Sharks decline by 97 percent in Mediterranean

A magical moment in Red Sea, diving a school of hammerheads (Daedalus reef, egypt, June 2004)
Save the sharks, save the oceans!!!

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There's no denying that sharks have an image problem. The serial-killer stare, the obscene grimace of warped teeth, the bloody feeding frenzies—it's no wonder they've been difficult to love as long as we've known them. And writers haven't always helped their cause.

Sharks are in decline worldwide !! whe have to do something to help them !they are animals to!

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There are some initiatives aiming at protecting sharks and the wildlife overall. They need funds.

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This photo was taken at the Manila Ocean Park. I hope they take good care of the sharks in captivity.

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This was taken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The piece is called "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living " and is by Damien Hirst.
http://www.metmuseum.org/Press_Room/full_release.asp?prid=%7B3687750C-3006-4D83-8BD6-8FC5CB67FCA6%7D

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332 pound Thrasher Shark caught off the coast of Ocean City, MD USA. Body messured 7 ft, tail was an additional 7 ft in length.

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This 12 foot Hammerhead shark came within a foot of our boat as I was reeling in a tarpon a mile off of Key West. Shocking that such a large shark was that close and in such shallow water.

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Taken in the Las Vegas Mirage Shark Experience aquarium, with crowds of school kids tapping at the glass.

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This small shark was caught and released on the Padre Island National Seashore. Removing the hook is more fun than catching the shark. Long pliers are a must.

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Stuart Cove's Shark Feeding Dive in the Bahamas.. it was a great experience..

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Hammerhead shark at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta.

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This is a hammer-head shark from the Atlanta Aquarium. He was absolutely amazing. I'm awe-struck by their beauty,

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This is a great white shark I snapped having a go at a seal decoy off the coast of Hermanus, South Africa. The point of the trip was shark cage diving under the guidance of Brian MacFarland (featured on Discovery Channel). I never went into the cage, being that I'm a complete pansy, but I got plenty of great snapshots of the beautiul great whites in action.

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Sharks are my biggest fear. My family set up a shark feeding tour while visiting Tahiti...one of the scariest days of my life, but worth the pictures.

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i only took this picture in one of new zealands biggest auqariums. i had to go there cause i actually broke my camera during my first diving trip in the ozean, where i "met" a shark ...

it was just amzazing to see these beautifull and scaring animals so close as a diver ... i look forward to do it again ^^

it doesnt metter how many humans they have (and will) kill, they dont deserve any of such silly treatments like we humans do to them ...

i think we killed more of our one race than they can do in millions of years !!! :

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The Monterey Bay Aquarium was cleebrating the addition of their new shark exhibition. it was fantastic! I've never seen anything so cool. It's sad that people fear these animals.

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this is photo of hammerhead school from Alcyone point at Cocos Island, there shark population declined 70% percent during last 20 years.

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Natures equivalent to the iPod...A design classic.

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The hammerhead shark photographs I have posted accompany those published with an article about The Galapagos Islands, featured in the June edition of Diver magazine (UK). The Galapagos is one of the earth's most fragile ecosystems, and the whole area is a marine reserve. Despite this, shark fin trawlers still frequent these waters, and decimate the shark populations there. If we can't protect an endangered species within a marine reserve, what hope is there?

If the shark population is declining world wide you wouldn't have been able to tell on this particular day.
I went on a "Shark Watching" adventure four miles of the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. No sooner had the crew dropped anchor, the 21' boat we were in was literally surrounded by sharks. The particular species we encountered that day was the Galapogas shark. By my best estimation there were at least 12 individuals circling the boat all between 6-10 feet long. These sharks were obviously conditioned to come running for dinner when they sensed the boat was near. Thank goodness people are not on the Galapagos menu, if we were, there would be a lot less of us swimming and surfing in Hawaii.

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this photo was taken at a port in salalah in Oman. These were cought by local fishing boats.

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Dead thresher shark, near Point Conception, California. August 2006. Something much larger was feeding on it.

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this image was taken 300 miles off the coast of Costa Rica at the island of Cocos. The water around Cocos is very nutrient rich which brings in a lot of sharks. sadly though the long line fishermen know this and target this area. speaking to the guides on our dive boat about this , they inform me that this long lining practice has had a dramatic effect on the numbers of sharks around the island.

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