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January Contest Closed, February Contest Now Open
January Contest Closed, February Contest Now Open
NEWS
The January monthly photo contest is now closed, but the February contest is open
Sam's Tours Brings World Renowned SharkSchool To Micronesia
Sam's Tours Brings World Renowned SharkSchool To Micronesia
NEWS
Dr. Erich Ritter to lecture on shark behavior and shark-human-interaction
New Study Pinpoints Origins Of Hammerhead Shark Fins
New Study Pinpoints Origins Of Hammerhead Shark Fins
NEWS
A new groundbreaking study has traced scalloped hammerhead shark fins that were being sold in the markets of Hong Kong to their geographic origin.
Buy An Anti-Shark Finning Billboard In China That Features Yao Ming
Buy An Anti-Shark Finning Billboard In China That Features Yao Ming
NEWS
Shark Savers and WildAid are collaborating on a multi-media campaign in China targeting the consumers of shark fin soup by putting up billboards in China that feature Yao Ming
Congress Passes The Shark Conservation Act
Congress Passes The Shark Conservation Act
NEWS
Congress passes the Shark Conservation Act, making shark finning illegal.
Silhouettes
Silhouettes
TECHNIQUES
A guide to shooting underwater silhouette photographs
UK Acts To End Shark Finning
UK Acts To End Shark Finning
NEWS
The Shark Trust marks European Shark Week 2009 by heralding a UK decision to lead in the battle against shark “finning” (slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea) with a complete...
Shutter Shark 2009 Photo Contest Winners Announced
Shutter Shark 2009 Photo Contest Winners Announced
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The winners of the second student amateur photography contest at the NSU Oceanographic Center, Shutter Shark 2009
Shark Sanctuary In Pulau Declared-Size Of France
Shark Sanctuary In Pulau Declared-Size Of France
NEWS
The world's first shark sanctuary will protect the declining fish in waters off the tiny island republic of Palau
Atlantic Great Whites Tagged
Atlantic Great Whites Tagged
NEWS
Massachusetts officials are using high-tech tags to track the movements of two great white sharks near Cape Cod - the first time the fish have ever been tagged in the Atlantic Ocean
Scientists Shed New Light On Behavior of Shark Teenagers
Scientists Shed New Light On Behavior of Shark Teenagers
NEWS
Study May Prove Useful in Conservation Efforts for Over-Fished Sharks
Basking Sharks Travel The World
Basking Sharks Travel The World
NEWS
Experts agree to tackle the mystery of missing migrations using photo-identification and satellite tags
Basking Shark Washes Up On Long Island Shores
Basking Shark Washes Up On Long Island Shores
NEWS
26-foot-long basking shark washed up on Long Island Beach on Tuesday
Hanifaru Bay - Maldives Manta Madness
Hanifaru Bay - Maldives Manta Madness
SPECIAL FEATURES
Hanifaru Bay in the Maldives has been quietly becoming a hot spot for underwater photographers over the last year or so. Thomas Peschak recently shot an assignment for National Geographic on the...
Sardine Run 2009 - First Images
Sardine Run 2009 - First Images
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Underwater photography from the 2009 Sardine Run in South Africa
Ocean City Shark Tournament - Floating Slaughter Wagons
Ocean City Shark Tournament - Floating Slaughter Wagons
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DPG member Donna Barrett covers the Ocean City Maryland Shark Tournament
Help Us Educate Over 500,000 People About The Ocean This Week
Help Us Educate Over 500,000 People About The Ocean This Week
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Your underwater images can help educate hundreds of thousands of people this week!
New Shark Fishing Rules In Florida?
New Shark Fishing Rules In Florida?
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Florida fisherman this year could face a suite of new shark fishing rules that include a first-ever size limit on sharks they catch in state waters
Oceana Announces Winners of its Inaugural “Ocean Heroes Award”
Oceana Announces Winners of its Inaugural “Ocean Heroes Award”
NEWS
Coral reef conservationist, marine mammal rescuer and shark advocate selected
 as this year’s ‘ocean hero’ by thousands of activists
World Oceans Day 2009
World Oceans Day 2009
NEWS
We explore the issues facing the oceans today on the first World Oceans Day, and what to do as underwater image makers
An Underwater Photographer's Guide To Lady Elliot Island
An Underwater Photographer's Guide To Lady Elliot Island
TRAVEL
In the next chapter of the ongoing "Underwater Photographer's Guide To..." series, Jeremy Cuff explores Lady Elliot Island in Australia
Ningaloo Reef A Nursery For Whale Sharks?
Ningaloo Reef A Nursery For Whale Sharks?
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Ningaloo Reef may be a nursery for whale sharks, say scientists who are still striving to work out the full life cycle of the oceans’ biggest fish
Manta Rays On Restaurant Menus As Shark Populations Plummet
Manta Rays On Restaurant Menus As Shark Populations Plummet
NEWS
Conservationists fear a falling shark population is prompting Asian chefs to look for manta and devil rays to help meet the voracious demand for shark fin soup
Ft. Myers Shark Tournament Changes Its Tune - By Force
Ft. Myers Shark Tournament Changes Its Tune - By Force
NEWS
It's that time of year again - shark tournament season. What you can do to help stop these brutal events
Singapore Casino Having Second Thoughts On Whale Shark Exhibition
Singapore Casino Having Second Thoughts On Whale Shark Exhibition
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A Singapore casino developer said Saturday it was considering alternatives to its plan to exhibit whale sharks
Sharks of the World iPhone App
Sharks of the World iPhone App
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The Save Our Seas Foundation Sharks of the World Field Guide is now available as an iPhone application for free.
Where Basking Sharks Go
Where Basking Sharks Go
NEWS
I found this Wired article written about solving the mystery of basking shark migration
ADEX 2009 - Asia Dive Expo Report
ADEX 2009 - Asia Dive Expo Report
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DPG's Singapore representative and incredibly talented photographer, Aaron Wong, reports from the 2009 Asia Dive Expo
NOAA Issues Atlantic Shark Commercial Fishery Update
NOAA Issues Atlantic Shark Commercial Fishery Update
NEWS
NOAA released the preliminary 2009 updateof the Atlantic Commercial Shark Fishery. The report indicates both quotas as well as current reported catches to-date
Whale Shark Populations On The Rise In Australia
Whale Shark Populations On The Rise In Australia
NEWS
Sea Shepherd Persuades Holista to Cease All Production of Shark Cartilage Products
Sea Shepherd Persuades Holista to Cease All Production of Shark Cartilage Products
NEWS
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has recently been consulting with Holista Health Inc. about the severe negative impacts of Shark Cartilage products on the health of our oceans
Shark Fin Soup? Not On Our Menu
Shark Fin Soup? Not On Our Menu
NEWS
"Not On Our Menu" is a superbly produced anti-shark finning video, which urges people to sign a petition, which will be presenting to the United Nations Secretary General on world's Ocean Day June 8th
New Way To Study Endangered Whale Sharks
New Way To Study Endangered Whale Sharks
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Whale sharks -- giants of the fish world that strike terror only among tiny creatures like the plankton and krill they eat -- are imperiled by over-fishing of the species in parts of its ocean range
Rare Megamouth Shark Caught In Philippines
Rare Megamouth Shark Caught In Philippines
NEWS
So rare are these sharks that each of them is designated with a number
Scientists Use DNA To Study Whale Shark Migration
Scientists Use DNA To Study Whale Shark Migration
NEWS
Whale sharks -- giants of the fish world that strike terror only among tiny creatures like the plankton and krill they eat -- are imperiled by over-fishing of the species in parts of its ocean range
Video: DPG Expedition Report, Socorro
Video: DPG Expedition Report, Socorro
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The first of our DPG underwater photography & video expeditions for 2009 was to the Revillagigedos Archipelago, more commonly called Socorro, known for its large resident groups of friendly giant...
The Sardine Run - The Ultimate Underwater Photography Adventure
The Sardine Run - The Ultimate Underwater Photography Adventure
NEWS
An amazing account and underwater photography from the Sardine Run by Alexander Safonov
Help Stop The Reversal Of Shark Protection In Palau
Help Stop The Reversal Of Shark Protection In Palau
NEWS
Earlier this month, news surfaced about a bill in Palau's congress that would eliminate the protection of sharks in Palau's waters
Two Tons Of Shark Fins On Taiwanese Boat
Two Tons Of Shark Fins On Taiwanese Boat
NEWS
A Taiwanese fishing vessel with nearly two tons of dried shark fins on board was seized at Cape Town harbour
Costa Rican Sea Turtle To Get Prosthetic Fins After Shark Attack
Costa Rican Sea Turtle To Get Prosthetic Fins After Shark Attack
NEWS
The Center of Caribbean Sea Turtle Rehabilitation is researching methods that would fit a prosthetic fin onto a six-year old hawksbill sea turtle
Australian Divers Urged To Take Pictures Of Grey Nurse Sharks
Australian Divers Urged To Take Pictures Of Grey Nurse Sharks
NEWS
Researchers in New South Wales, Australia are seeking underwater images of local grey nurse sharks, in an effort to document and protect the dwindling populations
Smallest Whale Shark Ever Found ... Worth A Thousand Words
Smallest Whale Shark Ever Found ... Worth A Thousand Words
NEWS
15 inch baby whale shark is the smallest ever on record
Maldives Ministry Bans Reef Shark Fishing
Maldives Ministry Bans Reef Shark Fishing
NEWS
The ministry of fisheries and agriculture has extended the moratorium on reef shark fishing to cover the whole of the Maldives, as part of a historic move towards a total ban on both reef and...
Ancient Sharks Saw The Deep Sea In Color
Ancient Sharks Saw The Deep Sea In Color
NEWS
Primitive deep-sea fish may have viewed the world in color
OCEANA TV Shows Powerful Images Of Shark Finning
OCEANA TV Shows Powerful Images Of Shark Finning
NEWS
The programme "On the alert" dedicates its first episode to the critical situation of sharks, now a target of commercial fishing
Oceana And Spanish Fisheries Ministry Reach A Deal For Shark Conservation
Oceana And Spanish Fisheries Ministry Reach A Deal For Shark Conservation
NEWS
The largest shark fishing country in Europe is in agreement with Oceana on three groundbreaking conservation matters. The upcoming EU Action Plan for Sharks should improve their conservation in Europe
Bahamas Creates New Marine Reserve
Bahamas Creates New Marine Reserve
NEWS
The new marine reserve in the Bahamas should protect important areas from development
Gunther Deichmann Reminds Us To Stay Practical About Shark Conservation
Gunther Deichmann Reminds Us To Stay Practical About Shark Conservation
NEWS
In a recent blog post called "Lets Change The Subject," Gunther Deichmann reminds us other species than just sharks need our help
Shark Fin Protest In San Francisco China Town
Shark Fin Protest In San Francisco China Town
NEWS
The Shark Safe Project is planning a Shark Fin Protest in San Francisco China Town on January 25th
DPG Expeditions: Sardine Run, July 2009, 2010, & 2011
DPG Expeditions: Sardine Run, July 2009, 2010, & 2011
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Join us during one of nature's wildest spectacles. We are running very limited size Sardine Run trips for the next three years
New Website For Shark Sanctuary In Palau
New Website For Shark Sanctuary In Palau
NEWS
Alliance Diving alerted us to this new website about the shark sanctuary in Palau
Crowds Flock To See Great White Shark Dissection
Crowds Flock To See Great White Shark Dissection
NEWS
Around 1500 people flocked to Auckland Museum today to see a public dissection of a great white shark - believed to be a first in New Zealand
Apex Predator- Live Dissection!
Apex Predator- Live Dissection!
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The public is invited to view the autopsy of a great white shark LIVE at the Auckland Museum in New Zealand
Rare Sea Turtle, Shark Strand on N. Oregon Coast
Rare Sea Turtle, Shark Strand on N. Oregon Coast
NEWS
Sea Turtle and Salmon Shark Wash Up On Shore
Underwater Photography & Video Best of 2008
Underwater Photography & Video Best of 2008
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Matt Weiss picks his favorite underwater photography, video and marine conservation news of 2008
A Battle Won In The War Against Shark Finning
A Battle Won In The War Against Shark Finning
NEWS
China's largest shopping site Alibaba.com has announced they will cease all shark fin trading and sales in all their companies including Taobao.com as of January 1st, 2009
Marine Experts Help North Sea Filming
Marine Experts Help North Sea Filming
NEWS
Marine experts from Lowestoft have been helping filmmakers study the behaviour of small sharks off the coast of East Anglia.
China's Largest Shopping Site Bans Sale of Shark Fin Products
China's Largest Shopping Site Bans Sale of Shark Fin Products
NEWS
Taobao.com announced to its 400 million online members that all shark fin products will be banned from trade on Taobao.com starting 1, January 2009.
Top Photographers Support Shark Conservation
Top Photographers Support Shark Conservation
NEWS
Top photographers support shark conservation Award-winning photographers from around the world have donated some of their best images to support marine conservation group Bite-Back.
Celebrate Shark Savers 1st Anniversary At Their Upcoming Holiday Party
Celebrate Shark Savers 1st Anniversary At Their Upcoming Holiday Party
NEWS
Shark Savers is celebrating their first anniversary and getting into the Holiday Spirit, by hosting a Happy Hour with Open Bar
Shark Finning On CNN December 11th
Shark Finning On CNN December 11th
NEWS
Thursday December 11th, please tune in to CNN for Planet in Peril: Battle Lines, where the focus will be on the global shark finning crisis
Basking Shark Protection Urged
Basking Shark Protection Urged
NEWS
Hotspots at sea where basking sharks gather need to be protected to ensure the survival of the threatened fish, conservationists have urged.
Whale Shark Day Celebrated In Porbandar
Whale Shark Day Celebrated In Porbandar
NEWS
A large crowd today gathered at the Chowpatti Cricket Ground here to be a part of the annual "Whale Shark Day" celebration
Whale Shark Poop
Whale Shark Poop
NEWS
BBC captured a whale shark "doing his business" for the first time while shooting for a new series.
Europe's Most Endangered Sharks Slated For Protection
Europe's Most Endangered Sharks Slated For Protection
NEWS
Commission releases bold proposals to end all fishing for spiny dogfish,porbeagle and angel sharks, expand protections for rays
Gunther Diechmann's Photo Of The Week In Stern Magazine Shows Shark Finning In Bali
Gunther Diechmann's Photo Of The Week In Stern Magazine Shows Shark Finning In Bali
NEWS
Gunther Deichmann's image of shark finning is the photo of the week in Stern Magazine issue no. 46
North Atlantic Sharks Under Threat
North Atlantic Sharks Under Threat
NEWS
A significant amount of Sharks and Rays are under extinction threat from fishing off the North East Atlantic Ocean according to IUCN
Swimming Freely With Great White Sharks
Swimming Freely With Great White Sharks
TRAVEL
Amos Nachoum reports on diving cage-free with Great White sharks at Guadalupe island. Controversial? Probably. But the images speak for themselves. What do you think? Add your comments
Lets Keep Track Of The Goal
Lets Keep Track Of The Goal
NEWS
Felix Leander reminds us all to not lose sight of the goal when it comes to shark conservation.
Whale Shark In Atlantis Set To Be Released
Whale Shark In Atlantis Set To Be Released
NEWS
The controversial keeping of a whale shark will come to an end soon, as Atlantis hotel has announced it will be released.
Scientists Call For Protected 'Swimways' For Leatherbacks
Scientists Call For Protected 'Swimways' For Leatherbacks
NEWS
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) World Conservation Congress this week adopted a resolution urging nations to protect the leatherback sea turtle and sharks by...
Underwater Journal Issue #9 Available Now
Underwater Journal Issue #9 Available Now
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The latest issue of the Underwater Journal, the online magazine launched by fellow photographer Walt Stearns.
Lemon Shark In Womb Photographs
Lemon Shark In Womb Photographs
NEWS
A lemon shark, among other animals, was photographed inside the womb.
Nikon D3 and Subal ND3
Nikon D3 and Subal ND3
SPECIAL FEATURES
Alex Mustard reviews the Nikon D3 with the Subal ND3 housing.
DNA Proves Second Case Of Virgin Shark Birth
DNA Proves Second Case Of Virgin Shark Birth
NEWS
A DNA test has confirmed a second case of a fatherless shark
Thresher And Dog Sharks Need Help In Donsol
Thresher And Dog Sharks Need Help In Donsol
NEWS
Thresher and dog sharks are being heavily fished in Donsol, Philippines.
Climate Change Could Help The Australian Grey Nurse Shark
Climate Change Could Help The Australian Grey Nurse Shark
NEWS
Accordingly to Australian news outlet ABC News, a new study has shown that Australia's critically endangered grey nurse shark could benefit from global warming
Microsoft Includes Shark Diving In New
Microsoft Includes Shark Diving In New "I'm a PC" Campaign
NEWS
Diver in a shark cage featured larger than life in Times Square, New York City
Artificial Womb For Sharks
Artificial Womb For Sharks
NEWS
An artificial womb is being used to raise wobbegongs in captivity.
First International Shark Image Contest-SharkImages Photo Award
First International Shark Image Contest-SharkImages Photo Award
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SharkImages Photo Award is the first international photo competition dedicated solely to sharks
The Cocos Island American Express Members Project
The Cocos Island American Express Members Project
NEWS
With its rich marine life, particularly the rich shark populations, Cocos Island, Costa Rica is in dire threat. Underwater photographers Georgene Bradley and Jay Ireland are finalists in the...
Dr. Lark Kills Sharks
Dr. Lark Kills Sharks
NEWS
Dr. Susan Lark promotes squalane-which is found in sharks and is used a cosmetic moisturizer.
Help Protect
Help Protect "Snapper Ledge", Florida Keys
NEWS
Our friend Stephen Frink alerted us to a stunning situation in the Florida Keys where nurse sharks are being used for spear fishing target practice. We'd like to request your help by simply signing...
Fisherman Saves Shark
Fisherman Saves Shark
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A fisherman in Davao saves stranded whale shark.
Keep Shooting, Save Whale Sharks
Keep Shooting, Save Whale Sharks
NEWS
Vacationing underwater photographers are helping scientists learn about whale sharks via there images.
Welfare Groups In Singapore Fight For Whale Shark
Welfare Groups In Singapore Fight For Whale Shark
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Singapore welfare groups are fighting to keep whale sharks out of the Sentosa resort
Philippines To Protect Threser Shark
Philippines To Protect Threser Shark
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Batangas City has approved an ordinance that calls for the protection of thresher sharks
Whale Watching-Albino Style
Whale Watching-Albino Style
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Both all white albino whale sharks and humpback whales have been photographed.
Sharks More Valuable Alive Then Dead
Sharks More Valuable Alive Then Dead
NEWS
A new study shows that divers are willing to pay 35 dollars more per dive for a better chance to see a shark-money that could go to marine conservation.
Austraila's Sharks Fall Victim To Shark Fin Trading
Austraila's Sharks Fall Victim To Shark Fin Trading
NEWS
Research from Australia indicates a large number of shark fins being exported from the country.
In North Carolina Scallops Need Sharks
In North Carolina Scallops Need Sharks
NEWS
Cownose rays must be blockaded from oyster beds in order to bring back the oyster population that has been heavily reduced because of shark overfishing.
Downeast Maine Shark Tournament On It's Last Leg?
Downeast Maine Shark Tournament On It's Last Leg?
NEWS
he Humane Society has already helped to shut down two tournaments, including the Destin Florida tournament, and have been crusading against shark tournaments up and down the east coast. Next on...
Not Your Average Teenage Underwater Photographer
Not Your Average Teenage Underwater Photographer
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Matthais Scheer, a 15 year old underwater photographer, describes a shark and baitball experience in Cocos Island
Clash Of Predators As Shark Eats Polar Bear
Clash Of Predators As Shark Eats Polar Bear
NEWS
Scientists are puzzling over the discovery of the jawbone of a young polar bear in the stomach of a Greenland shark...
Who's Top Predator?
Who's Top Predator?
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Already threatened by a thaw of ice around the North Pole, the polar bear's title as the top Arctic predator may under challenge from a shark
Ancient Shark's Bite More Powerful Than T. Rex's
Ancient Shark's Bite More Powerful Than T. Rex's
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The most powerful bite of all time has been found - that of the prehistoric giant shark Megalodon, which makes that of T. rex look puny
Shark Found In Durham...After 240M Years
Shark Found In Durham...After 240M Years
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THE first complete fossil of an ancient British shark was unveiled today by the Natural History Museum.
Predators as Prey: Why Healthy Oceans Need Sharks
Predators as Prey: Why Healthy Oceans Need Sharks
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A new report released by Oceana concludes that sharks are invaluable to maintaining healthy ocean ecosystems
Grey Nurse Shark Saved From Gaff
Grey Nurse Shark Saved From Gaff
NEWS
A THREE-metre grey nurse shark has had a lucky escape from a slow and painful death after marine experts removed a fishing gaff embedded in its throat yesterday.
Great White Shark Filmed Breaching at Night
Great White Shark Filmed Breaching at Night
NEWS
Although seals are a common meal for great white sharks, under the cover of darkness, one might expect the marine mammals to catch a break
Disney Responds Regarding Shark Tournament Involvement
Disney Responds Regarding Shark Tournament Involvement
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Disney supports shark tournaments and perpetuates the negative image that killing sharks is acceptable
Shark-Spotters Wanted in Cornwall
Shark-Spotters Wanted in Cornwall
NEWS
Fancy coming face to face with a shark larger than the great white and whose mouth could swallow you whole
Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Tournament, Martha's Vineyard
Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Tournament, Martha's Vineyard
NEWS
Thank you to Shara Teter from the New York Underwater Photographic Society for heading up to Martha's Vineyard to cover the Oak Bluffs Monster Shark Tournament
Shark Breeding Ground Confirmed off Northern East Coast
Shark Breeding Ground Confirmed off Northern East Coast
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Scientists have discovered a new breeding ground for porbeagle sharks off **Canada's East Coast
Shark Photography - Can It Be Taught?
