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FISHERMEN are asking if this is the massive great white shark that has been stealing their catch, breaching repeatedly within metres of one terrified man's surf ski. These photographs of the 4.3m monster have been circulating on the internet, but reports from the South African fishing town of Mossel Bay confirm they are no hoax. Frighteningly, scientists who dissected the female shark say it was adolescent and not yet fully grown

54-year-old man has been attacked by a shark while surfing at Kalama Beach Park on Maui. Maui County spokeswoman Mahina Martin says the unidentified man was bitten Monday morning in the upper right thigh and the lower part of his right ankle. The man was transported to Maui Memorial Medical Center. His condition wasn't immediately available. Martin says the shark is believed to have been a 6- to 8-foot sand shark. In response to the shark attack that occurred shortly after 6 a.m., ocean use from the south end of Kamaole 1 Beach Park to Waiohuli Road in Kihei was...

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Fishermen captured a 748-pound shark just 18 miles off the Fort Lauderdale coast, WPLG-Ch. 10 reports.

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. A Pittsburgh man whose body washed up in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., after he went for a late-night swim off Corolla died from extensive shark bites, according to police and the medical examiner's office. The man's body was discovered Thursday morning in the 1300 block of N. Virginia Dare Trail by a tourist who was taking an early-morning walk, according to the Kill Devil Hills Police Department. The man was identified as Richard A. Snead, 60, of Ross Township in Pittsburgh. The body was taken to the regional medical examiner's office in Greenville; the cause of...

3 great whites are ID’d off coastTags put on 2 sharks; some beaches closed By Meghan E. Irons Globe Staff / September 6, 2009 The fisherman had just one shot to mark the great white. Captain Bill Chaprales walked to the front of his 22-foot harpoon vessel, raised the 12-foot-long tagging pole, and threw it purposefully onto the back side of the enormous shark, which was 4 to 5 feet below the surface. Tagged. “He did it in one shot,’’ said state biologist Greg Skomal, whose team tagged two great whites yesterday. “We don’t swing the bat unless it’s a...

The egg was being moved to a quarantine section of the Blue Planet Aquarium in Cheshire from the Caribbean Reef display. But the shark, which is just 4ins (10cm) long and has been named Ariel after the Little Mermaid character, was born during medical checks. Divers who survived night in shark-infested waters have to pay for their rescue Kelly Timmins, a diver, said: "We're just hoping it doesn't bond with the first thing it sees, which was me." "It is pretty unique for a shark to be born out of the water," Ms Timmins told the BBC. "Ariel's doing well...

A Scituate man reeled in a 624-pound mako shark Thursday, possibly breaking the record for the biggest male mako ever caught, a biologist said. “I’ve caught a million sharks before, but never anything this feisty,” said Taylor Sears, 20, a Massachusetts Maritime Academy junior who said he fishes every day of the summer. Greg Skomal, a shark specialist with the state Division of Marine Fisheries, said the 10-foot fish is the largest male mako shark ever to be recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, and appears to be the largest male ever caught. “We didn’t think they got this big, basically,”...

There may never be a better time or place to have an encounter with the world's largest fish than right now off the Alabama coast. For the last few weeks, unprecedented numbers of whale sharks have been seen cruising just a few miles off the beach, their broad snouts and tall dorsal fins breaking the surface as they swim lazily along, mouths agape, sucking in plankton.

Stinson Beach is off limits for the rest of the week following not just one, but two shark sightings. Officials closed the beach Tuesday and said it will remain closed through Saturday at a minimum. They may extend the closure if more sharks are spotted. The closure means no one can surf, boogie board or even wade into the ocean waters of the Marin County beach. Someone spotted what is being described as a great white shark Monday. A second person reported a separate sighting Monday morning. The second sighting is what caused lifeguards to shut down the beach. It...

After a day of spear fishing and lobster diving, a group of boaters got the scare of a lifetime when a shark jumped into their boat. Michael Powers and his friends were on-board a 21 foot boat Saturday, when a shark decided to pay them an unannounced visit. "One minute it was in the air, the next minute it was in the boat just beating everything in God's creation," Micheal recalled. "It hit one of the crew members. It hit Patricia, then it went between Paul's legs and my legs in the back. We're all scattering for cover trying to...

