A 26-year-old Australian man has been seriously wounded in a shark attack while was swimming off Coral Bay beach, in the third such incident this month. According to Australian police, the man was swimming off Coral Bay beach when a 10ft (3 m) tiger shark bit his arm. The attack came one day after a surfer was seriously injured in a shark attack north of Sydney. Shark attacks in Australia average…
Jan 19 2012 | Posted in
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Australia: Surfer Torn In Half In A Deadly Shark Attack. Seychelles shark attack: victim’s widow heartfelt tribute at the funeral. A British honeymooner was killed in a suspected shark attack in the idyllic honeymoon island Seychelles yesterday – as the horrified bride he wed 11 days ago looked on. Ian Redmond, 30, was attacked in shallow water 100ft off a Seychelles beach. Ian s…
…hook won’t catch any sharks. For more than a decade, Eric Stroud has been working to develop shark repellents. He used to work as a chemist in the pharmaceutical industry. Then, in the summer of 2001, he and his wife went on a cruise to Bermuda. “We hit bad weather, and we were trapped in a cabin, and on the news was shark bite after shark bite,” he says. “It seemed like ev…
Seychelles: British bridegroom killed by a shark. A surfer has been killed today in a horrifying shark attack near a crowded beach in Western Australia. Eyewitnesses said the shark – believed to be a great white – came up beneath him, grabbed the young man (aged in his early 20s) and pulled him below the surface. The surfer, who has yet to be named, was riding on a bodyboard –…
Sep 4 2011 | Posted in
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…critical An official incident report from the City of Cape Town claimed there was an electricity failure with the power company Eskom, according to South Africa’s Daily News website. “At around 12.25 p.m. (on Wednesday), the mountain shark spotter saw a swimmer enter the water near the Clovelly Corner area. “The spotter tried to sound the alarm, but due to an Eskom-related city-wide electri…
Sep 30 2011 | Posted in
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…orning, according to beach officials. Walter Szulc’s harrowing experience came amid a rash of shark sightings in areas like Cape Cod during its peak of Summer tourism. Less than a week ago, July 3, two great white sharks were photographed swimming off the coast of Orleans and Chatham with the first sighting of the season having occurred a mere days before. The sharks are drawn to the waters…
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Shark Week began on Sunday, July, 31 with a premiere, “Great White Invasion”, about a horde of great white sharks that were swimming along the beaches from South Africa to Australia, and near the coast of California. Discovery Channel broadcasted Shark Week for the first time in 1987, on July 27. In 2000, 6 millions viewers, from United States, and from Canada, received 3D Pulf…
lished in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. Glen De’ath from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and colleagues determined that tropical cyclones – 34 in total since 1985 – were responsible for 48% of the damage, while outbreaks of the coral-feeding crown-of-thorns starfish accounted for 42%. Two severe coral bleaching events in 1998 and 2…
An American diver was killed today by a great white shark in the second fatal shark attack off the coast of Western Australia state in 12 days. The victim, who has yet to be named, is said to have died from “shocking” injuries after witnesses reported seeing a 10-foot great white shark. The American man was a 32-year-old U.S. citizen who diving alone off a 25 feet boat near Rottnest Island, which…
Oct 22 2011 | Posted in
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Jesse Coombs became the first person to kayak successfully down Abiqua Falls in Oregon, USA. Lucas Gilman, Jesse Coombs’ friend and extreme sports photographer captured the jaw-dropping three-second plunge on camera. Jesse Coombs and Lucas Gilman hiked to the remote 96 feet (30 meters) waterfall armed with five cameras to film the stunt. Before Jesse Coombs, only athlete Tim Goss had attempted to…
Sep 22 2011 | Posted in
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The light can make you more visible, but in the same time could help you become invisible sharks seem to found out how this trick works. A recent study has shown that splendid lantern shark, besides glowing in the darkness of the deep waters, can create through light effects a “cloak of invisibility” wich helps it to avoid predators. Also, this study gathered provings that the cylin…
d is <<See you soon!>>. I’m looking forward to it so very much.” Gemma Redmond, the widow of honeymoon shark attack victim Ian Redmond, gave a heartfelt tribute at his funeral About 300 people were at the St Michael’s Church for the service conducted by the Reverend Tim Barton and other 200 mourners stood outside within the grounds and listened to the service on loudspeake…
Aug 30 2011 | Posted in
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…conut milk – and chilli mud crab. “The menu that we have tonight, we’ve practiced for two weeks,” the chef said. The couple’s bungalow sits beside the palm-fringed shore of the 37-acre tropical island in the beautiful Marau Sound lagoon beside the Coral Sea in the Solomon Islands. “It’s not a huge house. It’s not Buckingham Palace by a long stretch,” said Pamela…
