Our breaking news report on a Surf Beach shark attack has been quite the saga at The Fear Beneath; the original details we published from a misleading email were called into question, and a series of follow-up communications resulted in what we now believe to be the truth of the matter. The story has now been picked up and covered by KSBY 6 Action News, MSNBC, Vandenberg … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2008
Hawaii DLNR Botches Shark Press Release
Marine science writer Susan Scott can be reached at www.susanscott.net OCEAN WATCH: HONOLULU After a shark attack on Oahu last week and several shark sightings around the state, the Department of Land and Natural Resources included this phrase in a news release: "Experienced fishermen and scientists know that some shark species come into shallower waters during this time … [Read more...]
Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com
We just installed a nice little tool on The Fear Beneath called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, Amazon products, and display inline videos, RSS, photos, and more.Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you … [Read more...]
South Africa To Protect Great White Shark
This press release, published by SABC News, is riddled with eccentricity: not much mention of what actual conservation is happening, and team leader Kock working in Kalk Bay. The Fear Beneath has published it anyway in case it might interest our readers. South Africa is the first country to give protection to one of the ocean's ferocious predators, the great white shark. … [Read more...]
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For current shark attack news and information including the latest hot shark reports in your area, subscribe to The Fear Beneath Twitter feed! Twitter can deliver hot news to you via text messaging, email, IM, and more! Twitter is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. Started as a side project in March of 2006, Twitter has … [Read more...]
Shark Bites Fisherman, Drinks His Beer, Crashes His Boat
CROKER ISLAND, AUSTRALIA A fisherman has endured a bite from a shark he was trying to free from a net - then a 20-hour dash to medical help, only for the trawler he was on to run aground within "spitting distance" of shore. Holding his bloodied, bandaged hand, prawn trawler crewman Quentin Gorrell had to be taken ashore in a police dinghy before going to Royal Darwin … [Read more...]
Outrageous Shark Hunter Artwork
BY DAVID LOWE His controversial artworks have made Damien Hirst a staggering £200million fortune. And this week he raked in an eye-watering £9.5MILLION for The Kingdom, a dead tiger shark in a tank of formaldehyde, at a Sotheby’s auction. But the maverick shark hunter who catches the terrifying beasts for Hirst says a prime specimen would normally fetch just £90. The Sun t … [Read more...]
Ocean Beach Surfers Report Shark Sightings
The Shark Research Committee has posted recent accounts of a couple shark sightings at Ocean Beach, San Francisco (in the heart of the infamous Red Triangle!) We've excerpted a couple of salient details below - visit the The Shark Research Committee's Pacific Shark News for more information. On September 15, 2008 Morgan Weber was surfing just north of Sloat Blvd. at Ocean … [Read more...]
Fear Beneath Dispatches Team To Channel Islands
Our reporting will be on a brief hiatus as we dispatch our team of scientists and journalists to the Channel Islands on Thursday, in search of seal rookeries and evidence of the man in the gray suit, aka the fear beneath, aka Carcharodon carcharias. We will return Sunday with more of our tireless dedication to fair and balanced shark attack news and information, and … [Read more...]
Shark Park
Off of the Santa Barbara Coast, near San Miguel Island, lies one of California's many natural spectacles. They call this one Shark Park. As you get past the rock, you can see that you are in a ring of reefs and rocks that is about a mile across. This place is known as Shark Park. With good reason. This is the open ocean. Next stop is Hawaii. There are Great Whites and … [Read more...]
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