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Happy Thanksgiving...Or "Whale Shark Day" India
While the rest of America scarfed down an estimated 200 million turkeys yesterday a small but growing festival in India "Whale Shark Day" gathered crowds again for the 4th year in a row.As part of an ongoing effort to protect Whale Sharks in India and build on shark tourism... Great White Shark Bahamas? Oh Yeah!
At the start of this week we got a strange email from the Bahamas-a Great White had washed ashore off Grand Bahama.
"Several of Unexso staff including Christina & Veronica heard about it and went out and shot the pictures below. They heard the shark was chasing bait... Oh Shark Week-What Happened to You?
Sigh. It's come down to this. We all knew it would eventually, and here we are. Last nights Shark Week show was...scratch that, could have been...scratch that.
We don't even know where to start with last nights show "How Not to Become Shark Bait". Overall some great... Sushi for Great Whites
Isla Guadalupe as you know, is simply "infested" with great white sharks. This is the last place on the planet you want to be taking a morning swim.
Which makes fishing for Yellowfin tuna here nearly impossible. What you are looking at is an 80lb tuna caught a few seasons... Shark Diving-Tourism Analysis
We have come a looong way with sharks. Just 60 years ago these animals were considered the "bane of man" to be exterminated at every opportunity.
With the advent of commercial shark diving brought about by the adventures of those few plucky early pioneers like Rodney Fox... Ensenada Fish Market, Mexico Y.O.Y
We have been keeping track of the Ensenada Fish Market for the past three years.
The issue here is the sale of white shark pups as "swordfish". We have been documenting each and every trip we take down to this market with images of the animals we find on site.
Typically... Lowly Leopards in La Jolla-Chris Bahnsen
Chris Bahnsen, shark writer and adventure seeker extraordinaire, has just completed another article about shark diving for the L.A Times.
His subject this time-the lowly Leopard Shark-a shark species in our opinion that gets virtually no play in California, even though... Whale Shark Tourism-Spinning up the latest data
When you are as deeply embedded into the shark conservation world as we are you get the inside scoop on some interesting shark facts and the latest tracking data.
More often than not you get told to "hold on to that". Today we get to spill the beans, or rather had them... Sharks and Tourism-"Monetizing" is not a "dirty word"
I was in the middle of a conversation with a well know shark biologist the other day when he said, "Yeah but you guys are just commercializing sharks".
By "you guys" he meant an entire worldwide shark diving industry.
I had to agree we are...but so are "they" and by...
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