tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363243522012-01-28T23:42:39.471+12:00The Best Shark Dive in the World!Blog about the world's No.1 Shark Dive by Beqa Adventure Divers, featuring up to eight regular species of sharks and over 400 different species of fish. Shark diving doesn't get any better.Andrew Cumminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14675497080700112390noreply@blogger.comBlogger1158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-80866532184350326772012-01-27T19:14:00.005+12:002012-01-27T20:11:38.530+12:002012-01-27T20:11:38.530+12:00Procedures?I'm frankly baffled.So, some dude had his camera mouthed.I suspect that he didn't use his pokey stick because he wanted that shot. I also suspect that he was way out of his league as he let the Tiger Shark have his camera instead of pushing back. Apparently, he then stole somebody else's pics of the event and gave them to an agent who then made up a stupid story and sold it to a tabloid.Big DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-30764372696604924642012-01-26T21:00:00.003+12:002012-01-26T21:53:38.548+12:002012-01-26T21:53:38.548+12:00Fishing for Sharks - Lecture!Warning - tedious!But I'm sure that Professor Choat is trying his very best - not everybody is as talented as Demian!Anyway, got some time to spare?This is about counting Sharks, about their different reproductive strategies and about whether Sharks can be managed, which is a euphemism for fished sustainably without pushing stocks into extinction. You may want to re-read those posts before DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-47153402433966722552012-01-26T20:02:00.004+12:002012-01-26T20:41:10.032+12:002012-01-26T20:41:10.032+12:00Sharks and Oxygen - Strike two!Thank you Patric!He is absolutely correct.The correlation between Sharks and the oceans' production of oxygen is indeed completely devoid of any facts, empirical data, or even common sense! Now that most of us have finally done away with that nonsense about the numbers, it is high time that we once and forever get rid of this latest stupid meme that is already evolving towards the assertion that DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-60821998014127067102012-01-26T18:49:00.005+12:002012-01-26T19:05:33.374+12:002012-01-26T19:05:33.374+12:00Small Shark in Nadi!It is wet wet wet!We down here are OK but the West and North have experienced some severe flooding, and although the situation is improving in the short term, the weather charts look grim, see at the bottom.Anyway, this lil fella was picked up in Nadi town today.It's a juvenile Blacktip Reef Shark who was apparently released unharmed.H/T: Tafa!Yes in this would be a cyclone approaching - keep DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-18279618370073912102012-01-25T20:58:00.005+12:002012-01-25T22:59:01.435+12:002012-01-25T22:59:01.435+12:00San Francisco - Shark Movie!What what what - notorious????Yes I totally like that movie!John Weller's and Shawn Heinrich's Sanctuary, The Last Stand for Sharks is a beautifully filmed and edited, strictly science-based look at the dire situation of global Shark stocks and at the efforts of some countries to establish Sanctuaries for their protection.Intrigued?You can watch it this Monday in San Francisco and really, this isDaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-90794251185968625452012-01-24T21:58:00.005+12:002012-01-26T20:39:34.658+12:002012-01-26T20:39:34.658+12:00RickMac - stellar Post!Yes you guessed it correctly: sea surface chlorophyll = density of the infamous phytoplankton!Wellwell.Finally, somebody is noticing!And not just anybody!In my book, Rick MacPherson, very much of (not!) bated breath fame is without a doubt one of the nicest and wittiest but above all, most erudite, eloquent and brilliantly intelligent people out there and I have learned to listen carefully when DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-10533197829885297062012-01-23T23:00:00.004+12:002012-01-23T23:27:19.890+12:002012-01-23T23:27:19.890+12:00#7 on the List - nice!Yes these would be 3m Bull Sharks - click for detail!Thank you Angelo Taotao Tasi!Taotao Tasi is Chamorro and means People of the Sea - and he is, both.He is also the Senior Editor of Shark Defenders.They have just posted Conservation's Top 10 Shark Dives and the Fiji Shark Dive in the SRMR is one of them.Surprised?Check this out - plus, Fiji is currently on the list of potential future Shark DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-31249808400260788262012-01-22T21:31:00.006+12:002012-01-23T06:55:23.117+12:002012-01-23T06:55:23.117+12:00Punter with Pokey Stick!Story here.