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Perth Great White Sharks Tagged and Monitored

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments
Great White Shark Near Bixby Ranch, CA

More than 70 great white sharks have been tagged by scientists who will monitor when, where and for how long the predators linger near Perth's beaches.In a world first, great white sharks will be monitored over the summer when they move to within 500m of metropolitan beaches from Ocean Reef to Garden and Rottnest Islands where satellite receivers are installed.Surf-life saving groups, scientists and wildlife officials will be notified immediately a tagged shark moves near any one of 18 bright-yellow … [Read more...]

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Queensland Releases Terrifying Shark Net Statistics

Monday, November 30, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments
A recent spate of Tiger shark catches off Sunshine Coast beaches has triggered a warning for swimmers.

Monster catch: 4.1m (13 foot) tiger shark among state's biggest shark net catches...The Queensland State Government yesterday released its annual shark count data, revealing more than 500 specimens had been caught since the start of the year and warning beachgoers to be careful in the water.A 4.1-metre (13 foot) tiger shark was the largest shark to be caught in beach protection nets this year, demonstrating how close swimmers can come to the predators of the deep.The animal was snared … [Read more...]

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Great White Sharks Hunt Like Serial Killers

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments
Great White Sharks Hunt Like Serial Killers

By SETH BORENSTEINGreat white sharks have some things in common with human serial killers, a new study says: They don't attack at random, but stalk specific victims, lurking out of sight.The sharks hang back and observe from a not-too-close, not-too-far base, hunt strategically, and learn from previous attempts, according to a study being published online Monday in the Journal of Zoology. Researchers used a serial killer profiling method to figure out just how the fearsome ocean predator … [Read more...]

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Interview With A Shark Expert

Friday, June 19, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments

Aaron Cohen, of the Unlikely Words blog and resident of Somerville, MA, was kind enough to send in some of his recent shark-related work, including an interview with George Burgess of the International Shark Attack File. We've excerpted a bit below and linked to both parts of the interview:George Burgess is the director of the International Shark Attack File, which tracks shark attacks all over the world. If a shark bites a person somewhere on this planet, Burgess and his crew track down all … [Read more...]

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New Zealand Tags Great White Sharks

Friday, December 12, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments

Source: TV New ZealandSince the release of the movie Jaws thirty-three years ago, the Great White Shark has been a source of fascination - and fear. But it's still a species we know very little about.A Department of Conservation programme's been set up in New Zealand waters hoping to change that. Shark expert Clinton Duffy attached a tag to a great white shark six months ago to track Great White Sharks movements. When retrieved, the depth, light and temperature sensors on the tag will tell … [Read more...]

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Great Whites on Display

Friday, December 12, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
Great White Shark at Monterey Bay Aquarium

An interesting and informative article from our local paper, The Santa Barbara Independent, about the 'domestication' of the Great White Shark and the subsequent implications.By Alistair CrowleyFour Southern California great white sharks have resided on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium since 2004 — each in the Outer Bay exhibit for as long as six months before being released back into the wild.Aquarium spokespeople say the display program has benefited public perception of sharks … [Read more...]

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Michael Rutzen is a Total Madman

Friday, December 5, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments

Incredible footage of Michael Rutzen free-diving with and hitch-hiking on a Great White Shark. When we say "Total Madman," we mean it as both a compliment and as the understatement of the century.httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6trY0RdVEUMichael Rutzen plunges freely with a great white shark. Rutzen eats, sleeps, breathes and dreams of sharks and is on a one-man crusade to prove that rather than being the crazed man-eater from Jaws they are in fact sociable and approachable creatures - … [Read more...]

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Shark Versus Seal in Deadly Game

Friday, November 28, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
A Great White Shark breaching

At the Southern tip of Africa a deadly game of cat and mouse is played out over and over again in the salty waters off the fabled Cape of Storms.By Cheryl-Samantha OwenEach Southern hemisphere winter, between May and September, the infamous great white shark makes its presence felt through spectacular airborne breaches out of the inky depths around Seal Island in False Bay off South Africa's Western Cape.It is well known that at Seal Island the great white sharks patrol the breeding colonies … [Read more...]

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Tracked from above, Great White Sharks moving in less mysterious ways

Thursday, November 20, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
A Great White Shark

By Lorna Edwards, The Age, AustraliaAbalone diver John Rudge does not muck around when he enters the domain of the great white shark.When diving near seal colonies, he spends as little time as possible on the surface forming a silhouette to any great whites that might be hunting below."They are the top of the food chain to us, an absolutely brilliant predator and something to be respected," he said. Four of his industry colleagues have had encounters in Victorian waters in the past year."I … [Read more...]

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Daily Coast Guard patrols keep Oahu under watch

Thursday, November 20, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
Oahu Helicopter Shark Patrol

We're lagging behind a few days here, so this article's not as fresh as our usual catch. Thanks for your patience and all the letters of support we've been receiving from dedicated Fear Beneath readers. We always appreciate your feedback!By William Cole, Honolulu AdvertiserThe man snorkeling in July off Kualoa Regional Park apparently didn't see the bright orange Coast Guard helicopter circling overhead, or the 9-foot tiger shark cruising 100 yards away.The chopper crew was keeping an … [Read more...]

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Large Numbers of Great White Sharks Found Plotting a Conspiracy

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
A Juvenile Great White Shark Doing What It Does Best

By Malcolm HollandPort Stephens, AustraliaAt least 27 great white sharks have been discovered swimming yards off the sandy tourist beaches of Australia's Mid-North Coast, a video crew said Friday.The crew said it spotted the 10-feet-long juvenile sharks in the Port Stephens natural harbor as it was in a boat videotaping for a fishing DVD.The sharks, the world's largest known predatory fish, could grow to more than 20 feet long and weigh up to 5,000 pounds.On three other days Al … [Read more...]

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Atlantic Sharks Face Extinction Due to Over-Fishing and Shark-Finning

Monday, November 17, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
Atlantic Sharks Facing Extinction

By Paul EcclestonA new study warns that more than 25 percent of sharks in the north-east Atlantic are at risk of extinction. Another 20 percent have been put in the near-threatened category, according to research for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); and the figures may be an underestimate as there is insufficient data to assess more than a quarter – 27 percent – of species.The IUCN Shark Specialist Group (SSG) who drew up the report said it should serve as a … [Read more...]

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