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The 'Jaws of Life'
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If you don't know sharks you might call them the 'Jaws of Death'. But if you are familiar with the complexity of the biological balance in the ecosystem in the oceans of the world, you will know that those are indeed the 'Jaws of Life'. The aim of this website is to introduce these wonderful animals to you. Let me tell you why I call them the 'Jaws of Life'... |
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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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September 7, 2010 |
Search SharkProtect.com: |
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Jupp Kerckerinck is
available to talk to your
group about sharks.
For an interesting
addition to your school,
club or special event
Contact Me today. |
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Email-A-Friend About
SharkProtect.com!
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If you would like to tell someone about SharkProtect.com, drop them a line right now. |
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Join the
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Let me periodically send you news & events from the shark community. |
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Lauren Diving with Hammerhead Sharks. Photo Credit: Tanya Burnett |
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"A world without Sharks is too godless for me...and from what I've seen diving since 1965 all over the world, we're headed there at the speed of light."
"Megalodon is 450 million years old, no? Are we really going to kill off folks that have been around this long and we know nothing about...in our time, on our watch?"
- Lauren Hutton
Model/Actress/Diver
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Stan is a well known diver and President of the Shark Research Institute in Princeton, NJ.
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Dear Jupp,
I was delighted with our meeting at the Benchley Award evening. The quotation I used at the end of the evening comes to mind. So few people read "Moby Dick" in their post school and college days that Queequeg's view of the shark is little known. Here it is:
"Queequeg not know what God made'm shark, wedder Fiji God or Yankee God. But de God what made shark am one damn Injun."
Marie Levine speaks highly of your work and deep interest in the well being of sharks. I hope that you may join our group (SRI) and bring your experience and energy for conservation with you.
With kind regards and best wishes.
- Stan Waterman
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"I know that sharks are very important and need to be protected. I support what Jupp Kerckerinck is doing and hope that especially the young people will understand and support his work. We have to stop the killing of 6,500 sharks every hour."
- David, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley
Lord Great Chamberlain of England
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Reza is the son of the late
Shah of Iran, seen here on
a shark dive with his
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Lack of understanding of a subject or a phenomenon has often provoked fear in humans. Fear of the unknown has often led to irrational behavior and exaggerated reaction.
When it comes to sharks, humans have mostly reacted with an initial sense of fear; often heightened as a result of cinema dramatization and media hype. The stereotyped image of sharks as lethal predators has led most uninformed people to respond with the most common human reaction to "fearful" wild animals: Neutralizing the threat by killing them!
Furthermore, many sharks as well as dolphins get caught in commercial fishing nets and suffocate to death. And the most gruesome image in my mind is that of an amputated shark – deprived of his fins which serve as a culinary delicacy in the Far East – thrown back alive into the sea to die slowly as it sinks to the bottom, unable to swim anymore.
Why should we care! The simple answer is: Sharks are not just fascinating animals, deserving the same amount of admiration and respect we might have for a bald eagles or pandas; sharks have in fact played a critical role in maintaining a proper balance within the marine ecosystem. Sharks are not indiscriminate killers. In fact, most fatal accidents resulting from a human-shark encounter has often been based on inadvertent human error.
In support of my friend Jupp's efforts to promote the cause of sharks, I wish to reiterate that the best defense for misunderstood animals is an increase in education and awareness about their true nature and comportment, as well as their important role in nature. I salute and commend all publications and wild-life organizations as well as individuals and volunteers who struggle to protect various species – endangered or not – and hope that they will count me in as a nature and animal lover.
- Reza Pahlavi
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Because there is so much negativity that still pervades the media, shark conservation faces formidable obstacles when promoting understanding for these animals. The demystification of sharks is one of the most important tools for their protection. We have to start interacting with these incredible creatures and spread the word about their true nature, before it is too late.
Sharks are the ultimate controllers of the marine realm, and so the ongoing slaughter of these animals, widely accepted through a false perception, creates one of the biggest ecological time bombs. Sharks are not after humans, they never were, they never will be. Shark-human interaction shows and showed already on many levels that we can be among them without having to fear them. But the narrow-minded attitude, instilled in the western civilization, made it happen that many shark species are now on the brink of extinction. Sharks successfully ruled the oceans for millions of years, and kept them in perfect balance. And it can't be up to mankind, to threaten this leadership through ignorance, arrogance and fear. We have to open our eyes, and act – not tomorrow but now. For the sake of our children, the sharks and nature!
- Dr. Erich Ritter, Sept. 2005 |
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