The Dorsal Fin

Gillette has unveiled a new ad campaign for its Proglide series that centers around two divers shaving underwater in the Bahamas in baited shark scenario. The ad uses the old “sharks can smell a drop of blood from a quarter of a mile away” bit and portrays the sharks as becoming seemingly aggressive after one of the divers after apparently nicks himself shaving with an inferior disposable razor.

So, the next time you’re doing a shark dive and decide that you need a shave, remember to use you Gillette Proglide. If not, quick edits and ominous music are sure to follow.

You can also check out the Gillette ProGlide – Shark Teaser for more of the “scariest shave” campaign.

A bill will be signed into law today declaring Honduran waters a sanctuary for sharks.

According to the New York Times, Honduran president Porfirio Lobo Sosa will sign a bill into law today that will establish a permanent moratorium on commercial shark fishing in Honduran waters. The new law will affect 92,665 square miles off of the Honduran coast (including both the Pacific and Caribbean coasts).

The Times reports that the bill will be signed on the island of Roatan, one of Honduras’ most popular diving destinations.

Australia’s Ten recently added this feature to their YouTube channel. The report touches the last month’s “great white sharks are fans of AC/DC” claim, and compares the methods of attracting sharks using sound versus chumming. The story also brings up the debate about chumming (or burleying) for white sharks, which has been a controversial subject in South Australia.

Lawrence Groth has posted some impressive great white shark footage from Isla de Guadalupe to his YouTube Channel which was filmed from what the video description calls the SPSC (Self-Propelled Shark Cage). Several of Guadalupe’s “regulars” can be seen in the video, including Lucy, Cal Ripfin (aka Shredder), and Zapata (aka Bruce).

According to the Great White Adventures website, the SPSC was designed for use by Film and Documentary crews.

XOOC, a non-profit marine conservation group based in Mexico, produced the video above, which focuses on the bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) of Mexico’s Playa del Carmen.

Last fall, dozens of Playa’s bull sharks were killed by a local fisherman, who was paid 118,000 pesos (roughly $10,000 USD) for the sharks, according the video. The video also goes on to note that living sharks can bring in up to $300,000 USD dollars in tourism revenue per season. However, the fisherman who caught the sharks, argued that it was more profitable for him to catch and sell the sharks, since it was less dangerous and only required 4 hours of work.

Playa del Carmen had become a popular dive site in recent years and was known as one of the hot spots for diving with bull sharks.

(Note: This video showed up on YouTube yesterday, but was originally posted on Vimeo several months ago.)