Swimming with Sharks
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 R. Aidan Martin teaches "Biology of Sharks and Rays" for the NSU Oceanographic Center distance education program. |
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R. Aidan Martin teaches "Biology of Sharks and Rays" for the NSU Oceanographic Center distance education program. |
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On 11 December 2005, 60 Minutes broadcast "Swimming with Sharks", about the controversies surrounding shark cage diving in
South Africa. The broadcast featured R. Aidan Martin, who teaches "Biology of Sharks and Rays" through the NSU Oceanographic
Center's distance learning programs, for only for a few minutes, but his shark conservation influence was evident throughout the segment.
A transcript of the segment and video clips can be seen at: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/06/60minutes/main1099368.shtml. Aidan Martin has been studying White Shark predatory and social behaviour in South Africa since 1997, selected findings of which were recently published in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (85: 1121-1135). Aidan Martin is scheduled to be the Keynote Speaker at the 10th annual meeting of the European Elasmobranch Society in Germany and was recently nominated for Fellowship in the Explorer's Club, based in New York City.
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