What does it cost to swim with a safe feeling? The beaches off Queensland are visited by many sharks. To keep the swimmers safe protective drumlines and nets have been placed. Last year alone 695 sharks were captured this way. In total, 113 bull sharks, 287 tiger sharks and 11 greatContinue Reading
ISLE OF LEWIS (SCOTLAND)- Some scientists are certain that great whites also visit the cold British waters. To prove that the sharks are lurking here as well they use the body of a dead whale as bait. Cameras attached to the giant corpse will, it is hoped, record the firstContinue Reading
CHATHAM (USA)- New England is becoming more and more a hotspot for great whites. Last week scientists spotted no more than 17 great whites within a few miles of the Cape Cod shore. While a few thousand kilometers south people are experiencing a different kind of ‘summer of sharks’, inContinue Reading
CAPE TOWN/SYDNEY- Last weekend saw two new shark attacks on people enjoying the ocean. A tour operator from Cape Town is recovering in hospital after he was bitten by a shark at Port St. Johns at the weekend. He was mauled by great white shark while he was testing newContinue Reading
SUNSET STATE BEACH (USA)- A California sea otter killed by a great white shark. That’s hardly news. But this sea otter wasn’t your usual one. She was very famous. They called her Olive the Oiled Otter and she was a symbol for oil pollution and the value of washing and rehabilitatingContinue Reading
BUXTON (USA)- The waters of the Pamlico Sound are home to more large and potentially dangerous sharks than before, according to research. The waters are possible a new nursing area for bull sharks. A rise in water temperatures and a thriving habitat with plenty to eat may be persuading bullContinue Reading
WOODS HOLE (USA)- Great whites, like all other sharks, are slow-growing, long-lived animals with low reproduction rates. They are fished commercially throughout the world. A new study confirms how important it is to be more careful about this. White sharks in the western North Atlantic grow more slowly and matureContinue Reading