Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)

[le serb]

One of my first posts was about a Female Great White shark caught in Greece, Chalkidiki year 1973 (date of landing is somewhere stated as 1983 or 1985). There wasn't much info about this shark until recently. About two years ago, some local Greek news covered this story. From what I understood, their main focus was the place itself beach and the bar, but in an interesting part they mention and show pictures of this White Shark. The guy who talks about it was there when the shark was landed. He said it was about 7.5 meters and 2.5 tons. I tried my best to accurately measure the shark. I didn't really go over board, I used 170cm as the main size factor as he was standing right in front of the shark gutting it. (as we can see by the blood in the water and around the shark). Using 170cm tall man, I got 698cm TL. Perhaps the previously stated 750cm might not be some heavily exaggerated claim. Knowing that man could be taller than that, judging by the average height of the Greek males. A size claim of 750cm could be reasonable. Of course, a shark of that size would be expected to be no less than 3 tons. I also have an explanation for that shark weight stated by the man could be the gutted shark they later weighted when cut in parts. https://www.thes.gr/apodraseis/paralia-x...nteo-foto/

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