White Shark Blog

KQED-TV's QUEST Features TOPP

JaneStevens — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:11:02 -0700

Jane Stevens, in Berkeley, CA - Check out "Tagging of Pacific Predators" on KQED-TV's QUEST!

While We're on a White Shark Streak...

JaneStevens — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:52:02 -0700

Jane Stevens at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA - In case you missed seeing this video of the baby white shark who was released from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, it's worth taking a look. He ate salmon steaks -- "restaurant quality" -- which were suspended from a pole by a thread. That diet helped him grow 13 inches in the six months he lived at the aquarium. Here's the link to the video.

Just Call THIS White Shark "Streak"

JaneStevens — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:18:00 -0700

Jane Stevens at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA - Faster than a speeding squid, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's young white shark blasted south when he was released on Feb. 5. In just 44 days, he "made it safely past fishing grounds on the Pacific coast of California and the Baja Peninsula, rounded Cabo San Lucas and is heading toward the Mexican mainland," according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Aquarium's White Shark #3 Released

JaneStevens — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:32:54 -0800

Jane Stevens, at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA - In case you missed it, the white shark at the Monterey Bay Aquarium now lives in the Pacific Ocean again. He swam back into the Pacific yesterday at dawn, and the moment was caught by the aquarium's Tyson Rininger. The shark ended up in the aquarium after entangling in a fisherman's net on August 4, 2007. The fisherman alerted aquarium staff, who put him in a large ocean pen of Malibu, where he showed that he was healthy, and then put him on display at the aquarium on August 28.

The Other Face of White Sharks

JaneStevens — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:39:37 -0800

Jane Stevens in Berkeley, CA. Sometimes reporters do stupid things. Take Rodney Hartman, for example. He's a reporter with The Star, one of 14 newspapers owned by Independent News & Media in South Africa. He wrote a story about a series of shark attacks that occured 50 years ago. Here's a PDF that Submerge Magazine put on its site.

TOPP.org Lauded as "Best of Web"

JaneStevens — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:33:22 -0800

Jane Stevens at TOPP.org. Allow me to brag a bit....our web site was among the top winners in TheScientist.com Laboratory Web Site and Video Awards. Out of 60 entries, six sites took honors. TOPP.org received the “Best of the Web” for three of the seven Judge’s Choice awards, with four lab sites receiving one each of the remaining judges’ votes.

White Shark Webcast

JaneStevens — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:27:11 -0800

Join the first White Shark Webcast at noon, Pacific time, this Friday, Nov. 16. White shark researcher Sal Jorgensen, Monterey Bay Aquarium exhibit curator John O'Sullivan and aquarium storyteller Ken Peterson will answer all your shark questions.

You'll also learn about the dangers that white sharks face in the ocean, and what the aquarium is doing to help.

They'll start with a live audio slide show that features the young white shark who's living in the aquarium's Outer Bay Exhibit, and then open the Webcast to your questions.

Young White Shark's in Mexico

JaneStevens — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:00:15 -0800

Remember that baby white shark that was outfitted with two satellite tags and released on July 17? For a long time, it mosied around Santa Monica, Long Beach and made its way to San Diego, then made a bee-line, uh, shark-line, for Mexico. On Monday, it was halfway down Baja California. Sal Jorgensen and Mike Castleton at Hopkins Marine Station put this track together.

Find a White Shark Tag, Get $500

DonKohrs — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:04:20 -0700

Don Kohrs at Hopkins Marine Station. While Charles Gardner was taking a walk with his wife, he stumbled across one of the pop-up satellite tags -- #06A0555 -- that Sal Jorgensen attached to a white shark last year near the Farallon Islands. Here's how Charles tells the story:

It's Just What White Sharks Do

SalJorgensen — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:19:23 -0700

Sal Jorgensen, Gulf of the Farallones. After three weeks of challenging weather, on Sunday we finally had one of those rare days in the Farallones with sunshine, clear water, and no wind. Luck was really with us -- in addition to the conditions being just right, we were fortunate to witness white sharks feeding. In the Fall, thousands of elephant seals and sea lions haul out on the rocky shore of the Farallon Islands and white sharks gather here to patrol the surrounding waters for their next meal.