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Amazing Gator While Scuba Diving… Pretty Scary
By Scuba Herald at May 4, 2010 | 5:56 am | 0 Comment
If you think that meeting a great white is bad while scuba diving, then you think twice... specially if you go SCUBA DIVING in Florida... because ... well, you never know what kind of Gator you will find. Hello new marine life! hello PADI Gator Specialty. This is from TheLivingSea.com. (check it out cool site) As I cruised along the sand, from the hazy distance I more...
Cayman Islands Tourists disturbing the Sting Rays
By Scuba Herald at April 14, 2009 | 5:25 am | 0 Comment
The same story as always... too many tourists playing with wild life. so here we go again: Based on the research of a University of Rhode Island professor, tourist activity in the waters off the Grand Cayman Islands is responsible for the disruption of behaviors and an increase in the size of the female population in stingrays. Biology professor Bradley Wetherbee has more...
Dubai Aquarium Tiger Sharks Turn a Killer
By Scuba Herald at September 19, 2008 | 6:21 pm | 0 Comment
So again, we see that you really can't "domesticate" nature, as we see in the Dubai Aquarium last week, where sand Tiger sharks have killed at least 40 smaller reef sharks and been aggressive towards divers at The Dubai Mall Aquarium, Khaleej Times has learn. Divers carrying out tasks in the tank, without a cage, have had their equipment substantially damaged and more...
Flippers from Around the World: We are not happy!
By Scuba Herald at September 7, 2008 | 7:24 pm | 0 Comment
Bottlenose dolphins suffering from food shortages may be killing their sibling species to take out the competition, scientists have warned. A series of dead porpoises and young bottlenose dolphins washed up the country's coastline have borne the animal's teeth marks. But the appearance of the body of a rare baby Risso's dolphin on a beach in the Scilly Isles has more...
Whales are dying… dying sad.
By Scuba Herald at June 1, 2008 | 10:03 pm | 1 Comments
The whale population has already fallen dramatically over the past few centuries because to culling by Japan, Norway and Iceland, and the poisoning of oceans which kills off their food. But now a French scientist has said the majestic mammals - which can reach 80ft in length and weigh the same as a passenger jet - could also suffer from heartbreak. Paris naturalist more...
God we are sick of Japanese stupidity!
By Scuba Herald at December 20, 2007 | 11:37 pm | 0 Comment
It's a scene that brings laughter and cheers from visitors to a Japanese aquarium - two white beluga whales wearing Santa hats. But environmentalists are saddened by the sight of what they say is the final humiliation for the whale in a country that hunts them down with harpoons. The beluga whales have been fitted out with the cute Santa hats to entertain the crowds at more...
Iran alarmed by mass dolphin deaths
By Scuba Herald at October 30, 2007 | 11:18 pm | 0 Comment
The mysterious "mass suicide" of 152 dolphins washed up on Iran's coast over the past month has alarmed environmentalists, with the blame pointed at regional fishing practices, officials said on Monday. In September, 79 striped dolphins were found washed up near Jask port in southern Iran, and last week another 73 were found dead in the same area. Pictures of rows of more...
