Joe Remeiro’s 333 Productions recently unveiled the trailer for their latest shark-themed production entitled “Shark Culture.” The production is listed as an educational, non-profit piece. The trailer features a very cool oceanic white tip “speed drawing” sequence that transitions into live-action footage. Also of note is the appearance of one of Guadalupe’s most recognized great white sharks, Cal Ripfin (aka Shredder).

“Shark Culture” is set to premiere on February 19, 2011, according to the trailer.

Ikreeda.com recently released a “Talking Great White” app. for the iPhone. The app allows you to feed, pet, and apparently provoke your “pet great white shark.” If you irritate the white shark enough it will swim toward the “glass” of your iPhone display and smash it. Additionally, the app. features the ability to talk to the shark and have it repeat back whatever you say in a “deep shark voice.”

Personally, I don’t get the whole app. craze, but to each his/her own.

Bing Videos posted the above video, which features a school of bait fish near the shore playing a game of dodge-shark. An interesting visual effect is created by the smaller fish keeping a safe distance from the sharks.

Today’s Google Doodle features an underwater scene to commemorate Jules Verne (author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) on his birthday. A basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) appears in the scene, which can be navigated via the joystick to the right of the Google logo. The basking shark is toward the right of the scene about half-way down the image (see video above).

Sharkdefenders has posted a video testimonial in support of a proposed bill that would “prohibit the possession, selling, offering for sale, trading, or distribution of shark fins and ray parts.” A public hearing on the bill, held Tuesday, reportedly drew a “full house,” according to Kuam News.

According to a National Post article, a Canadian woman who was the victim of an apparent shark attack in Cancun, Mexico is recovering from her injuries and has “all her limbs intact.” This news is in contrast to earlier reports that the woman had lost an arm as a result of the shark attack.

The victim’s father, Alberto Baldassari, told the National Post that his daughter was “doing relatively well,” after undergoing surgery to repair “severe wounds” to her arm and leg. He went on to say that some of the reports regarding his daughter’s attack were “grossly exaggerated.” The victim plans to return to Canada via “an air ambulance” as soon as her condition allows travel, according to her father.

In what seems to be a bizarre related bit of news, an iNews 880 is reporting that “media reports” are claiming that the victim was attacked by a female bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) who was giving birth prior to the attack taking place. The iNews 880 report goes on to quote a “spokesman for Mexico’s National Commission of Natural Protected Areas” as saying that the incident was an act of “self defense” on the shark’s behalf and not a “shark attack.”

The details surrounding the iNews 880 story seem sparse, so it should probably be taken with a grain of salt.

The Vancouver Sun is reporting that a 38-year-old Canadian tourist suffered injuries to her left leg and arm yesterday as the result of shark attack. According to Dr. Italo Sampablo Lauro, the medical director of a private Cancun hospital where the victim is being treated, the injuries were “not life-threatening,” and she expected to “recover.” However, an AFP release reports that the victim lost an arm and was left in “grave” condition. The AFP cited a Yucatan newspaper article.