“It’s not out to get you,” Gartland said. White sharks like to eat seals. “We don’t have nearly enough fat on us to be of interest.”
Posted on 05/22/2015 12:05:31 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
If you go take a dip off the Virginia coast this Memorial Day weekend, you could be swimming with a toothy, 3,400-pound buddy.
Mary Lee, a 16-foot great white shark and an Internet sensation, is touring the Atlantic coast — sometimes close to shore.
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The work with Mary Lee and other sharks is already telling us things we didn’t know about great white sharks — which experts simply call “white sharks.”great white
Mary Lee seems like a silly name for a fish but I don’t want to insult a 3,400 lb. shark.
“It’s not out to get you,” Gartland said. White sharks like to eat seals. “We don’t have nearly enough fat on us to be of interest.”
We’re going to need a bigger boat.
“It’s basically an entire reversal. People love the animals now.”
"You've got to walk towards him, make yourself as big as possible, and make as much noise as you can. Take your keys out of your pocket and jangle them."
“You know the thing about a shark, he’s got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eye.”
Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S41Kplsbs
Quint:
“Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin’ back, from the island of Tinian to Leyte, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, chief? You tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week.
Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin’. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it’s... kinda like ol’ squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he’d start poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he’s got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eye. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin’ and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’ they all come in and rip you to pieces.
Y’know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don’t know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin’ chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He’s a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
As a diver, these are magnificent animals! Love to see them in the wild!
LOL. How can you tell it is bear scat? The little bells.
Quint: Here lies the body of Mary Lee; died at the age of a hundred and three. For fifteen years she kept her virginity; not a bad record for this vicinity.
some people worship rats.
“It’s not out to get you,” Gartland said. White sharks like to eat seals. “We don’t have nearly enough fat on us to be of interest.”
Not fat enough, huh? This guy been to the beach lately?
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