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

[Bob Seymour]

Aren't they afraid that it's ultra-huge and ultra-vindictive mother will
attack the aquarium?   Maybe they should call Dennis Quaid or Louis
Gossett, Jr. for advice... ;-)
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 12:04 -0700, Amandeep Jawa wrote:
> So kids....
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> - 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.
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> 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?
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> Mark with a Y(es) N(o) or an M(aybe)
> Saturday 6
> Sunday   7
> Saturday 13
> Sunday   14
> Saturday 20
> Sunday   21
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> So for me, I'm:
> Saturday 6 M
> Sunday   7 Y 
> Saturday 13 M
> Sunday   14 Y
> Saturday 20 M
> Sunday   21 Y
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> More info on their shark:
> http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/whiteshark/
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> From the Wikipedia:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Bay_Aquarium
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> 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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