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Written by Jim Abernethy
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:00 |
Today I received a report of another needless killing of an endangered animal at the Sailfish Marina.
When I got to the marina, I found a 9 foot female scalloped hammerhead shark -- possibly pregnant -- laying abandoned on the dock in the sun. The dock attendants informed me that this shark -- this endangered animal -- was brought in by the Capt. John Krohn on the Boomerang, a 43 foot sport fishing vessel. Capt. Krohn had already left the marina.
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Written by Jonn Lu
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:02 |
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Shark Savers Hong Kong, our South East Asian beachhead started their involvement with us in early July for the Hong Kong Dive Resort and Travel Expo.
A team of Hong Kong, US, and South African Shark Savers worked feverishly to get everything ready for a good show, designing a theme, banners for our booth, the first film from our recent production in Hong Kong, and other materials. With only weeks of lead time, the teams managed to get translation, artwork, video and content ready in record time.
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Written by Hannah Medd
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Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:38 |
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I have been giving Shark Savers talks around Florida for over two years now and it has definitely been a learning experience for me! The group Toastmaster’s International has Ten Tips for Public Speaking that ease the anxiety when you are about to give a presentation and I still laugh at number 5 that says “Relax”, easier said than done. I focused on number 10: Gain Experience. I don’t know many people who really like public speaking. It is one of those things I have actively avoided for many years, which I am now thinking might have been a mistake. I have always thought politicians have to speak well in public, not scientists, but early in my career I found out this is not entirely true. Scientists frequently gather at conferences and symposiums to describe their current work.
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Written by Jillian Morris
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Sunday, 13 June 2010 16:38 |
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The Institute for Ocean Conservation Science has been conducting this shark survey for each of the past 10 years, making it one of the longest running shark surveys in the world. The survey was the primary purpose for this expedition, but we were also there to film the work being done at the station and the people that make it possible.
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Written by Stefanie Brendl
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Friday, 16 April 2010 10:47 |
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An historic bill is moving through the Hawaiian Legislature calling on a prohibition of shark fin. Since passing the Hawaiian Senate, and then, last week's vote in the Hawaiian House of Representatives, SB 2169 - Relating to Shark Fins - has now moved to the next step in this long legislative process. And once again, it is necessary to rally support to ensure its final passage.
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Written by Claudia Li
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010 09:32 |
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Shark Truth (one of Shark Savers' partners) is a grassroots nonprofit promoting awareness around shark fin soup in the Chinese community. Our goal is to Stop the Soup at wedding banquets (where shark fin soup is most popularly served) through our 'Happy Hearts Love Sharks' international wedding contest we just launched. We are looking for partners to give us a hand in promoting the contest - would you be interested in sending a message out to your network (blogs, newsletters, Facebook or Twitter)?
Here's a bit more information about the contest:
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Written by Ran Elfassy
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010 15:09 |
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The start-gun goes off on 27 June, when Delian Gaskell and Denvy Lo will race across one of the world's most demanding environments: the Tirpan Basin, in China's Gobi Desert. If it wasn't hard enough that they have to cross 250km of desert on foot in six days, they also have to carry all their supplies, food and bedding, receiving only water and a tent to sleep in at night. The reason: to raise awareness that sharks the world over are threatened - a call to action to stop turning the oceans into water-filled wastelands.
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Written by Jillian Morris
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 10:26 |
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As a teenager I would have jumped at the opportunity to join a real research trip and possibly tag a shark. This is exactly what the University of Miami RJ Dunlap Marine Conservation Program (formerly South Florida Student Shark Program) offers. With Dr. Neil Hammerschlag and his team of interns at the helm, South Florida high school students are able join shark survey and tagging trips. The data collected is extremely valuable and encourages students to take an active role in current scientific research and education.
Leann Winn with her Palmer Trinity Students. Photo: Jillian Morris
On Sunday March 14, I was fortunate enough to join the group to photograph and film the expedition. Joe Romeiro, of 333 Productions, was also on hand to capture images of the day. Leann Winn, one of the program’s members and a science educator at Palmer Trinity School joined us with some of her students. Our day started at Sea Base in Islamorada, Florida, where we loaded the camera equipment, fishing gear and plenty of frozen barracuda before heading out to sea.
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Written by Hannah Medd
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:40 |
The great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, is a complex, amazing apex predator. Photo: Hannah Medd
Leaving Mozambique is always tough, the people, the water, the food, the beer. But we were headed to Cape Town, South Africa, to see family and friends. And by friends, that also includes great white sharks.
I worked in the little harbor town of Gansbaai on a boat that takes people to sea to dive with white sharks for three years. I even met my husband there, whose family still owns and operates one of the boats.It is strange and wonderful place at the end of the African continent where the swirling waters of the warm Agulhas and cool Benguela currents results in high levels of marine biodiversity.
And coupled with resident cape fur seal colonies, this makes Gansbaai an ideal habitat for an abundant population of transient white sharks.
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Written by Hannah Medd
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 15:57 |
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I got a late start in SCUBA diving. I had already graduated with a degree in marine biology when I took my first breath underwater. I have always wanted to do it but with a grueling college schedule of 8 am developmental biology labs and Wednesday night 25 cent beers, it just never got done. But now I am certified as a rescue diver and working towards my dive master.
My husband is a PADI instructor and most of his family makes a living out of underwater photography and filming so we took our first leap and procured a brand new Nauticam underwater housing for our Nikon D90. We luckily have many opportunities to use this equipment to take pictures of sharks and our most recent travelling took us from the tropical waters of Hawaii to Mozambique, down to Gansbaai and Cape Town, South Africa.
I won’t bore anyone with the tragic details of trying to fly with expensive and fragile camera equipment but somehow we managed our first flight from Miami to Honolulu without incident. I was attending the International White Shark Symposium but we arrived two days early so I could get a chance to get in the waters of Hawaii.
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