Shark Photography - Can It Be Taught?
NEWS
Our friend Wolfganf Leander posted an intriguing blog entry on his Oceanic Dreams blog about shark photography...
Sharks Board Support for Study
Sharks Board Support for Study
NEWS
The Natal Sharks Board is collaborating with Sharkprojekt, a German-based NGO which says sharks have large amounts of methyl mercury in their flesh
In Mediterranean, the Predator Is the Hunted
In Mediterranean, the Predator Is the Hunted
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The Mediterranean Sea, says Francesco Ferretti, is "a very dangerous place for a shark"
Garrett Urged to Suspend Shark Fin Exports
Garrett Urged to Suspend Shark Fin Exports
NEWS
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW is calling on the Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to suspend the export of shark fins from Australia
Win a free stay at Misool Eco Resort! Misool Ranger Project
Win a free stay at Misool Eco Resort! Misool Ranger Project
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Montauk Shark Tournament Coverage
Montauk Shark Tournament Coverage
NEWS
It was a sad day for sharks, as hundreds were caught and released and the largest of the lot were hauled in, weighed and butchered
Disney Supports Shark Fishing - Tell Them What You Think!
Disney Supports Shark Fishing - Tell Them What You Think!
NEWS
This is from an email that I just sent to Disney's investor relations department. I am now publicly posting it as a letter to Bob Iger and the board of directors at The Walt Disney Company. Are you...
US Approves Policy To Prevent Overfishing of Atlantic Sharks
US Approves Policy To Prevent Overfishing of Atlantic Sharks
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NOAA's Fisheries Service today announced a new rule to lower significantly the fishing quotas for sandbar and porbeagle sharks in order to rebuild these depleted species. NOAA also will implement...
Commercial Fishing For Large Sharks In Louisiana Remains Closed
Commercial Fishing For Large Sharks In Louisiana Remains Closed
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Commercial fishing for large coastal sharks in Louisiana will remain closed until at least 2009. A sign of the health of the shark populations worldwide
Huge Sharks 'Fly' Like Fighter Pilots
Huge Sharks 'Fly' Like Fighter Pilots
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Monster sharks can execute underwater "flight" moves that would have put some fighter pilots to shame, two researchers announced this week
Montauk Shark Tournament- Join Us This Weekend!
Montauk Shark Tournament- Join Us This Weekend!
NEWS
Please bring your cameras and join us this Saturday and help cover this horrible event so that it can be broadcast to the world in efforts to create awareness and help save our sharks
Adoption of Shark Conservation Act
Adoption of Shark Conservation Act
NEWS
The Shark Conservation Act of 2008, passed today by the US Congress should strengthen a U.S. ban on shark finning, improve shark fisheries data, and encourage international shark conservation
Fast Fall of Mediterranean Sharks
Fast Fall of Mediterranean Sharks
NEWS
Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea have undergone a massive decline over the last two centuries, scientists have discovered from historical records
Whale Slaughter: US to Plug Loophole
Whale Slaughter: US to Plug Loophole
NEWS
The United States called on Tuesday for a review of international law to regulate the killing of whales for scientific research in an apparent attempt to plug a loophole exploited by Japan, which...
Savagery At Sea
Savagery At Sea
NEWS
A South African paper writes of "Sadistic slaughter of sea creatures, gun shots at dawn and eyewitness intimidation ? This is apparently a daily occurrence just off our shores and indeed, those of...
Shoals of Basking Sharks Spotted In Ireland
Shoals of Basking Sharks Spotted In Ireland
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Many of those messing around in boats off the west Cork coastline at the weekend were treated to one of the natural wonders of the marine environment - shoals of basking sharks
Shark Fin Soup 'Should Be Banned In Australia'
Shark Fin Soup 'Should Be Banned In Australia'
NEWS
A top Sydney chef says shark fin soup should be banned from Australian restaurants because the demand for the delicacy is driving sharks to extinction
Singapore Resort Drops Shark's Fin From Menus
Singapore Resort Drops Shark's Fin From Menus
NEWS
To support conservation efforts, one of Singapore's upcoming integrated resorts - Resorts World at Sentosa - said it would not be offering shark's fin on its menu when it opens in 2010.
Save Our Seas Foundation Open Doors In South Africa
Save Our Seas Foundation Open Doors In South Africa
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The Save Our Seas Foundation's Shark Centre is opening its doors with a mission to challenge the world to Rethink the Shark
Hunters Blamed For Whale Shark Losses
Hunters Blamed For Whale Shark Losses
NEWS
Scientists fear Indonesian fishermen hunting whale sharks are responsible for a 40 per cent drop in numbers along the Ningaloo Reef in the past 10 years
Blog Connects Lost Cameras And Owners?
Blog Connects Lost Cameras And Owners?
NEWS
Imagine someone found your camera on the bottom of the ocean or at a resort and helped you reclaim it by sharing that once in a lifetime shot of a Whaleshark surounded by a school of Mantas?
Help Prevent Shark Fishing On The Great Barrier Reef
Help Prevent Shark Fishing On The Great Barrier Reef
NEWS
During a time when "Australia links organized crime to illegal fishing", the Queensland, Australia Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries is creating a dedicated shark fishery of their own.
Petition: Oppose new shark fishing in the Great Barrier Reef
Petition: Oppose new shark fishing in the Great Barrier Reef
NEWS
Sharks Swim Closer to Extinction
Sharks Swim Closer to Extinction
NEWS
More than half of the world's ocean-going sharks are at risk of extinction, a new analysis concludes
Weddings Boost Shark's Fin Consumption in Singapore
Weddings Boost Shark's Fin Consumption in Singapore
NEWS
Shark's fin consumption more than doubled in Singapore last year from 2006, with demand driven by an economic boom and an increase in wedding celebrations, a report said Saturday
Asia Dive Expo - ADEX 2008
Asia Dive Expo - ADEX 2008
NEWS
DivePhotoGuide reports from the Asia Dive Expo in Singapore
Video: The Whale Sharks of Djibouti on BBC
Video: The Whale Sharks of Djibouti on BBC
NEWS
The Whale Sharks of Djibouti have been made popular by Felipe Barrio's winning image in last year's Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition. Fast:Track, BBC World's weekly travel...
Coverage Of Sharksavers Event For The Sharkwater DVD Release
Coverage Of Sharksavers Event For The Sharkwater DVD Release
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Coverage for the exciting DVD release of Sharkwater hosted by Sharksavers.
Deep-Sea Sharks Wired For Sound
Deep-Sea Sharks Wired For Sound
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Deep-sea sharks have been tagged and tracked and their habitats precisely mapped in world-first research to test the conservation value of areas closed to commercial fishing.
Sherman's Lagoon Series For Shark Conservation
Sherman's Lagoon Series For Shark Conservation
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Sherman's Lagoon" comic strip devoted to creating awareness and public interest in saving sharks from extinction...
Peter Benchley Shark Conservation Awards To Honor The Memory Of The Late Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley Shark Conservation Awards To Honor The Memory Of The Late Peter Benchley
NEWS
Peter Benchley Shark Conservation Awards to honor the memory of the late Peter Benchley, and spotlight those who are working internationally to protect sharks as valuable ocean resources.
Congress Pushes For True Shark Finning Ban
Congress Pushes For True Shark Finning Ban
NEWS
A recent decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals prompted Congress to introduce the "Shark Conservation Act of 2008" late last night.
Hammerhead Shark Superhighway
Hammerhead Shark Superhighway
NEWS
Team of Scientists Tags and Tracks Hammerheads to Help Save Species From Extinction
Sharkwater DVD Exclusive Release Party Hosted By Shark Savers
Sharkwater DVD Exclusive Release Party Hosted By Shark Savers
NEWS
Shark Savers will be hosting a DVD release party for the critically claimed movie Sharkwater on April 11th.
White Shark Reached Mexico In Record Time
White Shark Reached Mexico In Record Time
NEWS
A young white shark returned to the wild by the Monterey Bay Aquarium six weeks ago has traveled past the southern tip of Baja California and is heading toward waters off the Mexican mainland
Help Ban Shark Fin Products In Westchester County - Act Now
Help Ban Shark Fin Products In Westchester County - Act Now
NEWS
Westchester County in New York may potentially be the first county in the entire US to enact a ban on shark fins and shark products. It is vital that we show support for this cause. Help set a...
High Hopes for EU Shark Proposals
High Hopes for EU Shark Proposals
NEWS
A senior marine scientist has welcomed European Commission proposals for a shark conservation action plan
DivePhotoGuide Expedition: Socorro 2009
DivePhotoGuide Expedition: Socorro 2009
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We are excited to announce a very special trip for 2009 to the Revillagigedos Archipelago, more commonly called Socorro. These islands have been compared to the Galapagos and Cocos because of the...
Our Tax Dollars To Support The Decimation of Sharks??
Our Tax Dollars To Support The Decimation of Sharks??
NEWS
Please join us in expressing outrage against Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's request for federal disaster relief to help Florida's shark fishing industry
A Diver's-Eye View Of Great Barrier Reef
A Diver's-Eye View Of Great Barrier Reef
NEWS
Teeming with life, Australia's landmark is a spectacular destination for tourists of the underwater variety.
Climate Change Hitting the Sea's Little Guys Too
Climate Change Hitting the Sea's Little Guys Too
NEWS
When it comes to climate change, polar bears and sharks may grab the bulk of the headlines-but it's the threat to the sea's tiniest creatures that has some marine scientists most concerned
Demand for Shark Meat Overwhelms Scientists
Demand for Shark Meat Overwhelms Scientists
NEWS
The increasing international demand for shark meat and shark fins, which is pushing some species towards extinction, has caught marine scientists and managers by surprise, says one of Cape Town's...
Scripps Expedition Provides New Baseline for Coral Reef Conservation
Scripps Expedition Provides New Baseline for Coral Reef Conservation
NEWS
From sharks to microbes, scientists capture key data at the central Pacific's Line Islands archipelago
Bahamas Shark Attack Info: The Facts
Bahamas Shark Attack Info: The Facts
NEWS
The online forums are ablaze with conversations regarding the fatal shark attack on the Shear Water, a popular shark diving boat among underwater photographers and videographers
Sharks Travel
Sharks Travel "Superhighways" Visit "Cafes"
NEWS
Sharks follow well-traveled "superhighways" among feeding hot spots, new research suggests. The discovery should allow scientists to create better conservation strategies for the fish
Hammerhead in Need of Protection
Hammerhead in Need of Protection
NEWS
Over-fishing and demand for shark fins, an expensive delicacy, have pushed one of the world's iconic animals towards the brink of extinction, say experts
Africa's Shark Photography Paradise Under Threat
Africa's Shark Photography Paradise Under Threat
NEWS
A terrible day for Tiger Sharks, divers and photographers. Thomas Peschak reports
Sharks Disappearing As Fin Chopping Rises
Sharks Disappearing As Fin Chopping Rises
NEWS
Populations of tiger, bull, dusky and other sea sharks have plummeted by more than 95 percent since the 1970s as fisherman kill the animals for their fins or when they scoop other fish from the ocean
Shark Poachng At Cococs Island
Shark Poachng At Cococs Island
NEWS
An Imaging Foundation expedition uncovered and documented poaching activity at Cocos Island
Probe Into Killing Of Tiger Sharks
Probe Into Killing Of Tiger Sharks
NEWS
Three big tiger sharks from the school well known to the diving community at Aliwal Shoal on the South Coast are suspected to have been illegally captured and killed for meat
Warming Risks Antarctic Sea Life
Warming Risks Antarctic Sea Life
NEWS
Unique marine life in Antarctica will be at risk from an invasion of sharks, crabs and other predators if global warming continues, scientists warn
Video: Shark Alert! Species Struggle
Video: Shark Alert! Species Struggle
NEWS
After 450 million years swimming the ocean, some shark species are on the verge of extinction
Two New Shark Species Found
Two New Shark Species Found
NEWS
Two new species of wobbegongs, otherwise known as carpet sharks, have been found in Western Australian waters.
Giant Shark Gets A Black-Box Flight Recorder
Giant Shark Gets A Black-Box Flight Recorder
NEWS
In 2008 the secret life of one of the Earth's largest and most mysterious creatures, the whale shark, will be laid bare for the first time when some of the gentle giants off Western Australia's...
Monterey Bay Aquarium Returns Great White Shark To Ocean
Monterey Bay Aquarium Returns Great White Shark To Ocean
NEWS
A male Great White was released in Monterey Bay on February 5, 162 days after he was placed in the aquarium's Outer Bay exhibit.
Hunters Just One Peril In Whales' Struggle To Survive
Hunters Just One Peril In Whales' Struggle To Survive
NEWS
Whales are beautiful, intelligent, social animals who surely don't deserve a vicious end. So how else can a whale die? Is there a nice way?
The Most Important Fish In The Sea
The Most Important Fish In The Sea
NEWS
Obliteration of the world's great shark species may be upsetting the balance of entire ocean ecosystems
Whale Shark Found A Long Way From Home
Whale Shark Found A Long Way From Home
NEWS
A young whale shark has been found off the Queensland coast, as far as 1,000 kilometres off course of its annual migration
Video: Donsol Whale Shark Festival
Video: Donsol Whale Shark Festival
NEWS
Featured DPG pro photographer Jeurgen Freund sent us this great blog post about the Whale Shark Festival in Donsol
World's Largest Shark Species at Risk, Expert Says
World's Largest Shark Species at Risk, Expert Says
NEWS
This is the fifth story in a continuing series on the Megafishes Project
Shark Virgin Birth Celebrated in Hungary
Shark Virgin Birth Celebrated in Hungary
NEWS
A Hungarian aquarium is celebrating an extrordinary virgin birth after its lone female shark produced a pup without ever having come into contact with a male shark
30 'Finned' Sharks Washed Up On New Zealand Beach
30 'Finned' Sharks Washed Up On New Zealand Beach
NEWS
In December a New Zealand Department of Conservation ranger came across a gruesome find in the Marlborough Sounds: the bloodied carcasses of 30 sand sharks whose fins had been cut off by commercial...
Whale Shark Caught in Cargo Ship's Rear
Whale Shark Caught in Cargo Ship's Rear
NEWS
A dead whale shark was found caught in the rear part of an international cargo vessel that arrived at the Cebu International Port (CIP) here early morning Monday
Taking Rays, Feeding Sharks Now Illegal
Taking Rays, Feeding Sharks Now Illegal
NEWS
It is now illegal to take rays from Commonwealth waters, and to feed sharks without a permit within the near-shore waters
Premiere of Island of The Great White Shark
Premiere of Island of The Great White Shark
NEWS
A precarious population of great white sharks and the ongoing scientific research intended to secure their survival is the subject of "Island of the Great White Shark", a just completed documentary...
Rare Juvenile Whale Sharks Sighted in Maharashtra
Rare Juvenile Whale Sharks Sighted in Maharashtra
NEWS
Two rare juvenile whale sharks were found trapped in a fishing net off the coast of Niwati in Maharashtra, India
Video: Fin Soup Drives Shark Decline
Video: Fin Soup Drives Shark Decline
NEWS
The delicacy is a status symbol in fast-growing China
Recognizing Stripes, Not Faces, Software Tracks Whale Sharks
Recognizing Stripes, Not Faces, Software Tracks Whale Sharks
NEWS
Australian scientist is having better luck with software that can identify individual whale sharks
International Protection for World's Sharks
International Protection for World's Sharks
NEWS
Sharks have had a bad press ever since Jaws, if not before
Whale Sharks Protected From...Deadly Swimmers?
Whale Sharks Protected From...Deadly Swimmers?
NEWS
Based on thousands of remarkable underwater images, marine scientists have concluded that the world's largest shark is thriving in western Australia, thanks to well-managed ecotourism that appears...
Whale Shark Numbers Increase at Ningaloo
Whale Shark Numbers Increase at Ningaloo
NEWS
The future for the gigantic whale sharks of the Indian Ocean looks good, according to the results of a recent study
Great White Shark Sets 3,000 km Swim Record
Great White Shark Sets 3,000 km Swim Record
NEWS
A great white shark, electronically tagged in March in New Zealand, has swum more than 3,000 km to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, it was reported on Monday
United Nations Bares its Teeth to Protect Sharks
United Nations Bares its Teeth to Protect Sharks
NEWS
Humane Society International and other conservationists applaud the U.N. General Assembly for its decision to enhance the conservation of sharks throughout the world
Testimony to Human Brutality
Testimony to Human Brutality
NEWS
Look at the photographs, look closely. See the deformed jaws? The lower jaws of these two tiger sharks are broken; the smaller shark has its lower jaw actually hanging out of the mouth
Options for European Shark Plan Revealed
Options for European Shark Plan Revealed
NEWS
The Shark Alliance is welcoming the release of the European Commission's consultation document for a Community Plan of Action (CPOA) for Sharks, which, at long last, addresses the plight of sharks...
Satellite Tags May Save Gulf Sharks
Satellite Tags May Save Gulf Sharks
NEWS
Sharks are more spread out in the winter waters of the Gulf of Mexico, so the 24-hour expedition was a gamble. The team of scientists set out on a boat with four satellite transmitter tags in...
Environmental Group Urges Firms to Take Shark Fn off Menus
Environmental Group Urges Firms to Take Shark Fn off Menus
NEWS
An environmental group is urging companies to drop shark fin from their banquet menus as demand rises in the booming economy ahead of the holiday hospitality season, a media report said Tuesday
Sharks on Deck: December Brings Shark Conservation Decisions within Europe and Globally
Sharks on Deck: December Brings Shark Conservation Decisions within Europe and Globally
NEWS
This month, the Shark Alliance is welcoming a suite of opportunities to secure a brighter future for beleaguered shark species, particularly those within Europe. Through deliberation of EU...
There Once Was a Shark That Ate an Amphibian That Ate a Fish ...
There Once Was a Shark That Ate an Amphibian That Ate a Fish ...
NEWS
A fossilized shark that swallowed a crocodile-like amphibian that, in turn, had gobbled up a fish has now been unearthed. This exceptional find marks the first time scientists have found direct...
International Shark Photo Exposition
International Shark Photo Exposition
NEWS
To create awareness to the worldside shark-finning problem, the Protect the Sharks Foundation has created the International Shark Photo Exposition (ISPE). Sharks are particularly vulnerable to...
Update From The Road: Shark Finning
Update From The Road: Shark Finning
NEWS
Just a quick update from the road ... After a week of rain and foul weather, the sky finally cleared up and we hit the water. As we continue our exploration of the unknown reefs and marine...
Mediterranean Sharks, Rays Facing Oblivion
Mediterranean Sharks, Rays Facing Oblivion
NEWS
The great white shark is among 30 species of sharks and rays fast swimming toward oblivion in the Mediterranean Sea, a new report warns
U.S. Leads Efforts to Strengthen Global Shark Conservation
U.S. Leads Efforts to Strengthen Global Shark Conservation
NEWS
At the urging of the Department of State-led U.S. delegation to the United Nations, member states last week agreed to strengthen protections for vulnerable and endangered shark populations around...
Shark Ate Amphibian Ate Fish: First
Shark Ate Amphibian Ate Fish: First "Food-Chain Fossil"
NEWS
About 290 million years ago, Earth's lakes were a shark-eat-amphibian-eat-fish world, new fossil evidence reveals
Sharkwater Debuts Nov 2nd
Sharkwater Debuts Nov 2nd
NEWS
An open letter from Rob Stewart - the man behind Sharkwater...Hopefully by now you've heard about Sharkwater, the most award winning documentary of the year that broke box office records in Canada
Humane Society wants to end shark fishing event
Humane Society wants to end shark fishing event
NEWS
The Humane Society of the United States is urging organizers of the Destin Fishing Rodeo to permanently end the shark division event after the killing of an 844-pound mako shark. The Humane...
Last Chance To See Labradors Of The Deep
Last Chance To See Labradors Of The Deep
NEWS
The threat of the grey nurse shark's extinction is scarier than sharing a dive with it, writes Genevieve Swart. I am 20 metres underwater, gazing at three grey nurse sharks and breathing heavily...
2008 Galapagos Trip
2008 Galapagos Trip
NEWS
DivePhotoGuide Does The Galapagos In Style. There are only a few spots left to join Jason & Wendy Heller as we seek underwater photo opportunities with whale sharks, sea lions, schooling...
Great White Shark Packs Hunt Whales
Great White Shark Packs Hunt Whales
NEWS
PACKS of great white sharks are feeding off southeast Queensland, experts say. The warmer weather and migrating whales brought the sharks north from their traditional cooler cruising waters in...
Shark Documentary Packs Considerable Bite
Shark Documentary Packs Considerable Bite
NEWS
Looking to reclaim some of the integrity snatched away by Messrs. Benchley and Spielberg, "Sharkwater" is both a startlingly photographed portrait of that maligned denizen of the deep and a...
Fake Shark Fins Made From Pork
Fake Shark Fins Made From Pork
NEWS
A Japanese company is launching fake shark fins in China, hoping to tap a market as prices for real ones rise amid concerns the species is being hunted to extinction. Shark fin is considered one...
