On the trail of the fabled greenland shark

Vancouver Sun ^ | 13 Jan 2007 | Nicholas Read

[FLOutdoorsman]

Kinda Crypto ping.

[pcottraux]

OOOh! Two in a row!

[miliantnutcase]

sweet!

[Jack Hammer]

Need a photo and links to more info!

[Eagles6]

Saw a writeup on this shark in National Geographic a year or three ago. Pics too.

[FLOutdoorsman]

Heres one, typical Gov't though. You need a permit, heh.
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=92183610540

This one killed me!!! HAHA. I'll buy that man a Beer!
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/innews/knifekill2003.htm

I've always heard of legends of them attacking Eskimos in Kayaks and finding Reindeer parts in their stomachs.

[Tzimisce]

Wow.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Well, that's a new twist on "jumping the shark"...

[Brujo]

The Greenland shark -- at up to 1,100 kilograms, the biggest shark in the North Atlantic and, after the Great White, the second largest on the planet ...

Wrong. Haven't they heard of whale sharks in Canada?

[FLOutdoorsman]

I thought that at first, but the way the coma is used, the implication is that the Great White is the Second Largest one.

[Eagles6]

"This sounds like a human attack on a shark, not the other way around," said George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File. "The shark was coming in for a free meal, and this guy decided to kill it."

Mr.Burgess is truly a nitwit. Makes it sound like the captain murdered a 1500 lb. homeless guy at the soup kitchen.

[Brujo]

The Greenland shark -- at up to 1,100 kilograms, the biggest shark in the North Atlantic and, after the Great White, the second largest on the planet

Well, the prepositional phrase “after the Great White” is delimited by commas before and after. Without it, we have “The Greenland shark -- at up to 1,100 kilograms, the biggest shark in the North Atlantic and the second largest on the planet”, which seems to be in line with the recorded length / weight of caught sharks.

However, having “after the Great White” in there clearly is saying that the Great White is the largest on the planet. It's not (that's the whale shark). It's not even the second-largest (that's the Greenland shark).

I think the author just goofed; he should have written “after the Whale Shark” as the prepositional phrase inside the commas.

[FLOutdoorsman]

I know when I'm outclassed. I'll go back to the Book.

[theFIRMbss]

I don't have a clue
what this site is about, but
they've got this cool pic --

[Brujo]

That's a great book. I was beaten over the head with it all through high school.

Thanks for posting such an interesting article.

[SunkenCiv]

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[FreedomPoster]

Bad link.

[1010RD]

Beautiful story and a real scientist doing it for the love of it.

all his research has been funded out of his own pocket

[ThanhPhero]

The whale shark can become much larger than the great white.