[CINC] TODAY 3-6pm CINC invited to visit the Ty Warner Sea Center to experiencelocal sharks before our monthly meeting in SB

Tue Jun 17 12:50:52 PDT 2008

Naturalists,

You are invited to visit the Ty Warner Sea Center to
experience local sharks TODAY from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
before our meeting! 

Experience local sharks and other Elasmobranches, see
Swell Sharks in their egg cases, and discover amazing
shark senses and awesome interpretive facts about
local sharks!

Bring your CINC name badge for your free admission!
The Ty Warner Sea Center is located on Stearns Wharf
in Santa Barbara and is about a ten minute walk away
from our meeting at the Chase Palm Park Center.

Please contact me if you have any questions and look
forward to seeing you today!

Leeza Charleboix

Channel Islands Naturalist Corps Volunteer
l_charleboix at yahoo.com

Volunteer Coordinator
Ty Warner Sea Center	
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Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Ty Warner Sea
Center
211 Stearns Wharf
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 962-2526 ext. 104
seacrew at sbnature2.org

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From: Clare Fritzsche
[mailto:Clare.Fritzsche at noaa.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:20 PM
To: Clare Fritzsche
Subject: Monthly meeting next Tuesday, June 17 in SB
at 6:30pm; + outreach opportunity

Greetings, Naturalists!

We will hold our monthly meeting for the Channel
Islands Naturalist Corps this coming Tuesday, June
17th, at 6:30pm at the Chase Palm Park Center in Santa
Barbara, where we usually hold our meetings. Our guest
speaker is Ralph Collier from the Shark Research
Committee and he will speak about sharks in general
and those on our Pacific Coast specifically. He will
also bring his book to sell, Shark Attacks of the
Twentieth Century”, so please bring your checkbooks if
you are interested. For more information, there is a
press release below from last fall, or check his
website at www.sharkresearchcommittee.com .

Please also bring your calendars, since we will have
the July whale watch, day hike and outreach calendars
available for sign-ups. I will post a preview of the
calendars online this Friday afternoon, but your first
opportunity to sign up will be at the meeting next
Tuesday night. We will label the tables more
prominently so that you can easily identify which line
to stand in for the various calendars. 

Also, we have an outreach event this weekend if you
are interested in volunteering. It's the Community Day
at the Watershed Resource Center in Santa Barbara at
Arroyo Burro Beach. It will be held this Saturday,
June 14th, from 12-4pm and we will have an interactive
activity at our booth. If you would like to go, please
let me know.

We look forward to seeing you Tuesday night! Clare

NEWS RELEASE 
For information contact:
Ralph S. Collier (818) 998-5818 
Email: SharkResearch at aol.com 
For Immediate Release
February 27, 2008

Pacific Coast Shark Attacks During 2007

Nine unprovoked shark attacks were confirmed from the
Pacific Coast of North America during 2007, which
equaled the previous Pacific Coast record set in 2004.
Victims of the nine attacks included 2 swimmers, 1
kayaker, 1 paddle boarder, and 5 surfers. The attacks
were scattered over a five month period; .June (1),
July (4), August (1), September (2), and October (1).
Five of the nine attacks (56%) were from a ‘recurring
location,’ a site where at least one prior attack had
been reported. The Great White Shark, Carcharodon
carcharias, was positively identified as the causal
species in four of the nine attacks and was highly
suspect in three additional cases. 
The publication “Shark Attacks of the Twentieth
Century” described 108 authenticated unprovoked shark
attacks from the Pacific Coast between 1900 and 1999.
The Great White Shark was implicated in 94 (87%) of
the attacks; with an annual average of slightly more
than one shark attack per year. It is compelling that
since the year 2000 there have been 37 unprovoked
shark attacks reported from the Pacific Coast. This is
‘more than five times’ the Twentieth Century annual
average and ‘more than one-third’ the total number of
attacks reported during the entire Twentieth Century. 
The most recent victim was Sam Bendall surfing 80 –
100 feet from shore near the Venice Pier, Los Angeles
County the morning of October 7th. He was the ninth
person to be attacked by a shark off the Pacific Coast
during 2007. Bendal was the seventy-first surfer to be
attacked off the Pacific Coast since 1972 and the
145th shark attack victim since 1900. The Great White
Shark has been implicated in 125 (86%) of the 145
reported attacks. 
There have been 31 shark attacks confirmed from
California, which includes 2 fatalities, and 6
unprovoked attacks reported from Oregon during the
first seven years of the 21st Century. Surfers
accounted for 30 (81%) of the 37 shark attacks
documented since 2000. The number of juvenile and
adult Great White Sharks reported from Southern
California during 2007 suggests a possible increase in
their population. In response to these observations,
the Shark Research Committee will embark on an
archival satellite tagging program in early spring
2008 to gather data on juvenile and adult Great White
Shark movements in Southern California waters. Through
the efforts of volunteers, a proactive reporting
network will be established to support the tagging
program in hopes of determining the population
dynamics of the Great White Shark.

Additional information regarding the publication
“Shark Attacks of the Twentieth Century,” and the
Shark Attack Files of the Shark Research Committee,
can be found at the website:
www.sharkresearchcommittee.com

-- 

Clare Fritzsche
Volunteer Administration
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
Channel Islands National Park
Schedule for weeks of June 9:
MON: 8am-12pm & 2-6pm, Santa Barbara: (805) 966-7107
x366
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x366
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x366
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