The Killing Machine Fighting For Its Very Survival
The Killing Machine Fighting For Its Very Survival
NEWS
SHARKS are often demonised as the ultimate killing machine. But largely unnoticed by the public, they are being driven to the brink of extinction with quiet, ruthless efficiency. They are...
Yahoo's Involvement In The Shark Fin Trade
Yahoo's Involvement In The Shark Fin Trade
NEWS
Dear Ms. Decker, It baffles me that a company worth billions of dollars would use its wealth to help destroy our oceans. Your investment in the Chinese company Alibaba has dramatically...
Seven Whale Sharks Rescued Off Veraval Port In Last 4 Days
Seven Whale Sharks Rescued Off Veraval Port In Last 4 Days
NEWS
As many as seven whale sharks have been rescued off Veraval coast in the last four days. Between October 7 and October 9, four mid-sea rescue operations were carried out during which four whale...
Tuna Fishing Kills Endangered Species
Tuna Fishing Kills Endangered Species
NEWS
Fishhooks meant to catch tuna in the southern Pacific and Indian Oceans are killing endangered seabirds, as well as sharks and turtles, the WWF conservation group said on Thursday. It estimated...
An SOS- Save Our Seas
An SOS- Save Our Seas
NEWS
BRITAIN'S seas need urgent legal protection to stop the destruction of underwater habitats and preserve biodiversity, conservationists warn today. WWF-UK says seahorses, basking sharks, turtles...
European Shark Week
European Shark Week
NEWS
The Shark Alliance, a coalition of 40 NGOs dedicated to science-based conservation of sharks, is delighted to announce the launch of the first ever EUROPEAN SHARK WEEK, which will run from 8th u"...
Oceana Encourages Activism For Shark Conservation
Oceana Encourages Activism For Shark Conservation
NEWS
Oceana encourages activism for shark conservation Published: 05 October, 2007 uA…aˆ?Every Fin Counts!uA‚A? is the slogan for the first European Shark Week, taking place in various aquariums...
OceanFest Celebrates Farallones Sanctuary
OceanFest Celebrates Farallones Sanctuary
NEWS
A few miles beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, a wide diversity of aquatic plants and species coexist in an area under federal protection since 1981, when then President Jimmy Carter signed a bill...
Corals And Angel Sharks On Threatened Species List
Corals And Angel Sharks On Threatened Species List
NEWS
Corals have been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species for the first time, as the World Conservation Union declares...
Paul Watson Speaks At Ocean Blue Divers NYC Fundraiser
Paul Watson Speaks At Ocean Blue Divers NYC Fundraiser
NEWS
New York really does have a rejuvenated diver scene these days, thanks in large part to Ocean Blue Divers, the one year old dive club that boasts nearly 1,000 members, and the host of a lovely...
Fishing Ban Protects Largest Coral Reef In The Philippines
Fishing Ban Protects Largest Coral Reef In The Philippines
NEWS
Reef fish and other marine species can breathe easier with the introduction of a fishing ban around Apo Reef, the largest coral reef in the Philippines and the second largest contiguous reef in the...
Paul Watson Speaks at OceanBlue Divers NYC Fundraiser
Paul Watson Speaks at OceanBlue Divers NYC Fundraiser
NEWS
New York really does have a rejuvenated diver scene these days, thanks in large part to OceanBlue Divers, the one year old dive club that boasts nearly 1,000 members, and the host of a lovely...
Albino Whale Shark Photographed In Galapagos
Albino Whale Shark Photographed In Galapagos
NEWS
On August 25, 2007, Antonio Moreano, a naturalist in the Galapagos, photographed an albino whale shark at Darwin, the northern-most island of the Galapagos. Below are some images that Antonio sent...
Dead Humpback Washes Ashore In California
Dead Humpback Washes Ashore In California
NEWS
Marine biologists are trying to determine the cause of death of a humpback whale calf that washed up Sunday on a beach in San Mateo County. The 27-foot female baleen humpback whale calf,...
Baby Whale Dies Tangled In Nets
Baby Whale Dies Tangled In Nets
NEWS
A baby whale has died after it got tangled in shark nets along the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. Lifeguards in Amanzimtoti said there was an outcry by residents when the whale became stuck in the...
World's Sharks Threatened By Kitchen Predator
World's Sharks Threatened By Kitchen Predator
NEWS
Conservationists have fought long and hard battles to save species such as elephants, the rhino, the giant panda, dolphins and whales. Now marine scientists and conservationists face one of their...
UF Toxicology Lab To Assess Effects Of Pollutants On Sharks
UF Toxicology Lab To Assess Effects Of Pollutants On Sharks
NEWS
Sending commonly prescribed medications down the drain may be taking a bite out of the environment u" at least when it comes to shark habitat, University of Florida veterinary scientists say. In...
Fish Die-Off Prompts Closing Of Aquarium
Fish Die-Off Prompts Closing Of Aquarium
NEWS
The main section of Malaysia's largest aquarium has been shut after about 600 fish died mysteriously, possibly because of deliberate poisoning, officials said Wednesday. The fish, including...
Man Saves Shark, Sets Him Free
Man Saves Shark, Sets Him Free
NEWS
Keiko the killer whale isn't the only sea creature that gets to live free. DeSoto resident Eugene "Snook Dawg" Hoffer, 23, recently did his good deed for the day when he rescued a...
Reviews: A Diver's Guide to Reef Life & A Diver's Guide to Underwater Malaysia Macrolife by Andrea and Antonella Ferrari
Reviews: A Diver's Guide to Reef Life & A Diver's Guide to Underwater Malaysia Macrolife by Andrea and Antonella Ferrari
SPECIAL FEATURES
You should recognize the names Andrea and Antonella Ferrari. The dynamic duo husband and wife team have been contributing to DivePhotoGuide since earlier this year (Lembeh, Kapalai). They are also...
Scientists Plan To Tow In Carcass Of 3rd Blue Whale
Scientists Plan To Tow In Carcass Of 3rd Blue Whale
NEWS
Tow boat crews wrapped a huge nylon sling around the tail of a dead blue whale drifting in the Santa Barbara Channel on Friday and started hauling their grim cargo toward a beach at Point Mugu....
Boat May Have Killed Shark That Washed Up On Beach
Boat May Have Killed Shark That Washed Up On Beach
NEWS
A man who was out with his family on his motorboat believes they may have run into and killed a great white shark that washed up in a Humboldt County beach last weekend. Chris Justice, of...
Whale Shark Slaughtered In China
Whale Shark Slaughtered In China
NEWS
On September 13, 2007, early morning, fishermen from Lianjiang, Fujian Province caught a giant whale shark. It weighed 8.5 tons and was 8.5 meters long. After the whale shark was slaughtered,...
Pacific Angel Shark Pup Born At Aquarium
Pacific Angel Shark Pup Born At Aquarium
NEWS
A city aquarium has announced what it has called the first-ever birth in captivity of a Pacific angel shark, a sand-burrowing species resembling a ray or a skate that lives along the West Coast....
Marine Life Paying Price For Shark Netting
Marine Life Paying Price For Shark Netting
NEWS
THIS spring and summer, more than 100 dolphins, sea turtles, whales, rays - and even dugongs and sea lions - will be trapped in nets designed to protect NSW swimmers from sharks. However,...
Atienza Declares War On Poachers
Atienza Declares War On Poachers
NEWS
Environment Secretary Lito Atienza yesterday ordered an aggressive fight against poachers by vigorously pursuing their prosecution in a bid to stop them from returning to Philippine waters. In...
Shark Researcher Works To Debunk Myths, Study Evolution
Shark Researcher Works To Debunk Myths, Study Evolution
NEWS
Turns out, the color of blood doesn't get much reaction from sharks. It's the scent that attracts them. "These ideas are repeated over and over," said Stephen Kajiura, who began...
Call To Protect Shark-filled Sea
Call To Protect Shark-filled Sea
NEWS
Conservationists are urging the Australian government to protect the Coral Sea, one of its last tropical marine wildernesses. The sea was recently declared a "predator diversity...
$500,000 To Name The Walking Shark After You
$500,000 To Name The Walking Shark After You
NEWS
Hemiscyllium...(your name here) The completely singular evolutionary path this shark has taken gives it pectoral fins uniquely developed for walking. This form ofmotion, unknown in other sharks,...
Malaysian Ministry Bans Shark's Fin Soup
Malaysian Ministry Bans Shark's Fin Soup
NEWS
Malaysia's Natural Resources and Environment Ministry has struck off shark's fin soup from the menus at official functions, to help conserve the species, a report said Saturday. Minister Azmi...
Scientists Baffled By Arrival Of Rare Seals
Scientists Baffled By Arrival Of Rare Seals
NEWS
TARONGA ZOO marine specialists are fighting to save the life of the second Antarctic leopard seal to be washed up on a Sydney beach in a week. Found stranded yesterday morning at Clontarf, the...
Hammerhead Sharks At Risk-Red List
Hammerhead Sharks At Risk-Red List
NEWS
Following are highlights of a 2007 "Red List" of endangered species of animals and plants issued by the World Conservation Union on Wednesday. The Union, which comprises governments,...
Call For Protection Area To Save Sharks
Call For Protection Area To Save Sharks
NEWS
THREATENED basking sharks would be one of many creatures to benefit from protected marine reserves. It has been a record summer for these huge plankton-eating sharks, with many seen off the...
Chinese Province Takes WA's Advice On Whale Shark
Chinese Province Takes WA's Advice On Whale Shark
NEWS
A Chinese Governor is moving to protect whale sharks in response to a request from the Western Australian Government. WA Premier Alan Carpenter wrote to the Governor of Zhejiang province earlier...
460 Sharks Spotted Off Cornwall In One Day
460 Sharks Spotted Off Cornwall In One Day
NEWS
The highest number of basking sharks counted in one day off the British coast has been recorded this week u" and it's down to summer arriving, albeit very late. There were 460 seen between...
Basking Shark Bonanza
Basking Shark Bonanza
NEWS
An unprecedented number of basking sharks have been counted off the Cornish coast. Staff on Ocean Ranger, a boat that takes tourists on wildlife watching trips around the Land's End peninsula,...
Basking Shark Plea Following Death In The UK
Basking Shark Plea Following Death In The UK
NEWS
Conservationists have appealed to the public to keep their distance from basking sharks after one was found dead and one injured off the Cornish coast. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said a...
Critter Rises From Sea Depths
Critter Rises From Sea Depths
NEWS
A small sharklike creature with a flat head and green eyes is the latest denizen of the deep sucked up to the surface at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii on the Big Island. The newest...
World's Biggest Fish Is A Delicate Feeder
World's Biggest Fish Is A Delicate Feeder
NEWS
The whale shark -- a massive, polka-dotted creature stretching about 23 feet long -- slowly swam up alongside the scientists' boat. As it neared, they tossed a handful of pre-soaked rice in front...
Whale Sharks Gather Near Mexico
Whale Sharks Gather Near Mexico
NEWS
Within the last few years, scientists discovered a gathering of whale sharks off the coast of Mexico unlike anything ever seen before. The Georgia Aquarium has organized a research project to...
Guadalupe Island Conservation Fund Scores Two For The Sharks
Guadalupe Island Conservation Fund Scores Two For The Sharks
NEWS
MarineBio partner the Guadalupe Island Conservation Fund has been working hard to get Yahoo! and its sister company Alibaba.com to stop selling thousands of tons of dried shark fins through their...
Shark Nets Shown To Trap More Than Sharks
Shark Nets Shown To Trap More Than Sharks
NEWS
Shark nets lining the coast of Australia are doing more harm than good by killing dozens of other marine species, a conservationist study has found. The 150-metre long shark nets, reaching all...
Unusually High Number Of Sharks Wash Up On N. Oregon Coast
Unusually High Number Of Sharks Wash Up On N. Oregon Coast
NEWS
For reasons that can only be guessed at, an unusual amount of dead sharks have been washing up on north Oregon coast beaches in the last few weeks. Most have appeared in a stretch thatus roughly 40...
Shark Finning In Palau, The Slaughter Continues
Shark Finning In Palau, The Slaughter Continues
NEWS
This blog post is from the Alliance Diving Blog, via Dermot Keane, GM of Samus Tours and Founder of the Palau Shark Sanctuary, Palau Micronesia... Just last week around August 15, yet another...
Taiwanese Vessel With Illegal Shark Fins Caught In Palau Waters
Taiwanese Vessel With Illegal Shark Fins Caught In Palau Waters
NEWS
A joint Australian-funded operation between Palau, Federated States of Micronesia and the U.S. Navy has intercepted a tuna long-liner within Palauus economic zone waters loaded with illegal shark...
Critics Protest Saco Shark-fishing Tourney
Critics Protest Saco Shark-fishing Tourney
NEWS
The Humane Society of the United States and two Maine groups want Saco officials to stop a charity shark-fishing tournament. "It's a carnival. It's a carnival. The sharks are hauled up and...
Shark Caught On Spain Beach Dies
Shark Caught On Spain Beach Dies
NEWS
A shark that was captured in shallow waters where it had become a daily lure for tourists on a beach died Wednesday at the Barcelona Aquarium. Biologists had said they did not expect the 7-foot...
Academy Of Sciences Previews Aquatic Display
Academy Of Sciences Previews Aquatic Display
NEWS
It's not a land shark, but how about a chance to see a shark on land? The California Academy of Sciences today is offering a preview of a brand new exhibit of rare aquatic life from the depths of...
X Ray Mag Issue #18 Available For Download
X Ray Mag Issue #18 Available For Download
NEWS
In this issue...Soccoro Island a.k.a. islas Revillagigedos; Wolfgang dances with Tiger - free diving with Tiger sharks; Manta Ray Ecology; Great White Shark diving - with no cages; Science of...
Invasion Of The Hammerheads Close To Shores In Japan
Invasion Of The Hammerheads Close To Shores In Japan
NEWS
Hammerhead sharks, which rarely venture near coastlines, were spotted close to beaches in Fukuoka and Shizuoka prefectures early this month, apparently because of a warm current that was flowing...
A Win For Sharks: Fishing Contest On Hold
A Win For Sharks: Fishing Contest On Hold
NEWS
A shark-fishing competition off Durban has been called off after protests from scientists and marine conservation groups. The competition was due to start this weekend, with cash prizes for...
Conquest Of Land Began In Shark Genome
Conquest Of Land Began In Shark Genome
NEWS
When the first four-legged animals sprouted fingers and toes, they took an ancient genetic recipe and simply extended the cooking time, say University of Florida scientists writing in Wednesdayus...
Saltwater Crocodile Eats Bull Shark
Saltwater Crocodile Eats Bull Shark
NEWS
They're two of the most feared natural predators in the Australia - but there was only ever going to be one winner in this battle of the beasts. This large saltwater crocodile made short work of...
Raja Ampat Tourism Entrance Fee And Tagging System
Raja Ampat Tourism Entrance Fee And Tagging System
NEWS
The Raja Ampat Regency Government is proud to announce the introduction of a tourism entrance fee system effective August 12th 2007. In accordance with Regency Law Number 63 and 64, the 2007...
David Doubilet Exhibit Upstate NY
David Doubilet Exhibit Upstate NY
NEWS
Ever want to go swimming off the coast of Australia with sea lions that would tickle you with their whiskers? Or dive into the warm waters of Indonesia through its picturesque coral reefs. For the...
Basking Sharks Spotted Off UK Coast
Basking Sharks Spotted Off UK Coast
NEWS
Large groups of basking sharks have been spotted off the Cornish coast during an aerial survey. The University of Exeter and Marine Conservation Society (MCS) recorded 18 basking sharks in two...
South Africa: Outcry At Plan To Slaughter Sharks
South Africa: Outcry At Plan To Slaughter Sharks
NEWS
Top marine scientists have lashed out at a planned shark-fishing competition off Durban next weekend with one describing it as a return to the "dark days of revenge killing" of the...
Protect Our Sharks, Protect Our Oceans
Protect Our Sharks, Protect Our Oceans
NEWS
Humans kill something like 100 million sharks annually. More humans are killed annually by dogs and by falling coconuts than are killed by sharks. At such levels, humanity will certainly survive...
Sandbar Sharks Get Some Help
Sandbar Sharks Get Some Help
NEWS
Federal fisheries officials are taking additional steps to protect sandbar sharks. A new rule would ban the recreational harvest of sandbar sharks - recognizable by their long pectoral fins -...
Fears For Shark Species As Fin Market Grows
Fears For Shark Species As Fin Market Grows
NEWS
A dramatic increase in shark fishing, fuelled by the lucrative shark fin market, is threatening already endangered species along the NSW coast. Long-line fishing methods used by shark fishermen...
Sea Life Safari Turns Kids Into Swimming Shutterbugs
Sea Life Safari Turns Kids Into Swimming Shutterbugs
NEWS
As the lazy days of summer draw to an end, how about taking the family on one last exotic vacation undersea to photograph fish u" all from the comfort of your computer? Just think of the money...
Baby Salmon Sharks Mysteriously Dying, Washing Ashore
Baby Salmon Sharks Mysteriously Dying, Washing Ashore
NEWS
Nearly a dozen dead juvenile salmon sharks, disoriented by brain infections and often mistaken for baby great whites, have washed up along Central Coast shores in the past month.And itus not the...
Call For Renewed Conservation Efforts Following Basking Shark Landing
Call For Renewed Conservation Efforts Following Basking Shark Landing
NEWS
THE Shark Alliance says it was on the scene for yesterday's fish market display of a six metre, two-ton, female basking shark, which it claims was landed illegally on Tuesday night in Zeebrugge,...
Photographer Swims With Gators
Photographer Swims With Gators
NEWS
The second Jose Fernandez slips into the cypress-lined Everglades pond, a resident alligator slices across green glassy water to confront him. Pushing seven feet and clearly pugnacious, even...
Rare Albino Shark Rules Deep
Rare Albino Shark Rules Deep
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PERHAPS this is the English shark that had our northern cousins in a cold sweat last week - after all, it's white, bloated and sports a set of decidedly dodgy teeth. This rare albino grey nurse...
Sign A Petition To Reinstate The Shark Fin Ban In Ecuador
Sign A Petition To Reinstate The Shark Fin Ban In Ecuador
NEWS
Sign a Petition to Reinstate the Shark Fin Ban in Ecuador. Last week we ran a story from The Guardian (UK): Hundreds of sharks have been slaughtered daily off the coast of Ecuador since a ban on...
Shark Blood Changes All The Time
Shark Blood Changes All The Time
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Sharks change their blood volume depending on the saltiness of the water they're swimming in, according to new research. So sharks must continuously regulate their blood and other body-fluid...
Raja Empat's Newest Dive Resort- An Introduction to Misool Eco Resort
Raja Empat's Newest Dive Resort- An Introduction to Misool Eco Resort
NEWS
A Place Like No Other Raja Ampat is considered by many to have the greatest marine biodiversity of any place on the planet. Recent findings are mind blowing, with approximately 1,000 species of...
Cocos - The Islands Of The Sharks
Cocos - The Islands Of The Sharks
NEWS
From May 18 to June 1 we invested two weeks between Malpelo (off Colombia) and Cocos islands (Off Costa Rica) both are about 250 miles west off the coast of Central America on board the superb...
Red Sea Oceanic Whitetip Image Search
Red Sea Oceanic Whitetip Image Search
NEWS
German researcher Elke Bojanowski, 37, is determined to identify every oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) in the Red Sea and she needs our help. In the past three years she has...
Ecologists Hit Out At Ecuador For Legalising Shark Fin Sales
Ecologists Hit Out At Ecuador For Legalising Shark Fin Sales
NEWS
Hundreds of sharks have been slaughtered daily off the coast of Ecuador since a ban on the sale of fins was lifted last week, prompting warnings of ecological disaster. Fishing boats have returned...
Cocos - The Islands of the Sharks
Cocos - The Islands of the Sharks
TRAVEL
From May 18 to June 1 we invested two weeks between Malpelo (off Colombia) and Cocos islands (Off Costa Rica) both are about 250 miles west off the coast of Central America on board the superb...
Ecuador's President Orders US Environmental Activist Expelled For Role In Shark Fin Seizure
Ecuador's President Orders US Environmental Activist Expelled For Role In Shark Fin Seizure
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President Rafael Correa said Saturday he has ordered a U.S. environmental activist deported from Ecuador for allegedly violating national sovereignty by taking part in a police seizure of two tons...
Shark Tag's Cross-country Journey
Shark Tag's Cross-country Journey
NEWS
The device is believed to have come off a basking shark in the Firth of Clyde. Scientists believe it was picked up by someone who lives in Ayrshire and is being kept in a bag. They want it...
More Sharks In Hong Kong Waters
More Sharks In Hong Kong Waters
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Cleaner waters and a more plentiful supply of fish could be luring more sharks to the territory than at any time in the last 10 years, a media report said on Sunday. The main beach at Stanley,...
Shark Tournament Not Without Controversy
Shark Tournament Not Without Controversy
NEWS
After a five-year absence, the Heritage Days shark fishing tournament is making a comeback on Saturday, drawing interest from fishermen and animal rights activists alike. Everyone is excited,...
Ecuadoran Police Confiscate 2 Tonnes Of Shark Fins
Ecuadoran Police Confiscate 2 Tonnes Of Shark Fins
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Police have seized about two tonnes of shark fins illegally fished in the days before a widely criticized presidential decree allowing the sale of fins if the sharks - some of them threatened...
Researchers Find Largest Whale Sharks Gathering
Researchers Find Largest Whale Sharks Gathering
NEWS
Researchers at the world's largest aquarium have found what is believed to be the world's largest gathering of the world's largest fish along the Mexican coast. A study released Thursday by the...
