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In this anxiety-inducing video, you can see shark expert Valerie Taylor feeding a Great White Shark…by hand! And the end, she actually pets the shark on the head. As one YouTube commenter puts it “holy crap its the Shark Whisperer.”
via Doobybrain
If you think that’s a big shark, that’s because it was the biggest great white shark ever caught by man:
The two-ton Apache put up a fight—at one point breaking free from his barbless hook, said expedition leader Chris Fischer. "The battle with Apache was like nothing we’ve ever dealt with," Fischer said.
Once on board, the researchers fitted the fish with a satellite-tracking tag, took a blood sample, and released him, watching him vigorously swim away.
"He was all scarred up and had big marks all over him—you could tell he was just a bad-ass shark," Fischer said. "It was so impressive and so humbling to be near him."
Just a little late for Shark Week, but this amazing footage of a great white was taken by Chuck Patterson in Southern California. He was alone with his stand-up surfboard when one slapped him with its tail. This second one circled for twelve minutes before finding something else to do. Patterson says “it was an insane experience which i hope to enjoy again soon.”
A 10-foot Great White Shark had been hooked already by a baited drum line off the coast of Queensland, Australia when it was attacked and bitten by a much bigger fish. Based on the bite marks, the attacker is presumed to be a 20-foot long Great White shark. Swimmers were warned away from the area of Stradbroke Island.
“That cannibal thing is what great whites do; they’ll eat anything, including their own kind,” Hugh Edwards, a local shark expert, told Australia’s 7 News. “It would be sensible not to swim in that area for a little while.”
Link -via Dave Barry’s Blog