Wildlife investigators took to the streets of Overtown on Tuesday night after a six-foot brown shark was found in the middle of the street -- the product, according to witnesses, of a fishy scheme gone sour. The shark was on Northwest Fifth Avenue near Fourth Street since at least 7 p.m., witnesses said, but police said they first received a call around 9 p.m. "It was a relief that it was a shark," said Keith Smith, a local resident. "When I first saw it, I thought it was a body because of all the shootings that have been going on....

MEXICO CITY — Mexico says it found nearly one ton of cocaine hidden inside frozen shark carcasses. Prosecutors says hundreds of packages stuffed in the bellies of dozens of dead sharks seized in the Gulf port of Progreso contained 1,965 pounds (893 kilograms) of cocaine. The Attorney General's Office says the sharks were found in two containers on Tuesday. The containers had been shipped from Costa Rica. There was no immediate information on its intended destination.

The rare prickly shark captured recently off the coast of California is not in my son's "Monsters of the Deep'' book, but it should be. It looks like one of the many weird animals I've learned about since my seven-year-old developed an interest in deep sea creatures. Yesterday marked only the second time a prickly shark has been kept in captivity and the first time one was exhibited. It was held at the Monterey Bay Aquarium for only a few hours before being released because it wasn't doing well in the tank. My son will want to hear about all...

The shark attack capital of the United States is New Smyrna, Fla., sort of, according to the International Shark Attack File. The beach is in a county that has logged 210 attacks on humans. No. 2 is North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii and Long Beach Island in New Jersey gets the No. 3 spot. Truth is, shark attacks are rare (learn how to avoid them). Globally there are a few dozen a year, with 4 deaths last year. In Florida, there were 32 in 2008 and the same number in 2007, with no fatalities. The overall number of attacks had risen...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A state scientist says a bull shark caught and killed by two teenagers was pregnant with multiple pups. The killing of the 9-foot shark off The St. Petersburg Pier has spurred controversy in the community about hunting declining species for sport. Brent Winner, an associate research scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission who performed the necropsy on the shark, said sharks usually birth litters of up to 12 pups. Nineteen-year-old Joshua Lipert and 16-year-old Robert Korkoske displayed the shark in the back of their pickup truck on Wednesday after they spent two hours catching...

PORT CHARLOTTE, FL. - A Charlotte County fisherman is gloating over his catch after reeling in a shark weighing over 1,000 pounds. The shark was caught near Boca Grande Monday. Bucky Dennis said he single-handedly fought with the shark for over two hours before finally winning the battle.

JUPITER, Fla. — A surfer was bitten on the foot by a shark and may have lost two toes.

These amazing pictures show an epic, two-hour battle between spear fisherman Craig Clasen and a 12-foot tiger shark in the Gulf of Mexico. The life-and-death struggle took place off New Orleans when Clasen, filmmaker Ryan McInnis and two friends were hunting tuna. Suddenly McInnis found himself cut off and the shark began circling. "I positioned myself between Ryan and the shark and I tried to watch it for a second, hoping it would pass," said Clasen, 32, who was wearing a snorkel. "The shark made a roll and looked like it was going to charge us.

A Young French surfer has died after he was attacked by sharks while surfing in the French Pacific territory island of New Caledonia, police say. The 19-year-old student's arm was ripped off and his leg bitten when he was attacked "apparently by several sharks" while trying to get back onto a boat with his friend on Friday, police said. The man's friend managed to get him to shore, but he was dead by the time emergency workers reached him.

THE fish were everywhere. Frigate mackerel - a small type of tuna - hunting minute baitfish in the green shallows near Clifton Gardens under a clear sky. We'd taken a phone call from Sydney Harbour flyfishing guide Justin Duggan a few minutes before: "If you want to find a shark in the Harbour get over here. Now. There are fish everywhere. Kingfish, frigates, salmon. It's a smorgasbord for sharks." Aboard fishing DVD-maker Al McGlashan's 6m outboard-powered boat, The Daily Telegraph had earlier asked the Harbour's fishing guides to alert us if they found the type of fish-feeding frenzies sharks love...

