ESPERANCE (AUSTRALIA)- Swimming with a great white without a cage. It’s possible although quite nerve-wrecking. So Australian filmmaker Ash Gibb experienced. He felt a thump from behind and suddenly there was a great white in his picture. The shark is clearly curious and checks out the Kalgoorlie-based filmmaker who was armed with nothing more than his snorkel gear and his camera. […]
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ISLAMORADA (USA)- Foreign exchange students who were exploring the underwater beauty of Florida at Alligator Reef were suddenly yelled out of the water when all of a sudden a 4 meter big great white came cruising by. Under water suddenly the barracudas ran away. Franco Sorvetto, one of the exchange program organizers, saw it then — a great white shark only 7 […]
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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 great whites were killed in nets and drumlines at 85 beaches […]
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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 first confirmed sighting off a Great White in UK seas. A […]
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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’, in Massachusetts they are very happy. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy […]
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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 new diving equipment. First the shark bit his hand. When a […]
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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 rehabilitating oiled wildlife. Shark bites are currently the leading cause of […]
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