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Australia ready to deploy automated shark-detecting drones

Beginning in September, automated drones will patrol the shores of Australia’s sharkiest beaches in an attempt to give surfers and swimmers advanced notice of potentially dangerous sharks entering the area. The project is a joint venture between the University of Technology Sydney’s School of Software and Little Ripper Group, a commercial UAV company, that began in 2016. […]

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Fox News Anchor Falls for Harvey Shark Hoax

Fox News anchor Jesse Watters propagated some “fake news” on Tuesday. Reporting that sharks had taken over the flooded streets of Texas. “There’s some really weird biblical things that are going on down there in Houston,” Watters told viewers. The viral photo was posted to Twitter in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. The Photoshopped image […]

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VIDEO: Rare megamouth shark sighted in Indonesia

British tourist Penny Bielich and her diving group encountered an extremely rare megamouth shark on the Gili Lawa Laut off Komodo Island, Indonesia. The 26-second clip show the approximately 15-foot shark as it passes overhead. Although the sharks are not considered a threatened species, encounters with megamouths, a species that typically lives at depths of […]

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Keel-hauled shark video prompts investigation

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission announced that it has identified the men in a video of a captured shark being dragged behind a boat off the coast of Florida. The video, which has been shared thousands of times, shows three men laughing while what appears to be a juvenile blacktip shark is violently dragged […]

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How the legend of Old Hitler landed on Discovery’s Shark Week

This story was originally published on Sharkophile.com on July 23, 2017. “Is that Old Hitler?” the young boy asked me as I was waiting for my luggage at the airport in Fort Myers. The boy’s mom looked horrified that her son was making Hitler references to strangers in the middle of a busy airport terminal. I […]

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The Sharkiest Place on the Web

Greetings fellow Shark Lovers. It’s the start of Shark Week, which in my house is even more sacred than Lent. It also makes the perfect opportunity to announce the official launch of this site, Sharkophile.com. As one of the country’s most renowned “shark journalists,” I’ve spent the past few months building up this site as […]