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Location: Brookfield, WI | Anybody see Expedition Great White on the National Geographic Channel last night? WOW! Awesome. They are catching these huge Great Whites off Mexico for blood samples and tagging them with satellite transmitters. They bait huge hooks with big pieces of tuna then use what looks likes several basketballs as bobbers. They let 'em run, then go out in a little rubber boat and drag 'em back to the main boat over the top of a huge platform that raises up out the water. They hop down there and do their stuff, then lower the platform after and the shark swims off. They stick a big hose down it's throat so it has water going over it's gills while they're tagging. The fish are out of the water about fifteen minutes. The transmitters are supposed to work for six years and they are going to learn so much about these sharks habits. Things they never knew before.
I loves me some Great White action, and this was the coolest I've seen. I watched one episode and taped the other. I think there are going to be more.
60 Minutes has a Great White segment last night, too. Anderson Cooper and some other guy were swimming around with them off South Africa. That was kind of cool, but would have been better if one would have eaten Cooper.
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Edited by MuskyHopeful 6/7/2010 12:38 PM
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| "Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine. An eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all."
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | anyway someone could send me a dvd copy of this "expedition great white" , living in the stone age here without satellite tv. And absolutey love great white sharks. |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | I saw this show and it pretty neat how you can take the most feared and handle it like a normal day on the lake. But on a related note did you see where are neighbors of the far East fishing for any shark cut just the fins off and waste the rest of the fish. Not good.
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| Unfortunately, I missed this program but am peripherally familiar with it. It's run by Dr. Michael Domeier who operates a field station dedicated to studying pelagic fishes, spawning aggregations in Fiji, and developing and implementing some of the newest tagging technology out there (http://www.marinecsi.org/).
His work tagging Great Whites has been criticized by some people who disagree with the ethics of this type of technique. The issue in this case stems from tagging whites within the Farallone Islands Marine Sanctuary (http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteam&id=7122288). Keep in mind, white sharks are a protected species. Nevertheless, makes for good TV! |
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