Divers in about 90 feet of water approximately 3.5 miles off the coast of Juno Beach encountered a 12-foot great white shark on Sunday. Corey Embree, a dive instructor with Deep Six Dive Charters in Vero Beach, was able to shoot footage of the shark and posted it to his Facebook page. The shark did not appear […]
Florida boy bit by shark despite repellent band
A new Christmas gift that was meant to ward off possible shark attacks didn’t work as intended after a Fort Pierce teenager was bit off the east coast of Florida. Zack Davis, 16, was bit on the lower right arm while surfing near the at Avalon Park Beach in North Hutchison Island on Tuesday. “I have a big […]
Juvenile great white rescued by beachgoers in Venice Beach
An approximately 4.5-foot shark got a helping hand from Los Angeles beachgoers after it became stranded on the shore near a Venice Beach fishing pier in California this week. Although it can’t be identified for certain, the shark appears to be either a juvenile great white or a salmon shark, a close –yet smaller –relative […]
Rare ‘ghost shark’ caught on video for first time
Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California captured the first-ever underwater footage of pointy-nosed blue chimaeras, a rare species of”ghost sharks,” while researching deepwater valleys around the Hawaiian Islands and off the coast of Central California. It also marks the first time the species, which was first discovered in 2002 off the coast of New Zealand, had […]
Dusky shark regulations not enough according to group
The wildlife conservation group, Oceana, announced on Friday that proposed regulations meant to protect dusky shark populations off the coast of the United States are not adequate to slow the species’ plummeting numbers. Under the new plan put forth by the National Marine Fisheries Service in October, stricter fishing regulations would be put in place for anglers […]
Drone video captures orca whales feeding on shark in California
A drone videographer captured footage of a pod of orca whales, including what appears to be a mother and her calves, preying on a a large shark off the coast of California earlier this week. Photographer Slater Moore recorded the footage from his drone while on a whale watching tour with Monterey Bay Whale Watch. “These whales […]
Extremely rare nurse shark spotted in Caicos
A diver off the coast of the Turks and Caicos Islands captured video of an extremely rare creature — a nurse shark with a dotted color scheme. Diver Nate Madden said the shark’s unusual coloring was a result of leucism, a condition that causes the partial loss of pigmentation in the skin, leading to […]
Man charged after punching hammerhead shark in Florida
A fisherman in Panama City Beach was charged with harvesting a great hammerhead, a misdemeanor in Florida, by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers. Granger Ray Wooten, 21, of Lafayette, Georgia, was charged after witnesses reported seeing the man punch the shark repeatedly in its gills. “The white male had his left arm around the shark’s head and was […]
Shark’s 8,500-mile odyssey ends in North Carolina
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 […]
