Night Train – Shark Stewards

The Big Swim for Sharks

As an ocean swimmer and diver I frequently swim with sharks, although most of the time I don’t see them. This summer I swam from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco, entering the water […]

Swimming With Sharks

This summer I swam from Alcatraz Island, entering the water not far from where a white shark had been observed preying on a pinniped 6 days before. Along with a few […]

The Weird, Wild and Nearly Extinct Sawfish
Currently in the news is an account of unusual spinning behavior and deaths in an Unusual Mortality Event, potentially attributed to a neurological pathogen off the coast of Florida. The …
Good News for Shark Protection at CITES Oceanic Whitetip
The Oceanic Whitetip Shark (Carcharhinus longimanus} has been officially uplisted to CITES Appendix I at the 20th Conference of the Parties (CoP20) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.The good news doesn’t stop there. …