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One of the craziest stunts I've seen.
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When Sean Aronson began telling people that he was filming a short documentary about great white sharks, he received two typical responses.
"There were always those people who were excited-- the shark fanatics. They live and breathe sharks. But there were also a lot of people who sighed and asked, 'what can be said that hasn't already been said?' It's kind of like celebrity news. You have people who can't get enough of Brad and Angelina and then you have people that are just completely turned off from it. White sharks have gained that kind of notoriety."
Now that his film has been released, Aronson thinks he has added something valuable and new to "what has been said" about great whites.
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There is no animal that we fear more and understand less than the great white shark. In part because it's so hard to get near to them, studying great whites hasn't been easy. But there is one man who has spent his life getting closer to great whites, more often, than anyone else.
His name is Mike Rutzen and in South Africa, where he lives, he's known simply as "The Sharkman."
What he has discovered about these predators will surprise you: far from being mindless killing machines, Rutzen believes great whites are smart, curious, and not out to kill humans. And as CNN's Anderson Cooper saw when he went to South Africa, Rutzen is willing to risk his life to prove it.
Rutzen and Cooper took a boat ride to look for a great white Rutzen could swim with.
That's right, swim with. Before he gets in the water, he needs to find a great white that is both calm and curious, a shark he refers to as a "player."
Asked what a "player" is, Rutzen told Cooper, "Well, a player is basically the shark that's so relaxed, has a nice personality, woke up on the right side of the reef, and...the animal's willing to interact with us, it's so curious."
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A landmark agreement to protect shark species threatened with extinction was reached today by over 100 countries signed up to a United Nations-supported wildlife treaty, according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
The 113 countries that are party to the UNEP-administered Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) agreed to prohibit the hunting, fishing and deliberate of killing sharks species covered in an appendix to the CMS – the great white, basking, whale, porbeagle, spiny dogfish, shortfin and longfin mako sharks.
UNEP noted that over-fishing, fisheries by-catch, illegal trade, habitat destruction, depletion of prey species, pollution with a high risk of mercury intoxication, boat strikes and the impact of climate change on the marine environment all seriously threaten sharks.
Gestation periods of up to 22 months, a life expectancy of up to 100 years, relatively low reproductive rates, migratory patterns, and low natural mortality combine to make the protection of some species and their habitat difficult and make sharks particularly vulnerable with little chance to recover if over-fished.
In addition, whale shark meat has been increasingly considered as a high-grade, exotic product since the late 1980s, and according to TRAFFIC – a wildlife trade monitoring network – prices have skyrocketed to $7,000 for 2,000 kilograms in Taiwan, for example.
According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), up to 900,000 tons of sharks have been caught every year for the last two decades, and calculating for illegal, unreported, unregulated fishing and missing data, the actual catch figure is estimated to be at least twice as high.
Studies show that shark populations collapsed in both in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Mediterranean Sea by 90 per cent, and by 75 per cent in the north-western Atlantic Ocean within 15 years, said UNEP.A landmark agreement to protect shark species threatened with extinction was reached... more
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The weather might feel right for a taking a dip, but for those on the coast of Chatham, Mass., now's not a good time for one last summer swim.
Recent sightings of four great white sharks have prompted a swimming ban for the rest of the Labor Day weekend at some of the area's oceanside beaches, including North Beach, Lighthouse Beach, South Beach and Hardings Beach and Nauset Beach.The weather might feel right for a taking a dip, but for those on the coast of... more
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"Stinson Beach was closed Tuesday to swimmers, waders, and surfers following a pair of shark sightings, authorities said.
Golden Gate National Recreation officials told CBS 5 that they received two "reliable" shark sighting reports on Monday."
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I was just there on Sunday, and my friends were swimming around, 50 -100 feet offshore. Yikes!!
