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In 2006 he purchased Calypso Star Charters. The company offers tourists shark cage diving with Great white sharks and swimming with Australian sea-lions out of Port Lincoln. [ 18 ] In 2007, Forster set a Game Fishing Association of Australia record for the largest samson fish caught by a male fisherman.
Fabien Cousteau (born 2 October 1967) is an aquanaut, ocean conservationist, and documentary filmmaker. As the first grandson of Jacques Cousteau, Fabien spent his early years aboard his grandfather's ships Calypso and Alcyone, and learned how to scuba dive on his fourth birthday.
During the 2000s, shark cage diving became more popular as a tourist activity. In South Australia, tourists are taken by boat from Port Lincoln to the Neptune Islands in the southern Spencer Gulf, where they view great white sharks either from a cage tethered to the back of a boat near the surface or from a cage lowered to the seabed. The ...
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A frenzied group of sharks surrounded a fishing charter off Florida and began taking turns attacking its trolling motor, video shows. It happened Monday, Feb. 26, about 20 miles east of Cape ...
Shark cage diving is used for scientific observation, underwater cinematography, and as a tourist activity. Sharks may be attracted to the vicinity of the cage by the use of bait, in a procedure known as chumming, which has attracted some controversy as it is claimed to potentially alter the natural behaviour of sharks in the vicinity of swimmers.
Captain Cousteau and his ship the Calypso visit the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden in order to study shark behavior and to test methods of protecting shipwreck and air crash victims from shark attacks. Ichthyologist Dr. Eugenie Clark joins the Calypso crew to study shark behavior and test shark repellents.
Fox went on to design and build the first underwater observation cage to dive with the great white shark, and for over 40 years has led major expeditions to film and study his attacker. [10] He arranged and hosted the first great white shark expedition to welcome sport divers, and has run hundreds of expeditions in the thirty years since.