Fishermen reel in a shark the size of a school bus
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[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;34600922]Anybody else has read The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway?
I know that was a different kind of shark and he actually had to kill it, but it still reminded me of that.
Good story.[/QUOTE]
There was a shark in that story? I remember getting an excerpt in an English exam a couple of years ago and really liked it, but I sort of expected to be more of a life goes on drama type plot.
[QUOTE=OvB;34595190]Might have died from old age seeing as it's huge. Nice catch I suppose. Dissect it and learn from it and eat the rest(if eating days old dead fish is your thing). Those fins are going to go for thousands of dollars.
[editline]7th February 2012[/editline]
Odd, last night I was thinking how neat it would be to get to dissect a naturally dead whale shark. Not to often you get to feel around inside a near endangered species.
[editline]7th February 2012[/editline]
I bet the smell is horrible.[/QUOTE]
OvB, being our expert on sealife, do you think that this is a [I]Rhincodon Maximus[/I] or are those extinct? I remember reading about them in a book I have about sealife from National Geographic, but I googled [I]Rhincodon Maximus[/I] and nothing pops up.
[QUOTE=Maximo13;34601186]OvB, being our expert on sealife, do you think that this is a [I]Rhincodon Maximus[/I] or are those extinct? I remember reading about them in a book I have about sealife from National Geographic, but I googled [I]Rhincodon Maximus[/I] and nothing pops up.[/QUOTE]
Never heard of such a thing, but the Basking shark is Cetorhinus maximus. They're filter feeders similar to the Whale Shark, so maybe there was a mix up. As far as I know(and everyone else, I suppose), the whale shark is the only member of the Family Rhincodontidae.
Only [I]Rhincodon Typus[/I] pops up.
[editline]8th February 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=OvB;34601273]Never heard of such a thing, but the Basking shark is Cetorhinus maximus. They're filter feeders similar to the Whale Shark, so maybe there was a mix up. As far as I know(and everyone else, I suppose), the whale shark is the only member of the Family Rhincodontidae.[/QUOTE]
I'll get a screenshot of the book when I get home.
[QUOTE='[CWG]RustySpannerz;34601079']There was a shark in that story? I remember getting an excerpt in an English exam a couple of years ago and really liked it, but I sort of expected to be more of a life goes on drama type plot.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much the whole story it's about one old badass struggling with one swordfish. It's a sort of psychological novel, talking about how he is suffering, alone, in his boat, at complete limit of both physical and mental durability.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;34600553]them shits are way bigger than a school bus
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Megalodon_scale1.png[/img]
(the rhincodon typus is a whale shark)[/QUOTE]
Screw sharks
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Joey_williams_with_a_19_foot_long_blue_whale_skull.jpg[/IMG]
That is but the skull of a Blue Whale.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Blue_whale_size.svg/799px-Blue_whale_size.svg.png[/IMG]
the're gunna need a bigger boat.
Poor thing
So it turns out they were arrested:
[release]KARACHI - [b]For Dilawar Hussain, catching one of the biggest fish in the Pakistani waters came with a heavy price.[/b] Although the fisherman sold off his enormous catch with a hefty price tag of Rs 170,000, the maritime security personnel caught whiff and reportedly arrested him on [b]“unspecified charges”.[/b]
In the early hours of Tuesday at the Karachi Fish Harbour (KFH), Hussain brought to the Hora Jetty a [b]40 feet long whale shark, Rhincodon typus, weighing in at a massive four tonnes.[/b]
A large crowd gathered at the jetty making it difficult for the KFH rescuers to reclaim the fish from the sea.
Two huge cranes of 35 tonnes each were called in to reclaim the prize from the sea and it took them at least six hours in pulling the huge fish out of the water. [b]The operation also rendered a part of the Hora Jetty badly damaged.[/b]
[b]Reportedly, the fish was caught late Sunday night at the Ghora Pari Point around 50 miles away from the Karachi harbour off Arabian Sea. Locally called the “Andhi Magar” or blind fish, [i]the whale shark had died after entangling in the fisherman’s net[/i] at Indo-Pakistan sea border area known as “Kaar”.[/b]
The 4,000-kg whale shark was, reportedly, auctioned off for Rs 0.17 million.
