<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">So kids....<div><br></div><div>- The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a juvenile Great White Shark. </div><div>- 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 :-)</div><div>- 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.</div><div>- 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.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Mark with a Y(es) N(o) or an M(aybe)</div><div><div>Saturday 6</div><div>Sunday 7</div><div><div>Saturday 13</div><div>Sunday 14</div><div><div>Saturday 20</div><div>Sunday 21</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>So for me, I'm:</div><div><div><div>Saturday 6 M</div><div>Sunday 7 Y </div><div><div>Saturday 13 M</div><div>Sunday 14 Y</div><div><div>Saturday 20 M</div><div>Sunday 21 Y</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br><div><br></div><div>More info on their shark:</div><div><a href="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/whiteshark/">http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/whiteshark/</a><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">From the Wikipedia:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Bay_Aquarium</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Beginning in September 2004, the Outer Bay exhibit was the home to the first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Shark" title="Great White Shark" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Great White Shark</a> 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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_31" title="March 31" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">31 March</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005" title="2005" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">2005</a> 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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_31" title="August 31" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">August 31</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006" title="2006" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">2006</a> the aquarium introduced a second shark to the Outer bay exhibit. The juvenile male was caught outside <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica_Bay" title="Santa Monica Bay" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Santa Monica Bay</a> on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_17" title="August 17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">August 17</a><sup id="cite_ref-sfgate_0-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Bay_Aquarium#cite_note-sfgate-0" title="" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">[1]</a></sup> and was released on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_16" title="January 16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">January 16</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007" title="2007" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">2007</a>. The shark had grown from an initial length of 5-foot-8 and 103 pounds when it arrived on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_31" title="August 31" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">August 31</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006" title="2006" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">2006</a> 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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_animal_migration#Satellite_tracking" title="Tracking animal migration" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">satellite tag</a> after 90 days. For the third time since <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004" title="2004" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">2004</a>, the aquarium had a young white shark in the Outer Bay exhibit in 2007/2008. He arrived on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_28" title="August 28" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">August 28</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007" title="2007" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">2007</a> and was released on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5" title="February 5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">February 5</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">2008</a>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">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. 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