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This is the second board-bite we’ve heard about this year, the news this time coming from Australia.
A New South Wales surfer, Stephen King (no joke, his name is actually Stephen King), calls himself “the luckiest guy on two legs” after an encounter with a hungry shark left him with… Read the rest
There have been a lot of reports about shark sightings and attacks recently, what with the surfer who rode one and the guy who had a huge bite taken out of his board, among others. So the news that some surfers and interested parties are looking for ways to get… Read the rest
That’s right. Tigers on surfboards. Like the cool cat Jazz pictured above. There’s also Blaze, who’s just trying to get something to drink, and Princess, who just needs a nap. I want to know how they deal with a shark encounter. Something tells me these big kitties don’t mess around.… Read the rest
Surely you’ve heard about Doug Niblack and his recent encounter with a great white shark. He was knocked from his board while surfing on the Oregon Coast, but instead of crashing into the cold water, he found himself standing on something he described as “rubbery like Neoprene.”
Niblack apparently rode… Read the rest
When Calvin Tom took off on his paddle board yesterday to go fishing in North County, Calif., he didn’t know he’d be bringing back a shark. He’d gone out to investigate some weird behavior in the water (the birds were smacking the water really hard, he said) and came back… Read the rest
Dad, Kevin, takes 9-year-old son, Hunter, on a fishing trip by kayak off the coast of Gavelston, Texas. Dad accidentally hooks seven-foot-long black tip shark and spends about an hour attempting to keep the shark hooked and positioned just right so that son Hunter can get a video of the… Read the rest
How would you feel if a shark jumped over you… Read the rest while you were surfing?
[Via: Huffington Post]
Soul Surfer is the upcoming film version of surfer Bethany Hamilton’s life story–how the teen (and rising surf start) lost her arm in a shark attack and how she persevered after it all.
Soul Surfer… Read the rest will open in theaters this April, and will certainly draw the teen crowd and, likely,
Bahamian police began an investigation Tuesday after being notified that two legs, two arms, and a torso were found in the stomach of a tiger shark. The shark was caught by three fishermen on Saturday near New Providence, and the fishermen discovered the parts in its belly shortly after. Police… Read the rest
Australian Professional Surfer Clint Kimmins recently posted to his Facebook page, “Just saw a guy’s leg get ripped off by a bull shark at Burleigh Cove. Soo heavy.”
He posted this as he looked out on the crowded waves, right before he went out to catch a few. Apparently, the… Read the rest
The ocean is generally a safe place to play, but every once in a while a story comes out that reminds us that there is more in the sea than plastic and mermaids.
A 38-year-old man who was kite surfing about 500 yards off the Florida coast was killed after… Read the rest
Welcome back, all you sublimity-suckling vertebrates. This week’s dose of the awesome was shot at the Seattle Aquarium, where staff just couldn’t seem to find out why all the four-foot sharks in one particular tank kept dying. It remained a scientific mystery until one of them decided stay overnight with… Read the rest
The Great White Shark Song
National Geographic | MySpace Video… Read the rest
National Geographic producer and underwater cinematographer Andy Brandy Casagrande IV puts himself in the role of a great white shark in this folky, tongue-in-cheek music video that has been screening at film festivals around the country.
Casagrande’s lyrics begin optimistically
Unfortunately not all sharks have people teeth, which is why scientists in Western Australia have tagged over 70 great white sharks with satellite-tracking darts designed to send out a text message when one of the predators swims within 500 meters of metropolitan beaches.
Researchers have set up a total of… Read the rest
