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Chris Hemsworth Tapped To Host ‘Shark Beach’ Special For National Geographic’s 2021 ‘SharkFest’

Chris Hemsworth Tapped To Host ‘Shark Beach’ Special For National Geographic’s 2021 ‘SharkFest’

On Monday, National Geographic announced that it had chosen Marvel star Chris Hemsworth to host their new hour-long unscripted special Shark Beach, TVLine reported earlier today. According to the article, the 36-year-old actor will chat with some of the most renowned experts in the world on the species, including advocates, surfers, marine biologists, and ocean […]

4y ago

Shark Attacks A 16-Year-Old Boy Visiting The Outer Banks, Father Had To Fight It Off

Shark Attacks A 16-Year-Old Boy Visiting The Outer Banks, Father Had To Fight It Off

On Thursday, a 16-year-old boy visiting the Outer Banks in North Carolina was attacked by a shark. According to CNN, Nick Arthur was playing on the sandbar when the shark bit his thigh and refused to let go. Tim Arthur, the boy’s father, rushed over to his son and started to kick the shark in […]

4y ago

Shark Attack In Northern California Kills 26-Year-Old Surfer

Shark Attack In Northern California Kills 26-Year-Old Surfer

Northern California state park officials have announced that a surfer was killed in a shark attack earlier Saturday. According to The Washington Post, the 26-year-old man endured the attack while surfing off of Manresa State Beach on the northern end of Monterey Bay. A statement released by California State Parks claimed the strike happened just […]

4y ago

Great White Shark Spotted Swimming Next To Surfer In Cape Cod

Great White Shark Spotted Swimming Next To Surfer In Cape Cod

A photograph taken at Nauset Beach captured an image of a man in a wet suit paddling on a surfboard, where a shark fin can be seen next to him. CBS News reports that people need to “remain vigilant,” as a great white shark was spotted off of Cape Cod. The Orleans Department of Natural […]

5y ago

Great White Sharks Caused 3 Beaches To Close In Cape Cod This Week

Great White Sharks Caused 3 Beaches To Close In Cape Cod This Week

Great white shark sightings have led to the closure of three beaches in the Cape Cod area this week, the latest in a summer that has seen a pronounced increase in the number of sightings of the fearsome beasts. “Shark Week” may be currently happening on The Discovery Channel, but in Massachusetts, it’s Shark Week […]

5y ago

Australian Authorities Kill Four Tiger Sharks After Last Week’s Attacks In Whitsundays

Australian Authorities Kill Four Tiger Sharks After Last Week’s Attacks In Whitsundays

Four tiger sharks were recently killed off the coast of North Queensland, about one week after the hospitalization of a 46-year-old woman and a 12-year-old girl due to separate shark mauling incidents at a Great Barrier Reef tourist location. According to ABC News Australia, the sharks captured in drumlines and killed earlier in the week […]

6y ago

Scientists Uncover Cause Of World’s Largest Great White Shark Gathering

Scientists Uncover Cause Of World’s Largest Great White Shark Gathering

If you don’t like sharks, then steer clear of the oceanic expanse between the Guadalupe Islands and Hawaii. Dubbed the “White Shark Cafe” by marine biologists, this stretch of the mid-Pacific has long been the end point of one of the world’s most mysterious migrations. Since at least 2002, marine biologists have observed great white […]

6y ago

Shark Attacks Swimmer On Cape Cod

Shark Attacks Swimmer On Cape Cod

Cape Cod has had its first shark attack since 2012. A man was bitten by a shark on Wednesday while swimming off the coast of Cape Cod. He was airlifted to the hospital, where he was treated for puncture wounds. The victim is 61 years old and suffered wounds to his torso and legs. The […]

6y ago

Whale Sharks Can Grow Up To 60 Feet Long And Live To 130 Years, Scientists Find

Whale Sharks Can Grow Up To 60 Feet Long And Live To 130 Years, Scientists Find

Whale sharks, the largest of the shark species, can live up to 130 years and grow longer than scientists once thought, a recent study found. Scientists at Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) and collaborators from the Maldives Whale Shark Research Program published a recent study on the world’s largest shark species […]

6y ago

Apparently Sharks Like Jazz Music, Study Finds

Apparently Sharks Like Jazz Music, Study Finds

Research scientists at Macquarie University Fish Lab in Sydney, Australia, have found evidence to suggest that sharks can associate sounds with food in a similar manner to Pavlov’s dogs. Where Pavlov used the sound of a bell to experiment with dogs and conditional behavioral responses, the scientists in Australia played a jazz song to sharks […]

