Sharks

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off the beaches and out
of the water. Better yet, it could have been the overall storyline: A Great
White shark with an eating disorder and a taste for human flesh. Perhaps that’s
what is keeping vacationers from grabbing their trousers and snorkels.
Over all, there have been 1026 attacks on humans by sharks in the last
ten years. Only 294 of these attacks have been linked to Great White sharks.
That’s roughly the number of people who drown each year in swimming accidents.
Of these 294 attacks, less than eighteen percent were fatal. Out of the
eighteen fatal incidents more than seventy percent was contributed to loss of
blood. This means that the shark didn’t kill the victim. The shark bit the
victim and then released them (also known as the taste test). The shark samples
the victim by nibbling on an appendage or two often resulting in a severed
artery or other major blood vessel. Therefore, the Great White should be
considered a mantaster not a maneater.
This intrigued ...

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odon meaning “tooth”. There isn’t a defined size range for the
Great White but most experts agree that the length of the shark is usually
between 12 and 16 feet with the maximum figure being about19 to 21 feet. (The 21
foot is an actual record from 1948. The largest ever recorded!) If the Great
White is that big try to imagine the size of those massive jaws and teeth, Not
to mention the enoromous power behind those jaws.. These huge eating machines
used to be even bigger! The Great White was once known as Carcharodon megalodon.
The only difference in between the Great White and this previous model is size.
The Carcharodon megalodon was MASSIVE compared to the modern day Great ...

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