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Reports of "aggressive shark behavior" have temporarily shut down a two-mile stretch of a popular California beach, officials said Sunday. Witnesses at Sunset Beach in the Southern California town of Huntington Beach told lifeguards that a shark was splashing and acting aggressively at 3:45 p.m. on Nov. 5 before a whale washed up on shore. "While the whale was still alive, bite marks were seen on the mammal," the city said in an alert posted on social media. The young whale was beached near lifeguard tower 22. "As is the City’s policy when aggressive shark behavior is witnessed, the shoreline...

Around a dozen sharks are currently regularly pinging off the coastlines of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, according to the Ocearch Shark Tracker website. Two of these huge animals have pinged their location near Prince Edward Island in Canada in summer of 2023. Let’s introduce you to the main characters of this story. First we have a shark named Breton. Breton received his name after the beautiful people of Cape Breton, where the animal was tagged. He was the first shark to be tagged as part of OCEARCH’s Expedition Nova Scotia in 2020. The adult male shark...

The woman bitten by a shark while swimming alone at Rockaway Beach is believed to have lost “approximately 20 pounds of flesh” in the rare attack — believed to be the waterfront’s first since 1953, sources told The Post on Tuesday. The victim, a 65-year-old Queens woman, was attacked off the shore near Beach 59th Street shortly before 6 p.m. Monday — losing a large chunk of her left leg, above the knee, to the shark, according to sources and a photo of her injury. Lifeguards spotted her screaming for help in the water — and pulled her to shore,...

A new fleet of shark-monitoring drones will be sent to New York coastlines in response to a frightening spate of bites and sightings near Long Island this week, state officials said Friday. The state is fighting shark attacks with dozens more of the battery-powered devices — which track the man-eaters from above — after five people reported being bitten in waters off Long Island during a two-day period, state park officials said. “We are now more vigilant than ever,” said George Gorman, the state’s park director in Long Island. “We have drones in the sky that watch over the waters....

Sharks have been spotted swimming in shallow waters at several Florida beaches this Fourth of July weekend, sending frantic swimmers fleeing to safety as beachgoers took videos of the startling incidents. A hammerhead shark appeared zipping in and out of shallow waters in Perdido Key Sunday afternoon — at one point swimming five to 10 yards offshore, WEAR TV reported. The massive creature can be seen aggressively thrashing about in the ocean as concerned onlookers yell out: “Shark!” Swimmers sprint out of the water, peering over their shoulders, as onlookers cry out about the danger.

VIDEO AT LINK............. March 15 (UPI) -- A pair of Alabama fishing guides and their clients unexpectedly reeled in a great white shark in what is believed to be the first time a member of the species has been caught from a beach in the state. Dylan Wier and Blaine Kenny, the Pensacola-based owners of fishing guide service Coastal World Wide, said they were on Orange Beach in the early morning hours of March 7 when something started to pull on one of their heavy-duty lines. The men said they initially thought they might have hooked a large tiger shark,...

A man whose boat capsized in stormy seas off Australia's north coast was rescued on Wednesday after he survived for almost 24 hours in shark- and crocodile-infested waters by clinging to a piece of wood. The Queensland man was found floating in the Torres Strait 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from his upturned dinghy by an air rescue crew. He was "clinging to some flotsam" and was winched to safety, according to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which posted images of the capsized boat and the man's rescue on social media. The man, who was not named, was "very lucky" to...

White sharks, more commonly known as great white sharks, have new protections as Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 2109 on Monday, September 19. Sponsored by Assembly member Steve Bennett, AB 2109 passed the California legislature with an overwhelming majority of support. The bill aims to get ahead of activities that could lead to increased interactions between white sharks and humans. As well as to give law enforcement more tools to protect white sharks from international efforts to catch or attract them and to protect the public from interactions with white sharks that have been unintentionally hooked by...

A pair of orcas killing great white sharks by ripping open their torsos for their livers — and as a result scaring away great whites from a South African region — has raised questions about whether that could happen along Cape Cod. But it’s “really too early to say” if killer whales will descend upon the Massachusetts coast and drive away the growing great white shark population, a local shark expert tells the Herald. “When there have been orca sightings here through the years, they’ve never really seemed to impact the white sharks in the area,” said John Chisholm, who...

