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Shark Trade Limits Would Protect Island Economies (The Pew Charitable Trusts)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Sep 2016
After Typhoon Haiyan brought destruction to Malapascua Island in the Philippines in 2013, the opportunity for divers to glimpse thresher sharks in the surrounding waters allowed the island to prosper again. Divers from all over the world came just to see the sharks ... But these shark populations have been severely depleted, dropping more than 70 percent worldwide ... 'It's important that the sharks don't disappear.'....

Cape Town’s Extreme Sports (Santa Fe Group A/S)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Sep 2016
Highest Abseil In The World. How many people can say they've tackled the highest abseil in the world, off of one of the natural Seven Wonders of the World? Well in Cape Town, you can do just that ... Shark Cage Diving. You can get up close and personal with one of the greatest and most endangered shark species in the sea, the Great White Shark....

Federal government open to shark cull on NSW north coast

Edit The Guardian 28 Sep 2016
The federal government has signalled it would consider a shark cull on the New South Wales north coast after a teenage surfer was mauled by a great white. It comes as the NSW government announces a new three-month trial of shark-spotting drones for the area, and additional drum lines off the coast. Tony Abbott at odds with Mike Baird over shark nets after teenager attacked ... Legislation prohibits great white sharks being culled in NSW....

Lifesaving local hero to be given big award for actions

Edit Star Advertiser 28 Sep 2016
Filmmaker Keoni Bowthorpe, who paddled straight into the fray when he saw a tiger shark attacking a fellow surfer off Oahu’s North Shore, today will receive the Carnegie Medal, a national honor, for his selfless courage ... “I thought he said something so I turned around and saw the shark hit him, and he was pulled down,” Bowthorpe recalled ... He already had a healthy respect for sharks....

Shark attack survivor campaigns for sharks at UN meeting

Edit The Miami Herald 28 Sep 2016
A medal-winning Paralympian from South Africa lost part of his right leg in a great white shark attack a decade ago ... an ambassador for sharks at a U.N....

Minister visits North Coast to discuss sharks [PDF] (NSW Department of Primary Industries)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Sep 2016
Wednesday, 28 September 2016 MINISTER VISITS NORTH COAST TO DISCUSS SHARKS. Minister for Primary Industries Niall Blair has today visited Ballina to meet with North Coast community representatives following Monday's shark attack off Lighthouse Beach ... "The measures in our $16 million Shark Management Strategy have at every stage been informed by the best-available science, and feedback from local communities," Mr Blair said....

Massive great white shark with Twitter account lurks closer to shore

Edit The Miami Herald 28 Sep 2016
Look out, Lowcountry, there’s a celebrity shark lurking in your waters ... Mary Lee, a great white shark who ......

Luke Douglas: St Helens sign Gold Coast Titans forward

Edit BBC News 28 Sep 2016
Luke Douglas played for Cronulls Sharks before he moved to Gold Coast Titans ... The 30-year-old Australian-born forward represented Scotland at the 2013 Rugby League World Cup ... ....

NRL grand final 2016: Ain't life grand featuring Harold Holt Watch

Edit Canberra Times 28 Sep 2016
The latest news, big and small, in the lead up to the NRL grand final, including Harold Holt Watch and our new game. Shark or No Shark? ... ....

3,500-pound great white shark enters waters off SC coast

Edit The Charlotte Observer 28 Sep 2016
Look out, Lowcountry, there’s a celebrity shark lurking in your waters. Mary Lee, a great white shark who happens to have more than 100,000 Twitter followers, pinged her location on ... ....

Dally M rolling coverage (NRL - National Rugby League Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Sep 2016
(Source. NRL - National Rugby League Ltd). The Dally M Awards includes honours such as player of the year, the premier player in each position, best coach, best captain, representative player of the year, female player of the year and the Ken Stephen Medal for community service ... Dally M Medal Honour Roll. ... 2015 ... Preston Campbell (Cronulla Sharks) ... Gavin Miller (Cronulla Sharks) ... Gavin Miller (Cronulla Sharks) ... Steve Rogers (Cronulla Sharks)....

Voss: Why Melbourne will win the big one (NRL - National Rugby League Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Sep 2016
A big statistic in the Sharks favour is that in the top-eight era, a side that finished third has never lost when making a grand final ... When the Storm beat the Sharks in the minor premiership showdown in Round 26, they did more damage attacking on Green's left side of the field pressuring the likes of Chad Townsend and Jack Bird in defence ... (Storm 10, Sharks 7) ... But Dorn is proof you can have a career on both sides of the world....

Our lives in the age of Artificial Intelligence (University of Sydney)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Sep 2016
Terence isn't going to take over the world ... So when we..when we think about artificial intelligence what we usually think about is a..is a super computing brain sitting in the back that wants to take over the world ... No in fact, some of the least intelligent humans appear to want to take over the world ... The idea that AI's is this..is this huge super computing, problematic thing that's going to take over the world.....
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