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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20110712:10:09:00

you never get to see them. reporter: local fisherman paul fong snapped these shots of a great white off hihiboat. i seen a lot of sharks, you know, fishing and tuna fishing and doing some other things out there. but never seen a great white before. reporter: a new study shows unprovoked shark attacks are on the rise. there were 79 in 2010. up from 63 in 2009. 42% of those attacks happened in north american waters. the majority in the united states. one reason the sharks like this area, these beaches are full of seals. the seal population has grown here. you just walk around and you see so many of them. and of course, seals are a food source for sharks. swimmers are being urged to be extra vigilant when they re in the water and to visit beaches where the seals aren t around. be alert, be aware. if you see a shark, anything that might look like a shark, get out of the water and notify authorities. reporter: linsey davis, abc news, new york.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100830:13:55:00

it s become an annual rite of summer on the sandy shores of cape cod, the arrival of the great white shark. what s happening is you ve got this growing rebust seal population, white sharks feed on seal sos if the seems are growing and are there every year i think the white sharks will continue to come back. to a great white, seals are like fast-food, and in massachusetts, it s the drive-up window. there are thousands of them, most spending their days on dry land, mindful, perhaps, of what lurks beneath. i ve got about 27 years of studying sharks under my belt with the holy grail being the great white and finally i ve got a chance to study them in in any way back yard. and tag them with satellites so the mig bration can be tracked, but what s fascinating is a little disconcerting to beach goers. kind of freaked out. red flags ean for swimming and beachs are closed when dorsal fins are spotted. that was down the boat

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100803:11:43:00

their diet pretty regularly. in the united states in the winter months they are more on a fish diet. then in the summer months when the seal population is out, here on the east coast, that s when they re more feeding on marine mammals and obviously for us swimming at the beach around marine mammals, it is kind of best to move on to a different beach. you say we look and act more like seals in the water than we do fish. generally speaking sharks can tell what their normal prey items are. we believe most of the attacks that do happen they re very rare, less than 100 attacks in the world, last year more than 60 attacks. we believe these attacks are usual lay case of mistaken identity where a shark confuses us with their normal prey. you have shark week going on right now on the discovery channel. what is it about this animal that most of us will actually ever rarely see in person that has us all so rifted? our fascination with sharks began long before jaws.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100705:13:39:00

also the seal population is huge in this area. i came back from this area last night and there s lots of seals and the population has been growing a lot. you may remember last summer, five great whites were spotted off the coast of chatham. there s a seal population in that area and the coast guard is saying you need to be careful, when you re swimming the waters and they always tell people don t swim near the seals. people like to swim near the seals. that s lunch if you re a great white shark and a great white shark expert is going to join us and tell us how concerned we should be about this shark threat that is looming in the waters out there. rick: and we need to talk to this expert. last summer the seals went away and everybody like where did the seals go and they left because the sharks came in. now the seals are back. we ll see what that means. the troubling case of a missing seven-year-old, how his stepmom may be connected to the case. we ll tell you. martha: this is an unn

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100820:18:22:30

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100820:18:22:30
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