Photograph by Amanda Brewer In this incredible GoPro capture by Amanda Brewer, we get up close and personal with a female Great White Shark off the coast of Seal Island in Mossel Bay, South Africa. Brewer, who is an elementary school art teacher, snapped the photo this summer while interning at White Shark Africa,…
Watch a whale shark seemingly appear out of nowhere and completely catch a diver by surprise as it swims by. The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving filter feeding shark and the largest known extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of 12.65 m (41.50 ft) and a weight of…
Shark Week used to be educational. Now it’s filled with fake documentaries about “Megalodon” and “Submarine”. Vox explains what you need to know before you watch The Discovery Channel series. You can read the entire article on Vox, which includes interesting links to other pieces about the now maligned series.
In 2013, a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution took a specially equipped REMUS ‘SharkCam’ underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico to film great white sharks in the wild. The SharkCam was outfitted with six cameras: 5 mounted on the nose and one facing the rear of the vehicle. This gave scientists…
To protect the reef in the Western Carribean Sea from the destructive and invasive Lionfish (which have no natural predators in these foreign waters and are killing native fish species), diver Jason Dimitri was on assignment culling lion fish when a Caribbean Reef Shark suddenly appeared. Jason said he was about 70 ft underwater…
What started as a typical dive off the coast of Mozambique, with schools of fish and pods of dolphins; took a dramatic turn when a large swarm of scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) showed up. An incredible experience this diver will not soon forget. As of 2008, the scalloped hammerhead is on the “globally…
Photograph by Al McGlashan | (via Field & Stream) The original goal was simple. Tag the striped marlin for scientific research, and make an instructional video that demonstrates the proper way to release a marlin after tagging. Things were going smoothly. The marlin had been successfully tagged (1 of 2500 as part of…
THE MIGHTY GREAT WHITE SHARK Photograph via Scopolamina on Reddit In this incredible yet slightly terrifying photograph we see the mighty Great White Shark. This particular specimen appears to have a number of scars either from battles or mating. Either way, I respect this shark’s authority. Carry on good sir. Unfortunately…
THE MIGHTY GREAT WHITE SHARK Photograph by DAVID LITCHFIELD Photographer David Litchfield took this incredible photograph of cage divers confronting a massive great white shark on the Isla de Guadalupe. The shot was one of the finalists of National Geographic’s annual photo contest. It’s hard to tell how big this shark is,…
RARE CYCLOPS SHARK Photograph by Marcela Bejarano-Alvarez An extremely rare cyclops shark (pictured) has been confirmed in Mexico, new research shows. The 22-inch-long (56-centimeter-long) fetus has a single, functioning eye at the front of its head—the hallmark of a congenital condition called cyclopia, which occurs in several animal species, including humans. Cyclops…
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