SAINT-DENIS (REUNION)- A 15-year old girl was killed this week after being attacked by a shark in the waters off the tropical isle of Reunion. She was snorkeling just a few metres from the shore. The area she was swimming in, Saint Paul’s Bay , in the northwest of theContinue Reading
NEWCASTLE (AUSTRALIA)- A great white shark swimming in Lake Macquarie, north of Sydney, Australia, gave recreants quite the scare last week. A grandfather and his 16-year-old grandson were drifting in their dinghy on the calm waters of the saltwater lake when the two-metre shark popped up alongside them. The encounterContinue Reading
TOKYO (JAPAN)- The Greenland shark has been titled the slowest shark of the world, not reaching more cruising speed than one mile per hour. Yet they feed on seals. Scientists think the sharks sneak up on seals that sleep under water. The National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo haveContinue Reading
LA JOLLA (USA)- Beyond the breakers of La Jolla Shores Beach it is easy to come face to face with sharks. And not just your average type of sharks. Hundreds of leopard sharks come here in the quiet waters, most of them pregnant females. The leopard sharks come close toContinue Reading
SARASOTA (USA)- Too many incidents with sharks are being called ‘attacks’. That’s misleading. Scientists from the US and Australia propose a new classification to support more accurate reporting of shark-human interactions. Shark Attack Capital Florida is often called the “Shark Attack Capital of the World.” But that’s very misleading,” saidContinue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (USA)- As of yesterday the US state of California has put a ban on shark fins. It is the sixth US state attempting to preserve shark populations with such a ban. California grocers who sold the dried fins and restaurants that had the prized shark fin soup onContinue Reading
HONG KONG (CHINA)- It was standard on the menu of every wedding banquet in Hong Kong. But the appetite for shark fin soup is fading. 90 percent of people say they could, or would, go without it, according to the Hong Kong daily The Standard. That’s what a survey ofContinue Reading