DIAMOND HEAD (AUSTRALIA)- A paddle boarder had part of his hand bitten off friday as he attempted to fight off a what is believed to be a bull shark. It happened off the coast of Diamond Head, a national park south of Port Macquari, New South Wales. Attack The sharkContinue Reading
PERTH (AUSTRALIA)- A rare ocean heat wave may to be blame for the recent spike in shark attacks in western Australia. That’s what scientist of the West Australian Department of Fisheries claim. The scientists suggest that a 5-degree rise in water temperature last summer may have sparked the increase inContinue Reading
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
HONOLULU (HAWAII)- A 61-year old man from Oregan, USA, was bitten on the leg by a tiger shark last week in off Kihei, Hawaii. He was the fourth victim of shark bites in the past few weeks in Hawaiian waters. Hawaiian experts are still guessing why there have been soContinue Reading
PERTH (AUSTRALIA)- Is tossing dead sheep into the ocean the reason for the exceptional high number of shark attacks off the coast of Western Australia this past year? Concerned conservationists have called for more research on this potential link between attacks on humans and dead sheep thrown into the oceanContinue Reading
MICHIGAN (USA)- Traditionally, sharks are portrayed in a negative way in media coverage. More than 52 percent of global coverage focuses on shark attacks, and in 60 percent of coverage, sharks are portrayed negatively. A new study from Michigan State University reveals that this negative image is affecting theirContinue Reading
EUREKA (USA)- A 25-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries past tuesday when he was attacked by a great white shark while surfing in Eureka, California. Other surfers helped the man out of the water and rushed him to the hospital before local beach patrol could respond. According to witnesses the manContinue Reading