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Did anyone see that terrifying case of a shark trying to enter a diver's cage? More details here: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-shark-p...9#pid91069
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Picture taken from the book South Africa's Great White Shark (Thomas Peschak and Michael C. Scholl)

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A great white shark left behind two great big teeth after chomping into a scuba diver’s kayak off Catalina Island at Camp Emerald Bay.

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Two teeth left behind by a great white shark after it bit into a man's kayak near Catalina Island are shown in a photo provided by Danny McDaniel on Oct. 7, 2019.

While kayaking Saturday near Ship Rock — an open-water diving spot roughly three miles from Emerald Bay — San Diego resident Danny McDaniel felt something push against his vessel. He thought the shove came from his friend, but he soon saw the head of a great white shark envelop the back of his kayak. McDaniel froze.
“I saw the snout of the shark over the back of the kayak,” he said. “Then I followed the snout up and there’s a giant, immense body off to the right side of the boat.”
John Chambers watched his friend’s encounter with the shark from about 25 feet away, shouting at him to hit the shark on head. The shark bit into the vessel, then swam away, leaving behind two teeth.
https://ktla.com/2019/10/08/great-white-shark-leaves-2-teeth-behind-after-biting-mans-kayak-off-catalina-island/
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Did a shark more massive than this 13-foot (3.66 m) shark do this? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-head.html

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(10-10-2019, 12:54 AM)Pckts Wrote:
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A great white shark left behind two great big teeth after chomping into a scuba diver’s kayak off Catalina Island at Camp Emerald Bay.

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Two teeth left behind by a great white shark after it bit into a man's kayak near Catalina Island are shown in a photo provided by Danny McDaniel on Oct. 7, 2019.

While kayaking Saturday near Ship Rock — an open-water diving spot roughly three miles from Emerald Bay — San Diego resident Danny McDaniel felt something push against his vessel. He thought the shove came from his friend, but he soon saw the head of a great white shark envelop the back of his kayak. McDaniel froze.
“I saw the snout of the shark over the back of the kayak,” he said. “Then I followed the snout up and there’s a giant, immense body off to the right side of the boat.”
John Chambers watched his friend’s encounter with the shark from about 25 feet away, shouting at him to hit the shark on head. The shark bit into the vessel, then swam away, leaving behind two teeth.
https://ktla.com/2019/10/08/great-white-shark-leaves-2-teeth-behind-after-biting-mans-kayak-off-catalina-island/

Huge teeth from huge Great White Shark, súper souvenirs from a incredible encounter
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3 cases:

1) Shark "Deep Blue", aged 50, weighing 2.5 tons (approximately 2,500 kg or 5,511.56 pounds), and measuring 7 feet (22.97 m), was seen feasting on a sperm whale's carcass off the Hawaiian island of Oahu: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...32891.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46909353

https://www.instagram.com/p/BssxmtdFzZe/...e=ig_embed
   

2) Another shark which was also said to be about 2.5 tons, but measuring 25–30 ft (7.62–9.14 m) was reported about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Martha's Vineyard (an island owned by the U.S. State of Massachusetts): https://vt.co/animals/stories/fisherman-...ite-shark/, https://geekologie.com/2019/07/video-of-...ton-gr.php, https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-n...t-18676333




3) Another great white that was recorded at 30 ft: https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Shark-Wra...-Encounter

"Brett McBride is captain of the MV OCEARCH, and a main player in the handling of captured sharks. He’s a guy who has spent a lot of time on the ocean, and he recounted an experience he had as a teenager.

According to his story, he was harpooning swordfish off the coast of California from the deck of a boat when he and his shipmates heard of a white shark nearby and went to investigate. Their ship had a 42-foot plank where the harpoon man would stand, and as the ship passed the great white they marked its length from nose to tail by that plank.

