Harrison Ford has probably attended a lot of release parties in his day. Film releases, record releases, album releases—but this January, he attended a slightly different event: a shark-release party on the coast of Indonesia. The event marked the culmination of a years-long conservation campaign to release 500 baby zebra sharks into the Indian Ocean. [...]
Many dogs will bark at intruders to defend their homes. But when the intruder is a shark? A group of tourists found out last moth when a massive hammerhead swam a little too close to a courageous dog’s shoreside home in the Bahamas. As the shark neared the dock, the dog jumped into the water, [...]
POV: You’re swimming off the coast of South Africa, and along comes a great white shark. What do you do? When this happened to a diver near Mossol Bay last week, they managed to stay calm enough to film the whole encounter. The footage shows the diver holding steady as the shark turns straight toward [...]
When a shark killed an Australian man in the South Pacific earlier this month, local authorities vowed to take action. They said they would find the culprit and bring it to justice. Of course, this would be a little different from most manhunts; when the quarry is a single unidentified shark and the search zone [...]
Sunbathing and surfing draw most tourists to Florida’s Space Coast, but anglers don’t want to miss the opportunity to land huge predators at night. It was sunset on Florida’s Space Coast. By that time the beaches, which are normally packed with tourists throughout the day, were largely empty. The tourist set had spent most of [...]
One shark bite is rare, but to survive two in one year? That’s a miracle. A surfer from Ponce Inlet, FL says he was recently bitten by a shark for the second time in the past year. Only waist deep in shallow water, Bryan Brock said he never saw it coming, just felt the impact [...]
An Australian fisherman found himself in the fin of it after a great white shark jumped into his boat and landed on him. Terry Selwood, 73, was fishing offshore 450 miles north of Sydney when the incident occurred. “He came right over the top of the motor and then dropped onto the floor,” Selwood said, [...]
