To educate, entertain, and enthuse those who venture beyond the shore
Lewis Pugh, the United Nations Patron of the Oceans, highlights 18 shark protectors around the world as the number of sharks continues to decline, 50 years after the release of the movie Jaws
When A Generation of Ocean Swimmers and Sharks Were Lost Read More »
Paul Leonard was about 7 hours into his Molokai Channel crossing when a cookiecutter shark came up from the deep and took a bite of his foot.
Paul Leonard Is Hit By Cookiecutter Shark In The Molokai Channel Read More »
Cookiecutter Shark-Related Injuries: A New Threat to Swimming Across the Ka‘iwi Channel was written by Dr. Victoria A. Scala, Karen Ng, Dr. Jason Kaneshige, Dr. Sho Furuta, and Dr. Michael S. Hayashi and published in the Hawai’i Journal of Health & Social Welfare in November 2021.
Cookiecutter Shark-Related Injuries in Hawai’i Read More »
The discussion and fear of shark encounters and shark attacks of channel swimmers is ever present. Dr. Steven Minaglia and Melodee Liegl wrote a paper on the increased probability of shark encounters during moonless night sky channel crossings.
Do you feel alone when you swim alone? What are the thoughts that run through your head while swimming?
Are You Lonely When You Swim Alone? Read More »
NYAD the movie webinars will be hosted by Steven Munatones at 6 pm PST daily to discuss the challenges and backstory of Diana Nyad’s 110-mile solo swim from Cuba to Florida
NYAD The Movie – Ask About Diana Nyad’s Cuba Swim Read More »
The discussion and fear of shark encounters and shark attacks of channel swimmers is ever present. Dr. Steven Minaglia and Melodee Liegl wrote a paper on the increased probability of shark encounters during moonless night sky channel crossings.
Increased Shark Encounters, Shark Attacks During Moonless Night Sky Channel Crossings Read More »
The Broadway debut of The Shark Is Broken, opens at the John Golden Theatre in New York City for a 16-week run from August 10th.
The Shark Is Broken Opens On Broadway Read More »
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While ocean swimmers in Australia and South Africa – and increasingly Southern California – have lived with the possibility of swimming with sharks in the same general vicinity for generations, it is a new phenomenon in the Tokyo area of Japan. Increasingly, beaches just north and south of Tokyo
Shark Sightings Impact Swimming Now – And In The Future? Read More »
When there are man-shark encounters in the ocean, it is quite clear which is the losing side. Marine Policy reported that researchers have created the first global estimate of the short-minded slaughter of sharks. Based on data from fisheries organizations and scientific literature, somewhere between 97 and 273 million sharks were killed or finned leading
Jaws Was Hollywood; Global Carnage Is A True Story Read More »