They measured it later to be thirty feet!"
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Also see this for more information about this species in general: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-great-w...carcharias
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Real-life Jaws:
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(11-29-2019, 11:10 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: 3 cases:

1) Shark "Deep Blue", aged 50, weighing 2.5 tons (approximately 2,500 kg or 5,511.56 pounds), and measuring 7 feet (22.97 m), was seen feasting on a sperm whale's carcass off the Hawaiian island of Oahu: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...32891.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46909353

https://www.instagram.com/p/BssxmtdFzZe/...e=ig_embed


2) Another shark which was also said to be about 2.5 tons, but measuring 25–30 ft (7.62–9.14 m) was reported about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Martha's Vineyard (an island owned by the U.S. State of Massachusetts): https://vt.co/animals/stories/fisherman-...ite-shark/, https://geekologie.com/2019/07/video-of-...ton-gr.php, https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-n...t-18676333




3) Another great white that was recorded at 30 ft: https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Shark-Wra...-Encounter

"Brett McBride is captain of the MV OCEARCH, and a main player in the handling of captured sharks. He’s a guy who has spent a lot of time on the ocean, and he recounted an experience he had as a teenager.

According to his story, he was harpooning swordfish off the coast of California from the deck of a boat when he and his shipmates heard of a white shark nearby and went to investigate. Their ship had a 42-foot plank where the harpoon man would stand, and as the ship passed the great white they marked its length from nose to tail by that plank.

They measured it later to be thirty feet!"

That shark in the second video has been a basking shark, people living in that area haven´t been in no panic. And many people recognized this shark to be a basking shark. Can you imagine reactions if there would have been a world record great white shark, never seen before. Don´t you think, that all shark experts around the world would be flying there to investigate....

Anyone having doubts, just look at that video. That shark has long and quite slender body, then look at the gap between front part of the dorsal fin compared to back part of pectoral fins, typical for the basking shark, not for the great white shark. Also look at shape of the dorsal fin, again not at all what great white sharks have but what basking sharks have. With pectoral fins difference can be more difficult to notice.

 Then again that third case about claimed 30 feet great white shark is once again something which no-one can confirm and no-one has never seen such sharks in reality, unless a basking shark for instance. It actually can be confusing to see it when it´s not eating and swimming by. Some teenager boy, no matter what kind of an expert he later has become is far from reliable witness. If we would believe all rumors, we would think that there really are big foots and dragons. You post a lot of things about some "giant sharks" from very unreliable sources. We have a thread for cryptozoology separately, there is no need to pollute other threads with that kind of postings. You do post often good things, but time to time it looks like, that you post things you would like to be true with no critical view at all.
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(11-29-2019, 11:10 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: 3 cases:

1) Shark "Deep Blue", aged 50, weighing 2.5 tons (approximately 2,500 kg or 5,511.56 pounds), and measuring 7 feet (22.97 m), was seen feasting on a sperm whale's carcass off the Hawaiian island of Oahu: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...32891.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46909353

https://www.instagram.com/p/BssxmtdFzZe/...e=ig_embed


2) Another shark which was also said to be about 2.5 tons, but measuring 25–30 ft (7.62–9.14 m) was reported about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Martha's Vineyard (an island owned by the U.S. State of Massachusetts): https://vt.co/animals/stories/fisherman-...ite-shark/, https://geekologie.com/2019/07/video-of-...ton-gr.php, https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-n...t-18676333




3) Another great white that was recorded at 30 ft: https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Shark-Wra...-Encounter

"Brett McBride is captain of the MV OCEARCH, and a main player in the handling of captured sharks. He’s a guy who has spent a lot of time on the ocean, and he recounted an experience he had as a teenager.

According to his story, he was harpooning swordfish off the coast of California from the deck of a boat when he and his shipmates heard of a white shark nearby and went to investigate. Their ship had a 42-foot plank where the harpoon man would stand, and as the ship passed the great white they marked its length from nose to tail by that plank.

They measured it later to be thirty feet!"
"“This is most certainly a basking shark,” said Ben Wigren, cofounder and board member of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, after he viewed video footage of the shark in the water.

Basking sharks are the world’s second largest fish, and can grow as long as 32 feet in length, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/07/12/video-shows-huge-shark-swimming-off-coast-martha-vineyard/kDOlHC2uYZ4iiuwhwS6T4J/story.html
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(12-09-2019, 05:42 AM)Shadow Wrote:
(11-29-2019, 11:10 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: 3 cases:

1) Shark "Deep Blue", aged 50, weighing 2.5 tons (approximately 2,500 kg or 5,511.56 pounds), and measuring 7 feet (22.97 m), was seen feasting on a sperm whale's carcass off the Hawaiian island of Oahu: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...32891.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46909353

https://www.instagram.com/p/BssxmtdFzZe/...e=ig_embed


2) Another shark which was also said to be about 2.5 tons, but measuring 25–30 ft (7.62–9.14 m) was reported about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Martha's Vineyard (an island owned by the U.S. State of Massachusetts): https://vt.co/animals/stories/fisherman-...ite-shark/, https://geekologie.com/2019/07/video-of-...ton-gr.php, https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-n...t-18676333




3) Another great white that was recorded at 30 ft: https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Shark-Wra...-Encounter

"Brett McBride is captain of the MV OCEARCH, and a main player in the handling of captured sharks. He’s a guy who has spent a lot of time on the ocean, and he recounted an experience he had as a teenager.

