Endangered leatherback turtles are being "hammered" worldwide with massive reductions of up to 90 percent in some populations, but South Africa's conservation efforts appear to be paying off and...
The 2008 Epson Eilat Red Sea underwater photo competition has come to a close. Winning images and video clips from the winning ceremony wrap up our coverage of this year's event
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
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...
A clearly agitated Loyola Hearn, Canada's Minister of Fishy Business held a media conference in Ottawa on Saturday to deliver a vindictive and clearly angry denunciation of Captain Paul Watson and...
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...
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
The Turks & Caicos Tourist Board has announced the winners of the "Third Annual Turks & Caicos Underwater Photographic Competition". The three Grand Prize winners - two of whom were women - share...
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...
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...
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...
An initiated global correspondence toward issue recognition, situational awareness and public information regarding biological destruction of sharks and related or associated species and systems....
Established as the largest underwater photographic competition of its kind in Southern Africa, THE SODWANA SHOOTOUT will take place at Sodwana Bay from 8-12th May 2007.
The competition is open...
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...
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...
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...
South Africa must act to stop its marine resources disappearing in a world where the biggest consumers of fish products are cows and pet cats, warned environmentalists on Monday.
The...
Commercial fishing is being carried out within five of South Africa's declared marine protected areas (MPAs), the department of environmental affairs conceded.
"Commercial fishing is...
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...
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...
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...
Established as the largest underwater photographic competition of its kind in Southern Africa, THE SODWANA SHOOTOUT will take place at Sodwana Bay from 8-12th May 2007.
The competition is open...
Icy Antarctica, the frozen continent, is so cold and so remote that no alien species could possibly survive there, right? Well, not really, as a young Stellenbosch University postgraduate student...
Loggerhead nestings have reached record levels in South Africa, a positive sign for the endangered marine turtle.
According to monitoring conducted by WWF-South Africa over the 2005-06 season,...
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Operation Leviathan is underway to stop the Japanese whaling fleets' illegal slaughter of over a thousand whales. With its newly acquired ship named the M/Y...
Never before have 2 international competitions associated with dive expos on opposite sides of the world cooperated to establish a complementary series of categories and prizing opportunities. The...
South African seafood lovers have been offered a cool new tool to make the right choice on what fishes to eat - or avoid.
By sending a cellphone SMS, they can check whether the fish species they...
Over $55,000 in prizes up for grabs as Wetpixel.com and DivePhotoGuide.com issue a call for entries for 2 unqiue international underwater photo and video competitions!
Never before have 2...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Imagine a "What I Did This Summer" essay that begins: I went swimming with five man-eating Nile crocodiles.
That's what some kids in South Africa can write after visiting the Cango...
South African abalone expert Anna Mouton will visit Port Fairy next month to investigate a deadly abalone virus which has infected offshore reefs and spread out of a quarantined zone.
The...
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...
A major sea rescue operation was mounted at Cape Recife off Port Elizabeth last night after a boat carrying seven scuba divers ran aground on a rocky outcrop near the lighthouse.
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...
Four new marine protected areas (MPAs) are to be proclaimed along the Cape coastline, Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has announced.
In a statement issued to mark the launch of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
