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Aired on BBC 1's the One Show (28th Feb 2012), a short programme about the Shark's, Skates & Rays found in the Moray Firth, Scotland. With specific coverage of the small spotted catshark (lesser spotted dogfish) and the thornback ray breeding and release programme undertaken by Macduff Marine Aquarium. I took part in a couple of interviews for this show (interviewed by the presenter Miranda

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Whilst searching through some photo's i found these two:-The first photograph is a Grey Reef Shark, cruising along the edge of a reef pinnacle at a dive site known as Hafxa thila in the North Ari Atoll, Maldives.The second photograph is the same shark in what appears to be a very strange position. Her body is angled more vertically in the water column and her mouth is open, this is actually a

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"BANG... BANG... BANG...” I checked my watch, 3am. I lay there quietly cursing the person who was allowing a door in their cabin to bang rhythmically with each pitch and roll of the boat. This was my first time on a liveaboard as well as my first time in the Maldives, and I began to wonder what I would experience diving here over the next week, musing in particular as to what sharks I may see. My

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Going through my emails today i realised i have had quite a few emails through from people with a variety of questions, some career related, other's more shark biology orientated. I love hearing from you so please feel free to contact me still l.smith@sharkiologist.com However i have decided to post some questions here together with my answers (i have kept all posts anonymous) in the hope that it

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Just reported another Whale Shark sighting to ECOCEAN This shark was first spotted in about 5m of water off the coast of an island, in the S.Ari Atoll chain in the Maldives. Here are the photo's submitted for shark number #10820116269 This picture (above) is particularly useful for identification purposes, as you can see the 2nd dorsal fin has some damage to it, with the tip being alot

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In 2008, 2 Tiger sharks were caught by sport fishermen in the Bahamas. Images from this were posted on the shark divers blogspot along with a call for action. Three years later Guy Harvey, the Bahamas National Trust and Pew Trust are working tirelessly to get all of the Bahamas declared a shark sanctuary:-http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=19710203465As I looked over the pictures

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Challenges and Musings - a piece i wrote for SSACN (Scottish Sea Angling and Conservation Network)Challenges of the Scottish coastline, Invisible basking shark adventures and other musings – Dr Lauren Smith – the Sharkiologist. Over the past year or so I have been receiving emails from young aspiring shark biologists, these emails are usually charged with a gazillion questions covering all sorts

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I have finally selected some of the best images from my time in the Philippines and Palau earlier this year, they are available to purchase from the link below, you can choose just the prints in a variety of sizes, framed prints or canvas's. The prices are in dollars but they ship worldwide....http://www.imagekind.com/MemberProfile.aspx?MID=fa269569-9659-4b7e-8cd7-9e12763100fdEnjoy!

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I finally got around to going through my whale shark photographs taken in Donsol, Philippines and sorting out the most useful pictures (skin patterning of left and right side above pectorals and any scars) for ECOCEAN.ECOCEAN is a photo-id library serving as a visual database of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) encounters and of individually catalogued whale sharks. The library is maintained and

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So, the conference was excellent! Fascinating work is currently being carried out by the European shark community. There were plenty of presentations on genetics and the use of molecular biology techniques to understand more about shark populations and allowing us to answer fundamental questions about whether shark species are undergoing large scale migrations or whether they are existing as

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Shark Sanctuary Train - Palau, Maldives, and Indonesia

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When i was about 10 years old i used to play this game when i was in the swimming pool, you know those vents where the heated water comes out of around the sides of the pool? Well i used to imagine that Great White Sharks would break through these vents and chase me around the pool - very James Bond i suppose, but it definately helped me to win some races using that psychology!Me with the Shark

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A major lesson from PalauPalau is unlike many other countries in that it actually recognizes what it has i.e.: world class dive sites and instead of ruining and exploiting such a resource it embraces it and protects it.I was particularly interested in how they were putting into practice their shark sanctuary policy (as unveiled to the world in September 2009) which banned the landing of sharks or

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Round and about PalauOnce we had done the majority of our dives we decided to rent a car for a couple of days and investigate some of the main land based attractions that Palau has on offer.First on the list was the stone monolith’s on the Northern tip of Babeldaob (big island) in Ngarchelong. These huge stone pillars of volcanic rock have been dated to c.1000 BC, but no-one is sure of how they

