After a rash of Great White Shark sightings and activity in Santa Barbara the last couple weeks, we thought we'd put up some information about these magnificent apex predators... Great white sharks are exceptionally large and live in most major oceans, in the coastal surface waters. They can reach lengths of more than 24 feet and are capable of weighing up to 6,000 pounds. … [Read more...]
GREAT WHITE SHARKS TERRORIZE SANTA BARBARA
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 … [Read more...]
Great White Washes Ashore Morris Island
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 Carolina A great white shark washed ashore on a Lowcountry beach. The 13-foot-long shark was found at Morris Island last month by fishermen. The … [Read more...]
New Zealand Tags Great White Sharks
Source: TV New Zealand Since 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 … [Read more...]
Great Whites on Display
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 Crowley Four 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 … [Read more...]
Great White Shark Spotted in Santa Monica
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 … [Read more...]
Great White Shark Destroys Shark Cage
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 … [Read more...]
Intense Shark Research Committee Report
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, California On November 17, 2008, Clayton Fischer was SCUBA diving for lobster … [Read more...]
Tracked from above, Great White Sharks moving in less mysterious ways
By Lorna Edwards, The Age, Australia Abalone 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 … [Read more...]
Large Numbers of Great White Sharks Found Plotting a Conspiracy
By Malcolm Holland Port Stephens, Australia At 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 … [Read more...]
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