Something Ate This Shark...but What?

[yuiyoshida]

[ret5hd]

1. We're going to need a bigger shark.

[democratisphere]

2. That is unbelievable. Some creature swallowed an almost 10 ft. Great White Shark.

What a tale of the unknown. The largest Great White Sharks ever caught are 36 ft. and 37 ft. long.

[JDC]

3. So if another shark took a bite out of this one

And that bite of flesh incorporated the skin mounted tag, isn’t it possible they just the tag and a small part of the shark was ingested? 15 ft great white bites 9 ft great white.

I prefer the idea of it being swallowed whole by the unknown though...

[Boxerfan]

4. I'd wager another shark....

A really big one.

In SF bay I used to shark fish for soupfin & 7 gill off Alcatraz. There is a deep sandy bottom ad heavy currents.

Best bait for big'uns? Another smaller shark-a Stickleback served up whole.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Killer whales eat sharks on occasion. n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Ayup.

https://gizmodo.com/this-could-be-why-orcas-have-been-eating-great-white-sh-1797192681

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/a-night-of-exploration/videos/killer-whale-vs-jaws/

[SergeStorms]

7. That would have been my guess as well.

Orcas have been known to kill Great Whites for sport. I doubt any known predator could have eaten the Great White whole, but a decent sized Orca could have taken a fair sized cross-section out of the shark. I guess we'll never really know.

[rwsanders]

13. There were other articles out of South Africa where the Orcas were observed targeting great whites..

and essentially "surgically removing" the livers. With their SONAR, not a difficult task. Another study from the Farallon Islands showed the Orcas have learned to flip great whites on their backs, and for some reason they go limp in that position (hope that doesn't set up some bad jokes).

[SergeStorms]

16. Fascinating, isn't it?

And one of the reasons I won't swim in the ocean, by the way. We're still learning so much about these amazing creatures. After all these years there's still so much we haven't discovered about sea life. It's still the final frontier on Earth, if we don't kill off every species before we learn about them.

[rwsanders]

23. I'm always shocked that humans think we'll be able to communicate with beings from other worlds

when it has been proven that cetaceans have a complex language and we don't understand a bit of it. They have learned more of ours than we have of theirs.

[rocktivity]

8. A search of "giant squid Australia"

indicates that they're known to hang out in the vicinity...


rocktivity

[The Wielding Truth]

11. Yep. That's my guess. Hmm??

[X_Digger]

9. Wait, that's supposition. We know the tag was in something alive. We don't know the shark is dead.

The tag could have dislodged and been mistakenly consumed by something else.

[yallerdawg]

10. There were stories at the Submarine Base in San Diego...

of "something" on occasion swimming up on subs at unbelievable speeds and taking huge "bites" and swimming away and gone virtually before anyone had any idea what had happened.

This sounds like one of those "somethings."

[hunter]

18. Ah, that explains it...

Navy Subs Can't Stop Losing Their Noise-Dampening Skins

Designed to deaden noise, flaps of the rubbery material are falling off at sea.

The U.S. Navy's Virginia-class submarines are the most advanced submarines in the world. Nuclear-powered and capable of launching cruise missiles and torpedoes, they're formidable underwater opponents. But they still haven't licked one problem: Their rubber coatings are falling off.

--more--

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a25578/the-navys-submarines-are-still-shedding-their-rubber-like-skins/

Like a big dog, it sees submarines as big rubber chew toys.

Bad Spot!

[MrScorpio]

12. Giant squid

It had to be a giant squid

[86derps]

14. Temperature Increase

The thing is that the temperature increased at a deep depth, therefore the creature that ate it had to be a warm blooded animal. This would leave out all the fishes, squid, etc. It must have been a mammal like the Orcal. I don't know of any other whales or porpoises that would eat a big old great white shark.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

15. I guess the tag exited through the 'out' passage.

Does this mean the creature doesn't need to go in for a colonoscopy this year?

[packman]

17. THE KRACKEN HAS BEEN RELEASED

[yuiyoshida]

19. funny!

love it!

[tomhagen]

20. This Guy:

[PJMcK]

21. The video is sensationalistic

The producers of the video create a great mystery with their story but then don't offer any explanations. The observations of the DUers above are more interesting than what the video provides.

What do you think, yuiyoshida? If the temperature of the tag went up as much as was recorded, it had to have been ingested by a warm-blooded creature, meaning a mammal. Since there weren't any remains of the shark, why is it assumed that the entire shark was devoured?

Interesting story but it's poorly told.

[yuiyoshida]

22. People have seen a giant shark off mexico ...maybe the same thing?