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New Zealand Great White Shark Attack. Fatal shark attacks are quite rare globally, according to the Global Shark Attack File (www.sharkattackfile.net). But on November 19, a 24-year-old commercial diver died after being mauled by a shark - believed to be a Great White - off the coast of New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands, 528 miles off Christchurch. The victim, Jade Kahukore-Dixon, was diving from a boat when he was attacked.

Barack Obama's Nature Show. With his soothing voice, the ex-president narrates this gorgeous wildlife program, but the majestic visuals are the real star of the new Netflix documentary Our Oceans. With each episode dedicated to one of the planet's five oceans, the series is jaw-dropping. As much as the starry narrator will grab the headlines, the photography is the star. It is crisp, intimate, and shows the familiar in unfamiliar ways. It's especially good at demonstrating scale. When the focus shifts to a manta ray or a whale shark, the animal is filmed from below, making it look like a geometric monolith compared with the other creatures swimming around it. This, of course, doesn't mean that Obama is the new David Attenborough. (The Guardian)...

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