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End of the RainbowIt would be fair to say I was in love with Palau before I had even left the Philippines, this had been born from various conversations I had had with diver’s around Malapascua Island who had previously been to Palau. As soon as you mention Palau you are greeted with a beaming smile and a glint in the eye, the sort of reaction anyone might give when they are remembering a place

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A WeddingLOL – Lauren on Location – Calanggaman Island diving, a wedding, and the final dive at Monad Shoal.On the 29th of May Gordon and I headed across to Calanggaman Island, a few hours South from Malapascua on a fun dive with Divelink. The first dive was an incredible wall dive, with huge soft corals and sponges, caves which pocket the wall and lots of reef fish as well as invertebrates to

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100 dives for the one fin wonder!LOL – Lauren on Location – another fantastic week for Lauren as she logs up her 100th dive and along with some of the members of the TSRCP team she goes freediving around Malapascua Island. Most sites are quite shallow with the deepest freedive logged at 10m; however the most fascinating site was “coral gardens” located out of bounty beach. As the name suggests

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Surviving Fiesta and Manta Ray Overload! LOL – Lauren on Location – Eye to eye with a Manta ray Fiesta’s in the Philippines are usually held to celebrate a patron saint or to mark the passing of a season, different city’s/islands in the Philippines hold fiestas at different times of the year depending on the decisions made by the local Barangay (Christmas being the exception where everyone

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An Update from LaurenLOL – Lauren on Location rounded off a fabulous week of diving at Monad Shoal with 2 dives at Gato Island (about 1 – 1 1/2 hrs boat ride N.W. of Malapascua Island) today, which was absolutely incredible, the visibility was particularly good especially on our first dive and the water was like glass. Managed to see a number of White-tip reef sharks, hanging out under ledges

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Sharks, Rays, Visa’s, Ear’s and Woolly HatsLOL – Lauren on Location – Too much detail around ear infections balanced by some rather nice photos.A little over a week ago I was starting to get impatient, I had been out of the water for several days due to an infection in my right ear and (more importantly) no longer wanted to wear a woolly hat on the boat to stop the wind aggravating it whilst

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Filipino Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) LOL – Lauren on Location – Filipino MPA’s The recent Marine Bills which have been passed in the UK led to an interest in finding out about Marine Protected Areas that have been set up in the Philippines, many thanks to Helen King who took the time to provide me with following overview: Filipino Fishing Techniques:- Hooka – Compressor fishing, the

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Earth Day 2010 LOL – Lauren on Location – Earth Day 2010 – Lauren gives a talk, cleans up and discusses dangerous toilets.Thursday the 22nd April 2010 was Earth Day; originally founded in 1970 in the US by Senator G. Nelson it is now celebrated by more than 175 countries worldwide and is designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. Earlier in the week, Helen King

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Travelling and TrainingLOL – Lauren on Location – Lauren makes her way to Thresher Shark Research and Conservation Project (TSRCP), based on Malapascua Island, off the North East tip of Cebu, gets some on site dive training, explores a wreck and catches her first sight of a thresher shark.After flying back from Legaspi to Manila and then from Manila to Cebu, I then boarded a Ceres Liner bus to

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The Giants of the OceanLOL – Lauren on Location – Lauren gambles with the ATM and gets to swim with whale sharks.After a good nights sleep in Manila I was back in the Airport this time flying domestic with Cebu Pacific (terminal 3), to Legaspi in South Luzon, here I was hopefully meeting up with a representative from Donsol EcoTour / PADI Dive Asia who I had been corresponding with for some

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How’d you like your eggs in the morning" – I like mine over the South China Sea…."By the time it came to leave Aberdeen on the 5th of April, I was literally bursting at the seams (the luggage and myself!). Finally the adventure was here and I couldn’t wait to get started.I arrived at Aberdeen airport at around 4:30am and began my day with a Ginsters scotch roll! In fact the entire 28 hours of

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The following information and subsequent blogs were originally featured on: http://www.tagsharks.com/lol-lauren-on-locationDr Lauren E. Smith is a marine biologist who specialises in shark research; she is a keen surfer, freediver and SCUBA diver and loves nothing more than to combine these activities with her passion for sharks.Lauren says:Sharks have evolved for over 400 million years,

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