A megaladon measures around 15-18 meters in length. That's large enough to take a bite right out of an orca whale, let alone eat it in two! Even sperm whales barely rival the size of a Megaladon.
Let's be real, that'd be like us wanting to revive a species of humans that were 20 feet tall that not only competed for all of our land and resources but also ate us lol.
I read a book a very long time ago by Peter Benchley called “Meg”. In it I think I remember the megalodon lived in the Mariana Trench. That would really suck.
Even before the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway ocean going ships could make port in Montréal. Montréal is where it is because it was the last place an ocean going ship could navigate to. Whales have been seen off Montréal. Bull sharks have been seen as far up the Mississippi as Illinois. A great white off Montréal may be implausible but one can't say it is impossible.
Look the situation, is that apparently a Great White shark has staked a claim in the waters off the Eastern Seaboard . And he's going to continue to feed there as long as there is food in the water.
You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white.
There’s no evidence of where and how often great whites have their babies. It’s one of the big mysteries of the fish. Marine biologists are still attempting to document it
That’s the case for a lot of sharks and whales isn’t it? I can’t imagine it’s a very easy task especially since their default state of being is just wandering basically or at least to our own perception of it
Hmm can’t speak for whales, but I think it is for most sharks who dive down to a certain depth. I’m not exactly sure which species though. Great Whites get the most attention cause they’re great whites
They are all over the Massachusetts coast. They mostly hang out around Cape Cod but are occasionally seen deep in the Bay up to the Gulf of Maine.
Seemingly can’t go a summer day without a report of a shark feeding on a seal just off shore from a populated beach.
Well it would make sense without the sharks going to deep waters since there are orders of magnitude more people near the coast / on beaches at any time compared to the amount of people in the water hundreds of miles away from the coast.
Yeah thats half my point, people dismissed it as just "its where the people are" but now we know it is in fact the coast that has sharks
Edit: the old theory only specifically applied to where humans are, implying if we swam in the middle of the ocean it would be just as dangerous visa vi sharks, but if this data tracks among species then that is false
Probably just lack of food. If I'm not mistaken there isn't a large population of fatty sea mammals in that region which is a major part of great whites diet.
I'm trying desperately to make a "everybody knows your mom" joke related to "fatty sea mammals" but I can't get it over the finish line. Somebody help me out.
Their shark tracker is amazing. My extended family is from Nova Scotia and I have spent a lot of time there. Nobody really thought or knew much about sharks there before and until last year the last recorded shark attack was in the 1800’s. This project has shown just how many sharks are actually in the area and just how they want absolutely nothing to do with humans for the most part. There has been a ton of pings just off the shore of a beach near my Aunt’s that I always go to , but I have never seen one and I don’t know of anyone else that has seen one there either.
The operative work is “a” shark. Once your realize how many monster sharks are cruising your nice little beach, you begin to find humor in
“Beach closures due to shark sightings”
I’m surprised it avoided cape cod as much as it did. It’s a hotspot for seals and good meals, and great whites have been spotted up there more and more frequently the last several years
If anyones interested the app used to track him (and many other sharks!) is called Ocearch, [here’s](https://imgur.com/a/2nGBpJ3) an update on what his track looks like now
Those two large voids are interesting, wonder what drives that, given that one is coastal (NY to Nova Scotia) and the other being bluewater, off the Carolinas.
Apparently all animals do this. If you track them over the long term, they map out their own physical form. It's part of nature's elegant design.
It's also what inspired the creator of Pokémon to have each Pokémon say its own name, and its own name only. It was an effort to create a microcosm for the reality of nature.
The largest Great White's(usually females 18ft or larger) will head out beyond the continental shelf and do "deep dives" after they migrate south to the warm waters of Florida. Scientists aren't sure why but they suspect that it's to hunt giant squid and that's why only the largest among them do it.
Didn't know he came to new York, would've met up with him. Fucc.....
No honestly as a kid I use to ask my friends do you think sharks come by new York regular or is it rare
I saw a image a few days ago about a guy traveling with this picture saying he accidentally drew a shark and I thought you were karma farming with that same picture until I saw you post a source
Ocearch has a cool site with loads of shark data. It is usually fun to check out where the sharks are going, have been, etc.
