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Surfers blessed with Irish Blarney for St Patrick's Day

17 March, 2012 : - - In Ireland St Patrick’s Day is a holiday but increasingly people from all around the world gather to celebrate all things Irish. St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland and is the person celebrated on Ireland’s national day. Ok, so he wasn’t born Irish but he has become an integral part of the …
Video: 50 sharks in a feeding frenzy off Perth WA

12 March, 2012 : - A school of sharks, some as big as 2.5 metres, took part in a feeding frenzy 700m off Yancep today. Pilots on board the Westpac Life Saver Rescue helicopter spotted the sharks feeding on a school of tuna. The school of sharks were made up of whalers including blacktips, spinners and bronzers. The s…
Shark attacks New Zealand surfer near Opunake

6 March, 2012 : - A surfer was left with 10 bloody tooth-marks after being attacked by a shark off the coast of Taranaki at dusk. Peter Garrett suffered the cuts, each about 2cm deep, when a shark mauled him while he was out on the Arawhata Rd surf break, just north of Opunake about 7pm. Mr Garrett was treated on the…
Expedition White Shark: An app for tracking sharks

20 January, 2012 : - Expedition White Shark is the world's first app that tracks sharks which have tags attached to their dorsal fins. As a shark surfaces it is geo-located by satellites. The chances of being attacked by a shark are super slim. Still, an app that gives a heads up of recent shark activity at the beach…
WA shark attack hot on heels of East Coast incindent

19 January, 2012 : - News of the WA attack came as it emerged that a shark had attacked a 44-year-old surfer at a popular beach on Australia's east coast. The surfer nearly bled to death after he was savaged by a shark and forced to paddle himself back to shore, screaming for help, as blood streamed out behind him. F…
Shark Research Committee releases 2011 attack report

16 January, 2012 : - There were 8 authenticated unprovoked shark attacks reported from the Pacific Coast of North America during 2011, which includes 1 special case. There were 5 attacks, including the special case, recorded from California and 3 from Oregon. The publication 'Shark Attacks of the Twentieth Century' a…
South African surfer killed by shark at Port St Johns

16 January, 2012 : - A Port St Johns surfer died after being attacked by a shark at Second Beach. The 25-year-old man from the Thombo area sustained severe injuries to his chest and arms after fighting off the shark with his surfboard. A bystander at the beach said there was blood everywhere and that he had never se…
Shark incident at Nelscott Reef damages surfboard

14 January, 2012 : - On January 13 Steve Harnack was surfing at Nelscott Reef. Harnack reports; 'I had traveled beyond the reef about 200 yards duck-diving through several waves about 20 feet high. My board was dragging, I had a jet-ski tow me to the beach. The bottom of my board had been struck by a shark, tooth imp…
2011 Surfersvillage Awards Winners are announced...

4 January 2012 : - The 2011 Surfersvillage Awards winners have been determined and officially announced. The Awards provide journalists photographers videographers bloggers & webcasters the opportunity to be voted on to determine the winners. The Awards aspire to discover, encourage, and help, creative and technical …
'Shark bite incident' may replace term 'shark attack'

4 January, 2012 : - Rogue sharks exist only in Hollywood. And it is time the term 'shark attack' was rejected as sensationalist and misleading, according to Christopher Neff, a researcher at the University of Sydney carrying out the world's first PhD on the politics of 'shark bite incidents'...…
Shark bites surfer at Australia's North Avoca Beach

3 January, 2012 : - A surfer has survived a shark attack on the NSW Central Coast, paddling away with puncture wounds to his arm. The 28-year-old man was bitten by a shark while surfing about 8pm (AEDT) on Tuesday at North Avoca Beach, NSW Ambulance said in a statement...…
Happy New Year Everybody.... It's 'two-oh-one-two'...

31 December, 2011 : - Happy New Year everybody. We wish you Peace, Joy, and Prosperity throughout the New Year. May all your sessions be as good or better than you dream, and may that perfect wave roll throughout your life in 2012. There are many popular beliefs about 2012, ranging from the spiritually transformative…
NZ: Orcas round-up of Sharks ends in feeding frenzy

28 December, 2011 : - A pod of orcas and a group of sharks clashed in a feeding frenzy in the surf at Blue Cliffs Beach, near Tuatapere in Southland, NZ, on Boxing Day An eyewitness said it looked like the killer whales, were hunting the sharks. The sharks were coming ashore because they didn't want to be in the wate…