Actually, shark skin can be very abrasive, so yep, gloves would be a good idea...
This is what shark skin looks like under a microscope...
Posted on 05/10/2011 12:49:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Actually, shark skin can be very abrasive, so yep, gloves would be a good idea...
This is what shark skin looks like under a microscope...
I saw the show with this shark the other night. They hook him and then let him drag a boat around for an hour or two until he wears out and then they guide him over to the “mother ship”. If you look at the above picture, he’s sitting on an elevator that they raised up underneath him. When they are done tagging him and taking samples, they lower the elevator and off he swims.
Uh-oh.... here we go again...
I don’t know if this theory about GW Sharks is still operative, but it used to be assumed that a GW wasn’t ‘mature’ until it reached approx. 15-ft in length. The reasoning was that you almost never saw one smaller than that. Fish can grow very rapidly to near their ultimate limit, then very slowly after that.
I’ve seen 18-ft listed as the ultimate size for GW’s, but there have been reports of significantly larger specimens.
These shark tagging expeditions have probably increased what we know several fold.
They let him have a few hits from their industrial hookah and then let him go.
“Calms the savage beastie”, I’m told.
That’s ‘cause their squishin’ his liver.
Mark
OK I know this, however those gloves aren’t gonna help when you go “handling” that shark.
The bastard! He's eating Kenny!
*snort*
I’d be PO’d too! :)
I imagine he would be. He's out of the water, he can't breath very well, his skin is drying out, and he's gone from being virtually weightless to feeling every pound of his 3,000-lb carcass.
Right now, that shark is eating Bin Laden for lunch.
Hopefully with a side of bacon.
I missed something. What is the hose for?
What an incredible creature.
Never mind - found it!
That’s not a hose. It’s the fishing line.
Placoid scales.
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