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The account is recorded in a book Skeleton Coast by John Henry Marsh. On Thursday, 22 March 2018, a Japanese registered fishing vessel, MVF Fukuseki Maru, got into trouble and ran aground near Durissa Bay, south of the Ugab River mouth, lying 2 km from the Skeleton Coast beach in the ocean. All 24 foreign crew members were rescued by Namibian ...
The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus ... [21] A 12.27 m (40.3 ft) specimen trapped in a herring net in the Bay of Fundy, Canada, in 1851 has been credited as the ...
Skeleton Coast National Park is a national park located in northwest Namibia, and has the most inaccessible shores, dotted with shipwrecks. The park was established in 1971 and has a size of 16,845 km 2 (6,504 sq mi). [ 2 ]
Great white shark's skeleton. ... Detailed observations were made of four whale carcasses in False Bay between 2000 and 2010. Sharks were drawn to the carcass by ...
Welcome to the shark portal! Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha (or Selachii) and are the sister group to the Batoidea (rays and kin).
A Bay Area photographer captures juvenile white sharks "smiling" in the warm waters of Monterey Bay.
Sharks are cartilaginous fish. The skeleton of a shark is mainly made of cartilage. They belong to the class of Chondrichthyes. In particular, the endoskeletons are made of unmineralized hyaline cartilage which is more flexible and less dense than bone, thus making them expel less energy at high speeds.
Shark research is hard to get funding for, in part, because sharks aren’t a commercial species. Yet the irony is that they affect commercial species, namely fish populations.