“It had its mouth wide open and was about to bite me, but bit the camera instead.That gave me a few vital seconds to swim away.”Wow.And how about using that pokey stick?Very much q.e.d.!DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-50277796466203488542012-01-22T19:52:00.005+12:002012-01-25T23:09:11.551+12:002012-01-25T23:09:11.551+12:00Shark Finning Bans - good enough?Stuff is happening in South & Central America.Chile has banned Shark finning in 2011; Costa Rica and Colombia are establishing a task force to combat Shark poaching; as of January, shark finning is illegal in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic and the Shark fin trade is being monitored.Yes this is progress - but is it good enough?DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-1169882737998363212012-01-21T00:00:00.003+13:002012-01-21T00:13:22.324+13:002012-01-21T00:13:22.324+13:00A quick-quick one for Madi Pip!Watch this.More details here and on Madi Pip's blog.DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-2964888120958376032012-01-19T20:31:00.003+13:002012-01-19T22:28:05.062+13:002012-01-19T22:28:05.062+13:00Nat Geo - racing for the Bottom?How cool is that - grinning fishermen dispatching endangered Bluefin Tuna.Good to see that others are noticing.This time it's not a nobody like me - this time it's Carl Safina, and if that link should not be sufficient, check him out here.Yes Nat Geo is going down the drain.To be fair, that would be Nat Geo WILD, the pathetic sister channel of the venerable National Geographic Channel. From what DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-13617478112610485472012-01-19T16:05:00.011+13:002012-01-19T18:35:18.938+13:002012-01-19T18:35:18.938+13:00PNA - free School Skipjack Fishery certified!Totally unsustainable - purse seining around FADs.Bravo PNA - again!The Parties to the Nauru Agreement are the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu, and this confederation of Tuna fishing countries have long been trailblazers in trying to manage their fishery sustainably.The MSC certification is a well deserved DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-5599867643896700272012-01-19T14:43:00.005+13:002012-01-19T15:06:55.179+13:002012-01-19T15:06:55.179+13:00No more Shark Fin Soup at the Fijian!From the press release.Shangri-La Announces Sustainable Seafood Policy And Discontinuing Use Of All Shark Fin Products in 72 hotels and resorts17 Jan 2012Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts today announced its ‘Sustainable Seafood Policy’ including the commitment to cease serving shark fin in all of its operated restaurants as well as accepting new orders for shark fin products in banqueting with DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-29132959888854113792012-01-16T23:49:00.005+13:002012-01-17T07:41:41.102+13:002012-01-17T07:41:41.102+13:00Saving Fiji's Sharks!At risk: Fiji's Reef Sharks - click for detailPlease read this article by Helen.Helen is not only a good friend and one of Fiji's most intelligent and most efficient marine conservationists, she is also currently managing the Fiji Shark Sanctuary campaign for CORAL and Pew.What she highlights is a rather recent and deeply disturbing development.Owing to its airline connections to Asia and a DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-31938811469913491932012-01-15T22:09:00.003+13:002012-01-15T22:33:02.070+13:002012-01-15T22:33:02.070+13:00Valerie, love you always!Thank you Valerie.I just met an ozzie diver from Sydney who didn't know who she is, so there.This is once again about the Coral Sea.Australia has the opportunity to create the world's largest MPA, but many environmentalists are deeply dissatisfied with the detail planning.Valerie is one of them and after having given a stellar interview on Radio Australia, she has graciously agreed to narrate theDaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-12814573598202240762012-01-15T16:29:00.008+13:002012-01-15T20:38:35.555+13:002012-01-15T20:38:35.555+13:00Shark App!Cool!Michael Domeier's MCSI has launched the world's first ever app allowing people to track GWs in real time and to learn about GW biology. For now it's only available for the iPhone and the iPad but they are working on an Android version.The whole thing costs a paltry 4 bucks and will fund the lab's research.Me endorsing something by Domeier?I've always said that although I continue to oppose DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-87014244437085036582012-01-15T14:12:00.006+13:002012-01-15T20:39:34.492+13:002012-01-15T20:39:34.492+13:00Manta Ray of Hope - Publication!This