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Japan's Shark Fin Capital, Kesen-numa City |
| 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? | |
| Date: 2010-08-08 23:24:42 - Ajouté par: Le grand requin blanc | |
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Sand Tiger Shark |
| 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. | |
| Date: 2010-04-13 21:50:21 - Ajouté par: Le grand requin blanc | |
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Dixie Arrow in 2008 |
| 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. | |
| Date: 2010-04-13 21:48:45 - Ajouté par: Le grand requin blanc | |
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Best Sharks of 2008 |
| 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. | |
| Date: 2010-04-13 21:47:06 - Ajouté par: Le grand requin blanc | |
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Man & Shark |
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| Date: 2010-04-13 21:37:49 - Ajouté par: Le grand requin blanc | |
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World Largest Sharks |
| some of the pictures include world records. | |
| Date: 2009-12-03 13:09:09 - Ajouté par: Le grand requin blanc | |
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extreme shark bite |
| 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 | |
| Date: 2009-12-03 13:08:04 - Ajouté par: Le grand requin blanc | |
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Hawaii Shark Attack #3 |
| The Ohio man who got bitten by a shark talks to media for the first time since his injury. For more, go to khnl.com. | |
| Date: 2009-12-03 13:06:45 - Ajouté par: Le grand requin blanc | |
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Shark Attack ABC News 2 |
| Shark Attack ABC News 2 | |
| Date: 2009-12-03 13:06:25 - Ajouté par: Le grand requin blanc | |
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Shark Attack CBS News |
| Shark Attack CBS News | |
| Date: 2009-12-03 13:06:08 - Ajouté par: Le grand requin blanc | |
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