{"id":18317,"date":"2012-02-22T10:03:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T15:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=18317"},"modified":"2012-02-22T10:03:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T15:03:21","slug":"bimini-at-center-of-fight-to-protect-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/02\/bimini-at-center-of-fight-to-protect-sharks","title":{"rendered":"Bimini At Center Of Fight To Protect Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18318\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18318\" title=\"sharks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sharks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sharks.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sharks-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: CBS4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MIAMI (CBS4) \u2013 Just 50 miles off the coast of Bimini the waters are teaming with sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Sharks that need human protection.\u00a0 At the center of that effort is Dr. Samuel Gruber, a professor at the University of Miami\u2019s Rosential School for Marine and Atmospheric Science and director of their Bimini Biological Field Station. You could call him the \u201cshark whisperer.\u201d But he hardly whispers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want you to clear that shark. Can you do that,\u201d asked Dr. Gruber point to a large shark in the water. \u201cLook at that shark!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he is the \u201cshark barker. At 74-years old, Dr. Gruber could be summed up in one word:\u00a0 crazy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI frankly never thought I\u2019d live past 30,\u201d Gruber told CBS4\u2032s David Sutta while he fought to pull up a tiger shark on the side of a boat. Somehow Doc has survived encountering sharks from Florida through the Bahamas, since the 60\u2032s.<\/p>\n<p>Gruber\u2019s love for one of the most feared animals in the ocean drove him to set up the school\u2019s shark lab in Bimini. He was forced there when research in the Florida Keys collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI watched the population that I worked with dwindle down to nothing over a period of several years due to overfishing,\u201d explained Gruber.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he\u2019s far from nothing. Sharks are everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Biologists come to Bimini from around the world to study the ocean\u2019s top predator. It\u2019s not by chance that Gruber, the biologists or the sharks are here.\u00a0 For three decades the Bahamas have been protecting the shark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biologists come to Bimini from around the world to study the ocean\u2019s top predator. It\u2019s not by chance&#8230; for three decades the Bahamas has been protecting sharks. Sharks that need human protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[63,76,79,52],"class_list":["post-18317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-animals","tag-environment-2","tag-marine","tag-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}