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March 3, 2024

Great White Shark Verified In South Padre Surf

A great white shark has been verified about 200 yards off the beach at South Padre Island, TX. “LeeBeth,” a 14.1 foot, 2,600-pound female, was fitted with a satellite tag by Capt. Chip Michalove of Outcast Sport […]
February 9, 2023

This Is How Ocearch Catches Great Whites (Video)

Ever wonder how Ocearch tags the great white sharks they fit with GPS trackers? This video explains.
March 20, 2021

Great White Verified Off TX Coast

Cue the “Jaws” theme. A great white shark has been confirmed by officials with Ocearch, the satellite-tagging-based research group, to be swimming off the Texas Coast. Acadia, a 10 foot, 9-inch, 1,600-pound female, quietly pinged near Nansen, […]
April 1, 2020

Great Whites Headed To Texas?

In 2005, Tide magazine published an article I wrote about great white sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. Entitled “Jaws in the Gulf”?” it won a first-place prize in the Texas Outdoor Writer’s Association Excellence In Craft competition […]
February 21, 2018

Great White Sharks Proven in Gulf of Mexico

I’m a little envious of Capt. Scott Fitzgerald. The guide at Madfish Charters was fishing for amberjack this spring about 8.5 miles off the coast of Panama City Florida when he felt a big bump in his […]
March 9, 2016

Great white shark takes bite out of tiny boat (video)

February 28, 2014

Marine catches great white shark from beach (video)

February 28, 2014

Tracking great white sharks with a drone via Iphone

Imagine floating on the empty blue Pacific Ocean, nothing but water in every direction, sunrise to sunset. Yet under the surface swim thousands of great white sharks. That’s not a bad dream — it’s actually what […]
February 26, 2014

Woman free dives with great whites

Ocean Ramsey doesn’t ride on top of great white sharks for fun or frivolous show. She does it to dispel their image of cruel killing machines, to call attention to the fact that sharks are seriously endangered. Which […]
February 24, 2014

Surfer recounts great white attack

British surfer Darren Mills has spoken of the terrifying moment when a great white shark clamped him in its massive jaws. Darren, 28, was paddling on his board when the 10ft predator pounced. It sunk its […]