According to his story, he was harpooning swordfish off the coast of California from the deck of a boat when he and his shipmates heard of a white shark nearby and went to investigate. Their ship had a 42-foot plank where the harpoon man would stand, and as the ship passed the great white they marked its length from nose to tail by that plank.

They measured it later to be thirty feet!"

That shark in the second video has been a basking shark, people living in that area haven´t been in no panic. And many people recognized this shark to be a basking shark. Can you imagine reactions if there would have been a world record great white shark, never seen before. Don´t you think, that all shark experts around the world would be flying there to investigate....

Anyone having doubts, just look at that video. That shark has long and quite slender body, then look at the gap between front part of the dorsal fin compared to back part of pectoral fins, typical for the basking shark, not for the great white shark. Also look at shape of the dorsal fin, again not at all what great white sharks have but what basking sharks have. With pectoral fins difference can be more difficult to notice.

 Then again that third case about claimed 30 feet great white shark is once again something which no-one can confirm and no-one has never seen such sharks in reality, unless a basking shark for instance. It actually can be confusing to see it when it´s not eating and swimming by. Some teenager boy, no matter what kind of an expert he later has become is far from reliable witness. If we would believe all rumors, we would think that there really are big foots and dragons. You post a lot of things about some "giant sharks" from very unreliable sources. We have a thread for cryptozoology separately, there is no need to pollute other threads with that kind of postings. You do post often good things, but time to time it looks like, that you post things you would like to be true with no critical view at all.

... Since when do basking sharks have the white underside that is typical of great whites? At 0:18–0:20, you should be able to see the white underside:
   




Great white, Pterantula:

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Basking shark, Mmo iwdg:

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(12-09-2019, 06:19 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:
(12-09-2019, 05:42 AM)Shadow Wrote:
(11-29-2019, 11:10 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: 3 cases:

1) Shark "Deep Blue", aged 50, weighing 2.5 tons (approximately 2,500 kg or 5,511.56 pounds), and measuring 7 feet (22.97 m), was seen feasting on a sperm whale's carcass off the Hawaiian island of Oahu: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...32891.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46909353

https://www.instagram.com/p/BssxmtdFzZe/...e=ig_embed


2) Another shark which was also said to be about 2.5 tons, but measuring 25–30 ft (7.62–9.14 m) was reported about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Martha's Vineyard (an island owned by the U.S. State of Massachusetts): https://vt.co/animals/stories/fisherman-...ite-shark/, https://geekologie.com/2019/07/video-of-...ton-gr.php, https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-n...t-18676333




3) Another great white that was recorded at 30 ft: https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Shark-Wra...-Encounter

"Brett McBride is captain of the MV OCEARCH, and a main player in the handling of captured sharks. He’s a guy who has spent a lot of time on the ocean, and he recounted an experience he had as a teenager.

According to his story, he was harpooning swordfish off the coast of California from the deck of a boat when he and his shipmates heard of a white shark nearby and went to investigate. Their ship had a 42-foot plank where the harpoon man would stand, and as the ship passed the great white they marked its length from nose to tail by that plank.

They measured it later to be thirty feet!"

That shark in the second video has been a basking shark, people living in that area haven´t been in no panic. And many people recognized this shark to be a basking shark. Can you imagine reactions if there would have been a world record great white shark, never seen before. Don´t you think, that all shark experts around the world would be flying there to investigate....

Anyone having doubts, just look at that video. That shark has long and quite slender body, then look at the gap between front part of the dorsal fin compared to back part of pectoral fins, typical for the basking shark, not for the great white shark. Also look at shape of the dorsal fin, again not at all what great white sharks have but what basking sharks have. With pectoral fins difference can be more difficult to notice.

