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Traditionally, the people of Bermuda rely on shark-oil based "barometers" to predict storms and other severe weather. Small bottles of oil are hung outside. If the bottle is clear then the weather will be good, while, if it is cloudy, it is advisable to take cover. They are not true barometers, and how they work is disputed. [16]
He travelled through fifteen countries for the next four years, studying and filming sharks, and going undercover to confront the shark fin industry. [2] Sharkwater went on to win more than 40 awards at top film festivals. [4] His follow-up film, 2012's Revolution, builds on Sharkwater, examining environmental collapse. In 2013, it was the ...
Plastic pollution in the ocean is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material. Marine debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean.
The entire body of a shark is a very efficient eating machine. Each organ has been fine-tuned for hunting and acquiring food.
Shark attacks capture a disproportionate share of public attention, given their rarity (cows kill more people annually). Historian of marine science Samantha Muka, of Stevens Institute of ...
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In the warmer waters of the Central and Western Pacific, bigeye and pelagic thresher sharks are more common. A thresher shark was seen on the live video feed from one of the ROVs monitoring BP's Macondo oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. This is significantly deeper than the 500 m (1,600 ft) previously thought to be their limit.
New video obtained by TMZ and verified by NBC News captured the moment after a shark bit a 10-year-old Maryland boy who was on vacation in the Bahamas.