Video: Tagging white sharks off Stewart Island, New Zealand
Apr.26, 2012 at 9:57 am, under Shark Videos
New Zealand’s NIWA recently added the video above to its YouTube channel. The video documents the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)tagging efforts of a collaboration of scientists from New Zealand’s DOC, and NIWA, as well as researchers from the University of Auckland.
Tracking data gathered from the research will be used to further the understanding of migration patterns and population size of New Zealand’s white sharks.
Sea of Cortez white shark was tagged in 1990s off California
Apr.26, 2012 at 9:43 am, under Shark News Stories
A great white shark caught last week in the Sea of Cortez had previously been tagged off Santa Cruz.
The MercuryNews.com is reporting that a large female white shark caught in the Sea of Cortez earlier this month had been tagged by researchers off Año Nuevo Island in the late 1990s.
The identification tag was spotted by the wife of one of the fishermen who landed the shark. She contacted Sean Van Sommeran at The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation. While the tag was merely an identification tag and contained no tracking transmitter, the location where the shark was netted does provide potentially valuable research information.
For the full-story, head on over to The MercuryNews.com.
Video: Whale watchers get surprise visit from basking shark
Apr.26, 2012 at 9:32 am, under Shark Videos
UPDATE: Pete Thomas has a fairly in-depth article about basking shark sightings on the rise off SoCal on his Outdoors, Action, and Adventure blog.
YouTube user DanaPointWhaleWatch uploaded a video of a recent chance encounter with a basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) off Southern California’s Dana Point. The sight of the large filter-feeding shark appeared to provide some excitement for the boat full of whale watchers.
Another basking shark sighting was also reported off La Jolla earlier in the week, according to a KTLA report.
Albino orca (killer whale) caught on film off Kamchatka, Russia
Apr.23, 2012 at 4:52 pm, under Shark News Stories
It’s not really shark news, but…
Russia Today has posted a video featuring footage of an albino “killer whale” (Orcinus orca). The orca was spotted off of Kamchatka, Russia. According to reports, it is believed to be the first recorded sighting of an adult albino orca.
Shark Dash – shark video game for iPhone, iPad, and Android
Apr.23, 2012 at 3:20 pm, under The Lighter Side
Gameloft recently released a new shark-themed videogame. Shark Dash follows the adventures of Sharkee and his toy shark friends. Sharkee is on a mission to rescue his girlfriend Sally after she is kidnapped by a misguided band of rubber duckies who have invaded Sharkee’s happy bathtub home.
Shark Dash is available now on iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android devices.