 Then again that third case about claimed 30 feet great white shark is once again something which no-one can confirm and no-one has never seen such sharks in reality, unless a basking shark for instance. It actually can be confusing to see it when it´s not eating and swimming by. Some teenager boy, no matter what kind of an expert he later has become is far from reliable witness. If we would believe all rumors, we would think that there really are big foots and dragons. You post a lot of things about some "giant sharks" from very unreliable sources. We have a thread for cryptozoology separately, there is no need to pollute other threads with that kind of postings. You do post often good things, but time to time it looks like, that you post things you would like to be true with no critical view at all.

... Since when do basking sharks have the white underside that is typical of great whites? At 0:18–0:20, you should be able to see the white underside:





Great white, Pterantula:

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Basking shark, Mmo iwdg:

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Also the squared off tail when it meets the tail fin is another characteristic of GWS, I agree with you that it's a GWS in that video.
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(12-09-2019, 06:19 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:
(12-09-2019, 05:42 AM)Shadow Wrote:
(11-29-2019, 11:10 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: 3 cases:

1) Shark "Deep Blue", aged 50, weighing 2.5 tons (approximately 2,500 kg or 5,511.56 pounds), and measuring 7 feet (22.97 m), was seen feasting on a sperm whale's carcass off the Hawaiian island of Oahu: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...32891.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46909353

https://www.instagram.com/p/BssxmtdFzZe/...e=ig_embed


2) Another shark which was also said to be about 2.5 tons, but measuring 25–30 ft (7.62–9.14 m) was reported about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Martha's Vineyard (an island owned by the U.S. State of Massachusetts): https://vt.co/animals/stories/fisherman-...ite-shark/, https://geekologie.com/2019/07/video-of-...ton-gr.php, https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-n...t-18676333




3) Another great white that was recorded at 30 ft: https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Shark-Wra...-Encounter

"Brett McBride is captain of the MV OCEARCH, and a main player in the handling of captured sharks. He’s a guy who has spent a lot of time on the ocean, and he recounted an experience he had as a teenager.

According to his story, he was harpooning swordfish off the coast of California from the deck of a boat when he and his shipmates heard of a white shark nearby and went to investigate. Their ship had a 42-foot plank where the harpoon man would stand, and as the ship passed the great white they marked its length from nose to tail by that plank.

They measured it later to be thirty feet!"

That shark in the second video has been a basking shark, people living in that area haven´t been in no panic. And many people recognized this shark to be a basking shark. Can you imagine reactions if there would have been a world record great white shark, never seen before. Don´t you think, that all shark experts around the world would be flying there to investigate....

Anyone having doubts, just look at that video. That shark has long and quite slender body, then look at the gap between front part of the dorsal fin compared to back part of pectoral fins, typical for the basking shark, not for the great white shark. Also look at shape of the dorsal fin, again not at all what great white sharks have but what basking sharks have. With pectoral fins difference can be more difficult to notice.

 Then again that third case about claimed 30 feet great white shark is once again something which no-one can confirm and no-one has never seen such sharks in reality, unless a basking shark for instance. It actually can be confusing to see it when it´s not eating and swimming by. Some teenager boy, no matter what kind of an expert he later has become is far from reliable witness. If we would believe all rumors, we would think that there really are big foots and dragons. You post a lot of things about some "giant sharks" from very unreliable sources. We have a thread for cryptozoology separately, there is no need to pollute other threads with that kind of postings. You do post often good things, but time to time it looks like, that you post things you would like to be true with no critical view at all.

... Since when do basking sharks have the white underside that is typical of great whites? At 0:18–0:20, you should be able to see the white underside:





Great white, Pterantula:

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Basking shark, Mmo iwdg:

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When looking at something through water, light can make some tricks. But when looking at fins and how they are related to each others, it´s clear, that it´s not a great white shark. Also look at that slender body, it was a hint too. When you have a massive great white shark, body is also quite different kind than on the video. There are no great white sharks in sizes 25-30 feet, which is also a very good thing to remember. Just write to any shark expert and ask for opinion if you don´t believe that one in the article I shared.  Basking sharks swim also mouth closed often, when they look very different when comparing to sight, when it´s eating. @Pckts just pay attention and look those fins, body etc. That is no great white shark.


