Showing posts with label shark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shark. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Monday, October 13, 2008
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Shark Solution From Down Under
San Clemente (UPI) - San Onofre State Park officials confirmed today that the first shipment of salt water crocodiles will be arriving from Australia in time for the July 4th holiday weekend at San Onofre. The Parks Department is importing salt water crocodiles as an environmentally friendly approach to controlling the Great White shark problem at San Onofre.
“We looked into chemical approaches to the problem – chemicals to drive the sharks away, but surveys show that our visitors are concerned about the amount of chemicals that they are exposed to” says Park Superintendent Chalmers. “Our staff was familiar with the goats used to control weeds in Laguna Beach. Using the salt water crocodile was an obvious solution to our shark problem. The Great White shark has few predators, but luckily these large crocodiles are higher on the food chain.”
The Superintendent says that he expects that complaints about sharks will drop off once the crocodiles get to work.
Friday, May 30, 2008
A Trip to the Beach on a Sunny Day
The teacher asked the children to draw a picture for the theme "A Trip to the Beach on a Sunny Day." The drawings would then be placed on the walls in the classroom for Open House, an evening when all the children bring their families to school to see their work displayed.
The teacher had a problem with this drawing by my niece, and did not put it up with the drawings by the other children.
For the school's Open House in two weeks, the whole family is going in T shirts with the drawing printed on them. Subtle, eh?
Friday, April 25, 2008
FATAL SHARK ATTACK
In nearby Solana Beach, there has been a fatal shark attack, killing veterinarian and long time resident Dr. Dave Martin. Shark experts are saying that the shark was almost assuredly a great white.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Sharks: You Decide
The Register had another story on shark attacks at Orange County Beaches yesterday. They give the opinions of three people: A shark expert, a surfer, and a lifeguard at Huntington Beach.
You have your choice of whom to believe:
1. A scientist who has studied sharks for the last 45 years. He formerly worked for the Smithsonian Institute and the Office of Naval Research. He currently is a great white shark expert on the Shark Research Committee. He says that the teeth marks on the surfboard are those of a 16 to 17 foot great white shark. He says that the great white sharks, and other sharks, are in the waters off Orange County beaches. Further, he says "We have to realize our place in nature. We're subject to the animals that live there. For anyone to assume that couldn't happen, they're foolish."
2. The surfer whose surfboard was bitten. He saw a big shark nearby before the attack, but did not see the shark when it bit the back of his surfboard (while he was on it).
3. A lifeguard who is out of a job if no one comes to the beach because of the sharks. Although he just hauled a Mako shark up onto the same beach, he denies that there are great white sharks in the area. He says the only great whites sharks that he ever heard of nearby were three that hung out at San Onofre. The lifeguard seems unaware that the famous great white shark that was kept at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium a few years ago was caught off Huntington Beach and that another great white was caught right off the Huntington Beach pier just two years ago. The Register's article mentions both of these facts.
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