SOCIAL: MUST. SEE. SHARK. (this Weekend or Next? or Next)

[Amandeep Jawa]

So kids....

- The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a juvenile Great White Shark.
- They are the only people in the world to have ever done this.  This  
is their fourth one & thus the fourth one in history. Usually the GWSs  
don't do well in captivity and die.  MBA has figured out how to keep  
GWS for at least a while.  They have freed the last three after they  
got too big & started munching their tankmates :-)
- I have kicked myself each time I've mixed seeing one of their  
sharks.  It is a lifetime dream/nightmare to see one in the wild.   
this is pretty damn close.
- Great Whites are seriously endangered which is a vast tragedy & a  
scary prospect for our oceans.  Remarkably little is known about them  
& this ads to the challenges of protecting them.   Thus any captive  
sharks are a scientific treasure trove and very good for the species  
as a whole.

So I'm going to go down to Monterey to see this one.  Soon. (because  
now one knows how long they'll keep this little guy).  i'm happy to go  
by myself to make this pilgrimage but as all my adventures, I'd much  
prefer to have you with me. :-) So what days would be good for you?

Mark with a Y(es) N(o) or an M(aybe)
Saturday 6
Sunday   7
Saturday 13
Sunday   14
Saturday 20
Sunday   21


So for me, I'm:
Saturday 6 M
Sunday   7 Y
Saturday 13 M
Sunday   14 Y
Saturday 20 M
Sunday   21 Y






More info on their shark:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/whiteshark/


 From the Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Bay_Aquarium
Beginning in September 2004, the Outer Bay exhibit was the home to the  
first Great White Shark ever successfully kept on exhibit. The shark  
was at the aquarium for 198 days (the previous record was 16 days).  
The shark was released on 31 March 2005 after she bit two soupfin  
sharks in the exhibit, both of which later died. The aquarium staff  
believe the shark may have been acting to defend territory as she  
didn't actually eat either of the sharks. On the evening of August 31,  
2006 the aquarium introduced a second shark to the Outer bay exhibit.  
The juvenile male was caught outside Santa Monica Bay on August 17[1]  
and was released on January 16, 2007. The shark had grown from an  
initial length of 5-foot-8 and 103 pounds when it arrived on August  
31, 2006 to 6-foot-5 and 171 pounds on release. Data from this second  
white shark was transmitted back to aquarium staff from a pop-off  
satellite tag after 90 days. For the third time since 2004, the  
aquarium had a young white shark in the Outer Bay exhibit in  
2007/2008. He arrived on August 28, 2007 and was released on February  
5, 2008.
Like the first shark in 2004, he was caught accidentally in commercial  
fishing gear. Like the second shark in 2006, he is a young male: just  
4-feet, 9-inches long and weighing 67 ½ pounds. As with both of the  
previous young white sharks, he was kept in an ocean holding pen off  
Malibu in Southern California until he could be observed feeding and  
navigating well in the confines of the pen.



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Amandeep Jawa
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