Thread: Kayaker and great white shark

crap - evidence of skeletons of bigger - sorry mate but world wide evidence doe not support your claim - the size of our current great whites has something to do with old age but what - fact - the current measurements for great whites is what we have - but over 25 foot no - thats myth--a lot of study gone in on great whites all over the globe including here in NZ - Great whites over 25 ft are a myth - not one piece of evidence from any recent study puts a great white any bigger than 22-25- feet -if there is one bigger a very rare fish indeed and has not been recorded - yes ones imagination with this can run riot but I will go with actual proven fact

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

crap - evidence of skeletons of bigger - sorry mate but world wide evidence doe not support your claim - the size of our current great whites has something to do with old age but what - fact - the current measurements for great whites is what we have - but over 25 foot no - thats myth--a lot of study gone in on great whites all over the globe including here in NZ - Great whites over 25 ft are a myth - not one piece of evidence from any recent study puts a great white any bigger than 22-25- feet -if there is one bigger a very rare fish indeed and has not been recorded - yes ones imagination with this can run riot but I will go with actual proven fact

Have a re read of what I typed - which was reporting that what the guy suggested was that they have evidence of skeletons the size of prehistoric sharks but that the age of the skeletons does not seem to tie in with what they expected on dating evidence. I don't know any more than that as I was sitting in the club listening. It showed a 'gap in the knowledge' more so than a statement of fact. Like a mako recorded caught in a net in Turkey and swung off a battleship that is bigger than the largest size you could expect for a female GW, there's always outliers to the accepted norm. I dunno, if the accepted size range for Mako's is 11-13 feet in today's oceans - there are a lot measured at bigger/longer through to the early 1900's. I would assume a similar stats set for other species in similar conditions, although I would be the first to admit assumptions are dangerous.

Further, if you have a look at the info that's available - GW's do not age the same as the rest of the animals which is why they are being studied to such a level overseas (anti-aging gold mine stuff if you could put it in a pill). There's actually been several articles over the last few months discussing this, go do a search and hunt those down - interesting in and of themselves.

Also, of interest the footage coming out of sharks getting handily munched by orca for their livers - as I typed in the bit up there, the amount of food available in the oceans and the structure of the ecosystems appears to be changing as a result of what we are doing as people and it would seem to be modifying the behaviour and activities of the apex predators. The bigger the shark, the bigger the target is what I took away from the reporting on the orca's hunting sharks so if that behaviour spreads we will be less likely to see large sharks. I think the most recent of those orca articles mentions one named Sophia, and shows footage of her munching the liver out of a shark.