Shark Week...It's What's For Dinner?
Shark Week...It's What's For Dinner?
NEWS
Ever since Jaws debuted in 1975, Americans have been obsessed with sharks. And for the past 20 years, the Discovery Channel has been capitalizing on both our love and fear of the underwater...
UK Great White Shark Claim 'scaremongering'
UK Great White Shark Claim 'scaremongering'
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Coastguards and shark experts have dismissed claims of a great white shark sighting off the Cornish coast as 'scaremongering'. An unidentified creature was filmed breaching near a pod of dolphins...
Woman's 'shark Tale' Has Happy Ending
Woman's 'shark Tale' Has Happy Ending
NEWS
Nikki Wernke hoped her shark tale would end happily. The Dubuque resident created an on-line petition in June, asking Da Vinci's restaurant to cease serving a meal that included a threatened...
Shark Cartilage Proved Ineffective Against Cancer
Shark Cartilage Proved Ineffective Against Cancer
NEWS
Cancer researchers have been studying shark cartilage for years because cartilage is one of the few tissues without blood vessels, which tumors need to grow. In the largest study of its kind,...
WWF Launches Bid To Save Southern Africa Fisheries
WWF Launches Bid To Save Southern Africa Fisheries
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Fisheries in southern Africa face further decline unless a new approach to fishing is adopted, the World Wildlife Fund said on Wednesday at the launch of a report aimed at protecting the region's...
NOAA Proposes Stringent Limits To Sandbar Shark Fishing
NOAA Proposes Stringent Limits To Sandbar Shark Fishing
NEWS
NOAA Fisheries Service is proposing that commercial and recreational fishing for sandbar sharks be significantly reduced and limited to only those commercial vessels that take part in a shark...
Catch-Release Angling Injures Fish
Catch-Release Angling Injures Fish
NEWS
Catch and release fishing seems like a win win-situation, with recreational anglers experiencing the thrill of a catch, while their prey can, in theory, swim safely away. But that's not always...
Ecuador Lifts Ban On Sale Of Shark Fins
Ecuador Lifts Ban On Sale Of Shark Fins
NEWS
Ecuador's president overturned a ban on the sale of shark fins, which are popular in Asia, but stipulated they can only be sold if the sharks are caught by fishermen accidentally. In a...
2007 WildAid Shark Report
2007 WildAid Shark Report
NEWS
As shark populations plummet worldwide, Marine Reserves are the new target of illegal fisheries. Many of the world's marine protected areas, such as the Galapagos Islands and Cocos Islands, are...
Rare Whale Shark Seen In Local Waters
Rare Whale Shark Seen In Local Waters
NEWS
Recreational fishermen often say theyuve seen a shark bigger than their boat, and all you can do is say, uA…aˆ?Uh huh.uA‚A? But donut discount the fish story told by Jerry Helms and Harry...
Hunter And Hunted, Sharks A Diverse Species In Danger
Hunter And Hunted, Sharks A Diverse Species In Danger
NEWS
But putting aside the fear factor for a moment, have you ever wondered about the sharks themselves? It turns out that sharks are absolutely fascinating creatures. They have existed on our planet...
Open Letter To Discovery Networks Shark Week
Open Letter To Discovery Networks Shark Week
NEWS
In response to the programming content of this year's Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, members of the International SHARK-L Discussion List have recently got together to write the following...
No More Sharks In The Soup, Says Conservation Group
No More Sharks In The Soup, Says Conservation Group
NEWS
A conservation group has warned that sharks could be extinct within a generation unless people lose their appetite for shark fin soup, Reuters reports. WildAid today called on the Chinese...
Open Letter to Discovery Networks
Open Letter to Discovery Networks
NEWS
Members of the International SHARK - L Discussion List have recently got together to write the following letter to Discovery Network regarding Shark Week programming. If you feel that you agree...
Glow-in-the-Dark Sharks At Risk?
Glow-in-the-Dark Sharks At Risk?
NEWS
One of the first ever detailed studies on deep water lantern sharks, so named for their ability to glow in the dark, has found they are in danger of extinction. Recent studies have linked...
Stop Shark Fishing in Tobago
Stop Shark Fishing in Tobago
NEWS
"In recent weeks a fishing boat has been coming into Speyside in Tobago and shark fishing off little Tobago. This kind of targeted fishing is indiscriminate. They are catching sharks of all...
Are Whale Sharks The New Panda?
Are Whale Sharks The New Panda?
NEWS
No visit to the Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta is complete without a stroll through its most impressive feature, a transparent tunnel that transverses the world's largest fish tank. When...
Official Shark Awareness Day
Official Shark Awareness Day
NEWS
Is that 180 bowl of shark fin soup really worth its eco-cost? Did you know that this Saturday, July 14th, is official Shark Awareness Day? Much as we love to hate this fearsome predator of the...
Dinos, Sharks Were Predators And Prey
Dinos, Sharks Were Predators And Prey
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Sharks and dinosaurs in prehistoric Europe had a taste for each other, suggests a new review of vertebrate fossils found in the Galve region of Northeast Spain. Diverse findings dating from the...
Firms Want Eaters Hooked On Shark Meat
Firms Want Eaters Hooked On Shark Meat
NEWS
In recent but more barbaric times, sharks caught as a by-catch of a tuna haul had their dorsal fins sliced off and were dumped back into the sea for a slow and agonizing death. While the fins...
Whale Sharks In Decline
Whale Sharks In Decline
NEWS
Fears that whale shark numbers are in decline have been confirmed even though a large number of countries have ceased harvesting the world's largest fish. "Because these animals migrate...
Tiger Sharks Keep Seagrass Tidy
Tiger Sharks Keep Seagrass Tidy
NEWS
Australian tiger sharks keep a tidy lawn for their marine neighbors by controlling where local herbivores can nibble, according to a study published in the current issue of Animal Behavior. The...
Basking Shark Stranded After Being Caught In Illegal Drift Net
Basking Shark Stranded After Being Caught In Illegal Drift Net
NEWS
Drift netting is believed to be responsible for the stranding of a large basking shark found dead on a Kerry beach. The three-metre long female shark - they grow to up to three times that...
Declaration, Manifesto for Immediate Worldwide Shark Conservation Actions
Declaration, Manifesto for Immediate Worldwide Shark Conservation Actions
NEWS
An initiated global correspondence toward issue recognition, situational awareness and public information regarding biological destruction of sharks and related or associated species and systems....
Stop Shark Fishing In Tobago
Stop Shark Fishing In Tobago
NEWS
"In recent weeks a fishing boat has been coming into Speyside in Tobago and shark fishing off little Tobago. This kind of targeted fishing is indiscriminate. They are catching sharks of all...
Final Submissions In Shark Protection Case
Final Submissions In Shark Protection Case
NEWS
Final submissions are expected to be heard today in a court case aimed at protecting grey nurse sharks. The Nature Conservation Council's Megan Kessler says the main threat to the sharks is...
Bali Wobbegong Revealed
Bali Wobbegong Revealed
NEWS
FiNS Magazine Associate Editors, DPG Contributors and marine life book authors Andrea and Antonella Ferrari (link http://www.reefwonders.net) have been lucky enough during a recent trip to Bali to...
Some Sharks Nearly Wiped Out
Some Sharks Nearly Wiped Out
NEWS
Researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science said the presence of sharks in the state's coastal waters should not surprise or alarm people. Dean Grubbs, a researcher at VIMS, directs...
NOAA Partners With US Fish & Wildlife Service To Curb Shark Finning
NOAA Partners With US Fish & Wildlife Service To Curb Shark Finning
NEWS
NOAA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have joined forces to expand their ability to analyze dried shark fins and identify the species from which they were removed. This new partnership will...
You Can Help Us Save Sharks
You Can Help Us Save Sharks
NEWS
A Letter from Rob Stewart, Director of SHARKWATER Help us convince Canada, New Zealand and United States to save two species of sharks. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered...
Video: Maxine The Ragged Tooth Shark
Video: Maxine The Ragged Tooth Shark
NEWS
Maxine is a ragged toothed shark with an interesting history. This video details the life and struggles of this beautiful creature...
Elasmobranch Scanner Tech Ready For War On Terror
Elasmobranch Scanner Tech Ready For War On Terror
NEWS
The US Navy's plan to detect mines and other underwater objects by their electrical fields - in the same way as sharks and rays find prey - has moved closer to reality. Elasmobranch fish (rays,...
UWP Mag Issue#37 Available For Download
UWP Mag Issue#37 Available For Download
NEWS
Jam packed in this issue you'll find: Guadalupe Photography Workshop with Charles Hood, Wild Photos 2007, Antibes Film Festival, Asian Diverus Ocean Odyssey Digital Shoot Out, DivePhotoGuide...
Ragged Tooth Shark Rescued
Ragged Tooth Shark Rescued
NEWS
Maxine a ragged tooth shark that was rescued after being caught by fishermen...
Predatory Nature
Predatory Nature
NEWS
The fin is unmistakable. Slicing through the wavy foreground of a vast ocean, with the sun majestically setting behind, it resonates with ominous connotations: danger, predation, strength, speed,...
Predator Is Prey: Sharks Killed For Fins
Predator Is Prey: Sharks Killed For Fins
NEWS
Sharks get a bad rap in the media, often portrayed as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters. But there's a profound change going on in the world's oceans, as sharks go from predator to prey. It's...
Bad Press For Shark Fin Broker Alibaba.com
Bad Press For Shark Fin Broker Alibaba.com
NEWS
Porter Erison and Cristina Spindler are the marketing and PR-executives of Alibaba.com - this is what I wrote to them today: Dear Porter, dear Cristina: Toward the end of October 2006 I...
Man Swims With Sharks To Save Them
Man Swims With Sharks To Save Them
NEWS
Rob Stewart spent five years swimming with u" and hugging u" sharks, but he never felt threatened until he ran into humans. His brush with death, he told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer, came while the...
International Ban On Shark Finning Adopted
International Ban On Shark Finning Adopted
NEWS
The Ocean Conservancy and Defenders of Wildlife have applauded the adoption of an international ban on shark finning by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC). Finning - the...
Parasites Suck Toxins From Sharks
Parasites Suck Toxins From Sharks
NEWS
Parasitic worms inside the guts of sharks are absorbing high concentrations of toxic heavy metals, researchers have found. The worms could be useful to scientists trying to check up on the health...
Shark Pregnancy Baffles Aquarium
Shark Pregnancy Baffles Aquarium
NEWS
Veterinarian Bob George sliced open the dead shark and saw the outline of a fish. No surprise there, since sharks digest their food slowly. Then George realized he wasn't looking at the...
Interaction between Killer Whales and Hammerhead Sharks in Galapagos Waters
Interaction between Killer Whales and Hammerhead Sharks in Galapagos Waters
NEWS
A possible predatory interaction between killer whales (Orcinus orca) and hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna sp.) was observed during April 1991 near Punta Cormorant, Galupagos Islands. Three killer whales...
Robot Sub Explores Giant Canyon
Robot Sub Explores Giant Canyon
NEWS
Using Britain's ISIS robot submarine - a van-sized bundle of high-technology - researchers are for the first time able to view previously hidden features up to 5km (three miles) deep in the Nazare...
Declaration, Manifesto For Immediate Worldwide Shark Conservation Actions
Declaration, Manifesto For Immediate Worldwide Shark Conservation Actions
NEWS
An initiated global correspondence toward issue recognition, situational awareness and public information regarding biological destruction of sharks and related or associated species and systems. A...
Shark Population Staging A Return
Shark Population Staging A Return
NEWS
It seems an unlikely place to catch leopard sharks and bat rays, but the smaller channels of the slough here were crawling with them Monday as Earthwatch Institute teamed with the Pelagic Shark...
That Was No Fish Story, It Was A Real Great White Shark
That Was No Fish Story, It Was A Real Great White Shark
NEWS
The shark caught eight miles off Indian River Inlet earlier this month was a juvenile great white, according to state environmental officials. DNA tests done at the Guy Harvey Research Institute...
Whale Sharks Tracked Through Honduras, Belize And Mexico
Whale Sharks Tracked Through Honduras, Belize And Mexico
NEWS
In the aftermath of another Whale Shark death at Georgia Aquarium, here is a group of researchers that are using ground breaking technology to achieve real research results with out the aid of...
Volunteer Efforts Pay Off For Sea Turtles
Volunteer Efforts Pay Off For Sea Turtles
NEWS
Earthwatch volunteers who joined the Black Sea Turtles of Baja expeditions in the late 90s can look back at all those long days of hauling uncooperative sea turtles aboard small boats to weigh and...
NZ & Japan Oppose Conservation Of Sharks At CITES
NZ & Japan Oppose Conservation Of Sharks At CITES
NEWS
The New Zealand Government is coming under fire from conservation groups for helping to block European Union proposals that would see two threatened shark species gain greater protection. CITES...
Trade Restrictions Approved For Endangered Rays
Trade Restrictions Approved For Endangered Rays
NEWS
The Hague, The Netherlands - Trade restrictions have been approved for critically endangered sawfish, large rays related to sharks. Delegates attending a meeting of the Convention on...
Pacific Fishery Expansion Denied
Pacific Fishery Expansion Denied
NEWS
Responding to concerns by scientists and conservation groups, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) affirmed protections for critically endangered leatherback sea turtles in California...
Shark Tourneys Should Be Extinct
Shark Tourneys Should Be Extinct
NEWS
With some species on endangered lists, others depleted, it's time to end the big- money killing orgies. What will they hunt when the sharks are gone? Which will be the next species pursued...
Bali Wobbegong Revealed!
Bali Wobbegong Revealed!
NEWS
FiNS Magazine Associate Editors, DPG Contributors and marine life book authors Andrea and Antonella Ferrari (link http://www.reefwonders.net) have been lucky enough during a recent trip to Bali to...
Celebrate The Sea Marine Imagery Festival Philippines 2007
Celebrate The Sea Marine Imagery Festival Philippines 2007
NEWS
OceanNEnvironment Australia is pleased to announce in collaboration with the Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Philippines Commission on Sports Scuba Diving (PCSSD), to present the 6th...
Humane Society Targets Eastern Shore Shark Tournament
Humane Society Targets Eastern Shore Shark Tournament
NEWS
The nation's largest animal rights group wants to end the Ocean City Shark Tournament, saying shark fishing techniques are barbaric and the tournament harms dwindling populations of thresher, blue...
No Love For Sharks
No Love For Sharks
NEWS
A United Nations forum on endangered species rejected bids on Friday to put in place controls on the multi-million dollar trade in two types of sharks, highly prized for their meat and fins. The...
Shark Trade Restriction Bid Fails
Shark Trade Restriction Bid Fails
NEWS
Attempts to restrict trade in two threatened shark species through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) have failed. Delegates voted down EU proposals to limit...
Haven For Turtles & Sharks Discoverd In The Bahamas
Haven For Turtles & Sharks Discoverd In The Bahamas
NEWS
With warm waters and ideal natural habitats, the Bahamas are known as prime breeding grounds for a variety of marine species. So Nature Conservancy scientists, partners, and volunteers were...
Need A Job Helping To Protect Central American Sharks?
Need A Job Helping To Protect Central American Sharks?
NEWS
MarViva is a non-governmental, non-profit organization that works jointly with local authorities and communities in order to protect the coastal and marine resources of the Eastern Tropical Pacific...
You Can Help Us Save Sharks
You Can Help Us Save Sharks
NEWS
A Letter from Rob Stewart, Director of SHARKWATER -- Help us convince Canada, New Zealand and United States to save two species of sharks. The Convention on International Trade in...
Sharks Use Strange Trick To Hunt Prey
Sharks Use Strange Trick To Hunt Prey
NEWS
Like dogs, sharks rely on a keen sense of smell to track down food. But new research shows noses aren't the only way that sharks detect smells: Their entire bodies, in fact, function as giant noses...
Australian Conservationists Fight For Grey Nurse Shark Protection In Court
Australian Conservationists Fight For Grey Nurse Shark Protection In Court
NEWS
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) on Monday resumed legal action calling for 18 strict no-fishing zones to be introduced along the NSW coast, amid fears the shark could be wiped out....
Humans Have A Bit Of Shark In Them
Humans Have A Bit Of Shark In Them
NEWS
Some 450 million years ago, sharks and humans shared a common ancestor, making sharks our distant cousins. And according to recent research, this kinship is evident in our DNA, as at least one...
Research: Sharks Use Their Nose, Special Skin To Locate Smells
Research: Sharks Use Their Nose, Special Skin To Locate Smells
NEWS
Sharks are known to have a keen sense of smell, which in many species is critical for finding food. However, according to new research from Boston University marine biologists, sharks can not use...
Chinese Support Shark Conservation, But Still Demand Shark Fin
Chinese Support Shark Conservation, But Still Demand Shark Fin
NEWS
There is growing public support in China for shark conservation measures, but little understanding of the role of shark finning in declining shark populations, reveals a survey by WildAid, an...
Tiger Shark Diving: Tiger Beach Vs. Aliwal Shoal
Tiger Shark Diving: Tiger Beach Vs. Aliwal Shoal
NEWS
Which place is 'better'? Now, this is a tough question I have been asked after I returned from South Africa three weeks ago. Both spots are great, probably the only ones in the world where you are...
Concern Over Decline In Australia's Whale Shark Numbers
Concern Over Decline In Australia's Whale Shark Numbers
NEWS
A leading environmental group is calling on the Australian government to negotiate with its Asian neighbours to help stem the decline in whale shark numbers. Marine scientists are concerned...
Fish Story's New Reality Is That Man Bites Shark
Fish Story's New Reality Is That Man Bites Shark
NEWS
Year after year, beach season brings accounts of harrowing shark attacks as people around the world plunge into the surf to escape summer's heat. But the reality is that these fearsome predators...
Shark Law's Problem Is 'bycatch' Loophole
Shark Law's Problem Is 'bycatch' Loophole
NEWS
Mexico's NOM-0-29 seems positive on the surface, but some question whether it sufficiently protects fish such as marlin, sailfish and dorado that have been off-limits to commercial fishermen....
Sharks At Risk As Traditions Decline
Sharks At Risk As Traditions Decline
NEWS
Weather disasters, economic pressures and other problems have disrupted the lives of Pacific Islanders near Australia to the point that they too are now mismanaging their natural resources. This...
Royal Photographic Society Gold Won With Underwater Shot
Royal Photographic Society Gold Won With Underwater Shot
NEWS
The Royal Photographic Society is pleased to announce the Award winners for its prestigious International Print Exhibition which, this year, celebrates its 150th Anniversary. The Gold Award was won...
NOAA Eyes Shark Kill To Rescue Monk Seals
NOAA Eyes Shark Kill To Rescue Monk Seals
NEWS
Federal scientists desperate to save the endangered Hawaiian monk seal from extinction want permission to kill Galapagos sharks that have been attacking and killing young seals in the Northwestern...
Chinese Know Little About Shark Conservation-survey
Chinese Know Little About Shark Conservation-survey
NEWS
There is growing public support in China for the need to protect the world's dwindling shark population, but little understanding about the connection between conservation and shark finning,...
Blue Water, White Death Scheduled For DVD Release
Blue Water, White Death Scheduled For DVD Release
NEWS
In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Discovery Channel's Shark Week, MGM Home Entertainment honors the primal predator with three never before released on DVD shark films, available July...
Captive Shark Had 'virgin Birth'
Captive Shark Had 'virgin Birth'
NEWS
Female hammerhead sharks can reproduce without having sex, scientists confirm. The evidence comes from a shark at Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska which gave birth to a pup in 2001 despite having had...
Taiwan To Ban Whale Shark Consumption Trade By 2008
Taiwan To Ban Whale Shark Consumption Trade By 2008
NEWS
Taiwan will ban the harvest and sale of whale sharks beginning in 2008, a decision that could have repercussions at the Georgia Aquarium and other facilities where the world's largest fish are...
Call To Ban Shark Finning At Sea
Call To Ban Shark Finning At Sea
NEWS
Fisheries should be banned from cutting fins off sharks while still at sea, to stem a dramatic decline in their populations, scientists and conservationists warned yesterday. The move would close...
Best Of British
Best Of British
NEWS
A DVD which showcases the best of British diving has been produced by the BSAC, together with underwater film-maker and BBC journalist John McIntyre. The Dive Master Insurance-sponsored DVD...
Sharks Have No Secrets
Sharks Have No Secrets
NEWS
A group of local scientists and "real" shark fans are discovering more about the secrets of migratory tiger sharks off the Aliwal Shoal, south of Durban. By inserting sophisticated...
EU Shark Ban Ineffective
EU Shark Ban Ineffective
NEWS
The European Union's shark finning regulations are hopelessly inadequate, allowing vast numbers of sharks to be killed, finned and dumped at sea in secret, a report by a conservation group said on...
Portraits In Underwater Photography
Portraits In Underwater Photography
NEWS
I dedicate this page to all the people who love the sea and to all divers who try to take portraits of sea animals with their cameras in every dive; faces, liveries, colours , forms and behaviors...
Penguins Die Agonising Deaths In Shark Net Trap
Penguins Die Agonising Deaths In Shark Net Trap
NEWS
Twenty-three of the birds suffered agonising deaths when they were caught in the massive net. They drowned in the trap, which was floating in Port Phillip Bay off Queenscliff. Shocked wildlife...
Georgia Aquarium To Get 2 New Whale Sharks
Georgia Aquarium To Get 2 New Whale Sharks
NEWS
Reports out of Taiwan say the world's largest aquarium will be adding two more whale sharks. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that officials on the east Asia island are ready to...
