Meet Scot, a 1,600 pound great white shark swimming around Florida

Originally published at: Meet Scot, a 1,600 pound great white shark swimming around Florida | Boing Boing

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back to the future great scott GIF

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You win BB today :grin:

Plus, no thanks, I do not want to meet Scot.

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“I swear, I was abducted by aliens! They had four weird looking fins, two of which bifurcated into five smaller fins each. And they could breath in outer-space. I think they tagged me with something.”

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What a beautiful animal.

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Came here to post this; thrilled to see it’s already here in 1st post. :chefs kiss:

These are offshore of GA where I live, but only in months that are too damn cold to swim/dive. All good!

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hello, Scot.
damn fine to have you come 'round down here.

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Speaking of people being more likely to be struck by lightning than attacked by a shark…

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please someone explain how they keep the shark alive out of the water with a hose…

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It’s just forcing sea water over its gills - you can see it coming out of the slits behind the head. That’s basically breathing for a Great White.

ETA: Great white’s are one of the relatively few species that have to keep moving to breathe. It’s called ‘obligate ram ventilation’ - basically, swim fast with your mouth open and water goes in your mouth and gets washed out over your gills, which extract oxygen. And that’s what they are doing with the hose.

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We’re gonna need a bigger Florida. Well, on second thought…

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Finding Nemo Smile GIF

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FTFY.

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I was curious what that was all about too. Thought maybe someone was force feeding it in an effort to develop shark foie gras.

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How did they get him in the boat though.

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It’s a submersible platform that has air chambers that can be filled to lift it out of the water. There are similar contraptions for lifting small boats out of the water while not in use.

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And big boats… (find the shark)

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