Reef, a major biodiversity site in the country and a World Heritage ...

Shark fin scandal in Costa Rica has Solís administration on the defensive

The Tico Times

Conservationists are questioning the approval of those exports, which they say is a step backwards from previous progress on shark conservation.

PJ probe: sharks' social networks

Divernet

CROWDS OF METRE-LONG sharks lie motionless on the seafloor within gutters etched into the rocky reef. Some are piled up under overhangs, while ...

Jaws: Cape Cod Beach Resort Offers Real Life Shark Adventures

Forbes

The Cape remains an extremely popular summer vacation destination for tourists, and a gathering area for sharks, the subject of the scary movie.

With Fins Off Many Menus, A Glimmer of Hope for Sharks

Yale Environment 360

For decades, the slaughter of sharks – sought after for their fins and meat – has been staggering. But bans on finning and new attitudes in Asia toward ...

 Workshop set to surf a purpose at Amputee Surf Day

The Daily Telegraph

“Leading into the shark attack, I was a bodyboarder,” he said. ... Mr Coots, who despite his injury has become a huge advocate for shark conservation, ...

Project Oceanic Whitetip

Divernet

Unlike many species of shark, oceanic whitetips are known for their ... about sharks and shark attacks, and prepared us for rewarding encounters.

Nature: Shark Stories

Santa Barbara Independent

No matter whom you blame, be it Jaws, Shark Week, or some other Hollywood twist of the facts, there is no denying that sharks have a bad reputation.

New beginnings for shark attack widow

Wigan Today

Gemma Redmond's life was turned upside when just 10 days after her wedding to Ian he was attacked by a bull shark while snorkelling off the coast of ...

Shark Bytes - March 12, 2015

 

How to safely catch a hammerhead shark for science

Save Our Seas Foundation

The goal of this project is to use molecular tools to determine the population status of three coastal shark species facing varying levels of fishing ...

Watch a Whale Shark Feeding Up Close

Yahoo7 News

The coasts of the Filipino province of Cebu are home to many extraordinary creatures, and one tour company describes the sighting of a whale shark ...

 

Net catch proves to be bigger than boat

New Zealand Herald

Instead of a few mullet for the smoker, he discovered he'd inadvertently caught a bronze whaler shark longer than his dinghy - in just four feet of water ...

 

Montel Williams and UN hail Bahamas Shark Conservation at Cape Eleuthera Institute

thebahamasweekly.com

The marine conservation leadership of The Bahamas, which created a shark sanctuary throughout the country 4 years ago, has attracted a delegation ...

 

 

 

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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. ...

Shark Bytes - April 12, 2008

Bull Shark on fishing line.

Bullshark likely culprit for Ballina attack
Gold Coast Mail - Tweed Heads South,NSW,Australia
A 16-year-old boy killed off the NSW north coast was probably the victim of a bull shark, an expert says. The boy, from Wollongbar, west of Ballina, ...



Is Meg The Giant Shark Film Adaptation Back On?
Screen Rant - Ogden,UT,USA
... which is about one man's obsession with the legendary, prehistoric Carchadon Megalodon (aka, a 60 foot long great white shark ancestor). ...


New shark: P-168
whaleshark.org
Shark P-168 has been added to the ECOCEAN Whale Shark Photo-identification Library.


Only shark fin will do
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Last week, I decided that it was time to overcome my provincialism and take seriously The New York Times's claim that Lai Wah Heen makes the best dim sum in ...


Paul’s been face-to-face with animal planet's most dangerous
Limerick Post - Limerick,Ireland
Once, I found myself two inches away from a great white shark while filming the Shark Gordon series for Discovery. "We took a boat out to a spot near a seal ...


Shark attack victim aims at Paralympics
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
A Cape Town swimmer who lost most of his right leg in a shark attack nearly two years ago is determined to take part in the Beijing Paralympics in November. ...

Shark Bytes - April 11, 2008

Victoria Mathew comforts her son, Brock Curtis, following the death of his friend Peter Edmonds on Tuesday.
Shark attack hero appeals for privacy
The Northern Star - Lismore,New South Wales,Australia
The 16-year-old Wollongbar teenager, who on Tuesday tried to save Peter Edmonds after a shark attack, has called for the pack of national media to leave him ...


US Congress Pushes for True Shark Finning Ban
DeeperBlue.net - UK
Washington, DC, April 10 - A recent decision by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals prompted Congress to introduce the Shark Conservation Act of 2008 late ...


Shark director casts wide net
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
Stewart is devoted to the shark, and its crucial place at the top of the ocean food chain. So he's in France for one launch and talking about another - this ...


Alarm over shark hunting in Philippines
Macau Daily Times - Macau
Shark hunting in the Philippines has led to a drastic drop in the numbers of the creatures, authorities said yesterday, despite efforts to limit the ...


Daytripping with Kyle Jordan: Shark Tooth Capital of the World - (w/great news video)
Winknews.com - Fort Myers,Florida,USA
No, not sharks, but shark teeth! My photojournalist Jason Sill and I took a daytrip to the Venice beaches to check out the "Shark's Tooth Capital of the ...


Shark attack victim honoured
Gold Coast News - Molendinar,Queensland,Australia
THE surfing club of a teenager killed by a shark at Ballina will hold a minute's silence before competition tomorrow. It will be a poignant tribute before ...


New shark: P-167
whaleshark.org
Shark P-167 has been added to the ECOCEAN Whale Shark Photo-identification Library.