Mako's Death Was Senseless, Tragic
Mako's Death Was Senseless, Tragic
NEWS
The magnificent 12-foot, 1,063-pound shortfin mako shark tragically and senselessly killed between Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach on April 18 was a female between 20 and 30 years old. She was a...
UK Basking Sharks Arrive Early
UK Basking Sharks Arrive Early
NEWS
Basking sharks made an earlier appearance in UK waters this year, with two sightings in Wales in March and rare April sightings in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. The Marine Conservation...
Basking Shark In Danger Of Extinction
Basking Shark In Danger Of Extinction
NEWS
Canada's giant basking sharks face extinction because of government measures decades ago to stop them disrupting salmon fishing, an official committee on threatened species said on Tuesday....
Dead Sharks Found After Fishing Contest
Dead Sharks Found After Fishing Contest
NEWS
Shark conservationists are outraged by the killing of at least one and possibly two protected great whites on the southern Cape Coast, apparently during a fishing competition. The competition...
Shark Conspiracies: Cover-ups, Misinformation
Shark Conspiracies: Cover-ups, Misinformation
NEWS
The May, 2007 episode of Shark Conspiracies is now available for free download. Shark Conspiracies explores shark sightings and attacks in a new way, by exposing the cover-ups and misinformation...
Sharks: Stewards Of The Reef At NCUPS
Sharks: Stewards Of The Reef At NCUPS
NEWS
The Northern California Underwater Photographic Society, proudly presents a very special seminar with environmental documentary filmmaker, David McGuire of Trillium Films, Friday, May 11, 2007. Mr....
DNA Testing Reveals Illegal Trade Of Basking Shark Fins
DNA Testing Reveals Illegal Trade Of Basking Shark Fins
NEWS
hark from further population declines, a new study published in the current on-line edition of Animal Conservation reports that the world's second largest fish is still being killed for its...
Georgia Wants Whale Sharks, But Taiwan Demands Answers
Georgia Wants Whale Sharks, But Taiwan Demands Answers
NEWS
Three months after the mysterious death of a prized whale shark, the Georgia Aquarium has applied to the Taiwanese government for two more. Officials in Taiwan, however, raised concerns this...
Sharkwater: Exclusive NYC Screening May 9th
Sharkwater: Exclusive NYC Screening May 9th
NEWS
See the documentary everyone is talking about months before its US Release. Meet Director Rob Stewart and other world-reknowned shark experts Make a difference at a special fundraiser to benefit...
Video: Man & Great White Interactions
Video: Man & Great White Interactions
NEWS
I heard about this video on a message board. Beautifully shot and definitely risky to a degree, this video demonstrates that man can interact with the Great White, outside of a cage, at length...
A Tale About Sharks
A Tale About Sharks
NEWS
Some folks are quick to give sharks a bad rep without considering their importance as top feeders in the marine food web. But when we remove these so-called lions of the ocean from their habitat...
NCUPS Presents Filmmaker David McGuire Of Trillium Films
NCUPS Presents Filmmaker David McGuire Of Trillium Films
NEWS
The Northern California Underwater Photographic Society (www.NCUPS.org), proudly presents a very special seminar with environmental documentary filmmaker, David McGuire of Trillium Films, Friday,...
DNA Testing Reveals Continued, Illegal Trade In Fins Of Endangered Basking Sharks
DNA Testing Reveals Continued, Illegal Trade In Fins Of Endangered Basking Sharks
NEWS
Despite regulations by some countries to protect the behemoth basking shark from further population declines, a new study published in the current on-line edition of Animal Conservation reports...
Stuart Cove Appears On CNBC - Discusses Underwater Film Making
Stuart Cove Appears On CNBC - Discusses Underwater Film Making
NEWS
Stuart Cove's shark diving adventures explored on national cable TV show. Dive Bahamas continues to be THE place for Hollywood underwater productions. Shark Diving Wrangler, Stuart Cove, was...
New Zealand Law's Lack Of Teeth - Bad News For Sharks
New Zealand Law's Lack Of Teeth - Bad News For Sharks
NEWS
From this month, all great white sharks in New Zealand's territorial waters are protected under the Wildlife Act. At first glance it seems a joke to protect the most feared predator in the ocean....
Protests Against Philppine Mine Near Whale Shark Habitat
Protests Against Philppine Mine Near Whale Shark Habitat
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Environmentalists held protests Monday in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and The Netherlands in a bid to convince international bank ABN AMRO to withdraw support for the controversial Lafayette mine...
Largest Mako Ever Taken From The Oceans - What A Shame
Largest Mako Ever Taken From The Oceans - What A Shame
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A 1,063-pound mako shark hooked close to shore in the Gulf of Mexico is being investigated as a possible world fishing record. The Sea Ya Later II was cobia fishing when its crew spotted the...
This Earth Day, Remember The Deep-sea
This Earth Day, Remember The Deep-sea
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The goblin shark (shown here) and the frill shark are two of the rarest and deepest dwelling of sharks. Only two of each species have been taken in North America EVER. That's why researcher Jose...
8 Million Sharks Killed Accidentally Off Africa Yearly
8 Million Sharks Killed Accidentally Off Africa Yearly
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At least 7.8 million sharks are killed off southern Africa each year by hooks intended for other animals, a new study says. Accidentally caught animals, or bycatch, also include some 34,000...
'Sharkwater' Takes Top Prizes At Gen Art
'Sharkwater' Takes Top Prizes At Gen Art
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Helmer Rob Stewart's underwater Canuck doc "Sharkwater" garnered top prizes at the 12th annual Gen Art Film Festival in Gotham this week. Pic is the first documentary to win fest's grand...
How Anglers Are Killing The Grey Nurse Shark
How Anglers Are Killing The Grey Nurse Shark
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Some legal action to push the Australian government to do more about the conservation of Grey Nurse Sharks than just announcing the fact is is now critically endangered is underway at the moment....
Shark Dead In Fishing Net In Red Sea Marine Park
Shark Dead In Fishing Net In Red Sea Marine Park
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A hammerhead shark was discovered lying dead in fishing nets in a designated marine park off Hurghada in the Egyptian Red Sea by divers this week. A technical diving instructor and his three...
Basking Shark Rescued Off Cornish Coast
Basking Shark Rescued Off Cornish Coast
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A basking shark was found close to death after it was entangled in a fishing net off Britain's Cornish coast. The 12-foot shark recovered quickly after it was cut free, The Times of London said...
Study Finds When Sharks Disappear, So Do Shellfish
Study Finds When Sharks Disappear, So Do Shellfish
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A team of Canadian and American scientists says that the overfishing of large sharks has led to an explosion of small predators that are devastating populations of shellfish. VOA's David McAlary...
Species Falling Victim To Benguela Butchery
Species Falling Victim To Benguela Butchery
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South African vessels account for about 500 of the estimated 33 850 seabirds killed a year during long-line fishing operations in the Benguela Current ecosystem. About 200 of these are taken on...
Bull Sharks Not Bulldozers In Bimini
Bull Sharks Not Bulldozers In Bimini
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I like SharkTrust's caption on a photo illustrating an article about the development going on in the Bahamas around Bimini. "Bull sharks not bulldozers." The bulldozers have already wreaked havoc...
Longline Fishing Kills Large Quantities Of Sharks, Sea Birds, Turtles
Longline Fishing Kills Large Quantities Of Sharks, Sea Birds, Turtles
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More than seven million sharks and skates are killed every year as an unintended consequence of longline fishing off the west coasts of South Africa, Namibia and Angola, a report by environmental...
Save The Sharks
Save The Sharks
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In August 1999, I was a 19-year-old photographer on assignment to photograph sharks in the Galapagos Islands. Instead of filming the creatures in all their majesty, I wound up releasing dying...
Reminder: Xray-Mag Issue #16
Reminder: Xray-Mag Issue #16
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105 full spreads of HOT stuff in this, our biggest ever issue: PHILIPPINES - Diving the Visayas. AMBON - the spice islands in Indonesia. Protecting the Sharks: Wolfgang Leander + Rob...
Ten Vietnamese Fishermen 'Caught In The Act' Of Shark Finning Off Palawan
Ten Vietnamese Fishermen 'Caught In The Act' Of Shark Finning Off Palawan
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Personnel of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) arrested 10 Vietnamese fishermen who were caught poaching within the Philippine waters off an island in Balabac, Palawan, aboard a...
Xray-Mag Issue #16 Available For Download
Xray-Mag Issue #16 Available For Download
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PHILIPPINES - Diving the Visayas. AMBON - the spice islands in Indonesia. Protecting the Sharks: Wolfgang Leander + Rob Stewart/Sharkwater movie. Divemedicine: Why antioxidants protects divers....
Shark-fin Industry Puts Species Under Threat
Shark-fin Industry Puts Species Under Threat
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I am grateful to Sara Valentin for bringing attention to yet another establishment which sees no wrong in offering shark-fin products to its customers (See Woo restaurant, Going Out, March 22)....
Shark Finning On The Frontier
Shark Finning On The Frontier
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The following piece was written by Shawn Heinrichs, who won first place in the 2nd Annual Wetpixel & DivePhotoGuide International Underwater Photo & Video Competition at Our World...
Overfishing Large Sharks Impacts Entire Marine Ecosystem
Overfishing Large Sharks Impacts Entire Marine Ecosystem
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Fewer big sharks in the oceans mean that bay scallops and other shellfish may be harder to find at the market, according to an article in the March 30 issue of the journal Science, tying two...
Stomach Problems Led To Whale Shark's Death
Stomach Problems Led To Whale Shark's Death
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The January death of a whale shark at the Georgia Aquarium was likely caused by stomach problems that led to an inflammation of a key membrane in the abdomen, officials said Wednesday. The...
Group Unveils Restaurants Selling Controversial Shark-Fin Soup
Group Unveils Restaurants Selling Controversial Shark-Fin Soup
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The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is leading an effort with support from fellow animal protection and conservation organizations to contact restaurants in the Washington Metropolitan Area that...
Video: Goblin Shark In Japan
Video: Goblin Shark In Japan
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A rare Goblin Shark is living in the Takyo Aquarium. We found this video clip and thought our members would enjoy it...
Three Sharks Die In Aquarium Move
Three Sharks Die In Aquarium Move
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The black tipped reef sharks were three of five moved 70 miles (112km) from Great Yarmouth to their refurbished tank at the Hunstanton Sea Life Centre. The centre said the deaths were...
Chinese Fisherman Serve Up World's Largest Shark Steak
Chinese Fisherman Serve Up World's Largest Shark Steak
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It's no longer a secret how five loaves and two fish managed to feed the five thousand - especially if the sea-dwelling delicacies in question were as big as this mammoth fish. More likely to...
UMS Team Finds Rare Shark
UMS Team Finds Rare Shark
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A rare and endangered shark, not scientifically reported for more than a century, is among marine creatures that have been discovered by Universiti Malaysia Sabah researchers. UMS...
Saving Them From The Fire
Saving Them From The Fire
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Manila Restaurants Abolish Endangered Dishes. Shark fin Siomai. Turtle Soup. Chilean Sea Bass. Three of many dishes widely served in local and international restaurants. Delicious perhaps....
Praying For A Predator
Praying For A Predator
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Until man came along, sharks ruled the seas. Among the ocean's first vertebrates, sharks have been around for more than 400 million years. During that time, they have had an impact on all aspects...
Dead Sharks And Rays Wash Ashore In Florida
Dead Sharks And Rays Wash Ashore In Florida
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Dead sharks are crashing the area's spring break party. Dozens of juvenile bonnethead sharks and stingrays washed ashore Tuesday on Fort Myers Beach and Lovers Key State Park. As many as 25 sharks...
CHINA - Take Shark's Fin Soup Off Menu For Olympics
CHINA - Take Shark's Fin Soup Off Menu For Olympics
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Shark's fin soup should be removed from the menu at Chinese official banquets to prevent damage to the country's image during the Olympic Games next year, according to a lawmaker Tuesday....
Coast Guard Seizes Mexican Fishing Boat
Coast Guard Seizes Mexican Fishing Boat
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The U.S. Coast Guard seized a Mexican fishing boat carrying tons of shark and an undisclosed number of shark fins after the vessel was spotted Sunday allegedly poaching 11 miles inside U.S....
Shark Slaughter In Yemen
Shark Slaughter In Yemen
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Marine environmental group Project AWARE foundation has appealed to the Yemeni government to take action against shark fishing, after it received reports about systematic shark slaughter taking...
You Can Help - Petition Against Shark Finning!
You Can Help - Petition Against Shark Finning!
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Alibaba.com is one of the largest online traders of seafood and other products, especially shark fin - without regards to source or sustainability. The practice of shark finning, where a shark is...
Mexico Passes Shark Finning Ban
Mexico Passes Shark Finning Ban
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In a surprising move, the Mexican government has recently published sweeping new regulations and protections for sharks, including a shark finning ban, an extension of the moratorium on new...
National Geographic: An Eden For Sharks
National Geographic: An Eden For Sharks
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In the March issue of National Geographic, journalist Jennifer Holland shares her story of close encounters with sharks while on assignment in the Bahamas. Accompanying her was photojournalist...
Shark Hunt Drags In The Giants
Shark Hunt Drags In The Giants
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SHARK patrol officers have caught an unusually large number of big maneaters in the past two months. Rain usually brings the predators closer to shore, so the drought means the number of sharks...
Bullsharks Not Bulldozers In Bimini
Bullsharks Not Bulldozers In Bimini
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I like SharkTrust's caption on a photo illustrating an article about the development going on in the Bahamas around Bimini. "Bullsharks not bulldozers." The bulldozers have already wreaked havoc in...
Australian Whale Sharks Under Threat From Proposed Salt Mine
Australian Whale Sharks Under Threat From Proposed Salt Mine
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Straits Resources proposes to construct 411 square kilometres of evaporative 'solar' salt ponds across the discharge of the Yannarie system. A complex system of rock retaining walls would extend 70...
Interaction Between Killer Whales & Hammerhead Sharks In The Galapagos
Interaction Between Killer Whales & Hammerhead Sharks In The Galapagos
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A possible predatory interaction between killer whales (Orcinus orca) and hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna sp.) was observed during April 1991 near Punta Cormorant, Galupagos Islands. Three killer...
The Great Eggcase Hunt
The Great Eggcase Hunt
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How will you take your eggs this Easter - covered in chocolate, painted and rolled down a hill, or sunny-side up? All very festive, but for Britain's growing army of skate enthusiasts, the most...
UWP Mag Issue #35 Available For Download
UWP Mag Issue #35 Available For Download
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New York Underwater Photo Society/ Dive Photo Guide competitions/ Bahama sharks with Eric Cheng/ Truk with Martin Edge/ Emerald Seas Best Cover Design/ Dominica recompression chamber/ The...
Twenty New Shark & Ray Species Found In Indonesia
Twenty New Shark & Ray Species Found In Indonesia
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Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday. The survey by the...
Australia - Macho Shark Slaughterers Everywhere
Australia - Macho Shark Slaughterers Everywhere
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One of our underwater.com.au members alerted me to this story and yes there have been way to many crazt stories like this in the press lately. Jo's words on this topic: Many more similar...
"Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind?" - Deep Sea Trawling
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This rare sighting of a living frilled shark in such shallow waters was firstly reported to marine park scientists by a fisherman. The incredible video of the prehistoric shark was definitely very...
Video: Smallest Shark Comes In At A Whopping 10cm
Video: Smallest Shark Comes In At A Whopping 10cm
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This is a translated Japanese page via Babelfish, so please bear with the grammar translation. There is a great video that you can watch of the 10com tiny sharks...
Scientists Add Shark Species To Endangered List
Scientists Add Shark Species To Endangered List
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Scientists added several species of deep sea sharks on Thursday to the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) endangered Red List due to overfishing. At a meeting in Oxford, England, the...
Rare Shark Born At Sydney Aquarium
Rare Shark Born At Sydney Aquarium
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Sydney aquarium has successfully bred a critically endangered grey nurse shark for the second time. A male shark pup was born at Oceanworld Manly on February 6 to 20-year-old mother Pallas....
Remembering R. Aidan Martin, Friend Of Sharks
Remembering R. Aidan Martin, Friend Of Sharks
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It's never easy to lose a friend or a loved one. But in this case, not only do we lose our friend, but we lose an incredibly talented and passionate marine biologist and conservationist who...
Remembering R. Aidan Martin, Friend Of Sharks
Remembering R. Aidan Martin, Friend Of Sharks
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It's never easy to lose a friend or a loved one. But in this case, not only do we lose our friend, but we lose an incredibly talented and passionate marine biologist and conservationist who...
Sharkwater Grabs Top Honors At Palm Springs Fest
Sharkwater Grabs Top Honors At Palm Springs Fest
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Rob Stewart's critically acclaimed, award-winning film Sharkwater, had viewers captivated at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The film was named a Best of the Fest. Sharkwater has...
Shark Decline Takes Bite Out Of Attacks
Shark Decline Takes Bite Out Of Attacks
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The ocean is becoming more human-friendly, but the reasons are not all nice. Shark attacks worldwide totaled 62 in 2006, up slightly from the previous year but down from 79 in 2000. Four people...
Wildlife Organisation Urges Chinese To Avoid Endangered Seafood
Wildlife Organisation Urges Chinese To Avoid Endangered Seafood
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LOOKING for that sumptuous dining experience as Chinese New Year approaches? TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, says that by avoiding or carefully sourcing certain foods, such as...
Sea Creatures To Be Tracked Electronically
Sea Creatures To Be Tracked Electronically
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In a modern update of "fish and chips," researchers are planning a worldwide effort to track the movement of sea creatures tagged with tiny electronic devices. Following pilot testing...
Announcing: Byron Underwater Festival '07
Announcing: Byron Underwater Festival '07
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The 2007 Byron Underwater Festival will be held from Thursday the 10th to Sunday the 13th of May in Byron Bay, the most easterly point of the Australian mainland. Julian Rocks is part of the new...
Baby Giant's Sad Death Far From Home
Baby Giant's Sad Death Far From Home
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giant baby had a sad end at the weekend when it washed up and died on a beach near Cape Point. The "baby" giant was a young male whale shark, estimated at between one and two years old...
Seals, Sea Lions, Satellites Help Map Ocean
Seals, Sea Lions, Satellites Help Map Ocean
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Don't let the sleepy gaze fool you. This elephant seal (top) is one of the hardest working oceanographers on NASA's team. Seals, sea lions, sharks, and other marine predators are taking part in...
Rarely Seen 'living Fossil' Shark Caught Off Tokyo
Rarely Seen 'living Fossil' Shark Caught Off Tokyo
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A goblin shark -- a rarely seen species often called a "living fossil" -- was caught alive in Tokyo Bay but died after being put on display, an aquarium said. The grey, long-nosed shark...
Scuba Diver AustralAsia "The Big Shark" Issue
Scuba Diver AustralAsia "The Big Shark" Issue
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Scuba Diver AustralAsia, the official publication of the PADI Diving Society in Asia Pacific, just announced that the first issue of 2007 will be "THe Big Shark" issue. It shoul hit news...
Whale Carcass Lures 6m Sharks
Whale Carcass Lures 6m Sharks
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A ROTTING whale carcass lured huge sharks into a Kangaroo Island inlet yesterday. The 16m whale's body washed up against the rocks on the northeastern tip of the island, near Penneshaw....
Great White Or Bull Takes Chomp Out Of Shrimp Boat
Great White Or Bull Takes Chomp Out Of Shrimp Boat
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It could have been a bull shark that got sucked into the propeller or a maybe even a rogue great white that decided to take a chomp out of Roger Schmall's shrimp boat. Regardless of the cause,...
Looking For Love In A Shark Tank
Looking For Love In A Shark Tank
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Cupid's making a stop at the "Swimming with Sharks" exhibit at the Newport Aquarium just in time for Valentine's Day. The aquarium has acquired a rare male shark ray to serve as a...
Assuie Sawfish A Sore Loser
Assuie Sawfish A Sore Loser
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AN extraordinary fish with a long, saw-like nose is set to be the first fish declared extinct in NSW. The green sawfish, which can grow to more than 7m in length, was last sighted in NSW in...
Underwater Photographer Creates Awareness For Sharks
Underwater Photographer Creates Awareness For Sharks
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Tom Peschak is a man with an unusual passion: sharks. Say the word to almost anyone and it is likely to elicit an expression of fear, or at best, wary fascination. But for Peschak, marine...
Governments Fail To Stop Tuna Plunder
Governments Fail To Stop Tuna Plunder
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Government members of the world's five tuna regional management organizations, meeting this week in Japan, have failed to agree on an action plan to help reverse the decline in tuna stocks and to...
Fiji Operator Shortlisted For Global Tourism Awards
Fiji Operator Shortlisted For Global Tourism Awards
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A Fiji dive operator has been named a finalist in the global Travel For Tomorrow awards. Aqua-Trek Fiji is a finalist in the Conservation category, alongside an American ski and Brasilian...
U.S. Pastor Gets Prison For Shark Smuggling
U.S. Pastor Gets Prison For Shark Smuggling
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A San Francisco-area pastor who pleaded guilty to helping smuggle young leopard sharks from California to aquariums in Europe and the United States has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison,...
VIDEO: Rare Frill Shark Caught On Video
VIDEO: Rare Frill Shark Caught On Video
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A frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus) swims above the sea floor. This species has been, on rare occasion, caught or taken in bottom trawls. To the knowledge of everyone on board the ship,...