Sep 17 2012 | Posted in
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This is the shocking moment a 33-ton glass shark tank at the Shanghai Orient shopping centre in China suddenly burst leaving 15 people injured by flying shards of broken glass and a torrent of water. The tank was an attraction at the entrance to the Shanghai Orient shopping centre in China’s second city when it shattered without warning on December 19. Eight of those hurt were customers and…
Dec 27 2012 | Posted in
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American climbers Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk have become the first in the world to conquer the Shark’s Fin – a lethal 20,000ft pinnacle. Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk spent 12 days scaling up the jagged near vertical point on Meru Central in the Himalayas. Dubbed one of the hardest climbs in the world, dozens of professional climbers had been defeated by the…
Dec 31 2012 | Posted in
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Sea otters have had to survive famine, disease, and clashes with boats, but shark attacks may be to blame for the significant decline in the cute creature populations around the California coast. Scientists are mystified at the recent number – up to 30% of dead otters found along the coast have shark bites, up from ten per cent in the mid-1990s. Mercury News reports that in 2011, 70 sea otters wa…
Paul Watson, the founder of US-based anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has been arrested in Germany, the group announces. In a statement, Sea Shepherd said paul Watson was detained in Frankfurt and now faces extradition to Costa Rica. It quotes German police as saying the arrest relates to a confrontation over shark finning in 2002. Sea Shepherd is a controversial direct action group best known for…
May 14 2012 | Posted in
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…making it likely they will be closed throughout the Labor Day weekend. Fishermen and tourists have reported an unexpectedly high number of sharks in the Atlantic off the Cape Cod coast, some less than 20 feet offshore. Last week, a vacationing family filmed footage of a great white shark feeding on a seal just a few feet away from their boat. And in July, a man was bitten in the leg by a shark whi…
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Australia announces that it will create the world’s largest network of marine parks ahead of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The reserves will cover 3.1 million sq km of ocean, including the Coral Sea. Restrictions will be placed on fishing and oil and gas exploration in the protected zone covering more than a third of Australia’s waters. Environment Minister Tony Burke, who made the announc…
…ding to Capricorn enterprise CEO Mary Carroll. “His dad actually said, <<Make it work>>, so this campaign is certainly a way for him (to) make it work,” Mary Carroll said. Now, 31-year-old Wayne Rumble was recently made director of Sojourn Properties, and told news.com.au that the plan will “support the local community by involving the region’s businesses in the…
Mar 20 2012 | Posted in
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…study the physical and genetic characteristics of the litters. Of the 22 copperheads, the scientists found one female that must have had a virgin birth. Another single virgin birth occurred within the 37 cottonmouth litters. A form of virgin birth has been found in wild vertebrates for the first time “I think the frequency is what really shocked us,” said Prof. Warren Booth. “Th…
Rafael “Rafa” Ortiz is the second person to kayak over a Washington waterfall, which is higher than Niagara Falls. Kayaker Rafael “Rafa” Ortiz, 24, took the plunge at Palouse Falls in Washington State, and paddled himself down the 189-foot fall. The Mexican extreme kayaker followed in the footsteps, or wake, of the original record breaker, Tyler Bradt, who pulled off the stunt in 2009. On his Fac…
May 24 2012 | Posted in
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…t the appeals court upheld the decision and even suggested the amount he was being fined was not enough. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said Kevin Trudeau’s infomercials played 32,000 times after being told to stop by the FTC. Judge John Tinder said: “The figure is conservative – it only considers sales from the 800-number, not sales in bookstores carrying his <<…
t usually face off in a fight,” he said. “A predator goes in quickly and quietly attacks the prey. Predators choose the ill, injured, young or old animals to hunt because they are easier to catch.” In 2005, local teen J.P. Andrews was attacked by a great white shark while surfing off Muizenberg beach. Doctors pronounced him dead on the beach – but he survived, although he lost his right leg….
Oct 9 2012 | Posted in
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Halle Berry is seen having close encounters with great white sharks in behind the scenes footage of her movie Dark Tide. Halle Berry, 46, is pictured reaching out to the ocean predators while leaning over on the edge of a boat and she even got to touch one in the wild. “Apparently, I’m one of the very few people who have done that,” she has said. “How did I manage it? Very carefully.” Halle Berr…
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