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Shark Alarm
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Sometimes sharks kill humans but 10 million times more often, humans kill sharks. Sharks have existed for over 400 Million years; that's 130 Million years before the first Dinosaurs roamed the earth. We don't exactly know what killed the Dinosaurs but we do know who is killing the sharks, it's the human predator - the most destructive and irresponsible predator on earth... |
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Common Sense
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Swimming with sharks is one of the most exiting things I have ever done. It is a feeling of going into another world; their world, and that is what we seem to forget so often. Whenever we enter the water we are in their world, not in ours. We are guests and should behave with the necessary respect... |
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Species & Families
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Scientists classify fish into two main groups: Osteichthyes, and Chondrichthyes. Osteichthyes, or bony fish, are the vast majority of fish in the sea, they have a skeleton composed purely of bone. Chondrichthyes, on the other hand, including sharks, skates, and rays, have a skeleton that is made of cartilage... |
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September 7, 2010 |
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Jupp Kerckerinck is
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I was born and raised in an old castle in Germany as one of eight children. My family dates back to 1264. When I was born, my mother was supposed to receive the Golden Mother Cross from Adolf Hitler for giving birth to six "Arian" children. However, she refused to accept it, which almost got her into big trouble with the Nazis because of "disrespect to the Fuehrer".
I went to school in Germany and spent one year in Minnesota as an exchange student. After school I joined the German Army and after two years I was honorably discharged as a 2nd lieutenant. I learned banking but preferred to start my own advertising agency, which made me enough money to become a race car driver. I raced 2 years for Abarth and after that for Alfa Romeo. It was a fun time because I find racing very sexy. In 1977 I got married and in 1978 we moved to upstate New York where I started the first commercial deer farm in North America, the Lucky Star Ranch. I met a lot of interesting people in my days from all walks of life. My father always told me: "You have to be able to dance at everybody's wedding" and believe me - I did! I danced with peasants in Germany and attended Ceilidhs in Scotland, barn dances in the US & Canada and Field Days in New Zealand. I hunted in Africa, the UK, Denmark, the US and Canada but lost interest in hunting, when I started diving with sharks.
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 In 2003, I went on a cage dive with my daughter Philipa to watch Great White Sharks in the Pacific at Isla Guadalupe in Mexico. I was so intrigued by those wonderful animals that I decided to spend a lot of time and effort talking to people about sharks and their senseless slaughter all over the world. They have fascinated me ever since I saw those majestic animals. I have been on more than 150 shark dives, always outside the cage to show that sharks are not really as dangerous as people think. I swam with Caribbean reef sharks, blacktip sharks, nurse sharks, bull sharks, lemon sharks, hammerheads and my great favorites: tiger sharks. I even had the privilege to swim with great white sharks, outside of the cage, in open water in the Pacific. It was an amazing feeling to have several white sharks around us in the "Blue", and it was not at all frightening. |
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