SHARKS
Ocean Photographer Of The Year 2022 // I made it to the finals!
Very cool to have one of my images I took during the physioshark assignment in French Polynesia in 2019 as ...
My physioshark documentary hits 100k views on YouTube!
When going through my Youtube Channel a few days ago, I noticed that my Physioshark documentary had hit about 97k ...
Can bull sharks be friends? My latest article in The Guardian
When I recently came across the latest scientific paper coming out of Fiji's Shark Reef Marine Reserve I thought this ...
June update: COVID in Fiji, shark photo book and competition successes
The last few months here in Fiji have been hard. COVID has made its way into the country and communities, ...
Diving in Fiji during COVID-Lockdown | NAI’A Liveaboard
When I saw an advert in the Fiji Times a few months back calling for expressions of interest fort a ...
Artisanal and subsistence shark fisheries in Fiji | New paper
While sharks are fished virtually in every coastal state of the world catch statistics are usually poorly documented, completely lacking ...
My Fiji Shark | Adopt a shark and help conservation
Readers of this blog will know that I have written and photographed extensively about Fiji's sharks in the Shark Reef ...
First scientific paper published | Shark aggregation area in Fiji
Finally, after more than a years work excluding the actual fieldwork itself, my first scientific publication was published yesterday in ...
Fiji Shark Diving 2018
During our last expedition to the Pacific in February/March I got the chance to pay the team of Beqa Adventure ...
#Physioshark Update – four weeks in the field on Moorea
It’s hard to imagine, but I’m closing in on being four weeks at the CRIOBE Research Station here on Moorea ...
Sharks and whales around Moorea | French Polynesia
Maybe a couple dozen blacktip reef sharks can be seen at the water surface circling around our little boat. Fully ...
#physioshark | Shark Research on Moorea, French Polynesia
We are sitting at the beach in darkness watching over the passage between Tahiti and her sister island Moorea. Pape' ...
Living sharks are worth 113 million dollars in the Bahamas
A recent paper by Andrea Haas, Tony Fedler and Edward Brooks assessed the financial value that the shark diving industry ...
2017 – what I have been up to so far
It has been a while since I found the time to write a blog post and there also hasn't been ...
EEA 2016 – European Elasmobranch Association Conference in Bristol
I have just come back from Bristol in England where the annual European Elasmobranch Association (short: EEA) Conference was held ...
Master of Science | ISATEC Program finished!
It is official: I am a Master of Science! To be more precise: A Master of Tropical Marine Ecology Science! ...
CoP17 – Sharks and rays at CITES, Johannesburg 2016
UPDATE: Good News!! All recommendations were adopted by CITES!! Silkies, threshers and devil rays are now listed on Appendix II ! ...
Good News! Science Photo Award Winner
A couple of days ago the Bild der Wissenschaft announced the winners of this year’s science photo award aaaaaaaand I won ...
Shark Nursery Project, Fiji – Update III – Preliminary results
A little more than three weeks ago I came back to my home country Germany after spending almost seven months on ...
Sharkdiving in Fiji – favorite images so far
After having been able to dive a couple of times the professional team of Beqa Adventure Divers over the last six months ...
Sustainablesharkdiving.com – a game-changer?
After another incredible dive yesterday with Mike and his team from Beqa Adventure Divers watching Fiji`s enormous Bull Sharks, I had the ...
Shark nursery project, Fiji – Update II – Fishing for sharks
Almost two months have passed since my first post about my project on a shark nursery here on Fiji. Time ...
Scalloped Hammerhead Shark Project Update Part I
For the last few weeks I have been busy organizing my project on scalloped hammerhead shark nurseries here in Fiji. Maybe ...
Bull Sharks in Fiji – Diving the Shark Reef Marine Reserve with Beqa Adventure Divers
Among being called the soft coral capital of the world and offering some amazing magazine-like coconut palm tree beaches, Fiji ...
Help me fund my Master project on Hammerhead Shark Research on Fiji!
In about four weeks I´ll be landing in Suva, Fiji. As part of my Master Program ISATEC (International Studies in Aquatic ...
Why we should stop killing sharks and start protecting them!
Sharks have been around for a very long time. They´ve been roaming our oceans for over 400 Million years – ...
#5|270.000 tote Haie pro Tag – eine Ausrottung mit Folgen|
Seit über 400 Millionen Jahren streifen Haie nun durch unsere Meere und kontrollieren das marine Ökosystem wie eine Art Meerespolizei ...
