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Crocodile Devours Bull Shark At Kakadu

Friday, June 25, 2010 By 6 Comments
Crocodile Eats Shark Near Cojo Ranch, California

In the heavyweight championship bout of the animal kingdom, a giant crocodile defeated a shark in a TKO - and then enjoyed a victory seafood dinner.Two boats full of tourists got the photo opportunity of a lifetime after the 16-foot crocodile's decisive win on a river in Australia's Kakadu National Park Saturday morning, the country's Northern Territory News reported."Nearly 100 people saw it all...and they were jumping for joy," tour guide David Cameron told the newspaper. "They said … [Read more...]

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Tiger Shark Attacks Mozambique Tourist

Friday, December 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Ponta da Ouro Beach, Post-Shark Attack Chaos

This report in from Mozambique: On Tuesday December 22, 2009 at about 2:00 PM a juvenile Tiger Shark came swimming into the bay of Ponta do Ouro and attacked a young man on holiday here who was playing in the surf with some friends on an inflatable lilo about 2 meters off shore.The skipper from Simply Scuba, Wayne, and James a staff member from Scuba Adventures were busy working in the launch area when they saw this guy come stumbling out the water bleeding heavily. They immediately rushed … [Read more...]

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Shark Savagely Annihilates Wild Coast Lifeguard

Monday, January 26, 2009 By 7 Comments

A lifeguard watched in horror as his friend was torn apart by a giant shark off Port St Johns in Port Elizabeth at the weekend.Sikhanyiso Bangilizwe, 25, of Port St Johns, was bitten in half by what is suspected to be a tiger shark while he was catching waves off Second Beach with a friend on Saturday.He was a member of the Wild Coast Guards and was off-duty. He is the second lifeguard in two years to have been killed by a shark at the Eastern Cape resort.Police station commissioner … [Read more...]

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Grisly Shark Massacre Report From Somalia

Monday, December 8, 2008 By 8 Comments
Wholesale massacre of sharks. When will it stop?

AmericanChronicle.com, discussing the pirate crisis off the shores of Somalia, writes about the atrocities being committed against the marine life in coastal Somalia. Here's an excerpt from the rather long article:"Some Somali shores became uninhabitable because some of the ships were throwing thousands of Shark carcasses into the sea after their valuable fins had been cut off. The mutilated dead bodies of these majestic sharks were coming into shore and decayed on the village … [Read more...]

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