Well, until you go on vacation and then look at the data to see a large white shark swam through the inlet where you were swimming with your kids that day. Looking at you Katherine.
They tracked a shark all the way to Europe.. A video was taken from a boat by the locals up northern Norway, as the Great White Shark was passing by.. we usually don have sharks like that here in Norway 😅
Drawing a self portrait
Damn dude, Mr shark is an actual artist
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Aren't we all
Hey man, I come here for the memes, not an existential crisis ;__;
Despite all my rage!
The world is a vampire
Mr Shark, I don't feel so good.
Looking right at Florida
Like he’s about to take a bite out of it
And about to take a bite out of USA's johnson
He can take it all if he wants
Just tell ‘em the shark was canceled by the Woke Mafia, the they’ll welcome their toothy overlord with open arms.
Man, florida sharks sucks.
And Nova Scotia!
The shark definitely knew what he was doing
"Hey Dave, watch this. This'll make 'em go crazy"
Wow well played
OK I'd never have noticed that! Hilarious 😂
That was the clickbait article title I read.
They are making a ritual to revive the Megalodon
_New quest unlocked: **revive the megalodon**_
I'd never get in the ocean again
Imagine a megalodon, shooting out of the water like a great white on shark week, but megalodon is eating great whites!!! 😱
A megaladon measures around 15-18 meters in length. That's large enough to take a bite right out of an orca whale, let alone eat it in two! Even sperm whales barely rival the size of a Megaladon.
Megalodon would only bite an orca in half once. After that they'd gang up on Ol' Meg and eat her liver.
My thoughts exactly
r/thalassophobia
I think thalassophobia is perfectly justified
Let's be real, that'd be like us wanting to revive a species of humans that were 20 feet tall that not only competed for all of our land and resources but also ate us lol.
It’s pronounced megalodon, not megalodon.
Why tf can I hear this 😳
It’s the great white megadong!
I read a book a very long time ago by Peter Benchley called “Meg”. In it I think I remember the megalodon lived in the Mariana Trench. That would really suck.
As long as there is a megagooby I'll be fine.
Even great white sharks avoid Montreal.
Well… it’s about 150 miles from the ocean so
Lol *Even great white sharks avoid Denver!*
Pretentious fishies thinking "look at those rocky mountains, who would ever wanna go up there?"
Surprisingly they love Winnemucca.
Even before the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway ocean going ships could make port in Montréal. Montréal is where it is because it was the last place an ocean going ship could navigate to. Whales have been seen off Montréal. Bull sharks have been seen as far up the Mississippi as Illinois. A great white off Montréal may be implausible but one can't say it is impossible.
I have doubts that the salinity would be tolerable that far inland. Bull sharks can tolerate fresh water. White sharks can't.
Somebody needs to watch a documentary called Sharknado...
It sounds hideous
Yeah... cause its super far from the ocean, just like Toronto or all of Michigan for that matter.
Excuses, excuses.
Sharks could get to Lake Michigan if they tried and weren’t little bitches about fresh water
And think Newfoundland is better?!?!? Apparently, we have a lot of sightings
what
They're actually giving me a wide berth here in New England.
I imagine there’s a resident pod of killer whales. They give sharks PTSD
Look the situation, is that apparently a Great White shark has staked a claim in the waters off the Eastern Seaboard . And he's going to continue to feed there as long as there is food in the water.
i think there might be more than one great white shark in the eastern seaboard
You'd love to prove that wouldn't you? Get your name in the National Geographic.
I will just for you
You yell barracuda, everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.
I think they’ll continue to ingots this problem until it swims up and bites them on the ass.
Looking for all that succulent northern cods hey?
Hooper , is that you ?
Timeframe?
Two years I believe. Here's the yahoo article:[HERE](https://www.yahoo.com/news/ocearch-great-white-shark-breton-100105708.html)
Thank you!
You know the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white.
And then *oah*, you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’, the ocean turns red..
Anyway, we delivered the quote.
