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Paradise Taveuni, Taveuni Island, Fiji
The Endless Acquisitions of Scuba Businesses
Sharks Continue to be the Movie Villains
Retire in Margaritaville?
Hugyfot Case Makes GoPro Serious
Belize, Utila, Palau, Komodo, Bonaire
Son of Australian Underwater Legend Sues
Don’t be a Diving Heart Attack Victim
Shooting RAW on your iPhone
Tropical Ice
Surely Not Another Scuba Kickstarter?
Fancy Buying a Dive Resort Operation in the Sun?
That Kosrae Dive Resort Lottery Winner
Why Don’t Some Divers Drop Weights in an Emergency?
More on those Disappearing Warships
Great White v Orcas? Orcas Win
Diving in Sri Lanka is Not All Bad
Fire Aboard a Red Sea Liveaboard
New 360 degree Underwater Camera, a Small Fortune
How Safe to Fly After Diving? At Last, Some Empirical Evidence
Flotsam & Jetsam
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Katherine, the tagged great white shark, continues to patrol the east coast of Florida. The group Ocearch, which tagged the shark off Cape Cod in 2013, said she has been as far north as Orlando. The 2,300-pound shark has traveled 31,000 miles since tracking began.
Is there anything scarier than a great white shark? Well, the corpses of three large great whites have been recovered in the Gansbaai area of South Africa with their nutrient-rich livers apparently surgically removed. What's doing this? It's a pod of orcas that have learned to drown the sharks by inverting them and then simply biting through their trunk between the pectoral fins to remove the prized liver, leaving the rest of the organs.
After the dead sharks had drifted into shallow water, scientists from the Dyer Island Conservation Trust autopsied them (the largest was 16 feet -- 4.9m) and determined that the orca's bite on the inverted shark allows the buoyant liver to float free. Orcas are the great white's only predator.