Archive for 'Shark Diving'
Ten Things You’ve Just Gotta Do…
What’s on your bucket list? If you’re open to suggestions, the folks at MSN Travel have a few ideas. Some of them might seem familiar…shark diving anyone? Tour of Chernobyl? Note to MSN, you saw it here first. Hee Hee.
Kidding aside, check out MSN Travel’s list of the World’s Most Dangerous Tourist Attractions for some [...]
Posted: September 22nd, 2011 under Extreme Travel, Shark Diving.
Tags: Big Mac, bucket list, Chernobyl Tour, dangerous travel, lists, MSN Travel, Shark Diving, what's on your bucket list, world's most dangerous tourist attractions
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Great White Shark Makes Rare Appearance Off Hawaii
Ask any shark freak (like myself) and they’ll tell you there’s a specific pecking order among shark tourism destinations around the world. I mean, you can see reef sharks pretty much anywhere near the equator, but where do you go for the big boys? Cause we all wanna see a great white shark, correct?
That’s a [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2011 under Shark Diving.
Tags: are there great white sharks off Hawaii?, Australia, california, great white sharks, Hawaii, Hawaii Shark E, Jimmy Hall, shark tourism, shark tourism destinations, shark tourism hot spots, south africa, video of great white shark off Hawaii
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Time to Get Sharky, it’s Shark Week Folks!
With apologies to Christmas and the first day of the NHL season, we’re fast approaching the best day of the year. July 31…queue the JAWS music. Yes, it’s…SHARK WEEK!!!
We’ve come a long way in 22 seasons. When Shark Week first aired in 1987, it was pretty much about shark porn, aka, sharks are scary and [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2011 under Shark Diving.
Tags: best day of the year, Discovery Channel, Georgia Aquarium, great white sharks more rare than tigers, JAWS, Jaws of Steel collection is shark porn, July 31, shark conservation, shark porn, Shark Week, sharks do not eat people
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Great Whites Bring Tourists to Cape Cod
We’ve come a long way since 1975, when Chief Brody (AKA Roy Scheider), Steven Spielberg and the boys in JAWS started a trend off New England that led to a world-wide paranoia (and ultimately billions of sharks being killed). In that summer, beach-goers shunned beaches the world-over for fear that our finned-friends take them to [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2011 under Shark Diving.
Tags: Cape Cod, Chatham, great white sharks, great white sharks more rare than tigers, great white sharks off Cape Cod, great whites bring tourists to Cape Cod, JAWS, Massachusetts, people flock to see great white sharks, Roy Scheider, shark tourism, Steven Spielberg
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Great White Shark Gives a Good Jolt in South Africa
Watch the little fishies in this video. Now wait a little longer and…OMG!!! Where did that shark come from?? Great whites have this gift, of sneaking up when you least suspect it and make for some seriously great video. This clip took place in South Africa, filmed by one of several [...]
Posted: May 21st, 2011 under Shark Diving.
Tags: cage-diving with white sharks in South Africa, great white sharks, south africa
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Great White Sharks in Tofino? Yes and No.
There’s been some confusion over the years whether or not a great white shark was caught off Ucluelet in 2005. Specifically, it’s this image, of what appears to be a large great white, dead and hoisted above the wharf. Go here to see one of the many posts regarding this rumour.
Anyway, while it appears to [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2011 under Shark Diving, Surfing, Swimming.
Tags: great white sharks, helping sharks, sharks in Canada, Tofino
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How to Kiss a Shark
A really inspiring video here of a diver who dives with, and hugs and kisses, Caribbean reef sharks.
I just love this video because it shows how gentle sharks are. Look into this shark’s eyes and tell me that JAWS portrayed an accurate depiction of sharks. Or the shark porn we see every August during Discovery [...]
Posted: February 16th, 2011 under Inspiring, Shark Diving.
Tags: helping sharks, shark porn, shark-finning
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Shark Attacks in Egypt Not Helping, it’s Shark Porn
Sharks have their work cut out for them, thanks to Steven Spielberg’s Blockbuster JAWS. Every year, an estimated 100 Million sharks are slaughtered. Many of them are finned – their fins hacked off – and thrown back into the ocean to die a slow death. Now this week, several shark attacks in [...]
Posted: December 6th, 2010 under Accidents, Shark Diving.
Tags: Egypt, shark attack at Sharm El-Sheik, shark porn
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Canadian Sharks in the News
A very good read in the Vancouver Sun this week, in a five-part series about sharks in Canadian waters. Several years back, researchers were surprised to find a ‘hot-spot’ of over 10,000 sharks off the Queen Charlottes. According to researchers, many of the sharks were blue sharks, and over 28 different species of [...]
Posted: October 27th, 2010 under Shark Diving.
Tags: BC, great white sharks, Queen Charlottes, sharks in Canada
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Paddler Films Great Whites Circling Board
Want proof that surfers aren’t on your typical great white’s diet? California paddler Chuck Patterson was paddle surfing recently off San Onofre State Park in California when he happened upon two great white sharks circling his board. He went out the next day, same time, same place, with an underwater camera, hoping his [...]
Posted: August 14th, 2010 under Paddle Boarding, Shark Diving.
Tags: california, great white sharks, San Onofre State Park
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