BIG SHARKS

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February 2013

4 posts

Liz_66: Great White hunter fined →

liz66: Melanie Gosling Environment Writer IN 1991 South Africa outlawed the killing of great white sharks, but it took 22 years before anyone was convicted of killing one of these protected marine creatures. For years anglers who landed the big sharks had simply argued that they had not been…

January 2013

5 posts

Please keep ‘Sharkman’ Mike Rutzen in your prayers. He is currently in a very serious condition after a horrific car crash, which took the life of his girlfriend Elisabetta Castella. Our thoughts are with him and Elisabetta’s family.

December 2012

2 posts

September 2012

1 post

August 2012

3 posts

July 2012

10 posts

Great Whites - how big can they get?

I have a question for you guys :) I’m interested in your thoughts on the size that Great Whites can reach. Do you think they max out at the size that has actually been documented - around 21ft for the largest ever caught - or are there much larger sharks down there? There have been reports of larger sharks being caught - a Great White was caught in 1997 in Taiwan, that was estimated to have...

May 2012

2 posts

March 2012

11 posts

Help fight the war against Shark Finning →

oceandevotion: Click here to sign Shark populations around the globe are plummeting at an alarming rate, threatening the stability of our ocean ecosystem mainly for shark fin. Vancouver is the second largest Chinese restaurant industry in North America next to San Francisco…. Please sign and reblog!

February 2012

13 posts

Anyone wanting the Expedition White Shark app that I posted about earlier, who doesn’t have an iPad or iPhone - this post is for you :) I sent an email this evening, to ask whether this app will ever be available for android users. The good news is that yes, in their own words; ‘Android version is in the works …’