The Nudibranches - Jewels Of The Sea
The Nudibranches - Jewels Of The Sea
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Some time ago I was in a mega-store of electronic articles and I noticed, to my surprise, that all the televisions of a well-known Japanese make were contemporarily broadcasting the images of a...
Spiritual Guru's Word Saves Hundreds Of Whale Shark
Spiritual Guru's Word Saves Hundreds Of Whale Shark
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For a fisherman, nothing is perhaps more painful than to let go of a big catch with his own hands, especially if it happens to be a 30-ft whale shark that would fetch at least Rs 80,000. But...
Wetpixel Bahamas Sharks/Dolphins Expeditions, July 2007
Wetpixel Bahamas Sharks/Dolphins Expeditions, July 2007
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Wetpixel is running two charters to the Bahamas this coming July, 2007! The first trip (July 10-21, 2007) is a trip in search of oceanic white-tip sharks; we were successful in 2006, and there's...
Shark Finning - You CAN Make A Difference
Shark Finning - You CAN Make A Difference
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A family who boycotted their favourite Chinese restaurant because it served shark fin soup is celebrating after it was taken off the menu. The Oxtoby family, who are keen scuba divers, made their...
Adopt-a-shark? Conservationists Seek Sympathy For Predator
Adopt-a-shark? Conservationists Seek Sympathy For Predator
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Rows of razor sharp teeth, a carnivorous appetite and a bad reputation as a "man-eater" have made sharks a tough public relations challenge for conservationists striving to rally support...
Olympus PT-E02 Reviewed In The Maldives
Olympus PT-E02 Reviewed In The Maldives
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Whale shark, whale shark..." cried the crew. We are on a diving safari in the Maldives in search of the big boys. Today this happens to be whale sharks. Earlier on this trip we had dived among...
Wetpixel & Divester Readers Adopt Cut-Tail, The Great White Shark
Wetpixel & Divester Readers Adopt Cut-Tail, The Great White Shark
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Established in 1997, the Shark Trust promotes the study, management, and conservation of sharks, skates, and rays. Working through scientifically-supported campaigns, research, and education...
SharkSkunker Trip Report
SharkSkunker Trip Report
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You may recall the long and winding tale of David Schneider, the man behind the SharkSkunker chemical shark repellent. In order to prove his invention worked the way he hoped it would, he needed to...
After Months In Captivity, Great White Shark Freed
After Months In Captivity, Great White Shark Freed
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A second great white shark was released into the ocean after exceeding expectations for survival in captivity and delighting aquarium visitors and officials. The Monterey Bay Aquarium said the...
Questions Remain In Whale Shark Death
Questions Remain In Whale Shark Death
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Officials at the Georgia Aquarium said Tuesday that it could take weeks to figure out why Ralph the whale shark suddenly died last week. Scientists from the aquarium, the University of Georgia...
New Raja Empat Eco-Resort Update
New Raja Empat Eco-Resort Update
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We have been following the developments and progress of the new Misool Eco Resort, which would be only the 2nd land based resort in the entire Raja Empat region. This update includes some images of...
Bite Back - Iceland, Pariah Of The Seas
Bite Back - Iceland, Pariah Of The Seas
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Attempts by the UN to protect the world's deep-sea habitats have been thwarted by Iceland's determination to ignore the scientific evidence in pursuit of its own short-term goals. These fragile,...
BBC Radio Programs On Sharks
BBC Radio Programs On Sharks
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We heard a tip about the BBC airing programs pon sharks this week. The BBC normally archive their programmes for a week so anyone in the world can listen to these 15 minutes broadcasts...
Whale Shark Necropsy Shows No "obvious" Cause Of Death
Whale Shark Necropsy Shows No "obvious" Cause Of Death
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A necropsy of one of the Georgia Aquarium's prized whale sharks did not reveal any obvious causes of death, but the investigation is continuing and could take months, aquarium officials said...
Amazon.com Pulls Shark Fin Products From Inventory
Amazon.com Pulls Shark Fin Products From Inventory
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Victory! Today, Amazon has pulled all shark fin related products from their offering. No official statement has yet been made by the company; however it appears that they have chosen the...
Georgia Aquarium Whale Shark Dies
Georgia Aquarium Whale Shark Dies
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A prized whale shark at the world's largest aquarium died Thursday night, the second death of a popular animal at the center in 10 days. Ralph, one of four whale sharks in the only such exhibit...
Photographers & Conservationsists Fight Shark Fin Supporters
Photographers & Conservationsists Fight Shark Fin Supporters
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The ongoing saga continues with Alibaba.com supporting the destructive and cruel practice of shark finning. Our friend, Michael Aw, a professional photographer from Australia, has posted the...
Now Amazon Is Selling Shark Fin Cartilage Powder
Now Amazon Is Selling Shark Fin Cartilage Powder
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We mentioned last week that Amazon was carrying shark fin soup through third-party vendors Roland and Pacific Rim Gourmet. Amazon has since dropped Pacific Rim's product, but has continued to sell...
3 Scuba Divers, Guide Missing In Red Sea
3 Scuba Divers, Guide Missing In Red Sea
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Rescuers searched Sunday for three foreign scuba divers and their Egyptian guide who got lost while exploring a coral reef in the Red Sea, while a fifth member of the group reached a village after...
Shark Water Named A Top Ten Canadian Film Of The Year
Shark Water Named A Top Ten Canadian Film Of The Year
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Sharkwater, a full-length feature film directed by Rob Stewart, has been selected as a Top Ten Canadian Film of the year by the Toronto International Film Festival. The annual list, which does not...
Sea Shepherd Calls For A Ban Of Alibaba.com's Listings Supporting The Shark Fin Trade
Sea Shepherd Calls For A Ban Of Alibaba.com's Listings Supporting The Shark Fin Trade
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Alibaba.com, one of the largest online trading companies in the world, is offering shark related products mostly in the form of fins. In a recent newsletter published by the Shark Research...
Amazon *Still* Selling Shark Fin Soup?!
Amazon *Still* Selling Shark Fin Soup?!
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Yesterday, after numerous complaints from DivePhotoGuide, Divester, Wetpixel, Fins, and other sites about their peddling shark fin soup, Amazon pulled the product from its pages. However,...
Rodney Fox And Stan Waterman Shark Talk At The Tennessee Aquarium
Rodney Fox And Stan Waterman Shark Talk At The Tennessee Aquarium
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The Tennessee Aquarium is bringing two of the world's leading experts on sharks to Chattanooga. Rodney Fox and Stan Waterman will tell shark stories and inspire others to see these animals as a...
Video: Shark Finning In Raja Empat
Video: Shark Finning In Raja Empat
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Local fisherman in Raja Ampat, Indonesia after a day or shark finning. Fins are drying on the deck while the bodies of juvenile black tips roll on the shallow reef below the boat. The fisherman...
UWP Mag Issue #34 Available For Download
UWP Mag Issue #34 Available For Download
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NCUPS Berkley White photo seminar weekend, Dive in to Earth Day, DivePhotoGuide Photo & Video Competitions, Light & Water seminar, Southampton Cocos & Malpelo with Dr Sylvia Earle,...
Colombian Navy Trains Its Sights On Shark Hunters
Colombian Navy Trains Its Sights On Shark Hunters
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Anti-drugs taskforce is fighting a new war against the irregular and growing trade in fins. A single bowl of some varieties of shark fin soup can sell for over $150 in top Chinese restaurants....
Mass Dolphin Rescue At Pukehina
Mass Dolphin Rescue At Pukehina
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A marauding great white shark is the prime suspect for a pod of dolphins beaching at Pukehina on Saturday morning - spurring a mass rescue by holidaymakers. Nine dolphins, some of them showing...
Amazon.com Carrying Shark Fin Soup?
Amazon.com Carrying Shark Fin Soup?
NEWS
I read about this on one of the online forums. Let's do something about this one guys! Please email Amazon (ir@amazon.com and advantage@amazon.com) and explain how horrible this is - how sharks...
Taiwan Cuts Its Whale Shark Quota In Half
Taiwan Cuts Its Whale Shark Quota In Half
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Taiwan is cutting its whale shark fishing quota for 2007 in half. A whale shark is the largest shark and fish in the world and the concern of global conservationists. The agriculture council cut...
Scientists Uncover Fish Species
Scientists Uncover Fish Species
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It's amazing what you find lying around the bottom of the ocean, as St. Mary's College professor Douglas Long has discovered. Long was part of a team of researchers who this year identified two...
California Park Project A Look At What Lies Offshore
California Park Project A Look At What Lies Offshore
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The fireball-orange garibaldi, the lurking leopard shark and the spotted black sea bass: The waters off La Jolla Shores teem with these fish. But people picnicking across the sea wall at...
Technologies Changing Insight Into Seas
Technologies Changing Insight Into Seas
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On a sunny mid-October afternoon, Stanford University graduate student Chris Perle was out at sea, searching for a four-inch metallic gray object, resembling a small microphone with an antenna,...
Time To Curb The EU's Appetite For Shark Meat
Time To Curb The EU's Appetite For Shark Meat
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Populations of two shark species used for meat and consumed mainly in the European Union are on the verge of collapse, says WWF and TRAFFIC. The international trade of porbeagle and spiny...
Greenland Sharks In The St. Lawrence River?
Greenland Sharks In The St. Lawrence River?
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Our Canadian friends have a new visitor to the St. Lawrence River in Quebec...a Greenland shark. This deep dweller is normally found in the frigid waters between Greenland and the polar ice cap....
Reef Sharks Threatened By Hunger For Soup
Reef Sharks Threatened By Hunger For Soup
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Southeast Asia's voracious appetite for shark fin soup may be contributing to a dramatic drop in the number of reef sharks in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a marine scientist says. Dr Sean...
Bill Curtsinger Has Seen Animals Do Unbelievable Things
Bill Curtsinger Has Seen Animals Do Unbelievable Things
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Bill Curtsinger is one of the world's best known nature photographers and one of the few who dives in the icy cold waters on the poles. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with him about sharks, whales and other...
Great Barrier Reef Sharks In Collapse
Great Barrier Reef Sharks In Collapse
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Australian scientists say coral reef shark populations on the Great Barrier Reef are in a catastrophic collapse. Research -- conducted by William Robbins and colleagues at James Cook University...
Shark Shootout 2006 Winning Images
Shark Shootout 2006 Winning Images
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The evolution of the digital imaging event known as "Shark Shootout" probably, informally, began in the early 1980s when I was sent on assignment by Skin Diver magazine to cover a small...
XRay #14 Available For Download
XRay #14 Available For Download
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Going Down Under: AUSTRALIA: Tiger Sharks - Byron Bay - Bondi Beach - Ningaloo Reef - Tasmania Kent Group. Ecology: Stingrays. Stop the Killings. Diving with DIABETES. Discover SOLOMON Islands. Do...
Ancient 'Jaws' Had Monster Bite
Ancient 'Jaws' Had Monster Bite
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The extinct fish Dunkleosteus terrelli could bring its jaws together with a remarkable force of 5,000kg (11,000lbs). Its bite force was double that of a large great white shark putting it up...
Snapper's Shark Tale
Snapper's Shark Tale
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A wildlife photographer from Hendon has been named as one of the best photojournalists in the world. ALEX GALBINSKI finds out what motivates him Bobbing up and down in the cold ocean waters...
2007 Bimini Shark Encounter Ready For Applications
2007 Bimini Shark Encounter Ready For Applications
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Wildeye has confirmed the date for the 2007 Bimini Shark Encounter as March 4-13, 2007, and is currently accepting applications for the trip. The course is based at the renowned Bimini...
UK Sealife Watchers' Code Launched
UK Sealife Watchers' Code Launched
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Britian's first marine wildlife watching code, developed by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), was launched yesterday by Rhona Brankin, the deputy environment minister. Scotland's rugged...
Casper And The Deep Blue Sea
Casper And The Deep Blue Sea
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Nothing says "globally integrated marketplace" like a Galapagos Islands diving business based in Casper. And not just the Galapagos, but Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the rich...
'Protecting Wildlife Is About Changing Its Portrayal'
'Protecting Wildlife Is About Changing Its Portrayal'
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Bermuda's waters are famous for inspiring Peter Benchley's novel and the subsequent film Jaws - the far-fetched story of a vindictive shark hungry for human flesh which spawned multiple sequels and...
Cocos & Malpelo Expedition With Amos Nachoum, Dr. Sylvia Earle And Dr. Kathryn Sullivan
Cocos & Malpelo Expedition With Amos Nachoum, Dr. Sylvia Earle And Dr. Kathryn Sullivan
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"I have successfully engaged Dr. Kathryn Sullivan and Dr. Sylvia Earle, two world leaders in exploration of the ocean and in space to join us on an unprecedented expedition to the Islands of...
The Unlucky Star In The New BBC Film Planet Earth
The Unlucky Star In The New BBC Film Planet Earth
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Many times in the Jaws movies, viewers have shuddered at the awesome power of the Great White Shark. But this unfortunate cape fur seal got to experience those infamous teeth only once - and...
Mauricio Handler Galapagos Underwater Photography Expedition And Workshop
Mauricio Handler Galapagos Underwater Photography Expedition And Workshop
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The Galapagos Islands continue to be the holly grail for the land and underwater adventurer and at some point in once life a journey there is a must. Mauricio will be leading this 10 day Photo...
Six Sharks Die At New Cayman's Amusement Park As Life Support System Fails
Six Sharks Die At New Cayman's Amusement Park As Life Support System Fails
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Visitors to Cayman's newest tourist attraction Boatswain's Beach won't be coming face to face with any predators until at least February of next year. This is the word from Managing Director Ken...
Florida Fisherman Penalized For Shark Finning
Florida Fisherman Penalized For Shark Finning
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a $68,000 civil penalty and a 100-day permit sanction to the owner and operator of the fishing vessel Sea Angel for multiple...
25 Tiger Sharks Maul Injured Whale In Hawaii
25 Tiger Sharks Maul Injured Whale In Hawaii
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At least 25 tiger sharks ate a young humpback whale alive Monday off the Big Island's Kailua-Kona Coast, an eyewitness reported yesterday. But wildlife managers say they are more worried about...
The Great (White) Debate
The Great (White) Debate
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A few days ago I came across this post by Doctor Mark Hyman touting the medicinal properties of food. During his recent trip to China, the doctor was "treated" to the "delicacy"...
Small Step Toward Shark Conservation
Small Step Toward Shark Conservation
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The Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) decided recently to halt targeted fishing of vulnerable sharks in the Southern Ocean. France proposed...
Shark Water To Debut Soon
Shark Water To Debut Soon
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For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth. Driven by passion...
Dubai Could Become A Monitoring Station For Whale Sharks
Dubai Could Become A Monitoring Station For Whale Sharks
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After recent sightings of whale sharks this year in Dubai Marina, the Emirates Diving Association flew to Seychelles for an up-close encounter with the massive species to study monitoring methods....
International Shark Conservation Conference In Beijing
International Shark Conservation Conference In Beijing
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If current trends continue, the world's shark stocks will be depleted in ten years, experts warned Wednesday at the International Shark Conservation Conference in Beijing. About a third of the 450...
Sharks At Risk - Take Action To Help
Sharks At Risk - Take Action To Help
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When you think of sharks - you may think of magnificent ocean creatures that are sleek, fast, and invulnerable. But, sharks are in fact exceptionally vulnerable to fishing because they grow slowly...
Fishermen, Facing Declining Stocks, Turn To Sharks
Fishermen, Facing Declining Stocks, Turn To Sharks
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Declining fish stocks mean that in some parts of the world fishermen are increasingly turning their attention to sharks, where a lack of regulation further threatens many species' survival, an...
New Estimates Of The Shark-Fin Trade
New Estimates Of The Shark-Fin Trade
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Immense numbers of sharks each year are slaughtered for their fins-not meat, just their fins. This harvest helps feed a growing appetite throughout Asia for a popular soup, one with snob appeal...
Whale Shark Expert Wins International Award
Whale Shark Expert Wins International Award
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A marine biologist who created an online library of whale shark encounters from around the world has been chosen as a Laureate in the 2006 Rolex Awards for Enterprise, which recognise outstanding...
Wanton Killing Of Sharks In South Africa Condemned
Wanton Killing Of Sharks In South Africa Condemned
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THE carcasses of three sharks and a stingray have been found dead on Bluewater Bay Beach in a return to the bad old days of needless slaughter on our beaches. Angry dive tour operator Rainer...
Cage Diving For A Cause
Cage Diving For A Cause
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The first shark glides by not long after the boat drops anchor. It is a small one, as great whites go, between six and nine feet long, a slinking gray shadow in this aqua-blue water a half mile...
More Sharks Than Estimated Killed For Fin Soup
More Sharks Than Estimated Killed For Fin Soup
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Up to four times more sharks than previously thought are being slaughtered to fill the increasing demand for shark fin soup, scientists said on Wednesday. They estimate that each year between 26...
Undersea Models Almost Deep-dish Meal
Undersea Models Almost Deep-dish Meal
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Close calls for two of WPB underwater-nude photographer Todd Essick's models. Essick was working on a new coffee-table picture book of disrobed women interacting with sea life in the Bahamas...
Tagging Hammerheads
Tagging Hammerheads
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You are at 25m, the swell is pushing you violently from side to side, and ahead of you is a small school of hammerhead sharks, slowly circling through a cleaning station marked by a number of...
38 Million Sharks Killed For Fins Annually, Experts Estimate
38 Million Sharks Killed For Fins Annually, Experts Estimate
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Some chicken stock, a few mushrooms, chicken breast, scallions, a little sherry, oil, spices-shark fin soup is fairly easy to prepare. But to make soup for six, you'll also need about a pound (half...
Announcing The Winner Of The Divester/Wetpixel T-Shirt Contest!
Announcing The Winner Of The Divester/Wetpixel T-Shirt Contest!
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The voting for the Divester/Wetpixel t-shirt contest closed last night at midnight. I am very pleased to announce that the design by Elijah Woolery was selected as the winner. Congratulations,...
Review Of Sony's New HVR-V1U HDV Compact Camcorder
Review Of Sony's New HVR-V1U HDV Compact Camcorder
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Last month, Sony announced its new HVR-V1U HDV compact camcorder. Providing "film-look" footage via 24P progressive scan capture and 3 ClearVid CMOS Sensor chips, this HD dream captures images at...
Namibia: Seafo Bans Shark Finning
Namibia: Seafo Bans Shark Finning
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A regional organisation for the protection of marine resources along the coastlines of Namibia, Angola and South Africa has banned shark finning. It has also placed a moratorium on all fishing...
Sharks Swim Into Political Waters
Sharks Swim Into Political Waters
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They are known affectionately as the "Labradors of the ocean", but grey nurse sharks are facing a fight for survival in Australia. It is estimated there are fewer than 500 of these...
Monterey Aquarium's Great White Shark Stirs Controversy, Attracts Crowds
Monterey Aquarium's Great White Shark Stirs Controversy, Attracts Crowds
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium is again sparking debate over displaying captive Great White sharks. A juvenile male is the second shark in two years to be kept in captivity at the aquarium, and some are...
Bull Shark Debuts In Long Beach
Bull Shark Debuts In Long Beach
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The Aquarium of the Pacific announced the official debut of its first bull shark, making it the only aquarium on the nation's West Coast to have one. The public can visit this new member of the...
We're Not Going To Let Another Butanding (Whale Shark) Die
We're Not Going To Let Another Butanding (Whale Shark) Die
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When a female whale shark or butanding recently died from fatal wounds inflicted by a fisherman, the local government in this Bicol town immediately filed a case in court against her killer to...
Deep-sea Fish To Get Protection
Deep-sea Fish To Get Protection
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Vulnerable deep-sea fish species such as sharks, tusks and forkbeards will receive extra protection over the next two years under the EU's Total Allowable Catches (TAC) system, the European...
"Sharks Are Friends, Not Food" Say Conservative MEPs
"Sharks Are Friends, Not Food" Say Conservative MEPs
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EUROPE'S shark finning laws - which it is claimed allow shark suffering and put many species in danger of extinction - must not be relaxed by Spanish MEPs this week, the Conservative fisheries team...
Up To 73 Million Sharks Killed Yearly For Fin Soup
Up To 73 Million Sharks Killed Yearly For Fin Soup
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A new study by Miami's Pew Institute for Ocean Science shows that the number of sharks in the ocean is declining drastically thanks in part to the demand for shark fin soup. The Pew Institute...
Yacht Entangled In Durban's Shark Nets
Yacht Entangled In Durban's Shark Nets
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Rescue services on Monday freed a yacht that had become entangled in Durban's shark nets. The National Sea Rescue Institute's Durban Station Commander Paul Bevis said the Cat Whisker had drifted...
Big Blue Beckons For Freediving Fanatic
Big Blue Beckons For Freediving Fanatic
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There's no time to worry about sharks or jellyfish when you're plunging through cold, murky water toward a tiny light flashing 60 meters (196 feet) with just a lung full of air, said freediver Mark...
Florida Shark Tournament Draws Criticism After Hammerhead Mutilated, Pregnant Tiger Caught; 'Gruesome'
Florida Shark Tournament Draws Criticism After Hammerhead Mutilated, Pregnant Tiger Caught; 'Gruesome'
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The Destin Florida Shark Tournament has drawn the ire of animal rights groups after a hammerhead shark was mutilated and a pregnant tiger shark was caught during the tournament. The Humane...
Marine Laws Flouted For 'the Jaws Experience'
Marine Laws Flouted For 'the Jaws Experience'
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Some South African shark cage diving operators, eager to give their clients a hyped-up "Jaws experience", are feeding Great White sharks and knocking them on their snouts to get them to...
