Amy Lee is back in town
RALEIGH (USA)- Amy Lee, a 3,500-pound great white shark has returned to the Carolina coastline. A ping from a satellite tag on the 16-foot-long shark showed she was just off the coast in Murrells Inlet last Friday morning. Since being tagged last September, researchers from Ocearch say Mary Lee has traveledContinue Reading
VIDEO: Interview with survivor
HAWAII (USA)- 25-year old surfer Jeff Horton was surfing near Kilauea, Hawaii, when a tiger shark attacked. It grabbed his legs, jerking them. Horton pulled his left leg out of the water and got on the surfboard, but was knocked off when the shark began to chomp on the board. HeContinue Reading
Diver frees tiger shark of hook
POMPANO BEACH (USA)- Divecaptain Matt Heath of Pompano Dive Center had the guts to swim up to a large tiger shark and take the hook out of its mouth, that was left behind by a fisherman. “Believe me, there is nothing relaxing about pulling a large hook out of aContinue Reading
Buoy tracks great whites
PIEDRAS BLANCAS (USA)- Friends of the Elephant Seal have recently teamed up with researchers from Hopkins Marine Station to deploy a buoy off Piedras Blancas. According to The Cambrian is tracks tagged white sharks near the elephant seal rookery about 12 miles north of Cambria. The buoy, deployed on Saturday,Continue Reading
Coffins against shark fin soup
Shark fin soup might be delicious but it’s destroying the world’s sharks. That’s the message of an ad campaign in the Chinese city of Shanghai. The campaign is using shark coffins to emphasize the message. The new ad campaign from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and design firmContinue Reading
Peru acts on shark fishing
The government of Peru said it might restrict shark fishing to stop the illegal slaughter of up to 15,000 dolphins per year. The dolphins are used as bait by fisherman. The statement was made in response to the the release of footage documenting the practice. A government investigation into theContinue Reading
New nets in Western Australia
DUNSBOROUGH (AUSTRALIA)- Shark nets that protect swimmers, but don’t kill sharks and other sealife. That’s what the state government of Western Australia is installing for the summer at the old Dunsborough beach. The nets that run 100m out from the shore at the popular South West beach and 300m parallelContinue Reading