See here for
essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/05/shark-bitten-in-half.html.
A second shark has been found which has been bitten by a
larger creature. This only months after one was found before dead and bitten in
half, see link above. The beast was not dead and was retrieved by a ship on a
mission to tag sharks in the North Atlantic Ocean . The young
male Great White shark is twelve feet long and weighs 1,164 pounds, about half
a ton. It has been fitted with an electronic tag when caught off the coast of Nova
Scotia , Canada
and has since swum over six hundred miles to the ocean near Maryland USA. It
was nicknamed "Vimy". Vimy had clearly been in an altercation with
other sharks and he has some old healed wounds on his body that have left
scars; and sharks do fight amongst themselves sometimes. However there was another
more recent laceration that has caused concern. The founding chairman of the "Ocearch"
tagging organization with the appropriate name of Chris Fischer, said: "It
was clear that something had just grabbed his entire head... It was a very
large animal that grabbed it, something significantly bigger than twelve feet. Anything
that can grab an animal like that by the head is pretty impressive." Source: https://www.foxnews.com/science/great-white-shark-us-coast-attacked-photo. Impressive
and scary! It once more raises the question about whether there are monsters
living deep in the ocean that are far bigger than any known species of
creature. Scientists know less about the depths of the earth's oceans than they
do about some of the planets of outer space. It was once suspected that the
deep sea was the marine equivalent of a desert or ice cap, inhospitable with
only very basic life. But research since then has proven otherwise. A lot of it
has been arrived at inadvertently from exploring the wreck of the RMS Titanic. The ocean liner which sank in
1912 was a huge steel construction. It was previously assumed it would be preserved
perfectly in the cold quiet Atlantic abyss as if in an aquatic time capsule.
However, the broken ship was in very poor condition when it was discovered in 1985.
It was being consumed by anaerobic microbes; while fish, crustaceans and molluscs
of all varieties had infested the hull until it resembled an artificial coral
reef. It will probably be completely consumed within the next century, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0RDHfXMqTY.
Such an unexpectedly rich ecology will no doubt generate some unexpectedly
dramatic organisms. Maybe some of the sailors' legends of sea monsters are
true. Deep sea explorers should take precautions.
See here for more
information: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/09/loch-ness-monster-found.html.
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