is as good as it gets.I've been a big fan of Manta Ray of Hope since its inception and this brilliant document only reinforces my initial enthusiasm. It addresses exhaustively all my questions and shows a clear way forward, i.e. science-based legislative measures, tourism and most importantly, enforcement - and yes, education, too!Required reading for anybody wanting to talk about the DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-63999653168032430942012-01-15T12:09:00.010+13:002012-01-15T20:35:48.276+13:002012-01-15T20:35:48.276+13:00Not a Great White!Shortfin Mako by Ozzie Sam and GW by Chip - notice the underside of the pecs!I'm gonna go out on a limb here.I'm gonna do my own bit of sesselfurzing and state that Kim Holland is wrong and Helmut Nickel is right. Yes this is certainly neither a Tiger, Hammerhead, OWT or Blacktip - dooh!But: this is not a GW either, it is a big Mako!Check it out.Now look again at 2:12 - see the underside of the DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-55324650570386440392012-01-13T18:41:00.004+13:002012-01-13T19:13:42.066+13:002012-01-13T19:13:42.066+13:00A Shiver of Fish&Chips?I sure hope not!These are Spurdogs, or Spiny Dogfish, a species that is much prized for its meat, to the point that some are considering the North Atlantic populations to be severely threatened with extinction. The fisheries agencies don't appear to concur as they are still being fished in the US, Canada and Europe, albeit under strict quota regimens.Be it as it may, it's certainly way nicer to DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-83285442857850664412012-01-12T22:32:00.004+13:002012-01-12T22:35:49.173+13:002012-01-12T22:35:49.173+13:00No Way!Story here!DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-41457514936378393802012-01-11T22:15:00.003+13:002012-01-11T22:46:35.112+13:002012-01-11T22:46:35.112+13:00GBR Sharks - going going...White Tip Reef Shark - common in the SRMR, ever rarer in the GBRThe Far North's reef shark populations are dropping at an alarming rate and a marine biologist says the decline of the apex predators could pose a serious risk to the ecology of the Great Barrier Reef.Research has found that reef shark populations are decreasing by up to 17 per cent each year, Dr Ashley Frisch, of James Cook DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-91303934695942343982012-01-11T17:13:00.006+13:002012-01-11T17:45:49.421+13:002012-01-11T17:45:49.421+13:00Ozzie Sam - fabulous!Check out the pic!Yes that would be a Shortfin Mako and a Great White in the same frame - possibly a world first?Sam is one of the good ones and I'm happy he got the shot.He is extremely dedicated, to the point that he must have amassed hundreds of dives between us and the guys down the road - and obviously, the quality of the pics has improved accordingly, especially those from Shark Reef were DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-21338439018524286422012-01-10T14:44:00.021+13:002012-01-11T09:55:29.454+13:002012-01-11T09:55:29.454+13:00Preaching to the Choir?Love + Action= Public ChangeNeed + Action= Policy ChangeInteresting!But first, watch this.Are you impressed?Probably you are - but then again, you are reading a Shark diving and Shark conservation blog, meaning that you probably already love nature and the ocean (read it!) and need no convincing anyway!As Kevin points out in this brilliant post, this kind of negative messaging equates preaching DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-81146190766490888262012-01-08T14:00:00.008+13:002012-01-08T15:26:26.389+13:002012-01-08T15:26:26.389+13:00Wikipedia - interesting!Ha!David reports that he has tried to edit the Shark fin soup article and that his revision has been instantly undone.The history tab reveals this.(cur | prev) 23:19, 7 January 2012 Cold Season (talk | contribs) m (20,754 bytes) (Undid revision 470165581 by OfficetoOcean (talk)) (undo) (cur | prev) 23:15, 7 January 2012 OfficetoOcean (talk | contribs) (19,873 bytes) (undo) (Tag: DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-79484939246993662572012-01-07T19:32:00.013+13:002012-01-10T21:28:45.832+13:002012-01-10T21:28:45.832+13:00Tu quoque Wikipedia?From Wikipedia's Shark fin soup article, and I cite.However, research has shown that the vast majority of shark species are gaining in population and not endangered; CITES lists only 3 out of 400 species as needing protection.[8] Furthermore, shark finning contributes to a small proportion of sharks caught worldwide; most sharks are caught in European nations as bycatch, for sport, or for their DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com2