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Baby Horn Shark
Nov 17th, 2011 by

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© 2011 Michael Bear

Leopard Shark Fly By…….
Nov 14th, 2011 by Mikey

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Video by Michael Bear taken with Go Pro Hero 2

Baby Horn Shark
Nov 3rd, 2011 by Mikey

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© 2011 Michael Bear

Octopus Dining on Dead Squid…..
Nov 2nd, 2011 by

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Large Sheep Crab at La Jolla Shores
Nov 2nd, 2011 by Mikey

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Note the large reddish Sea Hare in front and the Prawn Shrimp galloping around........

© 2011 Michael Bear

Adult Male Horn Shark
Sep 7th, 2011 by

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Filmed at La Jolla Shores, on 9-7-11, on a dive with Eli Martinez, editor of Shark Diver Magazine.

Leopard Shark and Audience
Feb 20th, 2011 by

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Noted South African Shark Researcher Pans New Halle Barry Shark Movie
Aug 3rd, 2010 by Mikey

This week, Cape Town Shark Researcher Alison Kock, gave her opinion on the recent shark movie ‘Dark Tide‘:
She told the Daily Mail: “After reading the script we decided it was not something we would like to put our names to.

Our mandate is to try to change people’s perceptions of sharks. The first script that we got sounded very much like it had a thriller aspect to it and a personal kind of aspect to it as well.
But fighting off a shark, or surviving a shark attack – we couldn’t see the positive side of that, as much as we tried.”

Hollywood is counting on scenes of Halle Barry in a bikini  to draw in male audiences, but the movie appears to be furthering negative stereotypes of sharks as menacing predators, waiting to attack humans, a la ‘Jaws’ [1975], something we need to get beyond if sharks are to be protected.

New Shark Search Engine: Elasmosearch.com
Jul 12th, 2010 by Mikey

I found a new search engine devoted exclusively to the shark and ray family, Elasmosearch.com. I experimented with it and was quite pleased with the results–I’ll leave you to guess what species I typed in.

I’ll let the founder, Ryan Kempster, a shark biologist, introduce his site,  below: About ElasmoSearch

Welcome to ElasmoSearch, my name is Ryan Kempster, I am a shark biologist and the creator of the ElasmoSearch website. ElasmoSearch is a sister website of Support Our Sharks. The goal of ElasmoSearch is to provide a homepage search engine for shark and ray enthusiasts, giving easy access to the most relevant material current available online. I have always had a passion for protecting sharks, and so I am always looking for new ways to introduce people to sharks to inspire them and encourage more learning.

To do this I have embarked on a career in research to better understand sharks and communicate my knowledge to the general public in the hope that I can then inspire people to follow in my passion for protecting these amazing animals.  ElasmoSearch is an essential tool for anyone interested in sharks and for anyone interested in the conservation of species and the protection of the environment.

Here it is: http://www.elasmosearch.com/

Interview: Former National Geographic Cameraman Turns to Saving Sharks Globally
May 20th, 2010 by Mikey

Interview with Mark Thorpe, founder of iDive Sharks and, more recently,  the Global Shark Initiative:

I have been increasingly aware of the issues facing shark populations, insofar that their numbers are in free fall, decimated in some cases by in excess of 90% of their population levels in as little as 30 years.

The Global Shark Initiative was a concept I put together after the fiasco at the recent CITIES  convention which saw a perverse display of financial power games by certain Asian countries

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/3016606/founder_of_idive_sharks_and_the_global.html?cat=4

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