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GREAT WHITE SHARKS TERRORIZE SANTA BARBARA

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 By Martin Brody View Comments
Great White Shark Attacks Sea Lion

UPDATE: The National Park Service has issued a warning to swimmers in the Santa Barbara Channel. Watch out for Great Whites this holiday weekend!A flurry of shocking Great White Shark activity has Santa Barbara residents staying out of the water, fearing for their very lives as a series of shark attacks and sightings have rocked this normally peaceful beach town and shaken ocean-goers to their core.Over the weekend, a badly mauled sea lion was discovered hanging from a buoy off the "family-friendly" … [Read more...]

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Great White Washes Ashore Morris Island

Friday, December 12, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments

This is pretty old news now, but it's been sitting in the queue and we wanted to get it out there for the archives. It would be pretty intense to see one of these great beasts lying on the beach.Morris Island, South CarolinaA great white shark washed ashore on a Lowcountry beach. The 13-foot-long shark was found at Morris Island last month by fishermen.The Department of Natural Marine Biologists says the shark may have starved to death or been stranded."They are extremely rare in … [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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Great White Shark Spotted in Santa Monica

Thursday, December 11, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments

Deep in the archives, a fresh comment surfaced that we felt was pretty interesting - it's a report from "Roman Shchur" which we have not substantiated in any way, nor have we researched this claim and gotten any background information. Just bringing it to your attention, we can discuss journalistic ethics in a separate post."Saw a 10′ to 12′ great white shark yesterday (12/10/2008) at 4pm while fishing the shipwreck in santa monica. It followed my sardine all the way to the boat then paused … [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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Intense Shark Research Committee Report

Friday, December 5, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
Middle and West Islets of Anacapa Island.

Here at The Fear Beneath we're all grateful to Clayton Fischer for sending in this incredible story - a huge great white shark, cruising our neighborhood waters; and to Ralph Collier, at The Shark Research Committee, for his continued hard work and dedication.Anacapa Island, Channel Islands, CaliforniaOn November 17, 2008, Clayton Fischer was SCUBA diving for lobster off the North side of the West end of Anacapa Island, Santa Barbara. It was 7:30 AM and he had been in the water about 15 minutes. … [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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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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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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Great White Sharks Seek Mates At Open Ocean Rest Stop

Monday, November 10, 2008 By Martin Brody View Comments
The magnificent Great White Shark travels long distances to mate

The Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk) has posted an otherwise interesting article with the ludicrous title "Great white sharks look for girlfriends in underwater singles bar, scientists believe," which insults not only these magnificent beasts but the scientists who dedicate their very existence to the preservation and conservation of ocean life everywhere.By Paul EcclestonGreat white sharks travel huge distances and mysteriously spend up to six months gathered at an isolated spot in the Pacific … [Read more...]

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