Surgeons say it was a miracle that they managed to reattach the hand of a surfer who was mauled by a shark at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Thirty-three-year-old Glenn Orgias was attacked by a great white shark while surfing at dusk almost two weeks ago. He was taken to St Vincent's Hospital with his hand hanging by a three centimetre piece of skin. Plastic surgeon Dr Kevin Ho says doctors never expected that they would be able to reattach the hand. "However in the Bondi surfer's case, given his general health and the speed of which he was rushed into the...

GLEN Lockery reckons he must be one of the luckiest men alive after surviving a body-slam by a shark. The predator came at him from the deep before disappearing into murky post-flood surf at Shelly Beach near Port Macquarie at about 5pm last Wednesday. The incident is being investigated by the State government's shark attack unit. It comes as a world-reknowned shark expert tells how best to fend off the predators if they attack. I've done it so much I got shark elbow: Expert's tip Mr Lockery was waiting for a wave, watching his mates paddle in, when he was...

1.3-Ton Tiger Shark Accidently (sic) Caught in Fishing Net Near TeahupooThursday was supposed to have been a routine day of fishing for starfish for the two Parker brothers off Teahupoo, the world famous surfing site next to Tahiti's peninsula. But catching starfish, no matter how meritorious the gesture, doesn't make headlines. And that's exactly what the Parker brothers did Friday. Both of Tahiti's French language daily newspapers carried a front-page story about Didier and Gérard Parker and a photo of their impressive catch—a 1.29-ton tiger shark. Their day began as part of a campaign to collect as many starfish as...

ONE of the surfers who helped a shark attack victim to shore at Bondi last night had previously saved a fisherman from drowning in France. Mikael Thomas was surfing with his friend Sebastian le Bail just before sunset when the pair heard a fellow surfer calling for help. The victim, a 33-year-old named Glen from Dover Heights, screamed after he felt something bite his arm. “We understood very quickly what was happening and took the same wave back to shore when we saw his arm on the top of the board,” Mr Thomas, a French national, said. “There was only...

Surfers capture unsual sight on videoHUTCHINSON ISLAND-- "It was just another routine day of surfing, the water was crystal clear," said John Bianchini. It was like every other day of surfing for him and his two buddies who brought their camera along to document the action on the waves. But they never expected to capture a shark jumping out of the water behind them. It was a 6 to 7 foot Spinner Shark, pirouetting in tight circles 5 or 6 times before it splashed back into the water. "I didn't see the shark in the water. I saw the splash...

Beaches along Singer Island are closed to swimmers, now that sharks have taken over the waters of South Florida. Other local beaches may be forced to close as well. That’s because schools of sharks are swimming too close to shore. Every year at this time, sharks of just about every variety – spinner, reef, hammerhead and bull sharks – follow schools of migrating fish along the Florida coastline, prompting the beach closings. On Wednesday morning, Chopper 5, the news helicopter for WPTV NewsChannel 5, found at least one thousand sharks swimming close to shore. Double red flags are posted to...

Sharks may be threatening the safety of Australian swimmers with three attacks since Sunday, but in South Africa it is the most desperate people who are getting munched by great whites. At Gansbaai, west of Capetown, unemployed people dive into shark infested waters to poach seafood. Abalone farmer, Stephen Ashlin, says four poachers have been taken in the last 12 months "If you're hungry, you got no food on the table, you're going to go find it somewhere," he says. "A lot of guys turn to poaching and they swim out to Dyer Island which is about a 1.2 kilometre...

AUSTRALIA'S surfing beaches will remain on high alert for shark attacks after two surfers were attacked on their surfboards in northern NSW and Tasmania. A man was taken by helicopter to Gold Coast Hospital yesterday morning after being attacked at Fingal, while a 13-year-old girl was in a stable condition in Hobart Hospital last night after being mauled at Binalong Bay, about 250km north of Hobart. Hannah Mighall was surfing with her 20-year-old cousin from Queensland at Binalong Bay, near St Helens, when a 5m white pointer latched on to her leg about 3.45pm yesterday. The shark twice dragged the...

