Posted on 10/04/2020 6:26:50 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A 17-foot, 2-inch great white shark weighing an astounding 3,541 pounds was captured Friday in the Northwest Atlantic by researchers with OCEARCH.
“She is a very old creature, a proper Queen of the Ocean and a matriarch. She has all the scars, healed wounds and discolorations that tell a deep, rich story of her life going back years,” Fischer told McClatchy News.
“You feel different when you’re standing beside a shark of that size compared to the ones in the 2,000-pound range. It’s an emotional, humbling experience that can make you feel small. You feel insignificant standing next to such an ancient animal.”
The shark was fitted with three tags, including one to record how deep she goes and another that will track her movements for the next five years.
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Queen of the Ocean? Really? Remind me again how much the Earth’s oceans have been explored, surely far less than we know of the Moon or Mars.... /s
“You feel different when you’re standing beside a shark of that size compared to the ones in the 2,000-pound range. It’s an emotional, humbling experience that can make you feel small. You feel insignificant standing next to such an ancient animal.”
Ih jeez. Worshipping sharks now are we?
Today’s shark calendar. Swim around, kill stuff and eat it.
Tomorrow’s shark calendar: swim around, kill stuff, eat it.
Repeat until they find a bigger shark.
That white shark weighs as much as a 1956 Mercury Monterey coupe.
But still hilariously perverse
“Oceanarch tracker”
That’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen...and scary as heck. There are currently 15 off Long Island. And, that’s just the tagged ones!
(Bookmarked for the next time I go to the beach...)
Alex Kintner...?
What? No steaks?
OCEARCH reported Friday, Oct. 2, that it captured and tagged a 17.2 inch great white shark off Nova Scotia, making it the biggest ever shark it has captured in the region.
17 inch shark? That's not the monster you're looking for.
She ate, she pooped, she mated.
Yep. The rest is shark worship.
They put that demon back out in the ocean.
I like swimming pools.
The “Center Daily Times” — the fish wrap of my college days. It was nothing more than a rag then.
There are deep water currents that work like the “people movers” at the airport. Big sharks like great whites will go deep, catch a current, and “pop up” a thousand miles way. The satellite trackers have shown this. They also know that these sharks probably aren’t eating during a trip like this because they can only keep their body temp a few degrees above ambient water temps — insufficient for their digestive system to work.
Just like Hillary
I track a Mako shark named “Pico”. I always figure a couple of hours to check on him. :)
That white shark weighs as much as a 1956 Mercury Monterey coupe.
This old girl is a bit younger than your ‘56 Merc, guessing that she has more miles?
The energy in 1 gallon of gasoline is 31,500 food calories.
The human body gets around 15 miles per gallon.
About ~1,500 calories per pound of ground beef...
~21 lb= gallon of gasoline...
“Even the most active and energetic of sharks only needs to eat anywhere between 0.5 to 3 percent of its body weight a day. This means that a shark weighing 100 pounds (45 kg) would only have to eat three pounds of fish (1.3 kg) per day.” http://whalesreport.com/how-often-do-sharks-eat/#:~:text=Even%20the%20most%20active%20and,(1.3%20kg)%20per%20day.
Who gets the better mileage???
The ‘56 Merc or the Queen of the Ocean?
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