EU Shark Vote Will Be Crucial
EU Shark Vote Will Be Crucial
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CONSERVATIONISTS are pointing to the importance of a vote in a week's time in the European Parliament on the tightening or weakening of the European regulation on shark finning. The debate is set...
Swim With Sharks, Then Eat Them
Swim With Sharks, Then Eat Them
NEWS
Starhub, one of Singapore's leading telecommunications, television and internet providers, recently sent out a promotional package which includes a seemingly contradictory message. On the one...
Shark That Walks On Fins Is Discovered
Shark That Walks On Fins Is Discovered
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Scientists combing through undersea fauna off Indonesia's Papua province said Monday they had discovered dozens of new species, including a shark that walks on its fins and a shrimp that looks like...
More Than 50 New Marine Species Found Off Papua
More Than 50 New Marine Species Found Off Papua
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Scientists have found at least 52 new marine species off the western coast of Indonesia's Papua, deeming the waters there to be one of the richest in the world, a conservation activist said Monday....
Outrage As Beloved Bull Shark 'Quasimodo' Found Dead By South African Divers
Outrage As Beloved Bull Shark 'Quasimodo' Found Dead By South African Divers
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For those of you who don't know Quasimodo, Quasimodo was a very popular Zambezi shark (also known as Bull Shark) estimated to be about 70 years old and described as a "friendly" shark and regular...
The Humane Society Of The United States Protests Florida Shark Tournament
The Humane Society Of The United States Protests Florida Shark Tournament
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In Destin, Fla. this week, sharks will be killed in a tournament for financial gain and The Humane Society of the United States is urging the city to cancel this contest killing. The HSUS sent...
Photobeat's Trip Report From Wetpixel Guadalupe Trip
Photobeat's Trip Report From Wetpixel Guadalupe Trip
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This was my first Dive trip in a long, time. I always wanted to see the White Sharks and when I first heard about the expedition by email from Norbert Wu including Eric on the trip I thought it was...
Shark Alliance Calls Upon European Union Nations To End Shark Finning
Shark Alliance Calls Upon European Union Nations To End Shark Finning
NEWS
The Pew Charitable Trusts has launched "Shark Alliance," an international coalition of non-government organizations dedicated to the science-based conservation of sharks. The "Shark...
White Shark In Monterey Aquarium
White Shark In Monterey Aquarium
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For only the second time, there's a healthy young white shark in our Outer Bay exhibit. 5 feet 8 inches long and 104 pounds, he arrived on August 31 and is making himself right at home in the...
Poor Publicity And Taste For The Exotic Put Sharks On Danger List
Poor Publicity And Taste For The Exotic Put Sharks On Danger List
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Sharks face a grave risk of extinction because the ruling body on European fishing is attempting to weaken the restrictions on finning, conservationists say. The Shark Alliance, which includes...
VIDEO: UK Calls To Help Protect Shark Species
VIDEO: UK Calls To Help Protect Shark Species
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VIDEO: A conservation group is calling on the European Parliament to produce further bans on shark fishing. It says too many shark species are now under direct threat ; many of them in European...
New Worry Voiced Over Shark Conservation
New Worry Voiced Over Shark Conservation
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Launching a report today over the "dangerous decline" in shark populations caused they say by European fishing policy, the newly formed Shark Alliance expressed "dismay" at the...
Seas In Jeopardy
Seas In Jeopardy
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In the 1975 blockbuster film Jaws, it was a great white shark which kept holidaymakers off the beach. It is a less lethal but perhaps equally worrying menace that has closed stretches of the...
Conservation Group Targets Euro MPs Over Shark Deaths
Conservation Group Targets Euro MPs Over Shark Deaths
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CONSERVATION group Oceana is concerned that the European Parliament may support a proposal to encourage the illegal practice of shark finning in the European Union The international marine...
New EU 'finning Report' Threatens Sharks
New EU 'finning Report' Threatens Sharks
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An international marine conservation organisation is concerned for the welfare of sharks following the potential support of 'shark finning' within the European Union. The marine conservation...
Action As Shark Numbers Fall
Action As Shark Numbers Fall
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Seychelles used to be known as a place that was heavily infested with sharks, but their numbers have fallen dramatically over the years. This has reached an extent where methods to catch them have...
Necropsy Photos Released From World Record Pregnant Hammerhead Shark
Necropsy Photos Released From World Record Pregnant Hammerhead Shark
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Underwatertimes.com has obtained photographs from the necropsy of the world-record great hammerhead shark caught by a recreational fishermen in May off Boca Grande, Florida. The necropsy was...
Yao Attends WildAid's Public Awareness Campaign
Yao Attends WildAid's Public Awareness Campaign
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China's towering basketball star Yao Ming pledged Wednesday to never eat the Chinese delicacy sharks fin soup as part of a campaign to save the endangered fish from extinction. "I pledge to...
NOAA Settles Shark Case With New York Fish Dealer For $750,000
NOAA Settles Shark Case With New York Fish Dealer For $750,000
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of General Counsel has settled a multiple-violation shark case with the owner of Brooklyn-based Agger Fish Corporation. The fish...
DNA Testing Now Used To Nab Illegal Shark Fin Traders
DNA Testing Now Used To Nab Illegal Shark Fin Traders
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Federal enforcement agents spotted the suspicious bag while touring the building of a New York seafood dealer on a routine visit. Amid a half-ton of shark fins destined for Asia and the delicacy of...
Florida Entrepreneur Cleaning Up With Vodka With A Message
Florida Entrepreneur Cleaning Up With Vodka With A Message
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A local "shark" carries a message in a bottle: "Help save America's waters." There are no messages inside Mako vodka bottles, but rather labeled on them. Advertisement...
Brooklyn, NY Fish Dealer Admits Shark Violations
Brooklyn, NY Fish Dealer Admits Shark Violations
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A fish dealer has agreed to pay a $750,000 fine after admitting it bought shark meat without a federal permit and possessed fins from seven protected species. In settling the case with the...
Shark Week! Florida Expert Wades Into Scary Brazil Waters
Shark Week! Florida Expert Wades Into Scary Brazil Waters
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Off the coast of Brazil, sharks are attacking surfers and swimmers in record numbers. Forty-five shark attacks and 16 deaths in 13 years make the small beach off the port city of Recife one of the...
UK Government Moves Unveiled To Safeguard Threatened Shark Species
UK Government Moves Unveiled To Safeguard Threatened Shark Species
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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has published proposals to stop new fisheries targeting tope - a large coastal shark - after receiving reports last year that a commercial...
Shark Week 2006 Starts July 30 On Discovery Channel
Shark Week 2006 Starts July 30 On Discovery Channel
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Stuart Cove's once again instrumental in producing original programming for Discovery Channel's SHARK WEEK...
Great White Shark Special
Great White Shark Special
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Dive with pro Mauricio Handler (DPG featured photographer) on the fabulous Solmar V to the Island of Guadalupe for a Great White Expedition...
Indonesian Fishing Boat Found In Australian Waters
Indonesian Fishing Boat Found In Australian Waters
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Another Indonesian fishing boat has been brought into Darwin Harbour after being caught operating in Australia's northern waters. A Customs spokesman says the shark finning boat with seven crew...
Love, Loss And Beauty
Love, Loss And Beauty
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To love again despite the likelihood of another heartbreak. This is the theme of "Donsol," a wonderful Cinemalaya feature film. Adolfo Alix Jr. wrote, produced, and directed this moving story about...
Fascinating, Beautiful - And In Danger
Fascinating, Beautiful - And In Danger
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Cape Town - She may have been swimming in circles for the last 14 years at her Two Oceans Aquarium home, but when Dee the ragged tooth shark was released into the wild, instinct immediately kicked...
Cage-diving With Crocodiles
Cage-diving With Crocodiles
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Do you fancy yourself as a bit of an adrenalin-junkie? Forget about diving with Great White sharks; the ultimate aquatic thrill has just been launched in Oudtshoorn with the world's first crocodile...
New Endangered Fish Species Found In Mafia
New Endangered Fish Species Found In Mafia
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New endangered fish species has been discovered in the Island of Mafia, increasing the number of the world's threatened species found in Tanzania, The Guardian has learnt. Marine experts told...
Photographer Sues Media 24 And AP For 'copyright Abuse'
Photographer Sues Media 24 And AP For 'copyright Abuse'
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Shark researcher and photographer Christopher Fallows and his wife, Monique, are suing Media24 and Associated Press International in the Cape High Court for R3-million for the...
Ban "lay Nets" To Save Hawaii's Coral Reefs
Ban "lay Nets" To Save Hawaii's Coral Reefs
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The Hawaiian Islands have 84 percent of all coral reef area under U.S. jurisdiction. The main Hawaiian Islands have 15 percent and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 69 percent. Reefs are the...
Tracking Whale Sharks In The Gulf
Tracking Whale Sharks In The Gulf
NEWS
It swims along the surface freely and, from all indications, with few worries. With the ability to reach 60 feet in length, it's a sight to see with its unique, graceful ways. It's a member of...
Eric Cheng & Norbert Wu Host Great White Shark Expedition On The Solmar V
Eric Cheng & Norbert Wu Host Great White Shark Expedition On The Solmar V
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Great White Adventures (GWA), acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Norbert Wu, and Wetpixel editor Eric Cheng have announce a second trip for great white sharks in August 2006. Due to overwhelming...
Image Hurts Sharks' Case In Ethical Debate
Image Hurts Sharks' Case In Ethical Debate
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The charter boat captain displayed the bloody jaws of a large bull shark as if it were a testament to his manhood. While others gathered around to gawk, I held my tongue. I thought about asking...
Big Fish Are Mostly Gone
Big Fish Are Mostly Gone
NEWS
The realisation that stocks of big fish - marlin, sharks, swordfish, and tuna - are declining rapidly is beginning to sink in. The UN Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) considers that...
Oceanic White Tip, Manta Ray And Angel Shark On The Endangered Specieis List
Oceanic White Tip, Manta Ray And Angel Shark On The Endangered Specieis List
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Visit the 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species photo gallery for more information...
Last Chance For Shark Shootout
Last Chance For Shark Shootout
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The popular "Shark Shootout" at Stuart Cove's sells out quickly every year. Hosted by world famous underwater photographer Stephen Frink and co-sponsored by Scuba Diving magazine, the...
Another Whale Shark Swims Into Marina
Another Whale Shark Swims Into Marina
NEWS
Dubai Residents and workers at Dubai Marina were stunned to see a whale shark swimming through the bay yesterday morning...
Seychelles Tourism Industry Blasts Shark Fishers As Tourists Discover 12 Drowned Sharks
Seychelles Tourism Industry Blasts Shark Fishers As Tourists Discover 12 Drowned Sharks
NEWS
Members of the local tourism trade have weighed in on the shark fishing issue after tourists on a reef diving holiday came across the remains of 12 drowned sharks...
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: Images
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: Images
NEWS
The Ocean Conservancy posted a gallery of images and video clips in light of President Bush's action of protecting one of the last intact marine ecosystems in the world, one that is home to sharks,...
New Shark Discovered In US Waters
New Shark Discovered In US Waters
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A new type of hammerhead shark has been discovered in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, marine scientists say. The shark resembles a common species called the scalloped hammerhead but has not yet...
Call For Moratorium On Shark Cage Diving
Call For Moratorium On Shark Cage Diving
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The city of Cape Town wants the expansion of the Great White shark cage diving industry stopped until scientific evidence irrefutably shows that it does not increase the risk of shark attacks or...
Giants Of The Deep Bring Life To Quiet Phillipines Town
Giants Of The Deep Bring Life To Quiet Phillipines Town
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Donsol, The Philippines - Cocooned in rural seclusion, this placid little town long kept a big but unintended secret: In the first half of the year, the sea swarms with the world's largest fish -...
NOAA Penalizes North Carolina Fishermen $98,500 For Violations
NOAA Penalizes North Carolina Fishermen $98,500 For Violations
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of General Counsel for Enforcement and Litigation has assessed a $98,500 civil penalty and a 90-day permit sanction against the owners...
Wildlife Feeding - A Sound Practice?
Wildlife Feeding - A Sound Practice?
NEWS
Feeding the fishes' used to be a humourous euphemism to describe the end result of a bad case of seasickness; these days it is becoming better known as an increasingly popular tourist excursion....
Pelagic Shark Research Foundation Seminar Scheduled For June 16, 2006 At NCUPS
Pelagic Shark Research Foundation Seminar Scheduled For June 16, 2006 At NCUPS
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The Northern California Underwater Photographic Society (www.NCUPS.org), proudly presents a very special seminar presented by Sean R. Van Sommeran, Executive Director/CEO, of the Pelagic Shark...
750-lb Hammerhead Shark Caught Off Florida Coast May Be World Record
750-lb Hammerhead Shark Caught Off Florida Coast May Be World Record
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A potential world record hammerhead shark was caught on Wednesday in Boca Grande Pass. Capt. Andy Whitbread of Fort Myers captured a 13 foot, 4 inch, 750-pound hammerhead...
Fishing Firms Charged With Illegal Dumping In LA Harbor
Fishing Firms Charged With Illegal Dumping In LA Harbor
NEWS
Five fishing companies were charged Tuesday with illegally dumping squid parts and wastewater that contaminated a harbor and killed off sharks, stingrays and other sealife at a research institute...
Raising Awareness For Sharks In Malaysia
Raising Awareness For Sharks In Malaysia
NEWS
Malaysian college students these days aren't only into partying and more partying - some do go out of their way to raise funds for causes they care about. And they really do care, writes IZUAN SHAH...
Death Of Shark Shows Need For More Protection
Death Of Shark Shows Need For More Protection
NEWS
The killing of a popular Zambezi shark, Quasimodo, has angered the diving fraternity on the South Coast. Quasimodo, estimated to be about 70 years old, was found dead at the bottom of the Protea...
David Doubilet Presents Portraits From 'Vanishing Edens' Under The Sea
David Doubilet Presents Portraits From 'Vanishing Edens' Under The Sea
NEWS
National Geographic photographer David Doubilet is in Minneapolis this week to talk about sharks, coral reefs and twilight worlds found in the ocean...
David Doubilet Presents Portraits From 'Vanishing Edens' Under The Sea
David Doubilet Presents Portraits From 'Vanishing Edens' Under The Sea
NEWS
National Geographic photographer David Doubilet is in Minneapolis this week to talk about sharks, coral reefs and twilight worlds found in the ocean...
Shark Protection Regime Endorsed In Australia
Shark Protection Regime Endorsed In Australia
NEWS
SHARK nets and baited drum lines will remain on Queensland's beaches after a review of the state's shark safety program found there was no better alternative. But no nets will be hung in seaside...
Free Peter Scoones Talk In London
Free Peter Scoones Talk In London
NEWS
'Sea Trek', 'Life on Earth', 'Great White Shark', 'Life in the Freezer', 'Wildlife on One' , 'Blue Planet' and 'Planet Earth'. Iconic documentaries that showcase some of the fi nest underwater...
Endangered Species In A Can?
Endangered Species In A Can?
NEWS
It's common knowledge that we are running out of oil. What's not so well known is that we are also running out of big fish, argues Robert Ovetz. The harsh realization that catches of big...
Previously Unknown Species Of Hammerhead Shark Discovered
Previously Unknown Species Of Hammerhead Shark Discovered
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Scientists from Nova Southeastern University and the University of South Carolina have discovered a previously unknown species of hammerhead shark in the southeastern Atlantic. The species - as...
Whale Sharks In Captivity: S. Korea's Largest Aquarium To Be Built In Incheon
Whale Sharks In Captivity: S. Korea's Largest Aquarium To Be Built In Incheon
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South Korea's second largest port city will house the biggest aquarium in the nation. The Incheon city officials said it will be built on 47-thousand square meters of land in Songdo, and will...
Seacam 5D Housing First Impressions
Seacam 5D Housing First Impressions
NEWS
"I was fortunate enough to receive one of the first Seacam 5D housings to arrive in the States and got it just in time for a one week live-aboard dive trip with Jim Abernethy's Scuba...
Wetpixel Bahamas Trip 2006: Images And Video
Wetpixel Bahamas Trip 2006: Images And Video
NEWS
Please enjoy eleven shark videos and tons of photos in the Photo and Gallery Showcase forum and in the Video forum..
$500 For Fins: Tiger Shark Pregnant With 40 Young Snared, Slaughtered By Fisherman Off Brunei
$500 For Fins: Tiger Shark Pregnant With 40 Young Snared, Slaughtered By Fisherman Off Brunei
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It was the catch of the day for two Indonesian fishermen, Muji and Kastan, when they hauled back a 500-kilogramme pregnant Tiger Shark to Jerudong shore from Champion 7...
New Shark Species Discovered In The Sea Of Cortez; 'Mustelus Hacat'
New Shark Species Discovered In The Sea Of Cortez; 'Mustelus Hacat'
NEWS
Mexican marine biologist has discovered a new shark species in the murky depths of Mexico's Sea of Cortez, the first new shark find in the wildlife-rich inlet in 34 years...
US Military Developing Remote-Control 'Spy' Shark With Neural Brain Implant
US Military Developing Remote-Control 'Spy' Shark With Neural Brain Implant
NEWS
Imagine getting inside the mind of a shark: swimming silently through the ocean, sensing faint electrical fields, homing in on the trace of a scent, and navigating through the featureless depths...
San Diego Shark Population Takes A Dive
San Diego Shark Population Takes A Dive
NEWS
Welcome to my paradise - diving with sharks. While some people hope they never have to see a shark, others are worried that they're not seeing enough. The best chance to see a shark may be...
Autopsy Suggests Diver Was Dead Before Shark Attack
Autopsy Suggests Diver Was Dead Before Shark Attack
NEWS
A snorkeler whose shark-bitten body was recovered off the coast of Maui was likely dead before he was attacked by a shark, according to preliminary autopsy results Saturday. A forensic pathologist...
Expert: Disentangling Whales Perilous; 'Interpreting What A Whale Does Is Difficult'
Expert: Disentangling Whales Perilous; 'Interpreting What A Whale Does Is Difficult'
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Whales may be intelligent, but they're not human - so don't expect them to behave in a human-like way when they're entangled in ropes, lobster pots or buoys, says a visiting expert. Whale...
Help Put An End To Whaling
Help Put An End To Whaling
NEWS
A website has been set up in an attempt to get one million people to sign a petition to stop whaling. When you insert your name & click on the sign the petition button you will be taken to...
Pack Of Hungry Squid Diver's Worst Nightmare
Pack Of Hungry Squid Diver's Worst Nightmare
NEWS
The most horrifying vision for a scuba diver is not the silent charge of a 20-foot great white shark. No, it gets worse than that...
Review: IMAX Deep Sea 3D
Review: IMAX Deep Sea 3D
NEWS
Deep Sea 3D is a 40 minute total immersion into the underwater world. With charismatic stars including Green Turtles, Giant Pacific Octopus, Mola mola, Mantas, sharks and even a Bowhead Whale, the...
Research To Target Threatened Whale Shark
Research To Target Threatened Whale Shark
NEWS
A Western Australian Government research program is hoping to find out more about threatened species the whale shark. The shark is targeted by Indonesian fisheries for its fins...
Whale Sharks To Cross Brunei Shores Between March, May
Whale Sharks To Cross Brunei Shores Between March, May
NEWS
Local scuba divers and fishermen are urged to assist in the conservation effort of the whale sharks, as the massive sea creatures will be crossing Brunei shores between March and May as part of...
Endangered Sharks Tagged
Endangered Sharks Tagged
NEWS
RESEARCHERS are tracking two grey nurse sharks in the waters off south east Queensland in a bid to protect the endangered species. The researchers believe a fishing exclusion zone around where...
Diving With The Dolphins
Diving With The Dolphins
NEWS
In more than two decades of scuba diving, I've penetrated shipwrecks and hung in a cage while blue and mako sharks circled and grabbed chunks of bait. But none of that seemed as surreal as when I...
METRO Group To Co-operate With WWF Over Sustainable Fishery
METRO Group To Co-operate With WWF Over Sustainable Fishery
NEWS
The METRO Group has announced that it has removed nearly all shark products from the assortment offered in its home country of Germany. It says this move is sending yet another clear signal for a...
Decline In Shark Attacks Due To Fewer Sharks, More People Fighting Back
Decline In Shark Attacks Due To Fewer Sharks, More People Fighting Back
NEWS
Shark attacks dropped in 2005 because people are fighting back more often and because the numbers of ocean predators are falling. Worldwide there were 58 attacks last year, down from 65 a year...
Peter Benchley, 65 Dies; 'Jaws' Author Became Shark Conservationist
Peter Benchley, 65 Dies; 'Jaws' Author Became Shark Conservationist
NEWS
Peter Benchley, whose first novel, "Jaws," sold 20 million copies and helped invent the Hollywood summer blockbuster film when Steven Spielberg made the tale of a bloodthirsty shark into...
Skilled Tour Operator Is Crucial For Shark Swim
Skilled Tour Operator Is Crucial For Shark Swim
NEWS
Q. Is there a company in Perth, Australia, that can arrange a two-day side trip to Ningaloo Reef Marine Park? I'd like to swim with a whale shark. Ningaloo Reef Marine Park in Western Australia...
Croc Cage Diving?
Croc Cage Diving?
NEWS
Do you fancy yourself as a bit of an adrenalin-junkie? Forget about diving with Great White sharks; the ultimate aquatic thrill has just been launched in Oudtshoorn with the world's first crocodile...