6y ago

Two Children Were Possibly Bitten By Sharks Off Long Island

Two Children Were Possibly Bitten By Sharks Off Long Island

Just off the coast of Fire Island, Long Island, in New York, multiple reports came poring in on Wednesday saying that a 12-year-old girl, Lola Pollina, and a 13-year-old boy were involved in a possible shark attack. The young girl was playing in the water at Sailor’s Haven beach and the boy was stated to […]

6y ago

What Are The Deadliest Animals In The United States? Hint: Neither Sharks Nor Gators Hold The Top Spot

What Are The Deadliest Animals In The United States? Hint: Neither Sharks Nor Gators Hold The Top Spot

Last week, a Florida woman was killed by an alligator, a horrifying – though excruciatingly rare – event that raises the question, what actually is the deadliest animal in the U.S.? And the answer may surprise you. Before proceeding, we need to define our terms here. For this discussion, we’ll only consider animals that directly […]

6y ago

After Adult Film Star Says Donald Trump Hates Sharks, Donations Surge For Shark Charities

After Adult Film Star Says Donald Trump Hates Sharks, Donations Surge For Shark Charities

Look Out Donald Trump, Sharks Are Getting Support In Your Name After claims from adult film star Stormy Daniels that Donald Trump hates sharks, there has been a big surge in shark conservation charity support. Non-profit groups like Atlantic White Shark Conservancy and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society say that they have seen an increase in […]

6y ago

Woman Finds Shark In Pool – Wrestles It To Put It Back In The Ocean

Woman Finds Shark In Pool – Wrestles It To Put It Back In The Ocean

Australia is a very curious place. Over the weekend, Melissa Hatheier found herself wrestling a shark out of a rock pool in Cronulla. After the real estate agent from Sydney got a phone call from her mother informing her of the seemingly lost creature, Hatheier made the decision to go and chuck it out. Once […]

7y ago

North Carolina Man Fleeing Police Swims Into Ocean, Gets Chased By Shark

North Carolina Man Fleeing Police Swims Into Ocean, Gets Chased By Shark

It seemed like a good idea at the time. A North Carolina man on the run from the cops decided to ditch the police by swimming into the ocean. Unfortunately for the miscreant, the ocean has no shortage of sharks, and as he found out rather quickly, sharks may see a human swimming furiously as […]

7y ago

USS Indianapolis Haunting Wreck Found: Site Of Worst Shark Attack In History

USS Indianapolis Haunting Wreck Found: Site Of Worst Shark Attack In History

It has been 72 years since the USS Indianapolis entered into its watery grave at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Initially, 300 of its heroic crew went down with the ship, leaving hundreds of men bobbing in the ocean waters waiting to be rescued. What happened in the days that followed in those shark-infested […]

7y ago

Shark Bites Boy Swimming Off Hilton Head Island In South Carolina

Shark Bites Boy Swimming Off Hilton Head Island In South Carolina

A shark bit a boy swimming off Hilton Head Island in South Carolina over the weekend. Linton Suttle, a 13-year-old boy from North Carolina, was pushing his sister on a boogie board near Sea Pines Beach Club when he suddenly felt a sharp stabbing pain in his foot. “I thought maybe it was a seashell, […]

7y ago

When Does ‘Shark Week’ Start? Episode Dates, Times For Discovery’s ‘Shark Week’ 2017 And ‘Shark After Dark’

When Does ‘Shark Week’ Start? Episode Dates, Times For Discovery’s ‘Shark Week’ 2017 And ‘Shark After Dark’

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week returns this month with eight nights of programming that may make you reconsider taking a dip in the ocean this summer. Shark Week 2017 kicks off with four hours of programming on Sunday, July 23, including the Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White special that features Olympic gold medalist […]

7y ago

Great White Shark Boom Off Cape Cod Brings Concerns And Visions Of ‘Jaws’

Great White Shark Boom Off Cape Cod Brings Concerns And Visions Of ‘Jaws’

Cape Cod is the summer vacation spot for people all over the world, but the waters off the Massachusetts coast are also becoming a vacation spot for a bigger species, the great white shark. It is not as if the great white sharks are trolling the waters of Cape Cod beaches looking for humans as […]

7y ago

In ’47 Meters Down,’ Stars Claire Holt And Mandy Moore ‘Really Had To Rely On Each Other’

In ’47 Meters Down,’ Stars Claire Holt And Mandy Moore ‘Really Had To Rely On Each Other’

Filming a thriller in or on the water carries with it its own set of hazards, which is something actresses Claire Holt (The Originals) and Mandy Moore (This Is Us) experienced first hand. In filming 47 Meters Down, the two women filmed most of the stunts on their own. As 47 Meters Down nears its […]

7y ago

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