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This shark is one with many "faces" and very easy for people to make mistakes like thinking, that it´s a world record great white shark. When it´s eating and mouth open it´s not as easy to make mistake if seeing it properly.
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(12-09-2019, 07:26 PM)Shadow Wrote:
(12-09-2019, 06:19 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:
(12-09-2019, 05:42 AM)Shadow Wrote:
(11-29-2019, 11:10 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: 3 cases:

1) Shark "Deep Blue", aged 50, weighing 2.5 tons (approximately 2,500 kg or 5,511.56 pounds), and measuring 7 feet (22.97 m), was seen feasting on a sperm whale's carcass off the Hawaiian island of Oahu: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...32891.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46909353

https://www.instagram.com/p/BssxmtdFzZe/...e=ig_embed


2) Another shark which was also said to be about 2.5 tons, but measuring 25–30 ft (7.62–9.14 m) was reported about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Martha's Vineyard (an island owned by the U.S. State of Massachusetts): https://vt.co/animals/stories/fisherman-...ite-shark/, https://geekologie.com/2019/07/video-of-...ton-gr.php, https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-n...t-18676333




3) Another great white that was recorded at 30 ft: https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Shark-Wra...-Encounter

"Brett McBride is captain of the MV OCEARCH, and a main player in the handling of captured sharks. He’s a guy who has spent a lot of time on the ocean, and he recounted an experience he had as a teenager.

According to his story, he was harpooning swordfish off the coast of California from the deck of a boat when he and his shipmates heard of a white shark nearby and went to investigate. Their ship had a 42-foot plank where the harpoon man would stand, and as the ship passed the great white they marked its length from nose to tail by that plank.

They measured it later to be thirty feet!"

That shark in the second video has been a basking shark, people living in that area haven´t been in no panic. And many people recognized this shark to be a basking shark. Can you imagine reactions if there would have been a world record great white shark, never seen before. Don´t you think, that all shark experts around the world would be flying there to investigate....

Anyone having doubts, just look at that video. That shark has long and quite slender body, then look at the gap between front part of the dorsal fin compared to back part of pectoral fins, typical for the basking shark, not for the great white shark. Also look at shape of the dorsal fin, again not at all what great white sharks have but what basking sharks have. With pectoral fins difference can be more difficult to notice.

 Then again that third case about claimed 30 feet great white shark is once again something which no-one can confirm and no-one has never seen such sharks in reality, unless a basking shark for instance. It actually can be confusing to see it when it´s not eating and swimming by. Some teenager boy, no matter what kind of an expert he later has become is far from reliable witness. If we would believe all rumors, we would think that there really are big foots and dragons. You post a lot of things about some "giant sharks" from very unreliable sources. We have a thread for cryptozoology separately, there is no need to pollute other threads with that kind of postings. You do post often good things, but time to time it looks like, that you post things you would like to be true with no critical view at all.

... Since when do basking sharks have the white underside that is typical of great whites? At 0:18–0:20, you should be able to see the white underside:





Great white, Pterantula:

*This image is copyright of its original author


Basking shark, Mmo iwdg:

*This image is copyright of its original author

When looking at something through water, light can make some tricks. But when looking at fins and how they are related to each others, it´s clear, that it´s not a great white shark. Also look at that slender body, it was a hint too. When you have a massive great white shark, body is also quite different kind than on the video. There are no great white sharks in sizes 25-30 feet, which is also a very good thing to remember. Just write to any shark expert and ask for opinion if you don´t believe that one in the article I shared.  Basking sharks swim also mouth closed often, when they look very different when comparing to sight, when it´s eating. @Pckts just pay attention and look those fins, body etc. That is no great white shark.


*This image is copyright of its original author


*This image is copyright of its original author


*This image is copyright of its original author


*This image is copyright of its original author


*This image is copyright of its original author


*This image is copyright of its original author


This shark is one with many "faces" and very easy for people to make mistakes like thinking, that it´s a world record great white shark. When it´s eating and mouth open it´s not as easy to make mistake if seeing it properly.

