Feeding frenzy 20 metres from shore
PERTH (AUSTRALIA)- Beaches at Scarborough and Trigg, Perth, were closed immediately when more than a dozen tiger sharks were seen circling just feet from shore off Australian’s West Coast. Up to 16 tiger sharks fed off a dolphin carcass around just 20 meters from one of Perth’s most popular beaches.Continue Reading
Great white as endangered species
SAUSALITO (USA)- Great white sharks in the North East Pacific should be protected as endangered Species. Shark Stewards has filed a petition with the California Fish and Game Commission to protect the sharks under the Endangered Species Act. The genetically distinct white shark population in California and Baja California, Mexico,Continue Reading
Great white tracked by Ocearch
SAN DIEGO (USA)- Scientists at Ocearch are tracking a big great white shark by gps off the eastern coast of the USA. They called her Mary Lee, after the mom of one of the researchers. She was tracked while swimming from Cape Cod to South Carolina and Georgia. See theContinue Reading
French Polynesia protects sharks
PAPEETE (FRENCH POLYNESIA)-Good news for sharks in the South Pacific. Not only has the government of French Polynesia included the mako, the last shark that was not protected in its waters, on the list of fish banned from capture or trade in its vast territorial zone in the South Pacific.Continue Reading
Whaler shark spotted off Auckland
AUCKLAND (NEW ZEALAND)- A group of friends fishing off Auckland’s Waiheke Island last sunday spotted a 3m-long bronze whaler shark about 50 meters off shore. The bronze whaler was seen in Matiatia Bay while the fishermen were filleting snapper on the back of a 4.7m runabout at the end ofContinue Reading
Divers free entangled whale shark
CANCUN (MEXICO)- Divers have rescued a 10 meter long pregnant whale shark which was caught in thick rope about 30 meters below the surface off the coast of Mexico. The pregnant whale shark had got wrapped in a thick rope which had to be cut off by the divers whoContinue Reading
Shark culprit in case of missing swimmer
COTTLESTOE BEACH (AUSTRALIA)- It is believed that a 64-year old swimmer at Western Australia’s Cottesloe Beach who went missing last year October was attacked by a great white shark. A coronial inquest on his suspected death was done this week. The 64-year old man from Mosman Park disappeared on OctoberContinue Reading