Matt & Manoa Buckman, Heroes In The Ocean Video courtesy of Aaron Begle; information courtesy of Adherbal de Oliveira, Molokai Channel, Hawaii. Escort pilot Matt Buckman and his co-pilot, son and escort kayaker Manoa Buckman know the waters and channels around the Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Molokai, Lanai and Maui. They know the waters very, very
Shark Attack & Recovery By Adherbal de Oliveira Courtesy of Adherbal de Oliveira, Travessia do Leme ao Pontal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Despite being attacked by a shark during his Molokai Channel crossing, Adherbal de Oliveira returned back to his Brazilian home and still takes to the ocean. He recently assisted Rodrigo Gralha Garcia in the Travessia
Courtesy of Adherbal Treidler de Oliveira, Molokai Channel, Hawaii.
While jellyfish stings appear to be on the increase throughout the world, there are still relatively few shark attacks around the world.
But
Brazilian swimmer Adherbal Treidler de Oliveira was not lucky.
He was hit by a cookiecutter shark in the Molokai Channel
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Last week in the Catalina Channel, Sabrina Peron of Italy was visited by a hammerhead shark and a blue shark during her crossing. Guided with the cool heads and collective experience of Neil van der Byl and Anthea Beletsis, nothing happened and Peron continued on to the California mainland in a successful
A cookiecutter shark took a bite out of Hawaiian channel swimmer Michael Spalding when he was swimming from the Big Island of Hawaii to Maui. In the middle of the night, Spalding was initially hit in the sternum and then rolled over on this back. The next moment, the deep-water cookiecutter shark came up again and took a round mound of flesh from his
