A large, record white shark spent the summer near the popular beaches

We covered a study last week in which the researchers tested the bite -resistant combination equipment with real sharks. Their tests have revealed that combinations made with these special materials can mitigate the damage to large white shark and tiger – “large” shark stings of up to 3 meters, about 9 feet. But these results are suddenly less reassuring in the light of today’s history.

In January, the non -profit organization OCEAarch captured and labeled a competitor – a large adult white shark 13.8 feet long (4.6 meters) weighing approximately 1,653 pounds (750 kilograms) at 45 miles (approximately 73 kilometers) off Florida and Georgia. The label now allows scientists and the public to monitor the place where the competitors are. Torrely, however, he revealed that the beast had spent time near popular beach destinations along the east coast of the United States this summer.

(If the big whites 9 feet long are “large”, does it make an extra-large competitor?)

Record shark

“Contenter is the largest male white shark ever captured, labeled, out and now studied in the population of white sharks of the NW Atlantic!” Ocearch wrote in an article on social networks earlier this year. The video shows researchers leaning on the side of the boat, precariously near the big massive white that they had pulled against the side of the boat with strings.

Once the shark is captured with a shark drum (a shark trap with a bait hook) and rolled up in the side of the boat, “we measure it, collect samples for health, reproduction, diet, nutrition, toxicology and genetic studies, perform an ultrasound, then attach two types of satellite labels to follow their movements” Newton, Ocesearch’s Chief’s Chief Veterin and Senior Veterinary Science. We reveal the GPS location of the shark only when the animal is on the surface, which means that sometimes it disappears for periods.

After dragging along the east coast of Florida until mid-March, the competitor swept the Caroline from the north from early April to early June, including the popular area of ​​Pamlico Sound. He then disappeared until July 17, when he (very appropriate) in the CAPE COD area. On July 18, it was about 100 km (160 km) from Nantucket. Maybe it was trying to inspire a fifth Jaws film.

Still not as big as the ladies

Although the competitor is certainly a tall boy, “male white sharks do not approach as big as women,” said John Chisholm, an auxiliary scientist from the New England Aquarium, at CAPE COD Times. Adult women measure an average of 15 to 16 feet long (4.6 to 4.9 meters), while adult men reach an average of 11 to 13 feet (3.4 to 4 meters). The deep blue – a famous big white so large that we have already compared it to an airship – was 20 feet (6 meters) long in 2015 and one of the largest sharks ever. (If the competitor is an extra-large shark, that makes deep blue an supplement additional Large shark?).

The competitor appeared for the last time today in the passage of Jacques Cartier from Canada, north of the Gulf of Saint-Laurent. Needless to say, I will not trust any marketed material as resistant to bites of any time.