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…
Eric Stroud, an American chemist, says he’s found a substance – several, in fact – that can repel some of the most fearsome predators in the ocean. He wants to use his discovery to protect them, and us. Eric Stroud is setting up an experiment. He unwraps twenty pounds of frozen sardines, drops them into a mesh bag tied to the pier, and tosses the bag into the water. He’s h…
A number of popular Cape Cod beaches have been closed after multiple reports of sharks, including deadly great whites, swimming not far from the coast. The closure is just the latest twist in an unusually shark-infested Cape Cod summer. A string of beaches off the shore of Chatham, Massachusetts were shut down indefinitely on Wednesday, making it likely they will be closed throughout the Labor Da…
Sep 1 2012 | Posted in
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Rachel Campbell and her friends filmed an amazing scene with more than 100 tiger sharks furiously feeding over the carcass of a dead whale on the beach near Warroora Station in northwestern Australia. Then the surfers wandered a kilometre or so up the beach and went for a surf anyway. Writing on her blog Rachel Campbell said: “I was collecting shells along the beach with my mum. Searching the whi…
Jun 22 2012 | Posted in
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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…
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…
Oct 24 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…
Walter Szulc’s first experience in a kayak was enough to deter even the bravest as his quiet maiden voyage in the one-man canoe resulted in him being stalked by one of the sea’s most dangerous predators. Shocked beachgoers on Nauset Beach near Cape Cod were lining the beach screaming “shark, shark” to attempt to warn Walter Szulc - but he failed to hear them. The great white shark was…
Jul 8 2012 | Posted in
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A large section of coastline in South Africa has been closed after a 15-metre whale washed ashore following an attack by Great White sharks. The giant whale was removed from the surf after its carcass attracted high numbers of great whites to the coast by Muizenberg beach, near Cape Town, on Sunday. Authorities have since taken the southern right whale from the beach but have closed off a stretch…
Oct 9 2012 | Posted in
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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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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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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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The Duchess of Cambridge received an intricate beaded necklace from a gaggle of bare-chested locals in Solomon Islands and she couldn’t help but let out a giggle. The Young Royals were garlanded with the traditional jewellery during their visit to the tiny village of Marau in the Solomon Islands before taking the scenic route to Tavanipupu aboard a traditional war canoe. It was a world away…
Sep 17 2012 | Posted in
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…generation; all female reproduce asexually via a process called obligate parthenogenesis. But asexual reproduction by a normally sexual vertebrate species is still rare, having been reported in under 0.1% of species. It was only in the mid-1990s that virgin births began to be documented in captive snakes, followed by a captive giant lizard in 2006 and a captive shark in 2007. To date this now inc…
A Bucharest court has ordered the arrest of two self-described celebrities witches, Vanessa and Melissa, on blackmail and extortion charges in a high-profile case involving a TV star and, reportedly, other public figures. The Bucharest Appeals Court ruled Wednesday that Rada Minca (Melissa) and Roxana Lider (Vanessa) should be arrested for 29 days pending trial. Judges decided they should be inve…
Dec 22 2011 | Posted in
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Alice Pyne, a teenager dying of cancer, has fulfilled her “bucket list” of things she wanted to do. Her final dream came true after her parents made a “terrifying” late-night decision to fly her abroad. Alice Pyne, 16, flew to Canada to go whale watching and tick off her last bucket list wish. The girl, who has a white blood cell cancer called Hodgkins lymphoma, made a pilgrimage to Vancouver and…
Aug 18 2012 | Posted in
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Jenna Wolfe revealed this morning she is engaged and expecting a baby with Stephanie Gosk, an NBC News correspondent. Today show correspondent said: “I have some big news, I’m actually pregnant, quite pregnant. Stephanie and I are expecting a baby girl at the end of August. This is the adventure of a lifetime.” She added: “This is a journey that I am very excited to take.” This is the first…
Mar 27 2013 | Posted in
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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…
A power cut could have prevented a shark spotter from sounding a warning alarm just before Michael Cohen was savaged by a great white off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa. The shark spotter is thought to have seen Michael Cohen, the 43 year-old British swimmer enter the water and attempted to warn him of danger – but the siren didn’t work because of a city-wide power cut, it has…
Sep 30 2011 | Posted in
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Happy Feet, the world’s most famous penguin, who was rescued in a costly mission that restored him to his ocean home, may have ended up as a predator’s lunch. Happy Feet, the wandering emperor penguin had been nursed back to health after being found on Peka Peka Beach in New Zealand – 3,000 miles north of its native Antarctica – in a very serious condition, after eating sa…
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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Philippe Croizon, a Frenchman who lost his limbs in an accident, has completed the first part of his challenge to swim between five continents. Philippe Croizon swam from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia with long-distance swimmer Arnaud Chassery and a local man who joined them to show his support. He uses prosthetic limbs with flippers attached and took seven-and-a-half hours to swim the stretch. &…
May 17 2012 | Posted in
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