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Paua Divers Fear Shark Tour’s Impact

Monday, December 28, 2009 By Matt Hooper View Comments
Cage diving with great white sharks off Ledbetter Beach

A group of Southern Paua divers is concerned its members' lives are being endangered by a shark tourism operation in Foveaux Strait. The divers are worried the Great White Southern Dive Company operation will encourage shark attacks and endanger divers. The company runs caged diving trips to view sharks.They claim the company drops minced tuna into the sea to attract the sharks – a practice known as chumming – and are concerned this may modify the great whites' behaviour.Paua Management … [Read more...]

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Cage-Diving Tours Found Not To Increase Shark Risk

Saturday, May 23, 2009 By Matt Hooper View Comments
JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARBULLETIN.COM

In what seems like the opposite of common sense, The Honolulu Star Bulletin is reporting on scientists who state that there is apparently no correlation between shark cage-diving tours and an increased risk for being attacked by a shark.Check out the full story for all the details:There is no scientific evidence that Oahu North Shore cage-diving tours increase shark attack risk for recreational ocean users in near-shore waters, a two-year study of shark behavior concluded. Scientists from … [Read more...]

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Great White Shark Destroys Shark Cage

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments

UPDATE: We initially posted this video without knowledge of this dive operator's questionable record of safety and behavior. Coverage of this video by our friends at the Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks blog brings up some important points that we wanted to mention here:... For example this video is one of the primary reason the Mexican Navy enacted a ban on chumming at Isla Guadalupe in 2008. This ban affected an entire fleet of operators and shark divers from all over the planet. All … [Read more...]

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Revised Marine Sanctuary Rules Ban Farallon Shark Chumming

Friday, November 21, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
Photo of Maverick's courtesy of LA Times

By Kenneth R. Weiss, Los Angeles TimesAfter seven years of soul-searching, federal officials on Thursday agreed to allow tow-in surfing at California's most famous big-wave riding spot, known as Mavericks, as part of a major expansion of federal rules governing three marine sanctuaries.The revised rules ban chumming for great white sharks around San Francisco's Farallon Islands for thrill-seeking divers in cages and photo-snapping tourists -- rules that have long been enforced closer to shore … [Read more...]

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A Dive With Great White Sharks in Australia

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
This great white shark was snapped from the safety of a cage

Bloomberg is running the following article - it's a somewhat entertaining read. MBBy Malcolm Scott, Bloomberg NewsIn December 1963, a great white shark tore open Rodney Fox's abdomen, broke half his ribs, punctured his diaphragm and lung, and exposed the main artery to his heart. He's devoted his life to diving with sharks ever since.Fox returned to the water a year later, to film "Revenge of a Shark Victim" - where he shoots grey nurse sharks with an underwater rifle. The anger was short-lived … [Read more...]

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Shannon Doherty: Let’s Feed Her To The Sharks

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments

How is this newsworthy, you ask? It's not. At all. -MBContact Music wants you to know:Actress Shannon Doherty is terrified of returning to the sea after a shark attack.The former Beverly Hills, 90210 star went cage diving off the coast of Hawaii two years ago and "freaked out" when the sharks she hoped to see underwater appeared.She tells Details magazine, "I couldn't breathe, I started having an anxiety attack, I couldn't stay out of their reach. "They were slamming into the cage; … [Read more...]

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“My Close Encounter After a Lifelong Fear of Sharks”

Saturday, September 6, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
Tiger Shark, a ruthless killer with an appetite for flesh

One author's account of scuba diving with a ten-foot tiger shark in the Challenger Banks southwest of Bermuda.CHALLENGER BANKS, BERMUDABy: James WhitakerSharing the water with a ten-foot Tiger shark was, for me, a terrifying and exhilarating privilege.I've had a lifelong interest in sharks that straddles a fine line between fear and fascination: It was fuelled initially by movies, media and a sadistic older brother who enjoyed spoiling summer holidays by bringing books about shark … [Read more...]

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