Perth Great White Sharks Tagged and Monitored

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.

Queensland Releases Terrifying Shark Net Statistics

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.

Great White Sharks Hunt Like Serial Killers

Great 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.

Interview With A Shark Expert

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 of the information and keep it safe in the File. I tracked Burgess down a couple weeks ago and he graciously agreed to answer some questions.

New Zealand Tags Great White Sharks

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 Duffy exactly where the shark’s been.

Great Whites on Display

…five great whites have died in the hands of the Monterey Bay Aquarium since 2004, when the facility began acquiring juveniles entangled in the nets of certain boats and, consequently, critics have suggested that the aquarium is doing less for wild great whites than it is for its own box office sales.

Michael Rutzen is a Total Madman

Michael 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 – to anyone who understands their body language.

Shark Versus Seal in Deadly Game

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.

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

By Lorna Edwards, The Age, Australia
Abalone 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 [...]

Daily Coast Guard patrols keep Oahu under watch

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 Advertiser
The man snorkeling in July off Kualoa Regional Park apparently didn’t see [...]

Large Numbers of Great White Sharks Found Plotting a Conspiracy

By Malcolm Holland
Port Stephens, Australia
At 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, [...]

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

By Paul Eccleston
A 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 [...]

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