Vodka-fuelled fisherman wrestles with shark
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A fisherman fuelled by vodka caught a 1.3-metre (4-foot) shark and wrestled it onto a jetty on Australia's south coast, suffering only small tear marks in his trousers, media reports said on Friday.
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ADELAIDE, Australia - The hunt for the great white shark that killed a teenage surfer here this week was stepped up Saturday despite an appeal by his family not to kill the giant predator.
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When Vladimir V. Putin visited the United States last week on a trip that included a bit of saltwater fishing with President Bush, he was introduced to a timeless tradition of the sporting scene: exaggeration.
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TWO Great White sharks ripped a schoolboy surfer in two off a packed beach yesterday. Nick Peterson, 18, was being towed on his surfboard behind his grandmother&#39;s dinghy when a shark began attacking the boat.
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The great white shark, traditionally seen as an avid consumer of human flesh, is to be protected from the people it terrifies, an international wildlife conference decided yesterday.
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MONTAUK, New York  - In this Long Island fishing hamlet, hundreds of adults drank beer and children marveled at the bloodied sharks caught in a fishing contest, including a heart from a gutted 180-pound (82-kg) thresher shark that several children poked with awe.
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A lot of pressure is riding on the fins of "Shark Tale."
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By Sam Harris  Dave Shields proved there were fish to be caught when he landed a brace of cod weighing in at 10lb 2oz and 2 1/2lb using lug and mussel.
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By Patrick Mcdermott, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Sep. 22--DESTIN -- Cherie Mills wasn't lying when she claimed to have reeled in the winning shark in her division at the Destin Deep Water Shark Tournament.
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Daniel Travis spent many long hours swimming next to dozens of real sharks to make Open Water, this summer&#39;s scariest movie. But he doesn&#39;t consider it his most dangerous encounter with Mother Nature.
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Olympic silver medalist Mardy Fish was drawn yesterday to face Max Mirnyi in the second singles match. The doubles match in the best-of-five series is tomorrow, with the reverse singles Sunday.
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A Montauk shark fishing tournament is accused of glorifying the killing of endangered species.
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The international body overseeing wildlife trade may throw a lifeline to the shark popular in fish and chips and the aromatic cedar tree used for fine furniture and humidors, as it considers new limitations on commercial fisheries and timber.
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A shark bit an Australian fisherman's leg so tightly on Sunday that fellow fishermen had to cut its head off to free the man.
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A man who claimed a shark mauled him as he swam at Australia's legendary Bondi Beach was allegedly a thief whose injuries were caused when his arm went through a glass window, a report said Thursday.
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By KURT LOFT  To see exotic sea creatures up close and personal, you once had to don scuba gear and jump overboard.  Now, the fish are coming to you.
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The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind Russia's biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million (1.5 million pounds) to acquire the vodka.com domain, part of a bid to expand into the U.S. market, a broker said on Thursday.