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Continue reading →: Bull Shark Caught In Guadalupe River
A bull shark has reportedly been caught in the Guadalupe River. According to a report from MySA.com TikTok user Jonathanguayo5 encountered a shark in the Guadalupe River on Saturday, May 4. The video shows Jonathan’s fishing companion reel in the small bull shark traveling through the Texas waters. The video shows two men…
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Continue reading →: Old Records of Great White Sharks In Texas and Florida
What is the oldest known record of great white sharks in Texas Gulf of Mexico waters? In the 1963 book Shadows In the Sea; Sharks, Skates & Rays, the presence of great whites in Texas waters is mentioned as far back as the 1950s. “A great white shark seven feet long…
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Continue reading →: AWSC Deploys Second-Ever Camera Tag On A Great White Shark
The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy (AWSC) has successfully deployed the second-ever camera tag on a great white shark off the southeast US. Working with charter captain Chip Michalove of Outcast Sportfishing, AWSC scientist Megan Winton was able to clamp the device to the dorsal fin of a 9-foot female white…
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Continue reading →: A Mako The Size Of Upper-End Great Whites?
While working on a story on great white shark lookalikes, I came across an interesting note. While researching makos, I kept seeing, “up to 19 feet” as length which just boggled my mind. After all, that’s super-sized great white shark length. Well, it looks like it could be true. This…
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Continue reading →: Two Ocearch-Tagged Great Whites Still Hanging Off Louisiana Coast
Last month, we reported on three great white sharks satellite-tagged by Ocearch that showed up in the Gulf of Mexico pretty much due south of New Orleans. You can read that post here. Two of those sharks, Rose and Keiji have pinged again in the same general area. A “ping”…
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Continue reading →: Divers Swim With Great White Sharks In Florida
In what might be the first experience of its kind, at least in modern history three divers entered the water with great white sharks off the Florida Coast. According to a report from ABC Action News March 24, 2024, Daniel DeLaTorre, Eric Tobin, and Elizabeth Jeffrey of SCUBA Quest dive…
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Continue reading →: Great White Or Not? A Wild Giant Shark Story From Port Aransas
During the early years of my career, “Wild” Bill Skinner, a Mexican trophy bass and South American peacock bass fishing outfitter came fishing for bull redfish with me at Sabine Pass, TX Anyone who has spends time with me in the Gulf will eventually hear about sharks. Bill lit up…
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Continue reading →: Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Updates White Shark Catalog Ahead of 2024 Research Season
Expanding the geographic scope of its white shark identification work up the Atlantic coast, thanks to collaborations with Canadian researchers, the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy (AWSC) has updated its publicly available White Shark Catalog to include 2023 data gathered from Nova Scotia to Florida. The AWSC’s catalog is the most…
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Continue reading →: Did You See A Great White Or Was It One Of Its Lookalikes?
An increasing presence of great white sharks in the Gulf of Mexico has been verified by satellite and acoustic tagging technology. And this has spawned a huge level of public interest in the species across the Gulf region. More angers, divers and boaters are on the lookout for the species…
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Continue reading →: “LeeBeth” The Great White Shark Pings Off Florida Coast
“LeeBeth”, the frequently surfacing, always traveling great white shark that inspired a media frenzy, when she showed up in Texas waters has “pinged” again. This means her dorsal fin breached the Gulf’s surface and the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy satellite tag fitted on her by Capt. Chip Michalove Dec. 08,…