PHILIPPINES: found a very rare megamouth shark

Megamouth shark
(Megachasma pelagios)
is a very rare ocean fish and very few is know about it. Only 60 fishes whre caught or found dead; the first ever, a 16-foot megamouth, was hauled up attached to a sea anchor off Hawaii in 1976.

this time the megamouth shark washed ashore this week in the Philippines Islands. The 4.5 metre - 15-foot specimen was found in the Burias Pass, in central

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SOUTH AFRICA: caught white shark from the shore

A small size white shark was caught by a fisherman while fishing from the shore in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa.



The distraught white shark was eventually helped into the ocean and was able to swim away.

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AUSTRALIA: sandtiger shark attacks a diver

Young diver Sam Smith, from Moolymook on the New South Wales, Australia had a vewry close encounter with an agressive sandtiger shark, also known as grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus)

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SOUTH AFRICA: caught world record size guitarfish

While shore fishing in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, angler Dean Reddy caught a giant guitarfish estimated to weigh 89 kilograms, or 195 pounds.

It’s a remarkable catch, considering that the world record for this species, according to the IGFA (International Game Fish Assn. - www.igfa.org), is a 119-pound specimen caught in back in 1995 in Seychelles.

What’s even more remarkable is that

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AUSTRALIA: Monster tiger shark’s attack on dolphin

Along Australia coast near the town of Newcaste an estimated 3,700 lb or 1700 kg tiger shark attacked a doplhin close the shore.

At first the pod of dolphins looked like any other but closer inspection revealed a straggler with a terrible bite out of its back and a shark in close pursuit. The dolphins initially circled their injured mate but as the shark moved in and the injured animal grew

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VIDEO: threasher shark giving birth to a live pup

For the first time, researchers have captured photographs of a threasher shark actually giving birth to a live pup, clearing up quite a bit of the mystery surrounding such an event.

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VIDEO: massive nurse shark migration

An awesome video of a giant school of nurse sharks and other fishes in a massive migration, probably for spawning.

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WALES: 300 lb mako shark found on the beach

Biologist experts have been left baffled after a deadly 10 feet shark was found washed up on a beach in North Wales, United kingdom, thousands of miles from its natural habitat.The 300 pound -145 kg dead Mako shark, which was found with significant wound marks down its flank, was discovered by fishermen on Barmouth Beach in Gwynedd,

Mako shark is extremely rare in UK waters, only 65 were

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