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Terrifying Incident With “Submarine-Like” Great White

Monday, January 4, 2010 By Quint View Comments
Surfer Russell Specht has survived a terrifying face-to-face encounter with a monster great white shark

Veteran surfer Russell Specht has survived a terrifying face-to-face encounter with a monster great white shark stalking North Stradbroke Island.The 52-year-old surfer, local lifesavers and island boardriders fear the huge man-eater was responsible for the horrifying shark-on-shark attack off the island, east of Brisbane, which The Sunday Mail featured in graphic photographs in late October.The smaller 3m white pointer, snared on a baited drumline set off North Stradbroke's busy Cylinder … [Read more...]

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Close Encounter With A Tiger Shark

Monday, January 4, 2010 By Matt Hooper View Comments
Michelle Adamson Narrowly Avoided Becoming Shark Food

Michelle Adamson swam within three metres of a tiger shark and lived to tell the tale. The Telina resident encountered the deadly animal while snorkelling with husband Mark off Heron Island at the weekend.The shark did not attack her, and Ms Adamson said she only became aware of how close she was to the shark once she was out of the water. “There were people yelling at us to get out of the water, and I couldn’t hear because my head was under,” she said.“But when I stuck my head up, … [Read more...]

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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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Is El Niño Behind California Great White Shark Sightings?

Monday, August 3, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments
Great White Sharks Hunt Like Serial Killers

There's been a lot of Great White Shark activity in Southern California lately... sightings and video footage in Malibu, fly-fishing in San Diego, sightings in Northern Santa Barbara County, and more. To what can we attribute this sharp uptick in Great White Shark activity here in So Cal? How about El Niño?!NOAA's analysis of El Niño indicates that we can expect this cyclical phenomenon to appear this winter - "Synopsis: El Niño conditions will continue to develop and are expected to last … [Read more...]

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Australian Surfer Rattled by Shark Collision

Friday, July 31, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments
A teenage surfer has escaped with superficial cuts and a ripped wetsuit after being knocked from his board by a shark

A teenage surfer has escaped with superficial cuts and a ripped wetsuit after being knocked from his board by a shark on the New South Wales north coast.The boy, named in media reports as 14-year-old local Zac Skyring, was out for an early surf off Broken Head, just south of Byron Bay, when he was knocked off his board just after 6am (AEST) today.He was reportedly thrown into the air by the impact of the shark, which punctured his wetsuit, but later went to school.Witness Neil Cameron … [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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Malibu Great White Shark Video Footage

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 By Matt Hooper View Comments

From Surfline, video courtesy of Oglevision.com.Thursday, July 23rd saw the beginnings of a pumping south swell -- and a white shark spotted about 300 yards off Malibu. This is on the heels of many sightings at both San O and Sunset Beach in LA.Says shark expert Ralph Collier: "Although it would appear that there is an increase in the number of shark encounters, this could be an artifact of simply more individuals reporting observations and not necessarily an increase in the shark/ocean user … [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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Men Dragging Shark Through Miami Caught on Tape

Thursday, July 23, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments
Shark Abandoned in Miami Street

The body of a shark was left lying in the middle of a downtown Miami street after two men tried to sell it to several fish markets. Surveillance video caught the men dragging the five or six-foot-long animal around town.httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3wcdIoJD0M … [Read more...]

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Reader Alert: Sunset Beach Shark Breach

Saturday, July 18, 2009 By Matt Hooper View Comments

Fear Beneath reader Kim Welsh posted an informational alert this morning that we thought we'd share..."I saw a shark breach southwest of the point at Sunset this morning around 650amThe shark came completely out of the water and turned on its back so I coudl see its white bellly and dark gray back, The shark appeared to be about 5-6 feet in length.This is my 2nd sighting in 10 days at Sunset. I have been surfing in LA for 14 years and have never seen this!" … [Read more...]

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Stand-Up Paddle Surfers: Irresistible Shark Attack Victims?

Saturday, May 2, 2009 By Martin Brody View Comments
Stand-Up Paddle Surfers: Potential Shark Attack Victims?

The recent influx of clueless kooks standing up on small cruise-liners in many local lineups is part of the awful agony of the new stand-up paddle surfing trend, the pain felt especially bad in Southern California.This article, published a couple months ago (yeah, we're lazy) over at MyLocalLineup.Com seems to issue a warning; stand-up paddle surfers represent a delicious new source of victims for the great white shark, also known as ... The Fear Beneath.'Stand-up paddle (SUP) surfers reported … [Read more...]

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