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GREETINGS SHARK FANS!
We wish all of our Shark Fans a very Happy New
Year!
2009 has been declared "Year of the shark" by shark
conservationists from around the world. We will
continue to do our part by continuing dive operations
at all of our destinations around the world, educating
as well as
standing guard as we have for the last 10 years.
But
this
year we have decided to take a giant step into another
avenue of shark conservation/activisim. We have
some exciting plans that we will be implementing in
the very near future.
Check out The Shark Safe
Project.
We would like to invite all of our Shark Fans to get
involved.
YOU CAN HELP SAVE SHARKS!
BOOK NOW and SAVE
2009 Guadalupe Expeditions |
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We are all very aware of our current economic
situation here in the USA.
We want to do everything we can for you, so you
can
take your shark trip with us this year.
We at Shark Diving
International and Great White Adventures are offering
special pricing and payment options for all of you
Shark Fans that wish to join us on our 2009
Guadalupe
Expeditions.
We are offering monthly payment options with
discounts to make it easier for all of you to make it out
with us this season.
Book now with a 10% deposit down and
just make easy "no interest" monthly
payments!
Putting aside as little as $14.00 per day and
making low monthly payments makes much more
sense.
Groups can also save
$200.00 just by
booking before March 1.
There are a few options to choose from to meet
your needs. Just contact us and we will work out the
details.
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| Meet the Team at Our World Underwater |
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Our World-Underwater is in it's 39th year and is
the oldest, continuous running scuba diving events in
North America!
Come see us at Booth #802
Our very own Shark Diving
International Super Star Film makers Joe
Romeiro
& Bill
Fisher will be featured during the Saturday
night Film Festival with their new release
" Death
of a
Diety "
Submerge into the world of the
shark and
see why they are in desperate need of our help.
The Exhibit Floor features hundreds of booths from
dive travel, equipment manufacturers, environmental
and training agencies and retailers. This year, we
welcome many new exhibitors to the show.
Attendees will be treated to many Seminar Rooms
throughout Saturday and Sunday that will cover Dive
Travel, Underwater Shipwrecks and Archeology, Dive
Medicine, Our Changing Underwater Environment and
Extremes. These Seminars will take you from exotic
dive destinations, to surreal shipwrecks of years past,
being a safer diver by understanding the physical
affects diving may have on your body and learning
what you can do to help improve and save our aquatic
environment.
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| 8 Day Oceanic White Tip Shark Expedition |
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Get ready for some serious offshore shark action
on this expedition.
Not many of our Shark Aficionados have been
diving with this species. .
This extreme 8 day expedition is on board the M/V
Shearwater.
May 5 to 13.
Departing 7am May 5
out
of West Palm Beach, FL.
Returning 9am May 13.
The trip is limited to only 8 divers.
Cost $4900.00
There are already only 5 spots left!
Read the 2008 trip
report from Eric Cheng
above photos Jim Abernethy
Join expedition leader Lawrence
Groth.
"This is an incredible opportunity to dive
with
and photograph these amazing and endangered
animals.
So lets gear up and get into the action!"
However this trip is also famous for
the PIGS!
Yes you read it correctly!
photo Eric Cheng
After several days diving the deep blue waters
offshore, we will stop by and visit this now famous Pig
Beach and play with the piggies.
What else could you ask for?
Warm Deep Blue Ocean, Big Rare Sharks
and PIGS!
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THE SHARK SAFE PROJECT
Hits San Francisco's Chinatown |
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The Shark Safe Project is starting 2009 "The Year of
the Shark" with a protest demonstration in San
Francisco's Chinatown on January 25th and 26th
(Chinese New Year).
Please join us as we will be picketing several
establishments including restaurants that serve shark
fin soup and shark fin markets.
Bowl of shark fin
soup (contains mercury, mmmm!)
This is intended to be a peaceful
demonstration yet an
aggressive protest to convince these establishments
to cease offering all shark products.
This is what is left
behind to make soup.
We will be carrying signs and handing out leaflets
(written in English and Chinese). Our immediate goal
is to educate the local population of the dangers of
consuming shark fins and the devastation that shark
fining is causing to our oceans. Hopefully convincing
many local citizens to stop consuming shark fin soup
and other shark products and to stop patronizing
establishments that offer such products. Our long-
term goal will be to have city ordinances passed that
will
prohibit the import and distribution of all shark
products in the city of San Francisco. Making San
Francisco the first "Shark Safe" city in the USA.
One tiny boat and
one days work.
Those of you that cannot attend the demonstration can
still participate by calling the restaurants listed on the
Shark
Safe Blog site.
You may call each restaurant and voice your concerns
about their serving shark fin soup and or make a
reservation for a small party for dinner at a certain
time. Then call back 10 minutes before your
reservation time and cancel your reservation and
explain that you are doing so because that
establishment chooses to serve shark fin soup and
that you will be patronizing a different establishment
that does not serve shark fin soup.
Thousands of shark
fins ready to go to markets all over the world.
When calling these restaurants please be firm but
polite and simply voice your opinions. Please do not
make any threats or speak harshly to the employee
that answers the phone, as they more than likely are
not the actual proprietor who makes up the menu or
purchases the supplies for the restaurant. Being rash
or vulgar will not do our cause any good and in fact
would be detrimental to our cause.
100,000,000 sharks
are killed every year for soup.
Shark Safe Project's ultimate goal is to seriously
decrease
if not eliminate the demand for shark fins globally. It
may take one person at a time, one store at a time,
one street at a time, one city at a time but we must
start somewhere! We are choosing to start in San
Francisco as
it is home of the largest Chinatown outside of Asia.
PLEASE JOIN US!
We will are currently bulding a website for the Shark
Safe project. We are temporarily using the blogspot
until the site is complete.
But be on the look out
for http://www.shark-safe.org
Shark Safe is a non-profit 501 3(c) corporation
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STOP SHARK FINNING NOW!
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