Most of the encounters with white sharks along the west coast of North America occur with mature white sharks in the months between August and November. These months we call Sharktober are when the large white sharks return to the coast after an annual migration to forage on seals and sea lions.
Read MoreSharks and Surfing and Co-existence
Join Shark Stewards Director with the Surfrider Foundation, San Mateo Chapter learning about your risk and why sharks need saving. 630=9PM Half Moon Bay Yacht Club
Read MoreSharktober Events Schedule
Why Sharktober? First initiated to promote the successful California Shark Fin Trade Bill in 2009, Shark Stewards created these events to celebrate sharks in San Francisco and educate our community […]
Read MoreWhat is Sharktober?
Sharktober is a celebration of white sharks, but really all sharks. Shark Stewards launched annual Sharktober and Sharktoberfest education efforts in 2008 to celebrate the return of the white sharks to our Sanctuary offshore, and to educate and motivate the public to protect sharks.
Read MoreWhite Shark Expedition to Guadalupe Island
Want to see a great white shark up close, personal and learn more about these amazing sharks and why they deserve protection? Join Shark Steward’s Director David McGuire October 13-17 […]
Read MoreDive with Guadalupe White Sharks
Want to see a great white shark up close, personal and learn more about these amazing sharks and why they deserve protection? Join Shark Steward’s Director David McGuire October 13-17 […]
Read MoreBorneo Sharks Screening and Talk
A film and talk on white sharks of the north Pacific and screening of the award winning documentary Blue Serengeti. Meet with local divers and the shark stewards team
Read MoreFarallon Sanctuary Expeditions
Join Shark Stewards celebrating sharks in a life-changing experience searching the Gulf of the Farallones for whales, wildlife and our finny friends.
Read MoreOccasionally People Get Bit by White Sharks- What is your Relative Risk?
A Stanford study, published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment in 2017, finds that despite increasing records of shark attacks, mostly by white sharks in California, the individual attack risk has dropped by more than 91 percent during the past six decades. The study indicates that the highest risk group, Surfers, which have a 1-in-17 million chance of being bitten by a white shark in California.
Read MoreWhite Shark Attacks on the West Coast of North America
Relative risk and how to avoid an encounter in light of recent attack. The unfortunate death of surfer Ben Kelly at Manresa State Beach May 9 was, in all likelihood, […]
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