Scientist-adventurer Brady Barr has traveled all over the world to study hundreds of animal species, but a recent trip took him somewhere few people have ever been -- to see one of the world's most mysterious, and some believe one of the oldest living creatures. Call it the "Jurassic shark." The six-gill shark is one of the least understood sharks in the world, Barr said. That's because the six-gill lives thousands of feet below the ocean's surface in frigid, pitch-black waters and almost never comes into contact with humans. Barr, 46, went to Central America and traveled 1,700 feet underwater...

Being bitten by a great white shark six years ago has not kept Michael Casey out of the water, nor did seeing a shark again while surfing this past New Year’s Day near the Bodega Dunes Campground. Instead of giving up for the day, Casey went a quarter mile up the beach and went back in the water. “I saw other guys out,” said Casey, a Santa Rosa assistant city attorney. “I just felt more comfortable, it was uneventful, I caught some good waves and it was a good way to start the new year.” Casey’s encounter was not unusual....

Normally when we think of sharks, the soundtrack of “Jaws” plays in our heads. But when the Georgia Aquarium’s latest shark addition strikes, there is no da-dum, da-dum, da-dum. The kill is preceded by silence. The world’s largest fish tank welcomed 12 new spotted wobbegong shark babies —- called pups —- born over several days during Christmas week. Spotted wobbegong sharks, which are native to coastal Australia, are motionless during the hunt and use their sandy color to blend in with the ocean floor and catch their food unaware. “They are an ambush prey,” said Meghann Gibbons, a spokeswoman for...

YOU’RE a 10-year-old kid and it’s summer. A wave arches from the frothing sea, and spurts you forward on a boogie board. But the surge stalls as you’re helplessly churned under a wall of water. You get to your flippered feet and clear your nose. Except there’s something wrong with one of your flippers – on the right foot. It’s half gone. Bayden Schumann felt nothing in the wave, but shivered as he looked through the water at his foot. “I was just catching one of my last waves. I didn’t feel anything; I went through the wave and half...

Australian authorities said Sunday they will not attempt to hunt down a shark believed to have killed a swimmer, as reports said the victim would not have wanted the predator to die. Police suspect that avid diver and fisherman Brian Guest, 51, was taken by a shark as he was snorkelling with his son near Rockingham, south of Perth on Australia's west coast, on Saturday. Witnesses saw flashes of fins and blood in the water and nothing has been found of Guest except some shreds believed to have come from his wetsuit. Fremantle Water Police, who were Sunday searching the...

A fisherman seeking out marine life off the coast of Volusia County, Fla., said he caught a 663-pound hammerhead shark. The commercial fisherman said the shark, which measured more than 13 feet in length, was reeled in Wednesday, WESH-TV, Orlando, Fla., reported Thursday. Experts said hammerhead sharks can grow to reach lengths of more than 20 feet.

For collectors of legendary memorabilia there is a chance - probably their only chance - to buy the boat that Capt. Frank Mundus used while he built his reputation as the Monster Man, the biggest shark hunter on the Atlantic. Not only is the boat for sale, but many of the items that made it special - from its original fighting chair to the "Monster Mash" chum bucket and its "Monster Trash" garbage pail - are on the block as well. Mundus, 82, died in September of complications from a heart attack just after he returned to his Hawaii home...

A group of people diving off the Big Island saw something in the water they never imagined. A tiger shark, devouring a goat. Joyce Blutt took these pictures about half a mile off Kawaiahae last Monday. She says the shark had eaten half of the goat by the time they got there. If you look close you can see a hoof on the right hand side. Joyce says everyone on board the Kohala divers boat was awestruck. "We are going oh my goodness, it's a goat, it's a shark and you know everyone's all excited. And here's 11 people looking...

When they get a shark-sized appetite, why not take the family where the locals feed? Destin's new Landshark's Pizza has a fin up on the competition when it comes to pushing out brick oven pizza worth writing home about. Longtime Destinites and self-professed country boys David Hooten and Tom Shelton decided that the quiet period between the tourists leaving and the arrival of the Snowbirds would be perfect for the soft opening of their family friendly pizzeria to open its jaws to the locals. The economic timing seems a little off for a business to open, but Landshark's has pretty...

