A mako shark caught by commercial fishermen off North Carolina traveled more than 8,500 miles after a tracking device was attached 18 months earlier, an ocean research group says. Read more: charlotteobserver
‘Walking sharks’ at greater risk of extinction than previously thought
Bizarre “walking sharks” are at a greater risk of extinction than previously thought, with new information about their distribution leading researchers to expect greater efforts to protect them from human threats such as fishing and climate change. Bamboo sharks include nine species of sharks that swim and “walk” in shallow waters around northern Australia, Papua […]
Cape Town To Employ Drones As Shark Spotters
The City of Cape Town will add camera-mounted drones to its efforts to keep swimmers at two of South Africa’s busiest beaches, Fish Hoek and Muizenberg. The remotely-operated drones will provide a live video feed of the water below which is used by shark-spotters, who can then warn swimmers about possible sightings. The drones, which will be put […]
Great White Shark Enters Cage with Divers
Two kids got a little too close to a great white shark during a recent cage diving adventure in Guadalupe Island. As the boys father noted on his Youtube posting: On a recent great white shark cage diving trip we experienced a very rare event, a shark breaching the side of the cage. What might […]
Shark After Dark Web After Show (Aug. 11, 2014)
Moments after getting his chest hair waxed into a shark shape, Josh Wolf continues to talk to 9-year-old shark activist Sean Lesniak and shark journalist Scott Butherus on the Shark After Dark Live after show. Source: Discovery
Shark nicknamed ‘Old Hitler’ is legend on Gulf
BOCA GRANDE — For decades, legendary hammerhead Old Hitler has been the subject of fishing folklore up and down the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Depending on the source, Old Hitler has a head as wide as a pickup truck, and is longer than most of the fishing boats it’s been spotted from. […]
Record hammerhead shark brings talk of legend
Just off the sandy white beaches in the aquamarine waters of Florida lurks a monster with a head as “wide as a truck” that could “eat a 200-lb tarpon in two bites.” Or, so the legend has it. Earlier this month, Port Charlotte’s Clyde “Bucky” Dennis pulled his second world-record, great hammerhead shark from the […]
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