KESEN-NUMA CITY, JAPAN - It\'s 5am on the the north eastern tip of Japan\'s main island of Honshu, and 75 tons of dead shark is being meticulously arranged into a neat grid of tidy piles, of twenty sharks per pile. If you thought shark finning was exclusively a Chinese problem, think again. Welcome to Kesen-numa City, Japan\'s shark fin capital. Here, six days a week, small teams of Japanese workers go about the hushed business of industrial shark-finning. By 6.30am, with piles arranged, the sharks are disemboweled first. Hearts are ripped efficiently from bodies by men wearing brightly coloured rubber boots and aprons. At 7am, shark corpses are cleaned of their blood by workers wielding water hoses. And by 8am, small teams are silently moving up and down aisles and rows like robots in a Japanese car factory, quickly slicing off every dorsal, pectoral and tail fin from the lifeless, grey lumps. Big hungry black crows squawk in the shadows, looking for bloody morsels. And shark fins plop with regularity into small yellow plastic baskets. The baskets fill up fast, are then weighed, and finally carried to a nearby truck, where a man with a notepad strikes a deal. At 9.30am, it\'s all over for another day. Fork lift trucks scoop up tons of limbless carcasses, then dump them into a high-sided truck. The process is a brutal sight to behold, and not for the faint-hearted. The fishing port of Kesen-numa City is located in Miyagi Prefecture in North East Japan, and is the country\'s only port dedicated to catching sharks. Over two days in early July this year, I saw 119 tons of blue shark (Prionace glaucaof), ten tons of salmon shark (Lamna ditropis), and three tons of short fin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) landed on the dock at Kesen-numa. Not to mention several tons of endangered bluefin tuna, (Thunnus thynnus), but that\'s a whole other story. Taking government transparency to another level, landed shark tonnage numbers are provided daily by the port of Kesen-numa\'s Japanese only website, which is publicly, (and apparently unashamedly), available. Could a new battle between marine conservationists battling to save the sharks and the Japanese fishing lobby be on the horizon? First there was the annual showdown in the Southern Ocean between the Japanese whaling fleet and the environmental groups Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd to save the whale. Then there was the runaway success of the Oscar-winning documentary \'The Cove\' which exposed the brutal Japanese trade in captive dolphins. One would think the tide is slowly turning. Isn\'t it time Kesen-numa City, Japan\'s dirty little shark secret, was shut down too? [Plus d'informations] [Moins d'informations]
No matter how often I dive Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the sand tiger sharks continue to AMAZE me. We encountered this sweet girl while diving the tug wreck, an artificial reef, just 4 miles outside the inlet in about 70 ft of water. The dive boat was the \"Under Pressure,\" captained by the ever intrepid JT Barker, a scalawag and rouge (on his GOOD days) who will always keep you entertained and is NEVER boring (capt-jt.com). This is my third season diving his boat and it always gets better. This is the TEASER reel that Austin, my brave dive buddy in the closing clip, requested I post QUICKLY, lol. Notice that he NEVER flinches as that 8 FT shark turns right at him and gives him the EYE. [Plus d'informations] [Moins d'informations]
The Dixie Arrow is probably one of the best known wrecks dived from Hatteras Island. Roughly 30 miles south of the inlet, she sits in 90 FT of water on a hard sand bottom. Conditions are usually tropical, with 100+ FT visibility and 75+ degree water temperature in the summer and fall. Sunk in March, 1942 by the U-71, the Dixie Arrow was an 8,000 GT tanker more than 460 FT in length. The knife edge bow is somewhat intact, with large bulkheads near it. A broken debris field extends to the stern, approximately 200 FT away. Three large boilers, an auxiliary boiler and a huge steam engine sit at the stern. Schools of sand tiger sharks, some longer than 10 FT, make this wreck their home in the summer. It\'s not unusual to see 20 or more sharks on a single dive. This short video shows a shark in the debris field, followed by areas of the bow section. This is an easy wreck to dive, but be mindful of the long swim between the bow and stern sections. Know the location of where your boat is anchored and how long it will take you to get back to it. [Plus d'informations] [Moins d'informations]
Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, is a world renown wreck diving destination best known for large schools of sand tiger sharks (Carcharias taurus) during the summer months. The sharks in this video were filmed on the wrecks of the Proteus and Dixie Arrow in 90 to 130 FT of water using natural sunlight during June and August, 2008. The local dive operator was Captain JT on the \"Under Pressure.\" I was using a Sony VX2000 camera in a Gates Housing with a Fathom SWP35 port providing a 110 degree viewing angle. Most close work with the sharks was less than 12 inches. [Plus d'informations] [Moins d'informations]
This 450 pound black marlin was caught off Cairns, Australia. After about 22 minutes it panicks and goes down deep, where the sharks live. Big mistake. At least we got to keep the Bill! As for the size, its the Captain who makes the call, not me. Barry Cross (skip) estimated it to be around 450lbs, so thats what i go with even though i might agree with some that its closer to 350 than 450. For a reference, at the end of the video when i\'m holding the head, i\'m 6\'4\". It might also be helpful to know that the boat is 65ft long and has a beam (width) of 17.5ft. Comments have been disabled after the Internet Trolls with no clue as to what game fishing is all about started dropping one liners. Educate yourself before you opinionize kids. Go to www.mvjoejoe.com for more info on the awesome boat! There is a professional DVD out with this footage on it, go to www.bransfords.com.au to buy. [Plus d'informations] [Moins d'informations]
very graphic video of a man who has his calf bitten off by a bull shark. dont watch if you have a weak stomach. \"i didnt think it was bleeding that much.\" YEAH! RIIIGHT
Great white shark feeding at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Go behind-the-scenes with Aquarist Freya Smith to see how we fed the young male white shark that was on exhibit until February 2008 before he was successfully returned to the wild. You can track his progress at http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/whiteshark, and learn more about our White Shark Research Project. [Plus d'informations] [Moins d'informations]
La ciencia nos desvela algunos misterios de esta maravillosa obra de la Evolucion/The science tell us some of the mysteries of this marvel of the Evolution
The Dixie Arrow is probably one of the best known wrecks dived from Hatteras Island. Roughly 30 miles south of the inlet, she sits in 90 FT of water on a hard sand bottom. Conditions are usually tropical, with 100+ FT visibility and 75+ degree water temperature in the summer and fall. Sunk in March, 1942 by the U-71, the Dixie Arrow was an 8,000 GT tanker more than 460 FT in length. The knife edge bow is somewhat intact, with large bulkheads near it. A broken debris field extends to the stern, approximately 200 FT away. Three large boilers, an auxiliary boiler and a huge steam engine sit at the stern. Schools of sand tiger sharks, some longer than 10 FT, make this wreck their home in the summer. It\'s not unusual to see 20 or more sharks on a single dive. This short video shows a shark in the debris field, followed by areas of the bow section. This is an easy wreck to dive, but be mindful of the long swim between the bow and stern sections. Know the location of where your boat is anchored and how long it will take you to get back to it. [Plus d'informations] [Moins d'informations]
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