VIDEO: Great White Sharks Off California Are More Common and Closer Than You Think I took a drive south to warmer waters in Southern California and filmed a group of white sharks among surfers enjoying the surf. Related: VIDEO: Drone Captures Moment Great White Shark Approaches Pro-Surfer On a few occasions, the sharks approached the surfers closely. The surfers don’t appear to know they aren’t alone in the water. SwellBrains | May 11, 2021 2 Comments
Surfer Who Lost His Leg to a Great White Shark Wins 6-Year Legal Battle to Keep the Tooth A surfer who lost his leg, and almost his life, has just won a six-year legal battle to keep the tooth the great white shark left embedded in his surfboard. “You can see the damage on the end of the tooth from it going into my board — it’s definitely a bottom jaw tooth — its top jaw got my […] Surf SwellBrains | May 7, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: 6-Year-Old Girl Bumped by Shark in Shallow Water in Hawaii A little girl got the scare of her life while splashing along the beach. Anela’s mother was filming her as she played in the surf, when suddenly the 6-year-old ran out of the water, screaming that there was a shark. Related: Sharks Discovered Living in a Volcano The frightening encounter happened off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. Experts say a blacktip […] SwellBrains | May 7, 2021 0 Comments
Snowmass, CO Trip Report: Wind-buffed Powder on Sharks Report from Sunday, November 15, 2020 Today was day one of the new season for me, and what a way to kick it off! Colorado has received 20 inches in the last two weeks, which has really helped cover things up and push it just to the point of being skiable. We started from the Snowmass base village and worked our […] Trip Report Clay Malott | November 16, 2020 2 Comments
VIDEO: Drone Captures Moment Great White Shark Approaches Pro-Surfer Video footage has surfaced, showing a pro-surfer escape a close encounter with a great white shark in northern New South Wales. A surf life-saving drone captured the moment a 1.5-meter great white swam dangerously close to Matt Wilkinson surfing off the coast of Ballina, almost touching his board before swimming off. Authorities closed the beach soon after the encounter. SwellBrains | October 9, 2020 0 Comments
Sharks Discovered Living in a Volcano Scientists captured video evidence of sharks living in a volcano. The scientists dropped a camera into the main crater of the volcano Kavachi, located in the Solomon Islands. Kavachi was not actively erupting when the team captured the footage, but to be safe, they only left the camera in the underwater crater for an hour. The water inside the crater […] Brains Lynn Barlow | September 5, 2020 36 Comments
VIDEO: US Coast Guard Shoots at Shark as it Approaches Swimmers The U.S. Coast Guard says a shark approached crew members of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kimball during a swim call in the Pacific Ocean. Related: VIDEO: Scientist Swims With The Largest Recorded Great White Shark About 40 crew members were swimming when the shark was spotted and a maritime enforcement specialist on board the cutter fired at it. The […] SnowBrains | August 28, 2020 0 Comments
VIDEO: Woman Slides Off Yacht Straight into 8-Foot Shark in the Water A video showing a woman plunging into the ocean from a slide on a yacht and having a close encounter with a shark has gone viral. Related: VIDEO: Scientist Swims With The Largest Recorded Great White Shark Iso Machado, from Miami, Florida was celebrating her birthday on a friend’s boat last Friday in the Bahamas when she decided to use […] SwellBrains | August 24, 2020 0 Comments