Something Ate This Shark... But What? (Something Enormous Ate a Very, Very Big Great White Shark)

Smithsonian Channel on You Tube ^ | May 30, 2014 | Smithsonian Channel

[OneVike]

A group of marine biologists off the coast of Australia tagged a healthy great white shark. Then, a few months later, the tag washed ashore. When researchers analyzed data from the tag, they were confronted with a mystery that was deeply weird, and slightly terrifying.

In this video, we learn what the researchers found on the tag. A few weeks after tagging, the shark appears to have been abruptly dragged down into a deep ocean trench, then eaten. The tag remained in the digestive system of the animal that ate it for several days. Whatever animal it was seemed to be bobbing to the ocean surface once in a while, though it never plunged as deeply as it had after it ate the shark.

What kind of deep-dwelling alpha predator did this? Obviously it's very possible that the shark's tag was eaten, but that still leaves us wondering what could bite a hunk off a shark, then zoom down to an incredible depth and back up again? This video is a reminder of how little we actually know about shark behavior and deep sea life.

[gov_bean_ counter]

[wastedyears]

A shark with a frickin’ laser on its head.

[OneVike]

Oh yea, and add the link to the you tube video.

I have been dealing with a lot of pain today and probably should not have done this due to the pain medication I'm on. oh well. If you could fix it. I would much appreciate it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_QyGANCUJI

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

I have to say I like your headline as is! LOL! Gave me a big chuckle. (A very VERY white shark . . . hey! That’s rassis!)

[tumblindice]

Cecil the seasick sea serpent?

[OneVike]

Go down the list and I posted it. I am in much pain and really screwed this up Sorry.

Pain meds really do screw with ones head it seems.

[GeronL]

rofl

[Born to Conserve]

Great white sharks have relatively warm blood. This shark was probably killed by the tagging process, and eaten by another great white.

[Darksheare]

Kronosaur.
Or dagon, mother hydra and the deep ones.

[Darksheare]

The coffee stash has run low again.
Maybe.
“The bloop” is out there.

[shibumi]

*AND*! Woke up just in time to take ,,,,, "Calls For Cthulhu!"

[OneVike]

Yea, it does seem a bit funny.

This thread was doomed from the beginning.

LOL

Friends, don’t let friends post while on drugs.

[shibumi]

Call for you on line 31.....

[Mastador1]

Giant squid, sperm whale. Boogeyman. Al Gore.

Moooooochelle out for sushi?

[Darksheare]

He has no coffee...
Meep.

[TigersEye]

There is no account associated with the handle ‘moder_ator’ you need to hit the abuse button and explain what you would like the Admin Moderator to do.

[21twelve]

Amazing.

I recall a show on the old network of submarine listening posts. At the end they said they were used for marine research, and they tracked pods of whales, etc. with them.

They are in some room with a marine biologist and he is playing recordings.

“That’s a Blue Whale at a depth of 100 feet off the coast of Maine.”

“That’s a Killer Whale off the coast of Washington.”

Then he played one that sounded half electronic and have biological, sounded like something straight out of an alien movie.

“We have NO idea what that is. It is in the Indian Trench at a depth of over a mile down!” (Not sure on the depth - but it was DEEP. And pretty sure it was the “Indian” something.

I have tried to find it on youtube - but no luck.

[OneVike]

Thanks

[Sawdring]

I saw a special on a pod of killer whales that learned how to kill great white sharks. Most probable cause, unless it was aliens. Cue the History Channel guy!

[LibWhacker]

I don’t know. Tag Michael Moore and send him down for a looksee. Nothing could choke down his fat a$$.