Tricky - open-water diving with OWTs. Click for detailYes those Sharks are dangerous!Swimming away whilst splashing at the surface?Not a good idea, you got to confront them!Anyway - see for yourselves.
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20Feb
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20Feb
Busy: Shark Reef in 2009!Whilst I’m ruminating on one of those posts.This one is easy.Alex the Sharkman has not only revamped his website and started publishing his epic interviews, he has finally started blogging again.His first proper post is about us.To me, it is particularly interesting because so much has changed since, e.g. the fact that we don’t anymore feed the Trevally at the surface and
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20Feb
Infographic by the SOSF - read this!Gotta hand it to the man.Dr Choo-hoo Giam (BVSc, MRCVS (England), Member, Animals committee, UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is crafty.From the document.By repetition and media advertorials, the world is misled into believing that73 million sharks are killed specifically for their finsMost of the fins are cruelly taken from
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20Feb
Remember this post?This is now the finished product.I must say, I am rather impressed by how they have managed to successfully negotiate the pitfalls of reporting about the controversial subject of Shark attacks by analyzing them from a principally scientific viewpoint. The researchers come across as totally knowledgeable and objective and also, respectful of the animals and emphatic with the
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20Feb
Granma by Klaus!More great Shark media from Oz!Klaus our alte Schule gentleman has done it again!Granma is indeed one of our oldest, biggest, fiercest looking and at the same time, sweetest Shark ladies.Enjoy Klaus’ article and stunning pictures here!
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13Feb
Shark men: Rusi, Alex and Gary at Shark ReefHow can I possibly do the man justice.We will always differ on the finer points of culture vs abject savagery - but peanut butter or no peanut butter, Gary Adkison will always remain one of my heroes for whom I have nothing but the biggest respect and admiration.Plus a whole lotta Love, with a capital L!We first met in 2001 when he was running the
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13Feb
No no no no!From an e-mail by a friendInsane…Cherry-picked, selectively quoted, full-tilt, bat-shit insane…Another favorite rhetorical trick the ignoranti use is that ANYTHING can be said as we can’t disprove something… the point i believe you tried to make about the "god is a yellow pig…"But the BURDEN of fucking proof rests on those making bat-shit crazy statements… not the other way
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13Feb
Is this illegal?From the testimony….from there it was 100 yards away, I still thought it was a bull shark but then it surfaced and all I saw was a yellowish color so I thought it was a lemon… it surfaced once more and I thought it was a bull. It wasn’t until it was 50 yards in the giant sickle fin verified what it was… (note: it was a Great Hammerhead)We had it beached within an hour of
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13Feb
Thank you David!I must say, I am impressed.No not because he has totally debunked the oxygen myth by illustrating why the hypothesis is utterly implausible to the point of being ridiculous, something that by now, anybody with a brain should be amply aware of.No, I am impressed because David has deigned to tackle the subject despite of its silliness whilst remaining his usual compelling, polite
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13Feb
No that was not a typo!Enjoy!
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