Great White Sharks Don Silcock talks Great White Sharks in this months installment of Big Animal Diving Australia, our great brown land down-under, is known for many things – the beaches, the Red Centre, the Great Barrier Reef and the seemingly endless supply of dangerous creatures… However, few of those
Rodney Fox is a True Australian Icon and Great White Shark Legend I love reading and spend many “quiet time” hours studying my seemingly ever-expanding book collection. I am particularly fond of autobiographies written by people who have found a way to do something incredible, whether that be in politics,
Footage showing what is thought to be the first-ever sighting of a live newborn great white shark has just been released – and marine biologists believe the video helps to solve a long-standing marine-biological mystery. Wildlife film-maker Carlos “The Malibu Artist” Gauna was using his drone to scan Pacific waters
After years of patiently waiting for the stars to align, Adrian Stacey was finally on his way to the Neptune Islands in South Australia. His aim was to go diving with arguably the most-feared and misunderstood creature on the planet -the great white shark Photographs by Adrian Stacey Although humans
The Australia New Zealand chapter of the Explorers Club inaugural expedition to see the Great White Shark After the movie Jaws and Blue Water White Death the Great White shark has the reputation as probably one of the most feared animals, not only in the ocean but on the planet.
When great white shark corpses started turning up with their livers missing, it took a while to piece together the story –
The newest and potentially densest hotspot for great white sharks has been identified – and it turns out to be in northern Atlantic waters, off Cape Cod in Massachusetts. A team of researchers conducted an intensive “mark-recapture” survey to produce what they say is the first estimate of white shark
A male killer whale was observed for the first time last year in the act of dispatching and extracting the liver from a great white shark – and it did so unaided, taking only two minutes to complete its task, as detailed in a new study. “The astonishing predation, off
Photographs by Richard Stevens and Hailey Elizabeth / Black Manta Photography. There’s such a strong temptation to start this article with that famous music score from John Williams, you know, the one that first hit the silver screen in the Summer of 1975, but that would just be far too
With great white shark cage-diving enthusiasts no longer able to visit Guadalupe in Mexico, their prospects have become limited largely to Australasia (see below) and South Africa. But now a new possibility is being offered a seven-hour flight from the UK in eastern Canada, where Atlantic Shark Expeditions (ASE) launches
In early 2018, Divernet / Diver magazine ran an exclusive story by shark expert Richard Peirce. It carried a stark warning: tourism based on cage-diving with great whites in South Africa was in jeopardy, because orcas with a taste for shark liver were killing or scaring away the sharks. Two
New gene-sequencing tools have just unlocked a well-kept secret – that there are three different kinds of great white shark and, unfortunately for them, they tend not to mix. The white sharks that populate the north Pacific are distinct from those of the south Pacific and Indian Ocean – and