Archive for the 'Celebs' Category
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Hayden Panettiere has confessed that she recently had a run-in with a shark.
The ‘Heroes’ star, who spends a lot of her time protesting against whaling, told Jimmy Kimmel that she tends to attract sharks. Panettiere went on to recall one encounter in particular, saying: “This safety diver got in to take pictures of my brother and my mum and they had their fins on and when the shark comes too close, you put your fins in their face, and I didn’t have my fins on and all of a sudden – they start going, ‘Shark, right behind you!’
“I was going, ‘What could it be? Tiger shark, Mako, bull, Great White?’ I swam for my life… they were yelling at us because the worst thing to do is to swim away from the shark and make all the splashing.
“I was like, ‘Guys, you yelled shark… How else do people react?’ I practically walked on water back to the boat.”
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Bernard Sumner had a scare on a recent sailing trip with his family in Scotland. The former New Order singer was taking a yacht out to the island of Barra when his boat suddenly had a collision with 30 foot shark.
“The boat nearly sank and there was a big imprint of a huge shark in the paint on its bottom. There was this God-almighty crash, like I’d hit rocks. I checked the charts and there were no rocks, so I called the coastguard and he said other boats that had been up there that morning had reported six large sharks in that part of the sea. My family were in bed, so I was pulling the floorboards up every 10 minutes to see if we’d taken on water,” said Sumner.
Coincidentally, Sumner’s got a new album coming out next week.
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Jessica Alba ran around plastering shark posters all over Oklahoma City last week hoping to spread awareness about dwindling shark populations. Turns out she might have pissed a few people off in the process when she covered up a United Way billboard!
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Baywatch star David Hasselhoff visited Durban’s South Coast this week where he spent some time shooting a film to promote a healthier image of sharks and raise awareness of “shark-finning”. Hasselhoff, who is an experienced diver, is also working with The Underwater Channel, a new Web TV channel for divers and anyone else interested in the ocean. Go Hoff!
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Hayden Panettiere took a little dip with some of her toothy friends on Wednesday at Sydney’s Ocean World Aquarium. Panettiere, who’s been trying to save sea creatures for a while now, was hoping to drum up some attention to help stop the unnecessary killing of sharks.
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
According to OK! Magazine, Brad Pitt says he’s not so afraid of getting old, but more afraid of how he’ll go. He says fire and tight spaces aren’t on the top of his list, but something involving a shark would be interesting.
Pitt’s actually had a thing for sharks for a while now.
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Madmen star, January Jones is getting ready to go swimming with sharks. The actress, who works with the charity Oceana, which protects and restore the world’s oceans, is heading to the Bahamas, where she will participate in a Feb. 1 shark dive in Bimini to help save the sharks.
“I’m going to swim with sharks and do cage diving with Great Whites,” says Jones, 31. “We have a huge problem that can ruin the whole ecosystem. We need to save the sharks.”
Good luck with that, Jan.
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
UFO obsessed Robbie Williams is on a quest to find some aquatic aliens.
The 34-year-old flying saucer hunter is apparently gearing up to go looking for some USOs (Unidentified Submerged Objects). Williams will be grabbing some jet skis and going on a 35-mile trip with his buddies, hoping to spot some sea-dwelling extra-terrestrials. The trip will take him from an LA marina to the island of Santa Catalina off the California coast.
Williams came up with the idea after hearing some UFO nuts had reported sightings of USOs near Malibu.
Good Luck Robbie!
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
According to Details magazine, Shannen Doherty is afriad to go back into the ocean after a run-in with a few sharks.
The former 90210 star went cage diving off the coast of Hawaii two years ago and freaked when the sharks showed up.
“I couldn’t breathe, I started having an anxiety attack, I couldn’t stay out of their reach,” Doherty says, shuddering. Her Irish brow crinkles into slight worry lines that make her look her age, which is 37. “They were slamming into the cage—they looked so frickin’ mean! My leg slipped a little through the bars, and a shark swam up against me and rubbed off a layer of my skin.”
She still owns nine or ten surfboards but hasn’t been in the ocean since the shark encounter. “I tell myself the least I can do is give the ocean back to the sharks,” Doherty says. And then she giggles. “No, that’s just a bullshit rationalization—I’m just terrified now.”
I’m totally with ya, Brenda.
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Ron and Valerie Taylor just celebrated more than 40 years of swimming with sharks.
The pair, aged 74 and 71, met as members of a spearfishing club in Sydney but decided to stop hunting fish in the 1960s and turned to conservation instead.
They began by making a series of ground-breaking films showing underwater life, and were the first people to film great white sharks without using a cage. Some of their most famous footage was used by Steven Spielberg in the movie JAWS.
But after Valerie had a close call with a shark, Ron decided to design a chain mail diving suit. When the suit ended up being too small for him, his wife volunteered to test it.
The pair have won dozens of awards and Valerie was made an honorary member of the Order of the Golden Ark in recognition of her conservation work.
Here’s to many more sharks!
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