Six years ago, when I was traveling through an East Asian airport, I noticed a souvenir for sale that wasn’t of the traditional t-shirt/shot glass/postcard variety. Instead, the last... Read more >>

What Is Shark Finning? Shark finning refers to the removal and retention of shark fins and the discard at sea of the carcass. The shark is most often still alive when it is tossed back into the water…. Read more >>

I swore that in my lifetime I would never do it. I have it in my childhood memory bank that my dad took my sisters and me to see Jaws at the theater when it first came out in June of 1975, which... Read more >>

The treasure diver stands on the rim of his ship. Below him is a vast expanse of crystal blue waters, shimmering and flickering in the brilliant white tropical sun. He is going to penetrate those... Read more >>

Anyone else ever play the shark game way back when you were a kid? It wasn’t a Hasbro game packed in a box with dice, cards, and tokens that you moved across a game board. This shark game came... Read more >>

A few years ago, Kimberley Chambers was your average high-tech drone in the San Francisco Bay Area. By day she worked at a software company in Silicon Valley. In her meager spare time, she describes... Read more >>

While in Grenada, off a Princess cruise, I decided that I would try my hand at riding a banana boat, towed behind a motor boat. Three office mates and I climbed aboard. What I didn’t see was the... Read more >>