{"id":594982,"date":"2026-08-16T11:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594982\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:52:29","slug":"clare-ocean-conservationist-slams-coverage-of-waterford-shark-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594982\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Ocean Conservationist Slams Coverage Of Waterford Shark Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Clare Ocean Conservationist has strongly criticised media coverage of a shark bite incident off the South Coast of Ireland this week.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Achim was angling for sharks for research purposes of the coast of Waterford on Tuesday, when a Blue Shark his crew had caught lunged at his calf while on board.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian has since stated \u201cthe shark was in the right as it was taken out if its habitat and was in survival mode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lahinch-based Documentary Maker Ken O\u2019Sullivan says describing the incident as an attack is not only disingenuous, but harmful.<\/p>\n<p>Listen here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Clare Ocean Conservationist has strongly criticised media coverage of a shark bite incident off the South Coast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-594982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}