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Tag: Shark Week

Dive #4000 this Sidemount Saturday

My technical beach excursions have gained some attention the last few weeks, and I suppose with reasons to be understood as I schlep a diver propulsion vehicle and a few sidemount bottles to the beach of our most popular local dive site where openwater training is the norm. Over the winter, I had the place…

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our counterpart, the sharks

On the eve of yet another ‘Shark Week‘, it goes without saying that our toothy counterparts deserve a bit of mention here on ‘A New Life’. I picked up the following graphic via Facebook, courtesy the Florida Museum of Natural History, which provides some useful data regarding the geographic distribution of shark attacks in recently…

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this shark feeds around every corner

With yet another Shark Week behind us, it’s time to take to the water’s edge with a renewed curiosity and appreciation for our toothy friends for yet another year. Just as I though I was shark-free here at home, I was presented with an argument that I was certainly not going to win – we…

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‘basking’ in the sun

On the eve of Discovery’s Shark Week, I was invited by Captain Charlie Donilon (Snappa Charters)to head offshore of Rhode Island to assist with underwater filming for a feature film production by Garth Donovan. I’ve headed offshore to dive with our local sharks out in bluewater annually for about the last five years, with a kickoff…

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