(Didn't anyone tell that GW that Shark Week ended on Saturday??)"Stinson Beach was closed Tuesday to swimmers, waders, and surfers following a... more
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Carnivorous animals are a group of meat eating animals. They have powerful jaws and teeth to enable them to eat and kill other animals.Carnivorous animals are a group of meat eating animals. They have powerful jaws and... more
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Paleontologists have found a fossilised great white shark tooth lodged in a whale bone. The fossil was found in Peru's Pisco formation by Florida's Museum of Natural History. The area, during the geological era Pliocene (4 to 5 million years ago), was an ocean.
The Whale did not survive the attack.Paleontologists have found a fossilised great white shark tooth lodged in a whale... more
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It's one of the best-known scenes in cinema history, when actor Richard Dreyfuss cuts open a great white shark known as Jaws to reveal its catch: a crushed tin can and a licence plate.
This time around Auckland Museum staff are not so sure what they will find when they perform a necropsy on a great white shark that a fisherman found dead in a gill net last week in the Kaipara Harbour.It's one of the best-known scenes in cinema history, when actor Richard Dreyfuss... more
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Experts reckon a great white shark — dubbed McJaws — is prowling deep in the North Sea off the Scottish coast.
A remote-controlled submarine took the startling picture just before 5am on Tuesday.
The sub was relaying images from 300ft down to an oil rig maintenance crew 120 miles off Aberdeen.
The man-eater flashed across the screen for just an instant before disappearing into the dark. Experts reckon a great white shark — dubbed McJaws — is prowling deep in... more
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Sharks are beautiful, misunderstood creatures of the sea THAT WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND EAT YOU IF YOU EVER GO SWIMMING AGAIN!!!! This and other conflicting messages in Discovery's 21st annual Shark Week.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at current.com/infomania.
Sharks are beautiful, misunderstood creatures of the sea THAT WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND... more
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"The island where "Jaws" was filmed had a real-life shark scare Thursday, when an unconfirmed sighting of a great white forced the closure of two beaches. South Beach on Martha's Vineyard was closed for a short time, and swimmers were kept out of the water at State Beach in Edgartown, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation said.
A plane was dispatched to try to confirm the sighting, but no shark was spotted, said Lisa Capone, a spokeswoman for the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
In 1974, Steven Spielberg chose Martha's Vineyard for filming the movie version of "Jaws," depicting a series of deadly great white attacks in the fictional community of Amity.
Shark attacks are extremely rare in waters off New England, but great whites have been known to occasionally prowl in the region.""The island where "Jaws" was filmed had a real-life shark scare... more
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SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian man has described how he escaped from the jaws of a great white shark by poking it in the eye as it dragged him under water.
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Jason Cull, 37, told reporters from his hospital bed that he saw a dark shape approaching as he swam about 80 metres (yards) off the popular Middleton beach in Western Australia on Saturday.
At first he thought it was one of the dolphins he had been swimming with, but realised it was a shark as the four-metre (12-foot) monster closed in, local media reported Monday.
"It banged straight into me... and it grabbed me by the leg and dragged me under the water," said Cull, a schoolteacher and father of two.
"I just remember being dragged backwards underwater. I felt along it, I found its eye and I poked it in the eye, and that's when it let go."
A volunteer at the local surf club, Joanne Lucas, 50, heard Cull's cries for help as she arrived at the beach and immediately dived in to rescue him.
"Instinct just kicked in," she told reporters. "I didn't even have to think about it, which is amazing really.
"I got to him and he said, 'Thank God. Thank you so much -- a shark has attacked my leg.'
"He had huge chunks taken out of his leg, his calf and the knee," Lucas said.
Cull underwent surgery at a regional hospital and doctors said he was expected to make a full recovery.
Middleton beach remained closed Monday as at least three great white sharks cruised offshore, avoiding efforts to herd them away, fisheries officials said.
A teenaged surfer was killed in a shark attack last month, bringing the death toll in Australia since 2000 to 12, according to the US-based International Shark Attack File.
Credit: Associated Press SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian man has described how he escaped from the jaws of a... more
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Look out behind you, it's bigger than your kayak!
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