Posted on 02/25/2017 8:09:00 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
After researchers tagged the 6.5-foot-long male shark off the Maryland coast in the fall, Hypower circled offshore between New York and New Jersey, took a few loops around the North Atlantic, then made a beeline down the East Coast. The shark then trekked close to shore in North and Central Florida before heading to South Florida, where it swam down to the Keys and back toward the mainland.
Nicknamed the “cheetahs of the seas,” makos can swim up to 60 mph. The sharks are known for making remarkably long treks — a young female named JiffyLube2 (for her sponsor) covered more than 10,000 miles in 2015
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Wow! Incredible! Why, that’s nearly 35 miles a day. A garbage scow could go faster.
142 days = 1308 hours. 5000 miles in 1308 hours is ~ 1.5 mph. Even if it swam for only 8 hrs per day, that is only 4.4 mph.
Guess sharky didn’t get the memo that the Easter Surfing Festival at Lori Wilson Park in Cocoa Beach got cancelled this year. Shark DOH!
“that is only 4.4 mph.”
That’s why a fish needs a bicycle!
That’s only about 35 miles a day. Sharks never stop swimming and at less than 1.5 MPH he’s hardly sprinting.
142 days
x 24 hours
___
3408 hours
5000 miles
/ 3408 hours
___
1.46713615023 mph
Mako’s could do this in their sleep...
cool stuff...
60 mph just seemed too fast. Though even 46 is incredibly fast through water.
Technically, the Herald is correct. That on a worldwide basis shark populations are in decline. That's due to longlinging which needs to be outlawed worldwide.There is not a species in the world that can exist long term when they are targeted by longlines. They are too effective.
But like most Miami Herald stories they always leave out a lot of stuff since they don't budget much of anything for fishing writers. Why should they? It's only a multi billion dollar industry down here.!!Duhhhhh!!!
What they left out is that over-protection of sharks has created a huge problem in Fla. Bay and the Keys.the shark is now even more of an apex predator than it was before.
They kill gamefish like mad almost at will.
Bonefish, tarpons sailfish you name the species sharks tear them up on a regular basis.
Especially snook in the Western Fla. Bay area. The regulations on bag and size limits for snook are 72 pages long and are needed.Problem is sharks don't give a dam.They kill them all the time.
But then the Herald would actually have to employ someone who actually knows something about fishing to cover that. They are dying a slow death being a DBM loser paper so they don't hire anyone.
Don’t sharks have to swim continuously in order for their gills to extract oxygen from the water? If so, this shark was just doing what it always does, what it must do: swim.
Other sharks have to do that, too, but maybe Makos just aren’t stay-at-home sharks.
Another overhyped & breathless example of what passes for science reporting in today’s media. They count on the fact that you won’t check their math. This shark was averaging only 1.5 MPH. Hardly fast for even a small dogfish.
Chunk light.
http://www.newenglandsharks.com/page5mako.html
Being a shark fisherman I have regular encounters with them.
Lately the Makos seem to be faster , jump higher and are more of a hassle than usual- as I get older, slower and less responsive. -Tom
Was the shark trying to make it to a Trump rally in time or something?
Waste of time. No details, no map, not much information just a fluff piece that could have been a lot better and a lot more.
Crap news. Sorry journalists.
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