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Posted on 09/13/2015 6:54:47 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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Researchers were tagging great whites to study their movements. In the process, they tagged a nine-foot female, who left the area safely. Four months later, her tag was found on a beach near where she was first caught -- and the data tells a very interesting story.
"It showed this profile going down the shelf to 580 meters, then a huge temperature change ... another living animal," said a Smithsonian researcher.
Yes, it appears that the nine-foot great white was eaten. The big question? What ate her? Whatever it was, it had to be big enough to swallow almost 10 feet of apex predator, and quick enough to drag it almost 2,000 feet in a few seconds.
So, what is it? A giant squid? Godzilla? A Megalodon? Well, actually, that last one is not too far off from the real theory....
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Does Michael Moore know how to swim?
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Whatever took this Great White could dive very, very deep and therefore could probably stay down for a long time.
“The DEEPEST they’ve been known “
Key point - KNOWN
I’m open to the possibility it was a G Squid or some ‘sea monster’ we have yet to identify. Oceans are far from a known quantity. As is whats in them. We find new things every day.
About time.
Why should I care?
Therefore, whatever took this Great White was most likely a fish or a cephalopod, NOT an aquatic mammal -- an Orca is a mammal just like thee and me!
That said ... I think chances of it being an Orca that took this Great White are very, very slim.
Well people have been yelling “Release the KRAKEN!” for a few years now. Maybe someone did ;)
The Bible tells us that in the last days a great beast shall rise up out of the sea.
Yep. Exactly right. Highly unlikely that Killer Whales did this.
Maybe what took a bite out them is 2000+ ft deep, and warm-blooded, then the sharks float back up into range for the orcas to continue work on them. Maybe the initial biter only needs one bite to last them a month. Must be something attracting the sharks that deep, fresh blood or something.
NO, what others are saying about Orcas is misinformed — a typical “deep” dive for Orcas is about 850 feet, a really really deep dive is about 1200 feet. 2,000 feet — zero reason to do this, especially as they cannot break the big critter down and swallow it in parts at that depth, and IF they take a critter that big they are in pods; VERY unlikely that a pod, let alone one Orca, would dive to 2000 feet.
Interesting. Thanks for the info.
Yeah, but they don’t dive 2000 feet to do it. 2,000 feet is way, way deeper than even the deepest known dive for a Killer Whale (about 1200 ft). Not that they couldn’t dive that deep ... but WHY would they, and it would have to be a “they” because a larger shark would be attacked and dined on in pods.
That lard a** doesn’t have to swim. He floats through the sea partially suspended by his excessive fat content.
Possibly. But ... I doubt the dead shark would float.
Because of global warming, the Abominable Snowman had to find another home. Now, he’s the Abominable Bottom Feeder.
Orcas play around with sharks and other animals, it could be they didn’t kill it to eat it. I think one of the things they do is bite off all the fins in a playful manner.
There’s video of them doing it to a tiger shark, but that was near the surface like you say. But of course one would think that surface video would almost invariably be the one humans get to see, of course that doesn’t mean they actually do hunt sharks deep. If the transmitter was on the dorsal that could explain how it got in an orca belly I suppose.
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