I believe sharks needs to constantly move to be able to breath. Certain sharks that is. I also think it was pointless to catch this shark.
Lara Croft did I think they say to punch him there because thats where his Brain or sensotory (sp? ) system are located ? But i wonder if a regular human can hurt a shark with its fist considering how thick sharks skin is ?
Yeah! It works but don't push your luck: I punched one that was just swimming by, and he bit off my arm.
well any fish that cannot maintain a flow of water through it's mouth and out the gills will drown... pulling one backwards will do it.. or stopping it's forward motion long enough will do it
I seem to recall that sharks don't have buoyancy bladders, which is why they must remain in motion. Most fish "impel" water through their gills, allowing them to stay stationary. I'm not sure if that is the case with sharks.
This is true for most sharks. However some (Nurse for example) can activelly pump water past their gills allowing them to stay motionless (more or less) Many of the semi-ray sharks can also do this. Neat trick, if you flip one upside down, its mind goes into a suspended state. (Yeaa...I love sharks. I want a pet blue shark )
The LA Times did had a blurb on this too. They tell the story a little differently: Epic mako loses shark brawl in Atlantic The shark battled for 40 minutes before angler Jamie Doucette, 28, of Wedgeport, Nova Scotia, saw its enormousness. "She felt pretty big," he recalls, "but it wasn't until she started pulling the boat off course that I started to worry." In a scene reminiscent of "Jaws," the fish tugged the boat sideways during the Yarmouth Shark Scramble off Nova Scotia in August. It surged to the surface near the bow, a mako with a broad head and rows of razor teeth, chewing through steel leader. Doucette reeled it in and other anglers wrapped it in ropes as the shark chewed through the knots. One loop circled its torso, the other the tail; one man leaned over the boat and slit its throat as Jaws thrashed for something to bite. It died 20 minutes later. The fishermen estimated that it weighed up to 500 pounds, big enough to take the $3,000 in prize money, but when a forklift unloaded it, the fish weighed 1,082 pounds, a potential Canadian record. "I felt bad that we caught her at the prime of her reproductive cycle," says Doucette. "When they get to be this massive they call them queens of the sea. I would have let her go if I had been by myself, but it's different when you have four or five other guys on the boat. You've got to win." --Charles Duhigg ttp://www.latimes.com/features/outdoors/la-os-briefs2nov02191923,1,1967323.story?coll=la-headlines-outdoors
Pointless cruelty is to fish with the purpose of hooking a fish, making it fight for it's life and landing it just to throw it back with the hopes of being able to do it all over again. Taking a fish or deer or whatever in a sporting fashion to eat, is nature. The mountain lions and coyotes around home do it all the time.
Proof that the guy is an idiot m/f. Had he had half a brain, he would've cut the line and the story would have ended there. Impressive animal it was.
I'm sure it would have said the same of you...after it bit your head off. Such is life as a carnivore.
We spent 5 million years evolving into the top of the food chain. Sharks are pissed that they didn't make the top of the list, and show it by biting our legs and arms off. F*ck them - I hate sharks and all they stand for. They are real bastards, and I think they oughtta be round up and shot in the head, execution style. Yeah!!!
>the Shark took off towing the 42 foot fishing boat backwards through the water at about 7 Knots. > I don't think so!! the story is bigger than the fish! Take the reporter out and shoot him if you're going to shoot anything...what a tosser, the only true part would be about when the Mako jumped. The only funny thing I ever saw while fishing was when another boat in the tournament hooked a mako and it came cartwheeling into the boat and all the anglers leapt overboard....now that was funny to watch Did a lot of damage before it died...
well you all kill flys moths ect every time you drive the ferrari they are stuck all over the car so why not a shark
Millions of years of evolution haven't encroached on their perfection as killers. And they don't have to put up with BS politics like the "top 'o the food chain" does...hmmmm, are we really the top?? Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
(seriously now) I agree. Sharks represent the apex predator for most of the seas. Their body, brain, actions, everything has been honed down to near perfection. They have more senses then we do. They have been around for over 200 million years. They have been here since before the dinosaurs even existed. They are definately one of God's greatest masterpieces IMHO. (No human, but compared to all the other fishes..)
Hitting a shark in the nose does work, its very sensitive. Sharks are very impressive killing machines, the Indianapolis of ww2 is a great story, 800 men went in the water a few hundered came out courtesy of sharks. Its sad to see it like this but I have much more empathy for whales or dolphins which are mammals and very intelligent that slowly drown and die needlessly in nets for our canned tuna fish or get caught in shark nets off tourist beaches.
How do you punch a shark in the nose underwater if the water adds friction so you can't use much force?
OK, i see that it was over 1,000 pounds, but I have not seen any info on how long that sucker was. FWIW, if you have ever gone fishing for blues, bass, or stripers, or any other fish that is commonly caught by anglers, then the "poor little fishy" claim doesn't hold water....
i was kidding about punching the shark.i think i would be using my own shark repellent if there was one swimming next to me.............
Sharks don't get cancer. So the preservation of sharks is very important to our medical research. Sharks have very very slow reproduction rates... and killing a few mature females can cause large % decline in the population for decades.
