A new dive shop has launched in Onehunga in the last couple of weeks. You’re invited to their opening. Date: 28th March 2008 Time: 4pm onwards (to 6:00 or 7:00pm) Location: 116 Onehunga Mall Opening discounts, spot prizes and a few beverages. Dive Shack
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Consumers are loving the southern bluefin tuna to death, writes Andrew Darby. WITH southern bluefin tuna, it seems it’s all about muscle. This fish is an anatomical extreme of muscular exertion. Powered by a large heart and warm blood, it’s a rare combination: a burst-of-speed predator and a long-distance cruiser. The same flesh sends sashimi [...]
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A boater who was killed when a stingray jumped out of the water in the Florida Keys and hit her face died of skull fractures and brain injuries, not from the animal’s poisonous barb, a medical examiner said today. Judy Kay Zagorski, 57, of Pigeon, Michigan, was in the front of a boat travelling at [...]
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A woman who died after a stingray leapt onto her boat in the Florida Keys was probably killed by the sheer force of the creature’s weight rather than its poisonous barb, initial reports indicate. Judy Kay Zagorski was sunbathing on a boat when the 34kg spotted eagle ray “jumped” from the water and struck her [...]
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It is the moment a scientist patted a ferocious Great White Shark that burst out of the water alongside his boat off the coast of Australia. The shark had been lured to the boat with chunks of bait as part of tests on a “Shark Shield” – an electronic device designed to ward sharks away [...]
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