Jellyfish And Other Creatures Help Scientists See The Light
Jellyfish And Other Creatures Help Scientists See The Light
NEWS
Why does a firefly light up or a glowworm glow? What causes the reefs and jellyfish in "Finding Nemo" to shimmer? The ability of a living creature to glow (or make light) is called...
Galapagos Tour Operator Banned For Two Months Following Illegal Shark Fishing
Galapagos Tour Operator Banned For Two Months Following Illegal Shark Fishing
NEWS
The regulatory authority of the Galapagos National Park suspended Celebrity Xpeditions from operating tours in the Galapagos Islands for two months as a consequence of an illegal shark-fishing...
Kayakers Are Followed By White Shark Off Kihei
Kayakers Are Followed By White Shark Off Kihei
NEWS
Two people kayaking about a mile off Maui's Kihei coast reported an encounter with a large white shark at midday yesterday, according to state officials. The shark, which was estimated at 18...
New Xray Magazine Is Ready For Download
New Xray Magazine Is Ready For Download
NEWS
X-Ray #9 Released today FOCUS: PHILIPPINES: Dumaguate - Ligpo Island - Malapascua - Dauin - Profile: Phil Nyutten :: Guadalupe Sharks :: Worlds Deepest Wreck Dive :: Portfolio: Ray Troll :...
Wilma Spawned Shark Mating Frenzy
Wilma Spawned Shark Mating Frenzy
NEWS
Hurricane Wilma was good for one thing - shark sex. Credit the October storm for the shark baby boom at the South Florida Science Museum. When Wilma swept through the area, knocking out power...
Warmer Water, Rita Harm Gulf's Coral Reefs
Warmer Water, Rita Harm Gulf's Coral Reefs
NEWS
Hurricane Rita's pounding waves and a hotter-than-usual Gulf of Mexico took a toll on the Gulf of Mexico's only government-protected coral reefs about 100 miles off the Louisiana and Texas coasts....
Deep Blue Resort-Utila Participates In Major Whaleshark Research Study
Deep Blue Resort-Utila Participates In Major Whaleshark Research Study
NEWS
Deep Blue Resort in Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras (http://www.DeepBlueUtila.com) has teamed up with ECOCEAN (http://www.ECOCEAN.org) for one of the largest whale shark research projects ever...
Lebanese Diver Saves Endangered Guitar Shark From Certain Death..
Lebanese Diver Saves Endangered Guitar Shark From Certain Death..
NEWS
The Sport Diver magazine - a National Geographic affiliate - featured, in its December issue, the story of a Lebanese diver who saved an endangered shark in Mauritius. Naji Cherabieh, a scuba diver...
Ocean Cinema Festival Dives Deep Into Aquatic Life
Ocean Cinema Festival Dives Deep Into Aquatic Life
NEWS
Visitors to Fort Mason can see underwater marvels this weekend, from sharks to mermaids - without the scuba mask and tank. The third annual San Francisco Ocean Film Festival at the Cowell...
Australian Girl Dies After Jellyfish Attack
Australian Girl Dies After Jellyfish Attack
NEWS
A young girl died after she was stung by a box jellyfish in waters off Australia's northern tip, officials said on Monday as beaches further south were reopened following the death of a woman in a...
SHARKS 3D, A Breathtaking New 3D IMAX Film Presented By Jean-Michel Cousteau
SHARKS 3D, A Breathtaking New 3D IMAX Film Presented By Jean-Michel Cousteau
NEWS
Premieres January 20th at the Cinemark IMAX Theatre in Dallas, Tx. Come closer than you've ever dared to one of nature's most sophisticated yet endangered predators with the first-ever...
Hidden Cost Of Shark Fin Soup
Hidden Cost Of Shark Fin Soup
NEWS
Shark finning articles are becoming more mainstream. The NY Times has an article about shark fishing in Manta, Ecuador, a location I have been to and documented as well. It's a well-written...
Some Sharks May Be Extinct In A Decade
Some Sharks May Be Extinct In A Decade
NEWS
Shark nets may reduce the incidence of attacks on swimmers but they are drastically diminishing general marine populations. While the authorities are hard at work making the beaches as safe as...
Ocean Thrill Seekers Snap Catch Of The Day
Ocean Thrill Seekers Snap Catch Of The Day
NEWS
Forty-five minutes into Wednesday's tour three miles off Haleiwa, four people in a shark cage started screaming with excitement. The crew looked to see what all the commotion was about and saw a...
Track Tiger Shark "Adam" Via The Web
Track Tiger Shark "Adam" Via The Web
NEWS
On Saturday 10th December, researchers onboard Undersea Explorer tagged a 2.8m male Tiger Shark ("Adam") near Raine Island in Far North Queensland. The shark was the seventh Tiger shark...
Defying Death In Troubled Waters
Defying Death In Troubled Waters
NEWS
Six surfers stand on the dock staring into water thick with kelp, sharks and seal carcasses. They prepare to jump on jet skis, acutely aware that 24 previously ago a scuba diver was killed by a...
Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer And Viewer For Windows XP
Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer And Viewer For Windows XP
NEWS
The Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer provides the ability to view, organize, and print photos captured in RAW image formats from supported Canon and Nikon digital cameras.
'Air Jaws' Photographers Make Desperate Plea For South Africa's Dwindling Shark Population
'Air Jaws' Photographers Make Desperate Plea For South Africa's Dwindling Shark Population
NEWS
To all involved in the battle against shark finning. Mozambiquean colleagues of ours sent us yet again more disturbing images of finning taking place on an ongoing basis. We are getting similar...
Breakthrough Chip Delivers Better Digital Pictures For Less Power
Breakthrough Chip Delivers Better Digital Pictures For Less Power
NEWS
The next advance in cameras is becoming a reality at the University of Rochester. Imaging chips revolutionized the photography industry, and now the chips themselves are being revolutionized. A...
Tagged Ningaloo whale shark likely eaten in Indonesia
Tagged Ningaloo whale shark likely eaten in Indonesia
NEWS
A whale shark tagged with a tracking device off north-west Western Australia is believed to have been caught and eaten in Indonesia...
Shark Feeding Is Big
Shark Feeding Is Big
NEWS
ONE of the oldest predators known to man, the shark, helped in part by Hollywood blockbusters like Jaws, has been at the end of some bad press for decades...
New Species Of Box Jellyfish Discovered
New Species Of Box Jellyfish Discovered
NEWS
Scientists in far north Queensland have discovered a new species of box jellyfish in the outer regions of the Great Barrier Reef...
Stop Attacking Our Sharks
Stop Attacking Our Sharks
NEWS
Chris Fallows, shark conservationist and wildlife photographer, is angry; the great white sharks that are his subjects have been given a raw deal of late. "It's astounding and disgraceful that...
VII Underwater Art Festival - SILVER SHARK
VII Underwater Art Festival - SILVER SHARK
MONTHLY CONTESTS
Welcome you to take part in coming 7-th International Underwater Art Festival "SILVER SHARK". This will be held May 31 - June 3, 2007. Traditionally, our Festival is to take place in the...
Basking shark swims onto list of endangered species
Basking shark swims onto list of endangered species
NEWS
A SHARK that summers in Scottish waters is to be given international protection due to fears that it is on the brink of extinction. The basking shark, the world's second largest fish, can be...
PADI Launches Digital Underwater Photographer Course
PADI Launches Digital Underwater Photographer Course
NEWS
PADIs future is digital. That's how the world's largest training organization for divers sees things at any rate; it is to launch its new PADI digital underwater photographer specialty at the boot...
Australian Delegates Seeking Whale Deal
Australian Delegates Seeking Whale Deal
NEWS
An Australian delegation is in the Kenyan capital seeking tougher international protection for sharks, turtles, dugongs and whales. The Nairobi talks this week are part of the eighth Conference...
Increasing Coral Reef Danger
Increasing Coral Reef Danger
NEWS
UP to half of the world's coral reefs may disappear by 2045 unless urgent measures are taken to protect them against environmental hazards, particularly climate change, says the World Conservation...
Eating Rotten Shark Meat
Eating Rotten Shark Meat
NEWS
In Reykjavik, Iceland, locals mark the Thorrablot midwinter festival with traditional-and often stomach- turning-delicacies. Watch as modern chefs prepare the signature dish of this ancient Viking...
Brazilian Underwater Photography Championship Results
Brazilian Underwater Photography Championship Results
NEWS
The CNVFS (National Confederation of Underwater Photograph and Video) has just posted the winners of the Brazilian Underwater Photography Championship that took place from November, 11 through 14...
Aquarium Hopes To Breed Whale Sharks
Aquarium Hopes To Breed Whale Sharks
NEWS
Georgia Aquarium officials say they want to breed whale sharks - the biggest fish on earth - at the Atlanta fish tank, a never-attempted feat that would push the bounds of known aquatic science....
Focus On Eco-tourism
Focus On Eco-tourism
NEWS
Eco-tourism is a key development target for many developing countries for it can bring much-needed money into impoverished areas. It can also help people understand and appreciate the importance of...
Front Row At A Feeding Frenzy
Front Row At A Feeding Frenzy
NEWS
I feel like a medieval knight as I slide my arms into the chain-mail sleeves. Christian Andreani, my dive master, cinches the protective armour across my back and briefs me on the dive: "Keep...
Illegal Shark Hunters Use Hit-and-run Tactics
Illegal Shark Hunters Use Hit-and-run Tactics
NEWS
A new Indonesian fleet of more than 400 speedboats is taking thousands of sharks from northern Australian waters, and is behind a recent upsurge in illegal fishing. An Australian Government...
Shark Expert Downs Prey Switching Theory
Shark Expert Downs Prey Switching Theory
NEWS
Shark attacks would be far more frequent if they were preying on humans, an expert says. Retired South Australian marine biologist Dr Scoresby Shepherd suggested sharks might be switching their...
Scientists Spot A Way To Put Bite On Sharks' Extinction
Scientists Spot A Way To Put Bite On Sharks' Extinction
NEWS
A NEW method of identifying and recording individual whale sharks could help save the giant fish from extinction. Scientists have discovered that the sharks -- considered a threatened species...
Great White Shark Travels Farther, Faster Than Any Other Shark Known
Great White Shark Travels Farther, Faster Than Any Other Shark Known
NEWS
A female great white shark tagged in waters off South Africa has completed the first known transoceanic trip for an individual shark, traveling farther than any other shark known, more than 20,000...
Spanish Nets Wiping Out Deep-sea Sharks, Biologists Say
Spanish Nets Wiping Out Deep-sea Sharks, Biologists Say
NEWS
Spanish fishermen are devastating stocks of deep-water sharks in the northeastern Atlantic, using wasteful and unregulated methods that leave more than half of their catch to rot, according to an...
Secrets Of Largest Fish Revealed
Secrets Of Largest Fish Revealed
NEWS
High-tech electronic tags on whale sharks, the world's largest fish, have revealed how and where they find food. Researchers in Belize have tracked the sharks as they dive almost a kilometre in...
Diver Sues Aquarium After Shark Bites Ear
Diver Sues Aquarium After Shark Bites Ear
NEWS
A 24-year-old man is suing Shanghai Changfeng Park after a shark in its aquarium bit his ear and head while he was scuba diving. The Putuo District People's Court held an evidentiary hearing in...
Whale Shark Aggregation
Whale Shark Aggregation
NEWS
The biggest shark in the sea comes here for an all-you-can eat buffet. Just off this remote speck of land three hours north of Cancun, whale sharks mass by the hundreds each summer in a spectacle...
Basking Sharks Flock To Scottish Waters
Basking Sharks Flock To Scottish Waters
NEWS
The number of basking sharks spotted in Scottish waters has risen steeply. The latest survey results from The Wildlife Trusts' Basking Shark Project for 2005 revealed that, out of 180 sharks...
Tagged Atlantic Sea Turtles Trace Journeys Online
Tagged Atlantic Sea Turtles Trace Journeys Online
NEWS
Aitkanti the sea turtle has already braved fishing nets and shark infested waters in her swim from breeding grounds in South America but is only half way to the rich feeding waters off the coast of...
First Ever Flourescent Shark Found
First Ever Flourescent Shark Found
NEWS
We woke up to a morning that appeared almost unnaturally beautiful. The ocean was calmer than I have ever seen it - one could see a school of fish swimming 30 (well, at least 20) feet below the...
Whale Shark Dilemma
Whale Shark Dilemma
NEWS
Shark Trust members will have read in the latest edition of Shark Focus about the Whale Sharks kept in captivity in Osaka, Japan, and about how the author had a dilemma between the personal...
Thriving Coral Reef Thrills Marine Research Group
Thriving Coral Reef Thrills Marine Research Group
NEWS
Marine scientists sailing the central Pacific to study its remote coral reefs have reached an underwater Eden even more pristine than they had hoped for, according to e-mail dispatches they sent...
Whalesharks Are Shrinking
Whalesharks Are Shrinking
NEWS
According to a study by Australian scientists, the world's largest fish, the whaleshark is getting smaller. Records show a reduction in the whalesharks' average size from 7 meters in 1995 to...
Georgia Aquarium Unveils Its Mysteries
Georgia Aquarium Unveils Its Mysteries
NEWS
The star of a show straight out "Finding Nemo," cruised through the sapphire blue water with incredible grace for an animal roughly the size of a sport-utility vehicle. At 13 feet, Norton...
In New York's L.i. Sound, Sharks Swim, Though Harmlessly
In New York's L.i. Sound, Sharks Swim, Though Harmlessly
NEWS
The chances of being bitten by a shark in New York are roughly the same as your being chosen to lead a Mars expedition. "We've got thresher sharks, blue sharks, sand-tiger sharks, makos,...
Basking Sharks 'canny Hunters'
Basking Sharks 'canny Hunters'
NEWS
Basking sharks are cannier hunters than previously thought, a report in the Journal of Animal Ecology has claimed. A tagging study has shown that the massive fish adapt their diving behaviour to...
Hunting For Monster Sharks 2000 Feet Down
Hunting For Monster Sharks 2000 Feet Down
NEWS
In his continuing search for the world"s great sharks CEO and adventurer Patric Douglas spent 6 hours on a sea cliff wall recently -- at a crush depth of 2000 feet -- staring into the deep...
Stranded Whale Shark In Dubai, Safe & Sound
Stranded Whale Shark In Dubai, Safe & Sound
NEWS
Divers from the Emirates Diving Association (EDA) and Dubai police entered the water to check on the condition of the shark yesterday. After several failed attempts to drive the harmless...
Stranded Whale Shark In Dubai, Safe & Sound
Stranded Whale Shark In Dubai, Safe & Sound
NEWS
Divers from the Emirates Diving Association (EDA) and Dubai police entered the water to check on the condition of the shark yesterday. After several failed attempts to drive the harmless...
Maldivian Divers Concerned About Extinction Of Local Sharks
Maldivian Divers Concerned About Extinction Of Local Sharks
NEWS
Diving instructors are complaining that the over-fishing of sharks has led to a serious reduction in their numbers, which is having a detrimental impact on tourism. Speaking to Minivan Radio...
Shark Week Returns On The Discovery Channel
Shark Week Returns On The Discovery Channel
NEWS
For those of you sharks fans out there...Shark Week premiers Sunday July 17th and will continue through July 24th.
Tagged Whale Sharks 'surprise' Scientists
Tagged Whale Sharks 'surprise' Scientists
NEWS
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) researchers began tagging whale sharks off Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef two months ago. Information from the transponders they attached to the...
"jaws" Benefit At The Monterey Bay Aquarium
"jaws" Benefit At The Monterey Bay Aquarium
NEWS
The Monterey Bay Aquarium would like you to meet your neighborhood shark. The aquarium made headlines this year when it became the first in the world to place a great white shark on long-term...
Stan Waterman Releases Autobiography Detailing Underwater Adventures
Stan Waterman Releases Autobiography Detailing Underwater Adventures
NEWS
Read first hand accounts of diving with sharks in the open ocean (out of the cage) and filming them for the movies Blue Water, White Death the Deep and more. In 1994 the Discovery Channel presented...
A Unique Destination: Diving With Sharks In Bassas
A Unique Destination: Diving With Sharks In Bassas
NEWS
Bassas da India - "Sharks!" came the cry. A distinctive triangular fin appeared in the water even before we dropped anchor. So it was true: this tiny atoll has a reputation for other...
International Commission Bans Shark Finning In The Eastern Pacific
International Commission Bans Shark Finning In The Eastern Pacific
NEWS
Late last week, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) adopted an international ban on shark finning in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The lucrative market for "shark fin soup" is the...
Florida Officials Fear Another "summer Of The Shark" Media Frenzy
Florida Officials Fear Another "summer Of The Shark" Media Frenzy
NEWS
Two shark attacks in three days along the Florida Panhandle left scientists and tourism officials struggling Tuesday to fend off fears that another "Summer of the Shark" was dawning....
Disney Ditches Shark's Fin
Disney Ditches Shark's Fin
NEWS
The scoresheet reads Sharks 1, Mickey Mouse 0. In what was seen as a monumental climbdown by the directors of the world's magical wonderland, Disney announced Friday it will not be serving the...
What Message Is Disney Sending To Kids? Stop Serving Shark Fin Soup Now!
What Message Is Disney Sending To Kids? Stop Serving Shark Fin Soup Now!
NEWS
Michael Aw writes "Imagine shark fins to be the hand and legs of Mickey Mouse; chop them off and throw the lame struggling body of Mickey on the side walk to die a slow painful death!. That is...
Protea Banks - One Of The World's Best Shark Diving Spots
Protea Banks - One Of The World's Best Shark Diving Spots
NEWS
Protea Banks is rated as one of the world's best shark diving spots. All dives are boat dives. Divers are taken to the reefs in semi rigid boats that are launched directly from the beach and...
Disneyland China To Serve Shark Fin Soup
Disneyland China To Serve Shark Fin Soup
NEWS
Disney - which claims to be environmentally friendly - is "making a mistake of the highest order'' in serving shark fin soup to high-paying guests at wedding banquets, warned leading...
Great White Photo Hot Spot Isla Guadalupe Granted Bio-preserve Status
Great White Photo Hot Spot Isla Guadalupe Granted Bio-preserve Status
NEWS
For those of you not familiar with Isla Guadalupe, it is a relatively new hot spot for cage time with Great White Sharks off the Pacific Coast of Baja California, Mexico.
White Shark Tag Data Reveals Shark's Travels
White Shark Tag Data Reveals Shark's Travels
NEWS
An electronic tag recovered from a young white shark released in March by the Monterey Bay Aquarium aquarium mapped travels that took her more than 100 miles (161 km) offshore and to depths greater...
Fete De L'Image.Sous Marine
Fete De L'Image.Sous Marine
EVENTS
This international underwater imagery event started in 1987, and is endorsed by many organizations throughout Europe. This festival is chaired by Mr LA©o BARKATE. This Festival of the Image is for...
Research Shows Overfishing Of Sharks Key Factor In Coral Reef Decline
Research Shows Overfishing Of Sharks Key Factor In Coral Reef Decline
NEWS
Unprecedented study describes sources contributing to decline of Caribbean reefs. Their position at the pinnacle of the marine food chain is legendary. Now, understanding sharks and their...
VII Underwater Art Festival - SILVER SHARK
VII Underwater Art Festival - SILVER SHARK
EVENTS
Welcome you to take part in coming 7-th International Underwater Art Festival "SILVER SHARK". This will be held May 31 - June 3, 2007. Traditionally, our Festival is to take place in the...
Sharks in Focus - Photo Competition
Sharks in Focus - Photo Competition
EVENTS
The Shark Trust has spent the past 10 years working on shark conservation, and to mark this achievement it is joining forces with Diver Mag to host Sharks In Focus. This photo competition has been...
Sodwana Bay Shooutout
Sodwana Bay Shooutout
EVENTS
Welcome to South AfricaA?a‚¬a„?s premier underwater photography event. Now there is hope for all of you that have always dreamed of entering such a prestigious competition but felt intimidated...
Shark Images Photo Award 2008
Shark Images Photo Award 2008
EVENTS
Sharkproject started the worldA?a‚¬a„?s first international shark image competition last year to celebrate and display the amazing shark images from around the world.
Sharks in Focus 09
Sharks in Focus 09
EVENTS
By popular demand, the shark photography competition is back with five new categories including a video shark showreel! As always there is huge variety of fantastic dive prizes to be won, so to be...
Fete De L'Image.Sous Marine
Fete De L'Image.Sous Marine
MONTHLY CONTESTS
This international underwater imagery event started in 1987, and is endorsed by many organizations throughout Europe. This festival is chaired by Mr LA©o BARKATE. This Festival of the Image is for...
Shark Images Photo Award 2008
Shark Images Photo Award 2008
MONTHLY CONTESTS
Sharkproject started the worldA?a‚¬a„?s first international shark image competition last year to celebrate and display the amazing shark images from around the world.
Sodwana Bay Shooutout
Sodwana Bay Shooutout
MONTHLY CONTESTS
Welcome to South AfricaA?a‚¬a„?s premier underwater photography event. Now there is hope for all of you that have always dreamed of entering such a prestigious competition but felt intimidated...
Sharks in Focus - Photo Competition
Sharks in Focus - Photo Competition
MONTHLY CONTESTS
The Shark Trust has spent the past 10 years working on shark conservation, and to mark this achievement it is joining forces with Diver Mag to host Sharks In Focus. This photo competition has been...
Sharks in Focus 09
Sharks in Focus 09
MONTHLY CONTESTS
By popular demand, the shark photography competition is back with five new categories including a video shark showreel! As always there is huge variety of fantastic dive prizes to be won, so to be...