The Shark Ark Project is an independent, privately funded conservation project. Our aim is to provide and maintain a Shark research vessel that will be FREE of charge for Australian Marine Biologists to use as a mother ship for marine science projects in Western Australia. It is also our dream that this marine research will help create shark marine sanctuaries within the breeding nurseries...
Well blow me down and shiver me timbers! ANOTHER salty revolution around the sun has come and gone and we now finally find ourselves at SEA aboard the Shark Ark!! What a year full of revolutions it was!! Thanks for all the birthday well wishes for myself and our upcoming Shark Ark voyage to...
I had the priviledge of meeting Natalie seven months ago when I became involved in fighting the WA shark cull. We organised the Cottesloe rallys together with help from a squillion fin loving people and have since continued to fight for our precious sharks with an ever growing grass roots community based resistance movement called No...
Ten Fast Fin based questions from WA’s shark guru Blair Ranford. I first met Blair through our fight against the government sanctioned slaughter of sharks of the coast of WA but you may have seen his work on shows featuring Australian sharks on Discovery Channels “Shark Week”. 1. How old were you, where were you...
There are probably as many arguments as to which of all the myriad species of shark is the most beautiful as there are divers and sailors, propped on beach-side bars, with sand on their feet and rum in their hands the world over. From the raw majesty of the Great White, to the sublime...
Sharks have never scared me. Cancer scares me. My dad died of cancer when I was seven. My mum died of cancer when I was fourteen and I was raised by my Aunty Jill and the extended family of Shark Bay. The ocean is always the place that I feel closest to Mum. She...
‘The Kirbster and I first met when she was studying my beautiful Tiger sharks in Monkey Mia, Shark Bay. Her massive brain and MASSIVER?? passion for sharks has meant we have always kept in touch even when she went back to Melbourne to study her much loved Grey Nurse Sharks that were once considered...
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