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Watch: Shoppers flee as Dubai shark aquarium cracks open

Raw Story Video A massive aquarium tank housing hundreds of sharks in a Dubai shopping center sprang a leak Thursday, sending shoppers fleeing and prompting the mall owners to close large parts of the building. The aquarium tank is one of the world’s largest, holding some 2 million gallons of water and 30,000 sea creatures, more than four [...]
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Shorter Question Everything

Sharks 113 nations have signed on to conserve migratory shark species. This is being heralded as a landmark decision. On the flip side we have seen this kind of thing before. Nations banding together to work long ranging plans for animal conservation and who fall foul to enforcement issues or internal pressures from commercial fishing interests. In short, while [...]
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Canadian technology takes bite out of Aussie shark attack risk

Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service A picture of a tagged white shark. Inset – A close-up of the acoustic tag. In a ground-breaking project aimed at saving lives on Australian beaches, great white sharks tagged with a Canadian company’s state-of-the-art transmitter are sending emails to lifeguards when they prowl waters too close to swimmers. Photograph by: Andrew [...]
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Supposed Australia great white shark attack turns out to be a “fish story”

TheDorsalFin After scores of media outlets reported a supposed “great white shark attack” yesterday, just north of Syndey’s Mona Vale Basin, a scientist has ruled out the claims that a white shark was involved and has identified the species involved as a wobbegong (a type of bottom-dwelling carpet shark), according to Australia’s ABC News. Wobbegongs are [...]
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Lots of curious sharks caught on cam

Reefcam captures interesting shark footage TheDorsalFin Footage from the Australian Institute of Marine Science’s Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVS) is making news in Australia’s The Courier-Mail. While The Courier-Mail article claims the video features a tiger shark “stalking” a sea snake, it certainly looks more like the tiger shark is [...]
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Great white shark ruled out as suspected species in Florida shark attack

TheDorsalFin The Sun Sentinel is reporting that George Burgess, Florida Program for Shark Research Director, has determined that the species involved in yesterday’s fatal shark attack off Stuart Beach, FL was a member of the requiem family, which includes tiger sharks, bull sharks, blacktip sharks, and spinner sharks. Burgess examined the bite wounds on the victim [...]
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Jumping the gun? Misleading “reporting” of identification of shark involved in fatal attack in Florida

The Dorsal Fin Juvenile great white shark (Carcharodon Carcharias), though rare, can be found off the coast of Florida during the winter months, along with several other shark species. The Palm Beach Post has a cleverly crafted article with a headline “possibly” identifying the species involved in yesterday’s fatal shark attack of a Stuart, Florida kite boarder. [...]
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Realm of the Sharks – Cocos & Malpelo

Via: The Dorsal Fin Realm of the Sharks – Cocos & Malpelo from Blue Sphere Media on Vimeo.
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Wintering White Sharks: possible migrations along U.S. east coast

RTSea Blog: keeping an eye on Nature A possible migration corridor has been identified for great white sharks on the east coast of the U.S. A satellite tagging study was initiated in the fall by the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and some of the early results are intriguing. It is possible that the [...]
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Positive shark video from the BBC

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