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It’s not often Karl Stefanovic is left speechless, but video of a monster 4.5m [nearly 15ft] shark leaping out of the water was enough for him to take a moment of silent awe on-air before saying he would "never go back in the water". Stefanovic introduced the segment looking at new technology that has allowed cameramen for the Discovery Channel to get closer than ever while filming great whites. Their new underwater vessels include a mobile cage called the W.A.S.P (Water Armour Shark Protection) that enables divers to walk along the ocean floor while filming sharks, although being that close...

It might be safe to go in the water now. Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Jaws, director Steven Spielberg’s tale of a great white shark terrorizing a picturesque seaside town. It’s a bona fide classic, deserving of all the praise it gets. But it’s also something of a relic, a throwback to a simpler time in moviemaking when we were less cynical and more easily frightened. For all the monster movie remakes being trotted out this decade, it’s actually not surprising we haven’t seen Jaws sequel since 1987’s Jaws: The Revenge (and not just because that...

A great white shark, tracked to New Jersey, remains off the southern coastline this morning. The non-profit group OCREACH tracked a shark named “Mary Lee” to a location just east of Brigantine on Friday morning. The group gets a ping from Mary Lee every time her dorsal fin surfaces. She has been making her way north since April and traveled nearly 193 miles in the past 72 hours

Scientists in Australia tagged a healthy 9-foot great white shark as part of program to track these animals. Four months later they found the tracking device washed up on a beach. Something—something really big—had eaten this apex predator. But what creature could dine on such ferocious prey?

Great white sharks in the northeastern Pacific, including California, are not in danger of becoming extinct, according to NOAA Fisheries, and will not be listed under the Endangered Species Act. NOAA had consented to consider listing white sharks as endangered in response to two petitions submitted last year. In a news release issued Friday, the federal agency explained that a team of eight scientists determined, based on review of the best available science, that white sharks in the northeast Pacific--from the Bering Sea to Mexico, and westward to Hawaii--have "a low to very low risk of extinction now and in...

Two great white sharks were spotted off the coast of Chatham on Thursday, the first documented sightings of the 2012 summer season, according to the Sandwich-based Cape Cod Shark Hunters. “I spotted a couple yesterday,” spotter pilot George Breen said today. “One was about a quarter-mile offshore and the bigger of the two was about 50 yards off.”

A three-metre great white shark breached into a vessel carrying marine researchers yesterday. While none were injured, they said it gave them “the fright of our lives”. Six researchers from Oceans Research, a Mossel Bay-based marine research organisation, were on the boat Cheetah collecting data on sharks near Seal Island, in Mossel Bay, led by field specialist Dorien Schroder. It was 8.30am. “Activity around the boat ceased for about five minutes and all was pretty quiet at the stern,” Schroder said. “Next thing, I hear a splash and see a great white breach out of the water from one side...

SOUTHPORT, England — The last time a golfer did what Greg Norman has a chance to do in the British Open, this name was Old Tom and the American Civil War had recently ended. So it is fitting that here in the land where 100-year-old golf courses are regarded as new, Norman is one step from rewriting his own history, and one of golf’s oldest records.

A SURFER wrenched his teenage brother from the jaws of a huge white pointer shark yesterday. Zac Golebiowski, 15, was body boarding at a remote West Australian beach when the 5m shark struck, biting off his right leg below the knee and part of his left calf. Zac's brother Sam, 25, wrestled him from the shark and dragged him to safety. A New Zealand couple who were passing saved Zac's life by quickly stemming the heavy bleeding. Amy Worling, 26, and Pete Hickmott, 32, heard screaming and saw Zac in distress in the water. They called an ambulance to meet...

Diver’s Courage Saves Bandit, the Great White Shark Aboard Solmar V, Isla de Guadalupe, Mexico - It was another beautiful, sunny day at the island. The clear, crystal blue ocean provided divers over 150 fsw visibility. A white shark slowly approached the surface, leveled off and swam directly underneath our feet on the swim-step. The shark was in trouble. Something was wrapped around the shark’s back, just forward of the dorsal fin near the gills. Lawrence Groth, owner and operator of Great White Adventures, suited up quickly and got in the cage for a closer look. The shark was just...

Fresh sightings of a monster great white shark close to North Taranaki's shoreline have prompted a warning to swimmers. The Conservation Department warning comes after two more close encounters with the shark, estimated to be six metres long. Fishermen on a charter boat got the fright of their lives when the great white swam directly under them last Friday. And two competitors in a yacht race off Port Taranaki watched in horror as the shark – its fin clearly out of the water – swam between their much smaller craft. These sightings follow numerous incidents involving a very big shark...

in France of course...

EW YORK –– A teen surfer in New Jersey needed 60 stitches after being bitten by a great white shark in the state's first recorded shark attack in 30 years. In interviews with local press Thursday, Ryan Horton, 17, said he had been surfing off New Jersey's Surf City on Sunday when he felt a stabbing pain in his right foot that he likened to being hit with a baseball bat. When he lifted his leg out of the water, he found a deep gash just above his ankle and a smaller wound on the other side of his leg....

MONTEREY, Calif. - A great white shark that survived longer than any other in captivity was released back to the wild early Thursday because it was growing too large for its tank and beginning to prey on other fish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The shark, captured off the coast of Orange County on Aug. 20, was kept in captivity for 198 days and was the first to regularly eat outside the wild. Despite a half century of attempts to keep a white shark, the previous captivity record was 16 days. "The larger she grew, the more that human safety...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Great White Shark has gatecrashed a tuna research project in Australia, mysteriously appearing inside a fishing pen containing around 100 tuna. The 13-foot shark, weighing about 1,500 pounds, is thought to have either bitten its way into the tuna pond or leapt a 7.5 foot electrified fence while chasing a seal last Thursday. Scientists at the pen off the coast of the South Australian tuna fishing town of Port Lincoln said Tuesday the shark had swum contently around the pen, but they were not sure how the tuna felt about their uninvited guest. A head count...

Fisherman reports encounter with 20-foot great white off Point DefianceBob Mottram; The News TribuneA retired aquarium worker and well-known Tacoma angler, Bob Salatino, encountered what he says was an 18- to 20-foot great white shark in Puget Sound off Tacoma's Point Defiance. Salatino worked for 20 years at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. John Rupp, the aquatic animal curator there, described him as "a knowledgeable fisherman." Salatino said Friday he encountered the shark while fishing alone for salmon Dec. 6. He was several hundred yards north of Point Defiance. "The sun was shining, no wind, the water was clear....