SANTA BARBARA, CA A faithful Fear Beneath reader from our home town of Santa Barbara, CA, sent in this gruesome picture of a decapitated pinniped after walking in to the mostly-exclusive private beach of Hope Ranch. The rotting, fur-less, carcass showed signs of predation by scavengers, as it had been disemboweled and was spilling its intestines out onto the beach, in … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2008
Australian Shark Activity Incites “Expert Opinions”
The Tweed Daily News People 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 … [Read more...]
Great White Shark Attack Staged For Animal Planet
By Daniel Lopez, The Monterey County Herald A re-enactment of a great white shark attack on a surfer off Marina State Beach last year is scheduled to be part of a TV production for Animal Planet. A production crew from England has been in Monterey County for about a week filming the story of Todd Endris, the 25-year old Marina resident who was attacked while surfing on … [Read more...]
The Great White Shark Festival
SOUTH AFRICA "Of all the species on the planet, the Great White Shark has undoubtedly achieved a level of evolutionary perfection. it has remained unchanged for 300 million years. In recent decades, sharks have become a persecuted and threatened species, and man has endangered this magnificent creature's existence. Today, through conservation and education, this … [Read more...]
Weekend Quick Links
We're going to try something new here at The Fear Beneath - publishing some maybe-vaguely-shark-related links for your perusal - stuff that we don't feel is necessarily worthy of a full story, but still interesting for other reasons. Abalone divers in a perilous quest for a succulent snail - Los Angeles Times "In the summer of 1916... a dramatic weeklong series of shark … [Read more...]
Great White Shark Fishing: Don’t Try This At Home
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 … [Read more...]
Back Into The Water: Dave Martin’s Fatal Shark Attack (Follow-Up)
ESPN has published an extensive and well-written piece covering last year's fatal shark attack at Solana Beach. We've excerpted the beginning below: SOLANA BEACH, CALIFORNIA Other than the helicopters and the lifeguards and the coroner, he had eight miles of beach to himself that morning. The posted signs said, "Get Back!" and "Enter At Your Own Risk!" and "Shark … [Read more...]
THE FEAR ABOVE – Boy Snatched By Leopard In Baramulla
Alright, first crocodiles, now leopards and bears... What the hell is going on here? We're trying to spread the word of the Savage Wilderness, that's what! Last one, we swear. Then it's back to our usual shark attack song-and-dance. And yes, we read The Kashmir Observer regularly. SRINAGAR A six-year-old boy is missing since yesterday after a leopard dragged him into the … [Read more...]
Raging, Gargantuan Crocodile Terrorizes Australian Workers
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 Williams A huge crocodile has been terrorizing road workers … [Read more...]
Neil Salunga, Shark Fighter (?)
(Another account of aggressive sharks in California's Red Triangle. Although we wonder - who the hell is Neil Salunga and why does the San Diego Reader Weekly care? Yet we post it anyway... -MB) By "Ollie" - San Diego Reader Weekly Name: Neil Salunga Age: 29 Occupation: Firefighter Lives in: San Ysidro Pre-surf music: N.W.A. Girls in the water?: “Total … [Read more...]