I finally put my finger on something that's been bugging me all day long -- a day when the mainstream media has been trying its darndest to get the sheeple all worked up over Barack Obama choosing retread Democrat party blowhard Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff, and endeavoring to interest the crowd in unnamed John McCain staffers dishing the dirt over Sarah Palin. Two days after a "monumental" Presidential election -- this is the news? And that's when it hit me: the "news" is all done. At least any news that will energize Americans to lavish the sort...

I finally put my finger on something that's been bugging me all day long -- a day when the mainstream media has been trying its darndest to get the sheeple all worked up over Barack Obama choosing retread Democrat party blowhard Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff, and endeavoring to interest the crowd in unnamed John McCain staffers dishing the dirt over Sarah Palin. Two days after a "monumental" Presidential election -- this is the news? And that's when it hit me: the "news" is all done. At least any news that will energize Americans to lavish the sort...

A spearfisherman survived a bite by a massive 20ft Great White Shark as he swam off the Croatian coast with pals. The 500lb monster took a piece out of 43-year-old Damjan Pecek's leg as he swam underwater near the remote Adriatic island Vis. Doctors later pulled two huge shark teeth from the diver's calf. The first his friends knew of the encounter was when their pal surfaced in a pool of his own blood screaming "Great White. Oh God it's a Great White. Help me. Help me. Get me out." The incident happened just 20 feet from the shore in...

A FAMILY stalked in their boat by a great white shark off Adelaide yesterday say they feared for swimmers at a nearby beach. The massive shark - one witness said it was longer than 5m - was seen as close as 1km from the West Lakes Shore beach by boaties aboard at least three vessels between 8.30am and 11.30am yesterday. Surf Life Saving SA was alerted and water police monitored its movements. Aldgate mum Melinda Barnard was aboard an aluminium boat about 4km offshore with her father, Ian Westley, and sons Max, 6, and Eli, 4, when they spotted the...

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'Virgin Birth' By Shark Confirmed: Second Case Ever ScienceDaily (Oct. 10, 2008) — Scientists have confirmed the second-ever case of a “virgin birth” in a shark, indicating once again that female sharks can reproduce without mating and raising the possibility that many female sharks have this incredible capacity. Lead author Dr. Demian Chapman, shark scientist with the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, Beth Firchau, Curator of Fishes for the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, and Dr. Mahmood Shivji, Director of the Guy Harvey Research Institute and Professor at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, have proven...

A Florida Keys man punched a shark to save his dog from becoming a meal. The rat terrier named Jake, who was badly bitten, is expected to recover.

Heart attack takes famed Montauk fisherman They called him the Monster Man. His business was the stuff of tall tales. Gear for the day might include a harpoon, buckets of blood and the patience to wait for a shark to come along and take a bite. "I was the pioneer of sport fishing for sharks," Frank Mundus, a legendary shark hunter, said in his trademark blunt style on his Web site. The Monster Man's own words sum up perfectly a life said to have inspired the movie "Jaws" and its roguish Captain Quint, played by the late Robert Shaw. Mundus...

Just when did he sail over the great white? I during his acceptance speech when he morphed from the greek god back into a same old, generic, angry, liberal democrat as he launched into the hateful attack on McCain - "It's not that he doesn't know, it's because he doesn't care." Many, many people snapped out of it right then. Reeling from an unsettled feeling brought out by seeing the Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden, and finally Obama rants - they were ripe for something new.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A surfer in New Smyrna Beach was caught on tape kicking and paddling frantically after spotting a shark closing in on him a day after a boy was bitten in the same area. A TV news helicopter spotted the surfer paddling in the water unaware that a shark was nearby. Video showed the surfer eventually noticing the shark and then fleeing. He is seen kicking when the shark is near his feet. Just hours before the encounter, a 15- year-old was hospitalized after jumping on a shark. "It appears that he actually just put his...

The horrifying images are in. The killer shark that has been terrorizing aquatic adventurers on Long Island has been vanquished. A team of marine rescue specialists, dispatched by Governor David Patterson who declared a state of emergency from Montauk to Lake Champlain, descended upon Zach's Bay and captured the man eater before disaster ensued. EMS technicians arrived at the scene to treat panic-stricken bathers. Women screamed, children fainted, grown men cried in anguish at the sight of the monster. Maria, a 37 year old mother from Flushing, was treated for "The Vapors" and expressed the horror experienced by everyone who...