Results tagged “great white shark” on Earth Touch Blog
The week’s most viewed stories Mar 28 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 21 March to Thursday 27 March 2008) were:
Did you know? Great white shark Mar 18 2008
The great white shark, which is named for its large size and white underbelly, is one of the ocean’s most powerful and awesome predators. But it’s really the great white’s scientific name, Carcharodon carcharias, which says it all – it means “jagged-toothed one”.
Tags: attack, diet, fish, great white shark, ocean, predator, shark, sharks, teeth, vertebrateFocus on marine footage Feb 5 2008
Earth-Touch aims to bring users beautiful footage of animals, including marine life, as soon as possible after it has been filmed (wherever we can, within 24 hours).
Tags: bluespotted chromis, bottlenose dolphin, cape fur seal, chromis, dolphin, great white shark, kwazulu-natal, marine, ocean, sea, seal, shark, south africa, southern right whale, whaleDid you know? Tiger sharks Oct 26 2007
The tiger shark is one of the largest sharks, growing to 3 or 4m (10 to 13ft) in length and weighing upwards of 350kg (772lb).
This week’s most viewed stories Oct 26 2007
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 19 October to Thursday 25 October 2007) were:
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The water around Geyser Rock is full of Cape fur seals, a favourite meal for the great white sharks in this area.
Did you know? Shark skin Oct 25 2007
At ease with sea creatures Oct 16 2007
One of the fantastic things you can experience working underwater with a camera, holding your breath, is a feeling of affinity with other big creatures in the sea.
Did you know? Shark species Sep 24 2007
There are more than 400 species of shark in the world’s oceans.
These predators are feared by many, but only 12 species of sharks actually pose a danger to humans. We are, in fact, more likely to eat shark ourselves than be eaten!
Tags: blackfin shark, blacktip shark, eat, great white shark, kwazulu-natal, ragged-tooth shark, south africa, tiger sharkEarth-Touch team’s favourite stories of all time – please tell us yours? Aug 31 2007
We’ve canvassed the Earth-Touch team internally, and asked them to nominate some of their favourite footage published on the web portal so far. The results follow below.
We’’d love to hear what your favourite clips are – please post your votes and thoughts
as a comment to this blog.
The following stories received multiple votes:
Eyeball to eyeball with a great white shark
Watch the footage was filmed near Dyer Island, off the south-eastern coast of South Africa.
Tags: amphibian, bird, breathe, cheetah, crab, crocodile, crustacean, eastern cape, eel, gannet, great white shark, hippo, kwazulu-natal, mamba, mudhopper, mudskipper, plant, reptile, serval, snake eel, south africa, tsessebe, whale, wildebeest, zebra
Did you know? - Great white sharks Aug 29 2007
The scientific name for the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, translates directly to “jagged-toothed one”.
Out on a limb … Aug 23 2007
By Graeme Duane, field crew
This is a photo of the way we film sharks at Earth-Touch. As you can see there’s not much in it, no cage, no SCUBA and no bait.
So the shark gets to do pretty much what it wants, and the diver just has to concentrate on not looking too delectable. Seriously, though, we are cautious and careful and this is actually a very controlled situation.
Tags: bait, cape town, dyer island, great white shark, human, scuba, south africa, western capeBest of the Earth-Touch shark action Aug 5 2007
By Richard Frank, editorial team
Our crews have been getting up close and personal with several species of shark in the past two months or so, and we’re hopefully helping to break down the stereotype that all sharks are unstoppable monsters, bent on hungrily devouring humans. The Earth-Touch film-makers are experienced divers, and don’t use cages to protect themselves.
Ragged-tooth Romeos wait to mate Aug 5 2007
By Graeme Duane, field crew
The dud sardine run has triggered what seems to be a seasonal ragged-tooth shark migration to the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal, where they will mate. In recent weeks, we’ve come across growing numbers of these big sharks, which divers refer to affectionately as “raggies” in the deep caves of Aliwal Shoal, a sandstone ridge teeming with sea life about 5km (3mi) out to sea from the town of Umkomaas. The males seem to arrive first, almost waiting with bated breath for the females, who haven’t shown up yet.
What lies beneath … Jul 30 2007
By Tamar Blieden, editorial team
Ocean-dwelling species as diverse as great white sharks, rays, eels and the Disney-like devil firefish have become ‘regulars’ on Earth-Touch, introducing us if familiar characters in a children’s fantasy to an underwater world of wonder.
Feeding time Jul 5 2007
By Graeme Duane, field crew
Hmmm, time to feed, are we talking about lions, sharks or satellite dishes here? I guess all three if you’re in the field. For me the great whites are easier to deal with than Jacque’s dish, which I have to use to serve my footage.
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