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EXCLUSIVE PICS OF COJO SHARK MASSACRE!!!

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 By Martin Brody View Comments
Shark Alert System - SEVERE WARNING!!!

More carnage from frightening Northern Santa Barbara County, as the devastated carcass of yet another shark attack victim washes ashore. The following picture was sent in by a dedicated Fear Beneath reader who investigated the rotting mass of flesh and found evidence of extensive Great White Shark injuries.Our dedicated readers are familiar with our on-going coverage of the Bixby and Cojo Ranches, and the prolific quantities of Great White Shark activity associated with the area.It … [Read more...]

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GREAT WHITE SHARKS TERRORIZE SANTA BARBARA

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 By Martin Brody View Comments
Great White Shark Attacks Sea Lion

UPDATE: The National Park Service has issued a warning to swimmers in the Santa Barbara Channel. Watch out for Great Whites this holiday weekend!A flurry of shocking Great White Shark activity has Santa Barbara residents staying out of the water, fearing for their very lives as a series of shark attacks and sightings have rocked this normally peaceful beach town and shaken ocean-goers to their core.Over the weekend, a badly mauled sea lion was discovered hanging from a buoy off the "family-friendly" … [Read more...]

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Graphic Carnage From Hope Ranch Beach

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 By Martin Brody View Comments
Shark Slaughter at Hope Ranch Beach

Our sincere appreciation to loyal Fear Beneath reader Mark Johnson, who emailed us these graphic images from the shark-attack-dumping-ground known to Santa Barbara locals as Hope Ranch Beach. This poor pinniped was viciously disemboweled by a Santa Barbara County shark, never to frolick in the sunny surf and sand again.The seal intestines —spilling out a cavernous hole in the pelt of this once proud and magnificent animal— depart the blubbery body, just as the tragic seal's soul departed … [Read more...]

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“I Was Lucky To Be Attacked By A Great White”

Monday, January 4, 2010 By Martin Brody View Comments
Glenn Orgias lost a hand after he was bitten by a great white shark while surfing at Bondi Beach.

'I was lucky to be attacked by a great white,'' says Glenn Orgias, who last February was dragged beneath the Bondi rollers by a 2½-metre white pointer.At 7.30 on an overcast evening, Orgias was paddling for a wave in the centre of Australia's most famous beach when he felt a tugging on his left arm. He thought it was a surfer jostling for position.''I thought another surfer had grabbed me and was trying to stop me getting the wave,'' the 34-year-old says. ''Then in a split second it all … [Read more...]

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Avoca Beach Shark Attack Survivor (Update)

Monday, December 28, 2009 By Quint View Comments
John Sojoski, Avoca Beach Shark Attack Survivor

John Sojoski will think twice when stepping on a “rock” from now on, after being bitten by a shark on Boxing Day.Mr. Sojoski, 55, of Copacabana, was teaching his visiting granddaughter Summer, 12, to surf at Avoca Beach, when he struck trouble about 11am on Saturday. “I stepped on it originally,” Mr Sojoski said.“But then when I stepped off it, it latched on straight away and it was the weirdest sensation. It was like a vice squeezing and squeezing. Then it started shaking my leg … [Read more...]

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Shark Attack Victim Probably ‘Looked Like Turtle’

Sunday, December 20, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments
Gladstone freediving champion John Pengelly

Gladstone freediving champion John Pengelly is in a stable condition in Royal Brisbane Hospital after being bitten by a three metre bull shark while diving at Lamont Reef early yesterday morning.The 19-year-old suffered deep lacerations to his wrist and lower forearm while spearfishing at the reef, 44 nautical miles east of Gladstone.After receiving treatment from medical staff on Heron Island he was flown to Rockhampton and airlifted to Brisbane for surgical assessment.Diving with fellow … [Read more...]

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Tiger Shark Mortally Wounds Rescued Dolphin

Thursday, July 30, 2009 By Matt Hooper View Comments
Tiger Shark Attack Mortally Wounds Rescued Dolphin

CLEARWATER — Blood was pooling in the water off Stephen McCulloch's boat Tuesday morning. He kept his phone call about the injured dolphin brief."We've witnessed a tiger shark attack on Dunham. He's mortally wounded," said McCulloch, a Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution director. "There may be a possibility we need to euthanize him."About 400 miles away, Kevin Walsh answered his phone at the Gulf World Marine Park. The dolphin he had helped nurse from near death for seven months now … [Read more...]

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WARNING: Shark Advisory Near Avila Beach

Thursday, July 30, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments

KSBY 6 News is reporting that a shark advisory has been issued for Port San Luis and Avila Beach.Port San Luis Harbor Patrol says at about 9 a.m. Wednesday a sea lion was found with an evident shark bite. Harbor managers say a sea lion was attacked by a shark but at this time they do not know the location of the attack.As a precaution, Harbor Patrol has posted a shark advisory sign throughout Port San Luis and Avila Beach. The signs warn folks to enter the water at their own risk and will … [Read more...]

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Headless Seal Carcass Litters Malibu Coast

Saturday, July 25, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments

The headless body of a seal washed up yesterday afternoon off of the same Malibu coast where a shark was spotted Thursday.But county lifeguard Capt. Terry Harvey said there could be no connection between the shark and the seal.“There are all kinds of carcasses that wash up,” Harvey said. “It happens often. You can’t always relate it to that.”Harvey said he hasn’t heard of another spotting of the shark, which was first sighted yesterday about a quarter-mile off the coast, which … [Read more...]

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BEWARE THE BIXBY SHARK KILL-ZONE

Thursday, March 26, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments
The notoriously shark-y coastline of the Bixby Ranch

A fearful and dedicated reader of The Fear Beneath sent in these EXCLUSIVE and graphic images from the coast of the Bixby Ranch, in Northern Santa Barbara County.The images depict the badly decomposing and scavenged carcass of a seal, common local sea life in Santa Barbara County and a favorite snack of sharks, due to the energy-rich fatty flesh of the pinniped.A gaping hole in the rotting corpse appears to have been the product of a deadly assault by California's most feared ocean predator … [Read more...]

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Disemboweled Dolphin Carnage at Hope Ranch

Sunday, February 22, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments
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The Shark Research Committee covers what appears to be a large shark attack on a dolphin in Santa Barbara waters."Hope Ranch — On February 8, 2009, Harry (last name withheld) found a dolphin carcass washed up on the beach at Hope Ranch in Santa Barbara County. The animal appeared to be a young adult. He estimated the bite at 14 – 15 inches in diameter. The wound appears to have been inflicted by a large shark, based on the size and observed tooth insertion points along the injury edge."The … [Read more...]

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Shark Attack Survivor Todd Murashige Savors ‘Second Chance’

Saturday, December 13, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
Todd Murashige hugs it out at his December 3 fundraiser

We covered the shark attack on Todd Murashige at Crouching Lion on Oahu earlier this year.By Leila Fujimori, Honolulu Star-BulletinTodd Murashige has lost his tan and shoulder-length hair. All his toes move, he's standing on his two legs and can bend his knees to a 130-degree angle.But the biggest changes in the 40-year-old Ahuimanu man since a shark chomped his right leg are the ones you can't see."Oh, we can see the change for the better," said his aunt Wilma Yonemoto. "Unfortunately, … [Read more...]

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