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Seaprogram Inc. is a not-for-profit company that was founded in 2002 in order to advance shark education, awareness and conservation via it’s website, www.seaprogram.org. Seaprogram Inc. launched it’s second website in 2008, www.globalsharkdives.com, a hub for information related to SCUBA diving operators offering specialized shark diving. In 2009, Seaprogram.org was incorporated as Seaprogram Inc., and in 2010, Seaprogram Inc, modified its mission statement to the following:

To become the leading source of up to date shark related news as well as the leading source for links to shark conservation groups worldwide in order to advance shark education and awareness.

In order to accomplish its mission, Seaprogram Inc. updates it’s “Global Shark News Wire” daily to incorporate links to the latest on-line articles related to sharks and regularly updates it’s Shark Conservation Links page with links to the growing number of shark conservation websites from around the world. Daily updates to the Global Shark News Wire include recent on-line articles related to shark attacks, shark fin soup, shark finning, and shark conservation among other articles.

Seaprogram Inc’s 2008 launch of www.globalsharkdives.com, created a single source of information and links to worldwide SCUBA diving operators that specialize in shark diving and or offer a specialized shark diving course as a part of their normal curriculum. The website offers links to a growing number of different SCUBA dive operators as well as a large selection of shark photographs provided by or related to the shark dive operators listed on the website.

Seaprogram Inc, through their websites, www.seaprogram.org and www.globalsharkdives.com, offers a variety of information related to sharks from shark attacks to shark finning and is intended to educate the public about the realities associated with sharks and the inability of sharks, as a whole, to reproduce fast enough to maintain sustainable fishing populations. According to various shark conservation groups, the number of sharks killed annually due to shark finning*, bycatch * and shark net *  operations is well in excess of 70,000,000 sharks. * The term bycatch refers to sharks that are killed as part of a commercial fishing operation utilizing long-lines and/or commercial fishing nets targeting fish species other than sharks. Shark net operations utilize nets that are permanently and/or temporarily stationed off-shore at a number of beaches and are intended to prevent sharks from entering into an area of shore utilized by human bathers.

Seaprogram Inc, offers the content on its websites for informational purposes only and does not certify the content associated with third parties (via links) nor does it endorse any of the shark diving operators listed on it’s websites.