The folks at Narragansett Brewery are throwing their own shark week celebration, starting this Thursday with a screening of “Jaws” complete with costume contest. There will probably be several Quints crushing it. While the book is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the movie won’t turn fifty until next June. But the brewery celebrates “Jaws” […]
Time for you bikers to kiss the wave goodbye and enhance your street cred with a new badass shark plate. Put one of these on your Vespa Ciao and watch the other mopeds scatter. The Atlantic Shark Institute (ASI) announced Thursday that they had recently taken their 500th order for the commercial and motorcycle versions
Judging from the initial response, this could end up being the new Rhode Island license plate. It’s so nicely executed and so badass. Or, you can still get . . . a wave. Waves are nice. The Atlantic Shark Institute, a nonprofit Rhode Island shark research organization, is now accepting applications for this new charity
Strictly speaking these shark sightings are not a Providence story . . . yet. The Atlantic Shark Institute announced Wednesday that they had detected four great white sharks near Block Island. From abc6 News: “We increased the number of acoustic receivers around Block Island from two in 2019 to seven this season and we assumed
Oh for an all-cartilage skeleton. Life would be so easy. Tonight on PBS will be airing the URI documentary “Sharks: The Demon Fish?” I suspect their bad reputation will be somewhat rehabilitated by the end. The program, “Sharks: The Demon Fish?” examines how URI faculty and alumni are conducting wide-ranging research to develop a better
Meet Genie (orange dot) a 14-foot great white shark who has been noodling around off the Jersey shore for a couple of months now. Last August she vacationed off of Nantucket and the Cape . . . she was not alone. Anyone planning to dangle their toes in the ocean this summer should not watch
(7.5) Aah, this is the life. The salt wind in your hair, a cold can of Narragansett beer . . . what could possibly go wrong? Find out this Thursday in the next installment of Movies on the Block. New York Times movie critic Vincent Canby gave “Jaws” a fairly short review. It’s a noisy,
Their motto, “Honest, Fair, Everywhere”. Accurate? Not so much. For a few days now abc6 has been opening its “Shark Watch” segments with footage of an enormous orca, or killer whale, snagging a seal. (This is clearly seen when viewed on television.) Why not just show that footage of the crocodile pulling the wildebeest into
When I heard that Great Whites were being drawn to the burgeoning seal population of the Cape Cod coast, I had no idea quite what that looked like. Jeez look at this! The seals look like jimmies on a scoop of ice cream! I grabbed this aerial image from the Turnto10 report about the various
. . . make sure they are the really really tasty-looking kind. Following the confirmed sighting of a great white shark off the coast of Massachusetts, the Coast Guard issued a shark warning last Friday. According to WBZ the Coast Guard suggests that the sharks are attracted by the growing seal population. “Predation is not
This is where that bead place used to be. I guess the name says it all. It’s nice to see a local independent retailer open up among the usual category killers. Speaking of killers, also up and running is Shark the sushi/hibachi grill place with a live shark in a tank. It is quite the
Hey, I thought we had an agreement. An Austrian lawyer died in a Florida shark attack yesterday. Markus Groh, a 49-year-old Vienna lawyer, was on a commercial dive trip Sunday when he was bitten about 50 miles off the coast of Fort Lauderdale. The waters had been baited with bloody fish parts to attract the
Or something like that: BEIJING, Feb. 19 (Xinhuanet) — It’s been 40 million years since Antarctic waters were warm enough for sharks to lurk around and feed on polar prey, but rising ocean temperatures from global warming could eventually bring the toothy predators back, media reported Tuesday quoting scientists as saying. If sharks reenter Antarctic