About the Shark Research Committee


Guest Speaker
         and
Media Consultant

Pacific Coast
Shark News

Sharks of the Pacific Coast

White Shark Biosketch

Distribution and Diet of Pacific Coast White Sharks

Predatory Behavior of Pacific Coast White Sharks

Shark/Human Interactions Along the Pacific Coast

Pacific Coast
Shark Attack
Statistics

Fatal Pacific Coast Shark Attacks
1900  —  Present

Shark Attacks Along the Pacific Coast - 2000 —

Shark Attacks Along the Pacific Coast - 1990s

Case Histories of Unprovoked White Shark Attacks:

  Divers
  Kayakers
  Surfers
   Swimmers

White Shark Interactions with Inanimate Objects

Publications

Shark Encounters:

White Shark Encounters Along the Pacific Coast

Soupfin Shark Encounter

Reporting Forms:

  Shark Attack

  Shark Encounter

  Shark Predation

Shark Web Sites:

Recommended Links

Publications

Collier, Ralph S. (1964). Report on a recent shark attack off San Francisco, California. California Fish & Game. 50 (4): 261-264.

Miller, Daniel J., and Ralph S. Collier (1981). Shark Attacks in California and Oregon, 1926-1979. California Fish & Game. 67 (2): 76-104.

Collier, R. S. (1992). Recurring attacks by White Sharks on divers at two Pacific sites off Mexico and California. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 33: 319-325.

Collier, R. S. (1993). Shark attacks off the California islands: review and update. Third California Islands Symposium: Recent Advances in Research on the California Islands. F. G. Hochberg (editor). Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California. pp. 453-462.

Collier, R. S., Mark Marks and Ronald W. Warner (1996). White Shark Attacks on Inanimate Objects Along the Pacific Coast of North America. In: Great White Sharks: biology of Carcharodon carcharias. A. Peter Klimley and David Ainley (editors). Academic Press. pp. 217-222.

Collier, R.S. (2003). Suggested protocol for the scientific investigation of shark attacks. In: Field Guide to the Great White Shark. R. Aidan Martin. ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research, Special Publication No. 1. Vancouver. B. C. pp.152-159.

Collier, R.S. (2003). Shark Attacks of the Twentieth Century: from the Pacific Coast of North America. Scientia Publishing, LLC. 296 pp.

Martin, R. Aidan, Neil Hammerschlag, Ralph S. Collier and Chris Fallows (2005). Predatory behaviour of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at Seal Island, South Africa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. pp. 1121-1135.


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