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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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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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Sixteen Foot Great White Shark Spotted At Streaky Bay

Monday, November 10, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
A Hungry Great White Shark... Frightening.

ADELAIDE NOWHuge sharks chasing fish and cruising off holiday beaches pose a threat to swimmers as warm weather draws sunlovers to the coast.Police in South Australia renewed warnings to swimmers at the West Coast holiday spot of Streaky Bay, where a monster great white has been seen cruising close to shore, The Advertiser reports.The five-meter (=16.4 feet -MB) shark had been seen in the water around Streaky Bay township and Little Islands for the past three weeks, police said.Today's … [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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Australian Shark Activity Incites “Expert Opinions”

Saturday, October 25, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
This magnificent beast of a bull shark is precisely what you should fear beneath.

The Tweed Daily NewsPeople should be more concerned about bull sharks in Tweed's murky rivers than great whites in the ocean, a local shark expert said yesterday.Over the past few days great whites have been caught off Rainbow Bay and Mermaid Beach, and on Sunday Snapper Rocks swimmers had to be evacuated from the surf following several shark sightings.According to Dr. Daniel Bucher, senior lecturer in marine biology and fisheries at SCU, there is no need to panic, but swimmers should … [Read more...]

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Great White Shark Fishing: Don’t Try This At Home

Friday, October 17, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
Bored? Try your hand at some Great White Shark fishing - casting from the beach!

Life's boring on a 40 kilometer stretch of coast near Boat Harbour, Australia, so some deranged Aussies have taken fishing to a new level of ridiculous, by catching Great White Sharks... from the beach.The video's a little lengthy, we'll grant you that much, but it's well worth watching and shows some ballsy - or moronic - behavior: paddling a chunk of bait into Great White Shark-infested waters.The Fear Beneath would like to remind its readers that the Great White Shark is a protected species, … [Read more...]

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Raging, Gargantuan Crocodile Terrorizes Australian Workers

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
Shooting this crocodile was a mistake - his angry, massive, brother has sworn a blood oath of revenge against Australians

Normally we leave the crocs for our kin Savage Wilderness or the always entertaining Swim At Your Own Risk, but this one is too pissed off to be ignored. Crocodiles have been dominating the animal-savagery news lately after the recent killing of Arthur Booker while camping on a river.By Peter Michael and Brian WilliamsA huge crocodile has been terrorizing road workers in the Gulf of Carpentaria after a rival male was shot and beheaded by trophy hunters. Wildlife rangers revealed the 5.8m … [Read more...]

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Unlucky Fisherman Attacked By Shark On His Own Boat

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
Geoff Johnson, bleeding profusely after winning a mini-Darwin award

Note to Fear Beneath readers: being attacked by a shark that you caught in your own boat does not make you eligible for our "Free Shark Camo for Confirmed Shark Attack Victims" compensation. As far as we're concerned, the score is Sharks: 1, Geoff Johnson: 0.By Richard ShearsFirst, the fisherman hooked the shark. Then the shark hooked the fisherman.In a bizarre case of a shark striking back at the man who caught it, fisherman Geoff Johnson lost two liters of blood in a battle with the … [Read more...]

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Aggressive Great White Shark Stalks Australian Family

Sunday, October 12, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
A picture of the actual shark that assaulted the family's boat

By David NankervisA family stalked in their boat by a great white shark off Adelaide yesterday says they feared for swimmers at a nearby beach. The massive shark – one witness said it was longer than 5m – was seen as close as 1km from the West Lakes Shore beach by boaters aboard at least three vessels between 8.30am and 11.30am yesterday.Surf Life Saving SA was alerted and water police monitored its movements.Aldgate mum Melinda Barnard was aboard an aluminium boat about 4km offshore … [Read more...]

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Surfer Shares Wave With Great White Shark in Australia!

Friday, October 3, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
Surfer Fergal Smith rides a wave off the coast of Perth, Australia, unaware he is just a few feet from a Great White Shark

PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIAThis is the adrenaline-pumping moment surfer Fergal Smith catches a 'tube' completely unaware he is sharing the wave with a Great White shark.Mr Smith, 21, from Ireland was surfing two miles off the coast of Perth in Western Australia when he found himself just a few feet from the 500-pound monster.The holidaymaker only realized his close encounter when photographer Phil Gallagher showed him the photo of the shark lurking under the water in front of Mr. Smith's … [Read more...]

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47 (White?) Sharks Spotted Around Whyalla

Friday, October 3, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
Great White Shark Breaching Water (In Whyalla?)

By Colin Faulds, Fairfax NewsA total of 47 sharks have been spotted in and around the Whyalla area since October 2005.That is, according to a report the Maritime Museum curator Paul Mazourek issued late last month. A Conservation Council of South Australia initiative, "White Sharks Count", was launched a few years ago and concentrated on the Eyre Peninsula.Mr Mazourek was approached to run the program in Whyalla."The original program lasted only a year, however, I continued for another … [Read more...]

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Missing Shark Net A “Death Trap”

Monday, September 22, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments

By Steve SpinksCURRUMBIN CREEK, AUSTRALIAA missing shark net poses a threat to surfers and swimmers after it was torn loose from Currumbin Creek, possibly by a passing whale. Tony Ham, the manager of the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries shark control program, said the 186m net had been missing since Saturday evening and the search for it had been abandoned."For us the main concern was that it could be in the surf zone," said Mr Ham. "If anyone sees the equipment in the surf … [Read more...]

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