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Telegraph
18-05-2025
- General
- Telegraph
I just don't get people who love sharks. They are truly hideous killers
No matter how many times I look at them, it's always the same: the sense of shock and disgust that something so truly hideous, so purely monstrous, could stalk the earth, and even worse, could begin with alarming frequency to stalk the waters around my childhood home of northern Massachusetts. No longer just the menace of beaches Down Under, the great whites are actually coming for us all. The marine research group Ocearch has even predicted their arrival on English beaches. 'We believe they should be moving up past Brest [in Brittany, France] and Cornwall,' said Chris Fischer, one of their researchers. Heaven forbid! But the man of steel and naturalist Lewis Pugh takes a different view, along with plenty of marine conservationists who see sharks, even the great white, as primarily victims, to be preserved at all costs, no matter the human lives and limbs they claim per year. On Thursday, in critical homage to the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, which instilled the universal terror of great whites, Pugh embarked on one of his marathon swims around Martha's Vineyard off the New England coast. This is where Jaws was filmed and in these waters, thanks to the nightmarish creatures' drift northward in search of seals, they are now regularly spotted. His 62-mile circumnavigation will take 12 days, and on each day he will be speaking to audiences about the importance of sharks. 'It was a film about sharks attacking humans and, for 50 years, we have been attacking sharks,' Pugh said. 'It's madness. We need to respect them.' What's madness to me is the idea that I might encounter one of these figures from hell in waters I used to enjoy without a second thought. What's madness to me is that more swimmers will lose their lives this year when a great white mistakes them (so we are told) for a seal.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
I just don't get people who love sharks. They are truly hideous killers
No matter how many times I look at them, it's always the same: the sense of shock and disgust that something so truly hideous, so purely monstrous, could stalk the earth, and even worse, could begin with alarming frequency to stalk the waters around my childhood home of northern Massachusetts. No longer just the menace of beaches Down Under, the great whites are actually coming for us all. The marine research group Ocearch has even predicted their arrival on English beaches. 'We believe they should be moving up past Brest [in Brittany, France] and Cornwall,' said Chris Fischer, one of their researchers. Heaven forbid! But the man of steel and naturalist Lewis Pugh takes a different view, along with plenty of marine conservationists who see sharks, even the great white, as primarily victims, to be preserved at all costs, no matter the human lives and limbs they claim per year. On Thursday, in critical homage to the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, which instilled the universal terror of great whites, Pugh embarked on one of his marathon swims around Martha's Vineyard off the New England coast. This is where Jaws was filmed and in these waters, thanks to the nightmarish creatures' drift northward in search of seals, they are now regularly spotted. His 62-mile circumnavigation will take 12 days, and on each day he will be speaking to audiences about the importance of sharks. 'It was a film about sharks attacking humans and, for 50 years, we have been attacking sharks,' Pugh said. What's madness to me is the idea that I might encounter one of these figures from hell in waters I used to enjoy without a second thought. What's madness to me is that more swimmers will lose their lives this year when a great white mistakes them (so we are told) for a seal. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Great White shark spotted off of North Carolina coast
NORTH CAROLINA (WNCT) — A Great White shark has been spotted off of the North Carolina coast. This shark was tagged by Ocearch on January 17, 2025, off of the Florida and Georgia coast. On Sunday, Apr. 27, 2025, at around noon, the shark's latest location was off of the North Carolina coast near the Cape Lookout Shoals. This shark is 13 feet and 9 inches long and is around 1,653 pounds. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Photobomb! Nurse shark equipped with FAU camera films great white shark off South Florida
Photobombers are just about everywhere: in big cities, at family parties, and even in the ocean. A 10-foot-long great white shark image was captured by a nurse shark that Florida Atlantic University researchers had equipped with a camera. The sharks were swimming around the Donnyboy Silpe Reef, an artificial reef off Boynton Beach. Researchers placed a camera on a nurse shark designed to collect both video footage and 3D acceleration data, which is comparable to step-counting features in mobile devices. The camera caught a four-minute interaction between the great white shark and nurse shark filming it. 'While divers have reported seeing great white sharks here recently, this rare footage gives us a shark's-eye view of the interactions between these two very different kinds of sharks,' FAU biological studies professor Stephen Kajiura said in a university news release. 'Our footage clearly showed a great white, estimated to be at least 10 feet long, and reveals a rare moment of shark-on-shark action — or what we're coining as a 'shark photobomb.' ' Slimey visitors: Florida Burmese pythons are adapting, evolving and slithering around the Treasure Coast Proposal: Hunting black bears could happen soon in Florida Yes, North Atlantic great white sharks leave their summer feeding grounds off Atlantic Canada and New England. Once they leave their feeding grounds, they head for warmer waters and abundant food sources as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, which the Trump administration has renamed the Gulf of America. Can't get enough of great white sharks? You can check out Ocearch, which has tagged 125 white sharks, many of them along the Eastern Seaboard and Nova Scotia. Every so often, you'll see one of them ping along the Treasure Coast. Follow their journeys on the Ocearch shark tracker website or by downloading the Ocearch Global Shark Tracker app. Here are some recent visits to the Treasure Coast: Contender: The biggest male great white shark ever tagged by Ocearch pinged off the Indian River County coast, northeast of Vero Beach at 10:09 a.m. Feb. 24. Contender is a 13-foot, 9-inch shark. Danny: A 9-foot-long great white shark pinged off the Jupiter Island coast twice on Feb. 2, at 5:30 a.m. and 6:09 a.m. Kim Luciani and Ashely Ferrer contributed to this article. Gianna Montesano is TCPalm's trending reporter. You can contact her at 772-409-1429, or follow her on Twitter @gonthescene. This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Great white shark caught on camera by nurse shark off Boynton Beach
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Great White sharks tracked off the OBX coast
OUTER BANKS, N.C. (WAVY)- Two tagged Great White Sharks are swimming off the coast of the Outer Banks. According to the group Ocearch, a 9.5-foot long, 460 pound shark named Danny was last pinged on March 25 off the coast of Ocracoke. Danny was tagged off the coast near the Florida/Georgia line on January 17, 2025. The tag will enable OCEARCH researchers to collect real-time data for about five years. Great white shark tracked by OCEARCH pings off Outer Banks On March 21, A 13-foot, 1,700 pound shark named Mahone was pinged swimming off Oregon Inlet. Mahone is the largest male shark tagged by OCEARCH in Canadian waters. He was tagged during a 2020 OCEARCH Expedition in Nova Scotia. He is named after Mahone Bay. Ocearch is a non-profit group that tags and tracks sharks and other marine life. Biologists work to study their mating, eating and migration paths. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
