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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:00:24 -0500
From: "max H." <hook626@MEDIAONE.NET>
Subject: A fatal shark attack off Perth Australia first fatal attack
in 30
years.-brought to
you by www.sharkattacks.com
Nov.05.2000
Perth Australia,
Shark attack! One man is dead and another badly injured after the
first fatal shark attack in the Perth area for more than 30 years.
The patrons at the Blue Duck cafe overlooking Perth's Cottesloe Beach
were drinking coffee and having breakfast as the early morning swimmers
splashed about just off shore.Kim Gamble, owner of the cafe - a favourite
spot of the city's business and political elite - was doing his paperwork
on the balcony.
Suddenly, as he and his customers watched in horror, a five-metre white
pointer shark ploughed into a group of swimmers, tearing one man's leg
off and leaving him to die, and then chasing one of his companions towards
the beach.
"From the balcony I could see this huge shark - it was really huge,"
a shaken Mr Gamble said soon after the attack. "There was a whole sea of
blood and it was pulling the person."
The first victim, 49-year-old Ken Crew, of Mosman Park, died soon after
the shark savaged him in shallow water about 25 metres from the beach.
The white pointer then charged at one of his friends, Fremantle lawyer
Mr Dirk Avery, who was only 10 metres from the shore when attacked.
Read the whole story and more in the NEWS section of www.sharkattacks.com
Thanks
Max H
http://www.sharkattacks.com
9 July 1999
Proposal to include the Basking
Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) on Appendix II of the Convention
on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
DETR
http://www.wildlife-countryside.detr.gov.uk/gwd/shark/Index.htm
Whale Shark and Great White Shark
USA's submissions to the CITES conference
to be held next April 2000 to the file section of Cornish Wildlife. Go
to:
http://www.onelist.com/community/CornishWildlife
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This site includes a record of a Killer Whale attacking and killing a 3.3 metres long Great White Shark.
The animal has been identified as an Ormer. But what species is it?
Haliotis are more difficult to identify if you include the possibility of non-European species.
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The largest coral head that I've encountered (in the Solomon Islands)
measured 18' tall and was approximately 160' in circumferance (probably
larger but that's a very conservative estimate). Assuming this coral
was a cylinder of the same dimensions (51' diameter x 18' tall), and converting
all the measurements to metric, gives a surface area of 4,566,014
square centimeters. In Hawaii, I've estimated that Porites
lobata has, on average, 71.40 coral polyps per square centimeter.
If the Solomons Porites coral had the same polyp density, then this
coral head would have had a minimum of 326,013,439 polyps.
Bruce Carlson, Waikiki Aquarium
An Octopus with glowing suckers has been discovered 2,500 feet (762 meters) deep in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine. The specimen gives researchers a rare look at the evolution of bioluminescence. "To find such a clear example of an evolutionary transition gives us a rare glimpse into the evolutionary history of light production," said Edith Widder, a marine scientist at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Len Nevell would like to hear of all captures and information not
in the books, sources of further information, scientific papers etc.
Len Nevell EMail
BMLSS Shark Page
September 1998
A specimen of Latimeria was caught by
a local fishermen off the island of Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia. The
exact part of the large island is not known, but deep water occurs relatively
close to the shore, going down to 5000 metres in the Celebes Basin. These
depth are comparable to the depths off Comores, Indian Ocean (about 3500
metres) where the Coelacanth was previously recorded.
Plenty of pages on the web.
Try http://www.profusion.com/ Search method
June 99
Ocean Challenge (Challenger Society) Vol. 9 No. 1, 1998, states that the Celebes population may actually be more numerous than the original Comores population. They have been asigned different scientific names:
Comores: L. chalumnae
Celbes: L. manadoensis
The Australian Marine Conservation Society and the Humane Society
International are lobbying the Federal Government of Australia to have
the Great White Shark nominated for a CITES listing. (January 1997)
27 February 1997. An accident at Sydney
Aquarium, Australia, resulted in a shark tank bursting and a number of
visitors were injured by flying glass and not by the Reef Sharks that were
flapping all over the floor. Information from Alec Hendry (Daily Express).
British Marine Life News 1998
The term "la corriente de El Niño" was originally given to a warm current that replaced the cold Humbolt Current flowing up the Pacific coast of South America around Christmas. El Niño means "The Little Boy or Christ Child" in Spanish. The presence of this warm current had an adverse effect on marine wildlife especially the deprecation of the massive Anchovy shoals and the sea birds (in a bad year, as many as 20 million sea birds may perish) that prey on them. Research that began in the late 1950's discovered that at the same time extensive warming of the sea occurred over the whole of the tropical Pacific and this had implications for the whole of the climate in the southern hemisphere. The El Niño phenomenon is now given to the ocean circulation changes that occur in the Pacific Ocean.
An El Niño year is one when the warming effect was particularly
pronounced as in 1997-98, when in January 1998 the warm water extended
far into the eastern Pacific. When there are unusually cold sea temperatures
in the eastern Pacific early in the year, it is described as a La Niña
year.
Further information can be found on the El
Niño Web Site, http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/home.html.
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