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8.03.11

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GREAT WHITE SHARK lands on research vesselCarcharodon carcharias©Chris Brunskill Ltd/Rex Features
Earlier this week, the research crew on the Cheetah was startled when a 10 foot Great White Shark erroneously landed on their research vessel. They had been chumming the water at Seal Island, South Africa, while conducting a population study of Great White sharks in the area. Getting a shark [alive and hopefully unharmed] off your boat is not as easy as one would think, it is amazing that this shark survived the ordeal.
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Oceans Research’s co-director, Enrico Gennari, an expert on great white sharks, had never heard of a great white jumping onto a boat. He estimated that it would have had to have leapt about three metres / 10 feet to do so. A smaller vessel would likely have capsized.
The cause of the shark’s behavior was almost certainly an accident rather than an attack. In the low-visibility water the fish could have mistaken the vessel’s shadow for prey, or been disturbed by another shark close by, he said.
Dorien Schröder, team leader at Oceans Research, pulled her colleague to safety before the shark, weighing about 500kg (half a ton) landed on top of the bait and fuel tanks. At first half of its body was outside the boat but in a panic the shark thrashed its way further onto the vessel, cutting the fuel lines and damaging equipment before becoming trapped between the containers and the stern.
The crew found safety at the bow of the boat.
Schröder remained near the animal pouring water over the shark’s gills to keep it alive while another boat was sent out to the Cheetah. A rope from the second vessel was secured around the shark’s tail, but repeated efforts to tow the fish back into the water failed.
The rescue ship then towed the Cheetah into the port with the shark still on deck. A hose was placed in the fish’s mouth to ventilate its gills, before it was lifted off the boat with a crane and lowered back into the water.
Though the shark swam away it was unable to navigate its way out of the harbour and was soon beached. The team tried unsuccessfully to “walk” the shark back to sea. Finally they tied ropes to the shark’s tail fin and behind its pectoral fin, and attached these ties to the rescue vessel, which towed the shark out through the harbour. The ropes were then removed and the animal swam away.
Story Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/19/great-white-shark-jumps-boat
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GREAT WHITE SHARK lands on research vessel
Carcharodon carcharias
©Chris Brunskill Ltd/Rex Features

Earlier this week, the research crew on the Cheetah was startled when a 10 foot Great White Shark erroneously landed on their research vessel. They had been chumming the water at Seal Island, South Africa, while conducting a population study of Great White sharks in the area. Getting a shark [alive and hopefully unharmed] off your boat is not as easy as one would think, it is amazing that this shark survived the ordeal.

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Oceans Research’s co-director, Enrico Gennari, an expert on great white sharks, had never heard of a great white jumping onto a boat. He estimated that it would have had to have leapt about three metres / 10 feet to do so. A smaller vessel would likely have capsized.

The cause of the shark’s behavior was almost certainly an accident rather than an attack. In the low-visibility water the fish could have mistaken the vessel’s shadow for prey, or been disturbed by another shark close by, he said.

Dorien Schröder, team leader at Oceans Research, pulled her colleague to safety before the shark, weighing about 500kg (half a ton) landed on top of the bait and fuel tanks. At first half of its body was outside the boat but in a panic the shark thrashed its way further onto the vessel, cutting the fuel lines and damaging equipment before becoming trapped between the containers and the stern.

The crew found safety at the bow of the boat.

Schröder remained near the animal pouring water over the shark’s gills to keep it alive while another boat was sent out to the Cheetah. A rope from the second vessel was secured around the shark’s tail, but repeated efforts to tow the fish back into the water failed.

The rescue ship then towed the Cheetah into the port with the shark still on deck. A hose was placed in the fish’s mouth to ventilate its gills, before it was lifted off the boat with a crane and lowered back into the water.

Though the shark swam away it was unable to navigate its way out of the harbour and was soon beached. The team tried unsuccessfully to “walk” the shark back to sea. Finally they tied ropes to the shark’s tail fin and behind its pectoral fin, and attached these ties to the rescue vessel, which towed the shark out through the harbour. The ropes were then removed and the animal swam away.

Story Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/19/great-white-shark-jumps-boat

Other photos you may like:

Great White on a seal

Great Whites Feeding on bait fish

Great White Shark

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