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Shark Research Committee hosts lecture

21 September, 2012 : - The Shark Research Committee is attempting to raise enough in donations to commence their new carnobacterium project and a white shark PAT program. The carnobacterium project concerns the numbers of stranded juvenile sharks along the coast and the infection of their central nervous system by th…
Surfersvillage Slideshows: Check the latest updates

17 September, 2012 : - - The Surfersvillage Slideshows have been updated with Day 1 of the Hurley Pro Trestles, as well as the Warm Up sessions from Firday and Saturday before the event commenced. Other Slideshows include the final day from Billabong Pro Tahiti, Cosmic Creek Surf Festival, three weeks-worth of Almana…
Whale carcass angers Jake 'The Snake' Paterson

12 September, 2012 : - The Department of Environment and Conservation has agreed to removed a rotting shark carcass at a popular South West Beach because of community fears it would attract sharks. Surfing champion Jake Paterson slammed the DEC decision to leave a whale carcass buried at Smiths Beach for close to two…
South Africa's Fish Hoek Beach to be shark netted

10 September, 2012 : - It might still mean a few months of baking on the beach at Fish Hoek, but come January it’ll definitely be safe to go back into the water. That’s when the popular family beach will get its trial shark exclusion net, designed to address high shark activity in the area which was negat…
Surfer attacked by shark at Red Bluff, West Australia

28 August, 2012 : - A man has survived a terrifying shark attack near the popular surf break of Red Bluff, about 150km north of Carnarvon in WA's Gascoyne region, this afternoon. The man, believed to be a 34-year-old, had been surfing at the remote location when the predator struck about 3.25pm. An emergency ca…
SHARKS: Twenty Five facts about sharks...

11 August, 2012 : - Shark Week begins Sunday. One of the great human stories for thousands of years is the individual facing something this grand and awesome yet also this mysterious and frightening. One response is to fight it. Another is to just stand there and be reverent. And that is why Shark Week appeals…
France to hunt sharks after Reunion Island attacks

7 August, 2012 : - France will hire professional fishermen to kill some 20 sharks off the Indian Ocean island of Reunion this week in an effort to understand the reasons for a series of attacks in the surfing hotspot. Two surfers have been attacked by sharks within a week. One narrowly survived the loss of a han…
Governement to fund Reunion Island shark hunts

1 August, 2012 : - Fishermen will hunt for a vulnerable shark species off the Indian Ocean island of Reunion soon, and will pocket government cash for their kills after a dramatic rise in deadly attacks pushed Paris to take unprecedented measures. Financial incentives will come into force as early as next week. …
Great white shark attacks surfer in South Australia

31 July, 2012 : - John Campion had surfed the West Coast waters for years, but yesterday he was lucky to make it out alive after being attacked by a great white shark. Mr Campion, 48, was mauled while surfing with his daughter and friends near Streaky Bay, on the SA West Coast…
WA surfers commemorate shark victim Ben Linden

29 July, 2012 : - Family and friends of Perth shark attack victim Ben Linden have paid tribute to the 24-year-old who was killed two weeks ago. Dozens of people gathered at Perth's Scarborough Beach this morning before performing a traditional surfers farewell several hundred metres offshore. Ben Linden was kill…
Biologist discovers 79 new species of sharks...

24 July, 2012 : - Seventy nine new species of sharks have been discovered, of the more than 1,200 or so species of sharks and rays already known to be out there. We're pretty sure there are a lot more (species) out there. Naylor a biologist at the Hollings Marine Laboratory, working jointly for College of Charleston …
Shark attacks, kills surfer off Reunion Island...

23 July, 2012 : - Authorities say a shark killed a 22-year-old surfer in the Indian Ocean waters off France's Reunion Island. Island government spokesman Serge Bideau says the man was in a surfing spot west of the island Monday when a shark bit off his right leg. Witnesses helped the victim...…
SHARK ATTACK: Surfer killed by great white in W.A.

14 July, 2012 : - A surfer was killed by a great white shark just after 9.00am this morning 4 kilometers south of Wedge Island, north of Perth. A man on a jet-ski said 'I reached to grab the body and the shark came at me on the jet-ski and tried to knock me off and I did another loop and when I came to back to the bo…