Shark attacks are an uncommon occurrence, estimated at 1 in 11.5 million, but if you're attacked by a great white shark you're most likely on California's Central Coast. The "Red Triangle" is an area of the California coast where an out-size number of great white shark attacks take place. The area goes from Bodega Bay, to the Farallon Islands, and down Point Sur. More than one-third of all great white shark attacks have happened in this area of the Pacific Ocean. A history of Central Coast shark attacks, from the Global Shark Attack File: 1899 - Monterey Bay, Monterey County...

Moments after a shark attacked a man off Lovers Point Beach in Pacific Grove on Wednesday, good Samaritans pulled the injured swimmer onto a surfboard and paddled him out of the ocean, police and witnesses told KRON4. Police officers and paramedics responded to a report of a shark attack at the popular beach at 10:35 a.m. The swimmer suffered “significant injuries” from shark bites and was transported to Natividad Hospital, according to the Pacific Grove Police Department. Police said the swimmer was bitten in the leg and the stomach. Good Samaritans risked their own safety to help the victim after...

A group of Florida teens saw something during a dive last week they’d never seen before — and then they saw it again the very next day. Nick Bailey and Justin Shaw, both 17, have been diving their whole lives. They said they try to dive at least three or four times every week, and they see sharks all the time. But they’d never seen a great white shark. That all changed last Friday. Bailey was diving around 4 miles off the coast of Stuart, Florida, when he saw the great white. "I thought I saw a bull shark," he...

<p>A fisherman was taken to a hospital Thursday morning after he was bitten by a shark off Lake Worth Beach.</p><p>Palm Beach County Fire Rescue was called to the area near Lake Worth Beach Park, located at 10 S. Ocean Blvd.</p>

The shark scientists have a pretty good hunch Great white shark researchers are hoping to solve the most elusive piece of the Western North Atlantic white shark puzzle: when and where they mate. Shark scientists with OCEARCH have a pretty good hunch that the white shark mating site is off of the Carolinas, and they’re looking to confirm that in the coming month while researching there. From OCEARCH’s shark tracking data, it’s clear that the waters off the Southeast are a site for white sharks during the winter. The researchers have tracked both male and female mature sharks coming together...

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Small, unique antibody-like proteins known as VNARs—derived from the immune systems of sharks—can prevent the virus that causes COVID-19, its variants, and related coronaviruses from infecting human cells, according to a new study published Dec. 16. The new VNARs will not be immediately available as a treatment in people, but they can help prepare for future coronavirus outbreaks. The shark VNARs were able to neutralize WIV1-CoV, a coronavirus that is capable of infecting human cells but currently circulates only in bats, where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, likely originated. Developing treatments for such animal-borne viruses ahead of time can...

A Twitter user recently raised the alarm by posting a screenshot of a tracker app showing about 100 sharks gathering in the Atlantic Ocean near the East Coast of the US. A platform user with the handle @punished_stu tweeted early Wednesday “sharks are amassing on the east coast” with an accompanying screenshot of about 100 sharks along the US coast line. The tweet went viral, garnering more than 6,000 retweets and 53,000 likes. “I occasionally log in to check that the nearest Great White is at least 2000 miles away,” the Twitter user followed up. The graphic came from shark...

Almost every day for 40 years, expert diver Jim Abernethy has been swimming with sharks at a patch of shallow crystal-clear ocean in the Bahamas known as Tiger Beach. At any given moment Jim can be surrounded by 30 or more tiger, reef and lemon sharks. But Jim has a unique relationship with these underwater predators who swim up to him for affectionate nose-rubs.

...snip.. Later, Sexton realized the brief session contained the unsolvable puzzle. The waters of Cape Cod were not going to be free of white sharks or people anytime soon, and for all of his work studying the predators, he could not answer the most basic question. “It was awesome to be in the water and to see her there,” he said. “But should we really be in the water? I don’t know.” Lanctot did not know either. “Felt really good to get back in the water,” she texted that evening. Then the old foreboding returned. By mid-October, peak season for...

Pilot notices several other sharks during flightA surfer in Volusia County had a close call with a shark while “hanging 10″ off Ponce Inlet. A drone pilot shared video with News 6 showing the close encounter on Monday.