Feeding Time! – Sharks in Monterey
– Jim Wirth
The folks over at the Monterey Bay Aquarium posted a neat video in their blog yesterday, on how to feed a white shark.
The bizarre thing is that while I write this post, playing on the TV is the Discovery Channel’s “Ocean of Fear: Worst Shark Attack Ever,” a documentary about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, which had been torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945 in the Philippine Sea. An amazing story, and very well done documentary narrated by “Mr. Hooper” himself, Richard Dreyfuss.
Well, we absolutely love the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and highly recommend it to anyone traveling near Carmel or the Monterey Peninsula. We’ve got a terrific video here on OpenRoad.TV where Doug McConnell goes behind the scenes to see otters, penguins, sharks and jellies: Monterey Bay Aquarium Inside Look. And when you have had your fill of undersea critters, you can watch another great video we’ve got online – Monterey on Foot, where Doug discovers the local flavor and side streets of historic Monterey with world-renowned chef, John Pisto.
March 30th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Sea Notes – “Just how do you feed a white shark?”
Toss them a few limbs, they’ll enjoy it!
April 1st, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Could be true. Now, not to say that Great Whites can’t be dangerous to humans, especially if they surf or dive in the close vicinity of seals, sea lions and elephant seals, but the fact is that Great White attacks along the West Coast are few and far between…..and death by Great White is exceedingly rare given the billions of hours people spend in the water every year. I don’t have time to check the statistics tonight, but I think the number of deaths attributed to Great Whites along the coast from British Columbia to Mexico in the past 60 years is about 10. Usually, when Great Whites “attack,” they bite and spit….probably mistaking us for a more tasty mammal morsel. Meanwhile, we humans are absolutely wiping out sharks and shark habitat around the world. Way more shark fins are put in soup than limbs are nibbled by sharks. By the way, Jim, the Indianapolis story is truly an incredible and morbid tale. As you know, the ship left San Francisco carrying the atomic bombs that were later dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of ‘45. Then, the ship headed towards the Philippines and its tragic fate……just weeks before the war ended. I think it was Blue Sharks that attacked in the open ocean. I can’t imagine the horror.
October 25th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
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