1) Starting with the white shape or the light, though light can play tricks, the white underside is visible from different angles at different seconds, so that's no trick, but the shark does have a white underside typical of the GWS:
   
   

2) The dorsal fin isn't really different from that of the Great White below:
   

Credit: Pterantula

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3) The gap between the front part of the dorsal fin and the back of the pectoral fins is similar to that of this GWS:
   

Credit: Wayne Davis

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4) Freak specimens happen from time to time.
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(12-09-2019, 07:26 PM)Shadow Wrote:
(12-09-2019, 06:19 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:
(12-09-2019, 05:42 AM)Shadow Wrote:
(11-29-2019, 11:10 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: 3 cases:

1) Shark "Deep Blue", aged 50, weighing 2.5 tons (approximately 2,500 kg or 5,511.56 pounds), and measuring 7 feet (22.97 m), was seen feasting on a sperm whale's carcass off the Hawaiian island of Oahu: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...32891.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46909353

https://www.instagram.com/p/BssxmtdFzZe/...e=ig_embed


2) Another shark which was also said to be about 2.5 tons, but measuring 25–30 ft (7.62–9.14 m) was reported about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Martha's Vineyard (an island owned by the U.S. State of Massachusetts): https://vt.co/animals/stories/fisherman-...ite-shark/, https://geekologie.com/2019/07/video-of-...ton-gr.php, https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-n...t-18676333




3) Another great white that was recorded at 30 ft: https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Shark-Wra...-Encounter

"Brett McBride is captain of the MV OCEARCH, and a main player in the handling of captured sharks. He’s a guy who has spent a lot of time on the ocean, and he recounted an experience he had as a teenager.

According to his story, he was harpooning swordfish off the coast of California from the deck of a boat when he and his shipmates heard of a white shark nearby and went to investigate. Their ship had a 42-foot plank where the harpoon man would stand, and as the ship passed the great white they marked its length from nose to tail by that plank.

They measured it later to be thirty feet!"

That shark in the second video has been a basking shark, people living in that area haven´t been in no panic. And many people recognized this shark to be a basking shark. Can you imagine reactions if there would have been a world record great white shark, never seen before. Don´t you think, that all shark experts around the world would be flying there to investigate....

Anyone having doubts, just look at that video. That shark has long and quite slender body, then look at the gap between front part of the dorsal fin compared to back part of pectoral fins, typical for the basking shark, not for the great white shark. Also look at shape of the dorsal fin, again not at all what great white sharks have but what basking sharks have. With pectoral fins difference can be more difficult to notice.

 Then again that third case about claimed 30 feet great white shark is once again something which no-one can confirm and no-one has never seen such sharks in reality, unless a basking shark for instance. It actually can be confusing to see it when it´s not eating and swimming by. Some teenager boy, no matter what kind of an expert he later has become is far from reliable witness. If we would believe all rumors, we would think that there really are big foots and dragons. You post a lot of things about some "giant sharks" from very unreliable sources. We have a thread for cryptozoology separately, there is no need to pollute other threads with that kind of postings. You do post often good things, but time to time it looks like, that you post things you would like to be true with no critical view at all.

... Since when do basking sharks have the white underside that is typical of great whites? At 0:18–0:20, you should be able to see the white underside:





Great white, Pterantula:

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Basking shark, Mmo iwdg:

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When looking at something through water, light can make some tricks. But when looking at fins and how they are related to each others, it´s clear, that it´s not a great white shark. Also look at that slender body, it was a hint too. When you have a massive great white shark, body is also quite different kind than on the video. There are no great white sharks in sizes 25-30 feet, which is also a very good thing to remember. Just write to any shark expert and ask for opinion if you don´t believe that one in the article I shared.  Basking sharks swim also mouth closed often, when they look very different when comparing to sight, when it´s eating. @Pckts just pay attention and look those fins, body etc. That is no great white shark.


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This shark is one with many "faces" and very easy for people to make mistakes like thinking, that it´s a world record great white shark. When it´s eating and mouth open it´s not as easy to make mistake if seeing it properly.

Look at where the tail fin meets the tail, the squared off portion at the base of the tail is what I'm talking about, the basking shark is more streamline.
Basking Shark






GWS



This one is further up and harder to tell but it's just a cool video of a GWS making a Kill on a seal.




But I agree the slenderness of the body is more Basking Shark than GWS but that's not to say that GWS don't come in slimmer proportions as well, most don't actually look like the monster known as Deep Blue, which is why she gets the recognition that she does. 
Also the More rounded Dorsal Fin and pectoral fins seems more basking shark to me as well but the Tail portion really looks GWS more so than Basking.
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