A live shark washed ashore on Gilgo Beach in Suffolk County Tuesday morning. The 24-ft basking shark was spotted flailing about by some surfers at about 9 a.m.
The surfers dialed 911, and wildlife officials rushed to the aid of shark but they were unable to save the animal. Unfortunately, the shark later died.
New York State Parks official George Gorman said Tuesday that researchers will examine the shark to determine a cause of death. After that, it will be buried in nearby sand dunes on the beach.
Fifteen bonnethead sharks at the Indianapolis Zoo died early Tuesday after an overdose of chemicals was added to their tank.
The sharks were found dead Tuesday. Vets at the zoo said that the sharks died as a result of too much ozone (an oxygen molecule in an electrically charged state that oxidizes, or dissolves, organic waste products in a pond or fish tank.) A system in the sharks’ tank was taken offline for maintenance Monday night and was unable to provide an accurate signal to the ozone generator, which continued to add ozone to the water overnight.
Two emperor snappers also housed in the tank survived the incident.
A shark was spotted swimming close to Perth’s southern coast as a memorial service for shark victim, Brian Guest was underway.
Fishermen spotted what they believed was a large shark just after 10am while more than 250 people gathered to say their goodbyes to Guest, who was killed by a shark at the beach ten days ago.
Guest’s body was never found, despite a week long search.
According to TMZ, one of the sharks at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas somehow jumped from its aquarium onto the water slide and into the public pool!
Yesterday morning at around 9:30 AM, prior to the resort’s waterscape opening to guests, a 12+ year old female reef shark jumped over an 18 inch wide, 1 foot high structure into the resort’s water slide.
While it was a good thing there was nobody in the pool at the time, sadly, the chlorinated water sent the shark into distress. Despite efforts to recover the animal, it died shortly after the occurrence.
Nyac gained worldwide fame when a video of her holding hands with another otter hit YouTube. More than 11 million people have watched the video since it was posted last March.
The 20-year-old female otter was Vancouver Aquarium’s oldest resident, and a survivor of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Nyac was born in late 1988 and came to the Vancouver Aquarium in 1989, along with eight other otter survivors of the deadly oil spill.
Her health had been deteriorating over the past three years due to leukemia. She passed away yesterday morning.
North Carolina diving pioneer and legend, George Purifoy, 63, died Sunday doing what he loved most.
Mr. Purifoy had a heart attack Sunday evening while out on his boat based at his longtime business, the Olympus Dive Shop on the city’s waterfront.
He took his first dive in 1961. And nearly 7,000 dives later, he managed to pass his love for the ocean on to his son Robert and countless numbers of divers.
Frank Mundus, the legendary Montauk shark fisherman who was the inspiration for the character of Captain Quint from the movie JAWS, died in Honolulu on Wednesday, Sept. 6. He was 82.
His wife, Jeanette Mundus, 46, told reporters that her husband died in The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu from complications after a heart attack that occurred Sept. 6 just after he arrived at Kona Airport.
After collapsing in the terminal, he was rushed to the hospital, where he later had another heart attack, she said.
The two had retired in 1991 to Hawaii, where they tended a 20-acre farm that had a orange grove and was populated with animals including sheep, two dogs and a pet pig.
Mundus’ favorite hobbies included aggravating people, growing fruit trees and vegetables, and cooking.
Bertha, a sand tiger shark who had lived at the New York Aquarium since the 1960s and was believed to be one of the oldest sharks in any aquarium in the world, died on Saturday.
As a last resort, the aquarium had euthanized Bertha. “She had been in declining health over the past month or so and we had started a series of treatments for her,†he said in a phone interview. “She seemed to rally a couple of weeks ago and was doing really well, but at the end of this past week, she showed another decline. We ended up restarting treatments again. When we realized they didn’t have any effect, we knew that it was time.â€
She was put down around 4 p.m. on Saturday.
Bertha lived with five other sand tiger sharks, two nurse sharks and a white tip reef shark in a round, 90,000-gallon tank. She was about 8 ½ feet long and weighed just under 250 pounds. She had no offspring. She was believed to be at least 43 years old.
Renowned Australian feminist and environmental activist Val Plumwood, who survived a horrific crocodile attack more than 20 years ago, was been killed by an apparent snake bite. Plumwood was 68 years old.
Plumwood, originally known as Val Routley, took her adopted surname from a variety of tree near her wilderness home.
Plumwood was attacked by a crocodile in a river in Australia’s northern Outback in 1985 and escaped with terrible wounds to her legs and groin after the croc dragged her underwater three times.
Her body was found Saturday in the octagonal stone house where she lived alone near Braidwood in New South Wales. It appears a snake bite killed her, but a coroner has yet to make an official statement.
One of the last surviving actors to play the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Ben Chapman, died at age 79 on Thursday, February 21 in Honolulu. His health began to deteriorate February 12. He collapsed and was admitted to the hospital on February 20. His life support was turned off Wednesday around noon and his pacemaker was turned off shortly before he died. He died peacefully with his wife, Merrilee, and son, Ben Chapman III, by his side. He was 79 years old at his death.