The fish meat may be used in the production of poultry feed.
Considered the largest extant fish species in the world, the whale shark is a slow-moving filter feeding shark. [b]The largest individual confirmed on record had a length of 12.65 metres (41.50 feet) and weighed over 21.5 tonnes. Unconfirmed reports suggest the presence of considerably larger whale sharks.[/b]
The distinctively-marked fish with a lifespan of about 70 years is found in tropical and warm oceans.
Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports suggested that Hussain was arrested by security personnel either from the Pakistan Navy (PN) or the Maritime Security Agency (MSA), raising many question over the legality of the fisherman’s arrest.
However, the spokespersons of PN and MSA, when contacted, denied that any of their quarters concerned had detained any person.
PN’s Commodore Salman Ali told Pakistan Today said: “None of our quarters have reported the arrest [of Hussain]. Our presence at fisheries [KFH] is negligible.”
MSA spokesman Muhammad Farooque also denied involvement of his agency in the matter.
[b]The obscurity surrounding Hussain’s detention, however, cleared when sources at the KFH informed Pakistan Today that the fisherman was arrested by the personnel of the Marine Fisheries Department (MFD).[/b]
Even this raises serious questions about the security arrangements inside Pakistani waters as to how the fisherman managed to freely tow the mammoth fish from Kaar to the Karachi harbour without any security checks.
Four security agencies, including KFH, Karachi Port Trust (KPT), Pakistan Customs and MSA, are working in the Pakistani territorial waters.
The MFD was able to arrest the fisherman only after his arrival at the KFH.
Talking with Pakistan Today, former KFH director general Moazzam said the whale shark is one of the largest fish in the world. “Whale sharks live in warm waters and Pakistani waters are a breeding place for the fish,” he said.
“We had caught the babies of whale sharks in 1982, 1988 and 2005,” Moazzam recalled, adding that [b]the existing laws in Pakistan are silent on catching such fish. “Any fisherman can catch the whale shark in the sea,” he said.[/b]
The shark was placed in the outer section of the KFH for exhibition, where the general public visited in great numbers to see the fish.[/release]
[url]http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/something-hugely-fishy%E2%80%A6for-rs-170000-or-jail/[/url]
Wow. It was only [i]two feet[/i] short of a record.
Steve Zissou, informing the public.
I really wanna see this thing in person now.
IS THIS PICTURE REAL OR FAKE? 78% GOT IT WRONG!
This whale shark is appalled at the horrific killing of his brother
[img]http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/gallery/descript/whaleshark/rh.mouth_copy.JPG[/img]
awww, he's cute in a scary way.
[QUOTE=MajorMattem;34594952]Title says it all.
[url]http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/07/10340172-fishermen-reel-in-shark-the-size-of-a-school-bus[/url]
[img]http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-120207-shark-da-01.photoblog900.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
the textures on its side are so blurry
[QUOTE=JerryK;34615978]the textures on its side are so blurry[/QUOTE]
Yeah, when do we finally get the underwater update? Lazy devs.
I wonder how old it was?
Sharks have indeterminate growth right,so that shark must of been old and eaten a lot.
[QUOTE=OvB;34613225]
[release]Locally called the “Andhi Magar” or blind fish, [i]the whale shark had died after entangling in the fisherman’s net[/i] at Indo-Pakistan sea border area known as “Kaar”.[/release] [/QUOTE]
Oh. If this is correct, it doesn't sound like they were so blameless after all.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;34600922]Anybody else has read The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway?
I know that was a different kind of shark and he actually had to kill it, but it still reminded me of that.
Good story.[/QUOTE]
Didn't they make a movie on that?