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Isla Guadalupe Auction-Current Bid $1000
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | 12 hours ago by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
It's no surprise that we have been huge supporters of IEMANYA OCEANICA and the local efforts they have made within Mexico to educate the public about sharks and rays. This org puts boots on the ground and as such we donated an expedition to Isla Guad read more
Isla Guadalupe Expedition Update 8.18.2008
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | August 19th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
Opening Day at the most spectacular white shark dive site on the planet.For 16 lucky Shark Divers, one very excited dive crew, and Greg Grivetto owner operator of the MV Horizon this day could not have been any better:Another amazing season here at t read more
Isla Guadalupe Research-Mauricio Hoyos
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | August 19th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
We just got off the phone with white shark researcher Maurico Hoyos who's looking forward to his final tagging and tracking season at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico.This project has been an exciting adventure for us and for Maurico-simply put this was the fi read more
Shark Eco-Tourism a Careful Balance
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | August 11th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
The following article and image was posted in 2006. Realizing that changes within the shark diving industry start with the operators-sometimes you make decisions based on what is good for the resource first and your clients second.We're happy to say read more
Isla Guadalupe Trip Update 8.2008
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | August 11th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
Club Cantamar and the MV Sea Escape opened the 2008 white shark diving season this year.We just got off the phone with them and here's the update:The sharks are once again back at Isla Guadalupe. Day one was slow, with two sizable Mako's making an ap read more
Isla Guadalupe, Mexico-Meet the Locals
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | August 10th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
For those of you who will be joining us this year at Isla Guadalupe we thought we would introduce you to some of the "locals" that you'll be meeting this season.This 13 foot fellow is called "Chompers". For reasons that are obvious, he's also one of read more
The U.S Marines Are Coming to Isla Guadalupe
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | July 31st 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
We got a call a few months ago from Diane. She was looking for an adventure for her "Marines".Turns out Diane is the hub for a group of hard core city rumblers stationed in Iraq and they wanted to go meet some great white sharks when they came back.D read more
Island of the Great White Shark
OceanicDreams | July 23rd 2008 by Felix Leander
Filmmaker Richard Theiss recently released a new film titled "Island of the Great White Shark". In it he captures these beautiful animals in their habitat and chronicles the efforts of dedicated scientists, researchers, and eco-tour operators. Have read more
Island of the Great White Shark makes it to Harvard
RTSea Blog | July 11th 2008 by Richard Theiss
There will be a screening of Island of the Great White Shark on July 17th at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (my parents would have been so proud). All kidding aside, I am very honored that the museum chose to have this event - this was not a read more
Shark Introduction "Cuddles" Isla Guadalupe
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | July 8th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
For those of you who will be joining us this year at Isla Guadalupe we thought we would introduce you to some of the "locals" that you'll be meeting this season.This gal is called "Cuddles". For reasons that are obvious, she's also one of the "nicest read more
Back Deck-Quality Moments
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | July 5th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
While we're running through images this one caught our eye.From 2007 this is Dive Operations Manager Luke Tipple (back) and CEO Patric Douglas of Shark Diver on the back deck of the MV Islander.A little about the MV Islander. As a vessel, she's amazi read more
Sharks of Isla Guadalupe-"Scarboard"
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | July 2nd 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
In our continuing series-The Sharks of Isla Guadalupe we would be missing something if we failed to introduce you to this big gal we call "Scarboard". She's a simply magnificent animal and one of the reasons Isla Guadalupe is so special to us.What ma read more
Mexican government questions eco-tourism at Isla Guadalupe . . .…
RTSea Blog | June 29th 2008 by Richard Theiss
On 05/20/08, RTSea wrote: The government agency in Mexico that regulates the issuing of permits to eco-tourism operators is debating the entire issue of allowing any boats at Isla Guadalupe for this fall. Their concerns are based on allegations of qu read more
RTSea concludes white shark filming at Isla Guadalupe for documen…
RTSea Blog | June 29th 2008 by Richard Theiss
On 09/08/07 RTSea wrote: Just returned from filming great white sharks at Isla Guadalupe. This is the early stage of their annual migration back to the island. Typically at the start of the season there are more male sharks and this trip proved that read more
What great white sharks & monarch butterflies have in common
RTSea Blog | June 29th 2008 by Richard Theiss
On 05/20/07, RTSea wrote: This past week, I was watching a segment of the Today show, a U.S. morning news program, that examined the famous annual migration of the Monarch butterfly from the eastern U.S. to one particular spot in Mexico: millions of read more
Shark Diving Media Milestone-1.5 Million!
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | June 17th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
If you had told us here at Shark Diver that a short video of a Great White tearing apart a 700lb Elephant seal would cause 1.5 million people to watch-we might have said, "Waddaya, New?"Today we hit another shark video milestone at the 1.5 million ma read more
Brandon Cole-Cover of Smithsonian Magazine
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | May 30th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
Today I was at the bookstore looking for a copy of the new Scott McClellan book (they were sold out in ten minutes) finding none, I wandered over to the sport magazine rack.There, in an endless field of mags, a white shark image jumped out at me fro read more
Nautilus Explorer White Shark "Drop Down Cages"
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | May 23rd 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
Good news from the crew over at the Nautilus Explorer going to Isla Guadalupe this year. Drop down cage systems for better shark images:We are excited to offer a very unique experience to our certified scuba dive clients with a shark cage that can su read more
Crossing Over-Sharks and Art
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | May 19th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
When you spend as much time at Isla Guadalupe as we do you get to meet some interesting sharks...and people.Case in point this stunning 4 foot replica of "Mystery" sculpted by one of our divers over the course of the last two years.Capturing the uniq read more
Mexico and the Sharks of Ecotourism Frontera NorteSur
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | May 15th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
Due to the actions of one operation at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico-many within the government of Mexico are now asking if shark diving activities at this site are in anyones best interests.The following article from Mexico's "La Jornada" details a full ca read more
Isla Guadalupe-Mexico's Committee on Environment and Natural Reso…
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | May 13th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
This is an open letter to Mexico's Committee on Environment and Natural Resources who's members are listed below:Legislative Palace of San Lazaro of the Chamber of Deputies.As of March 11, 2008The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Deputi read more
Mexico: Chumming Ban Update
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | May 12th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
Recent word from Mexico this morning.According to our "sources" within the shark research and advocacy community in Mexico the chumming ban announced by the Secretary of the Navy yesterday may not be as it was first reported:1. The "ban" has not been read more
Mexico: Chumming banned at Isla Guadalupe
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | May 12th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
In a stunning action today, Mexico's Secretary of the Navy banned "chumming" activities at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico.White shark cage diving operations are at a crossroads. We'll keep you updated as this unfolds, but is has long lasting repercussions fo read more
Savor The Moment-Live The Image
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | April 11th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
If you get a chance today click on this image to see it in full size. This is Isla Guadalupe. The shark is called "Shredder". He's a 14 foot bruiser who we came to know several years ago quite by chance when he decided to sever our brand new anchor l read more
Guadalupe Conservation Fund-New Home
Underwater Thrills: Swimming With Sharks | April 11th 2008 by Shark Diver-Worldwide Shark Diving Adventures
Back in 2006 Shark Diver created the Isla Guadalupe Conservation Fund website.The goal was to direct funds from concerned divers and members of the general public into ongoing shark tagging and research studies being conducted by the team from CICIMA read more
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