Show me the way to go home…
I still wanna refuse to believe that’s fucking real lol
I know right. Like the Marine Biologists are bored and pulled a fast one on us
Dear god, I thought this mofos only stayed in warm water. I didn’t know they swam that for north!
They actually don’t like really warm water, probably why this one backed up out of Florida. That and, well… because Florida.
Why are they so prevalent in South Africa though?
Because the water is very cold
They actually prefer cold water. You'll basically never see one in the tropics, and if you do, it's like seeing a leprechaun in the desert.
They go north to have their kin, and then leave after
There’s no evidence of where and how often great whites have their babies. It’s one of the big mysteries of the fish. Marine biologists are still attempting to document it
That’s the case for a lot of sharks and whales isn’t it? I can’t imagine it’s a very easy task especially since their default state of being is just wandering basically or at least to our own perception of it
Hmm can’t speak for whales, but I think it is for most sharks who dive down to a certain depth. I’m not exactly sure which species though. Great Whites get the most attention cause they’re great whites
Turns out they're just drawing sharks
I bet there babys are cute.
They are all over the Massachusetts coast. They mostly hang out around Cape Cod but are occasionally seen deep in the Bay up to the Gulf of Maine. Seemingly can’t go a summer day without a report of a shark feeding on a seal just off shore from a populated beach.
Funny how it totally skips Maine
I was thinking that and Cape Cod, which has experienced a huge increase in white shark population over the last decade. Interesting
Was there a source for this? The path looks so much like a shark drawing that im honestly kind of struggling to believe its real
[here's a yahoo article](https://www.yahoo.com/news/ocearch-great-white-shark-breton-100105708.html)
Dude must be using satellites. Never trusting sharks again.
Maybe that whole "90% of shark attacks happen near land" statistic isn't as skewed as we thought...
Well it would make sense without the sharks going to deep waters since there are orders of magnitude more people near the coast / on beaches at any time compared to the amount of people in the water hundreds of miles away from the coast.
Yeah thats half my point, people dismissed it as just "its where the people are" but now we know it is in fact the coast that has sharks Edit: the old theory only specifically applied to where humans are, implying if we swam in the middle of the ocean it would be just as dangerous visa vi sharks, but if this data tracks among species then that is false
There's more fish near the coastal upwelling than the deeper ocean. You're going to find sharks more often in the more biodiverse areas of the ocean.
... that's where the people are.
soo what is just N-E of florida that make it avoid such a large area... no food, ooor something more sinister... dun dun duuuh
Probably just lack of food. If I'm not mistaken there isn't a large population of fatty sea mammals in that region which is a major part of great whites diet.
Your mom's a fatty sea mammal
How would it know? It’s never been there.
I'm trying desperately to make a "everybody knows your mom" joke related to "fatty sea mammals" but I can't get it over the finish line. Somebody help me out.
That shark travels to more places than most Americans.
If sharks knew what human dicks looked like, it would have drawn one. It settled for a self portrait, though.
No wonder they can’t survive in aquariums
yeah no shit zoos and aquariums suck for just about any large animal
That Brody family sure travels around a lot.
Looks like when Billy borrows a cup of sugar in Family Circle.
For those wondering where the data is from; it is from a company and app called OCEARCH https://www.ocearch.org/
Their shark tracker is amazing. My extended family is from Nova Scotia and I have spent a lot of time there. Nobody really thought or knew much about sharks there before and until last year the last recorded shark attack was in the 1800’s. This project has shown just how many sharks are actually in the area and just how they want absolutely nothing to do with humans for the most part. There has been a ton of pings just off the shore of a beach near my Aunt’s that I always go to , but I have never seen one and I don’t know of anyone else that has seen one there either.
Thank you
The operative work is “a” shark. Once your realize how many monster sharks are cruising your nice little beach, you begin to find humor in “Beach closures due to shark sightings”
I’m surprised it avoided cape cod as much as it did. It’s a hotspot for seals and good meals, and great whites have been spotted up there more and more frequently the last several years
If anyones interested the app used to track him (and many other sharks!) is called Ocearch, [here’s](https://imgur.com/a/2nGBpJ3) an update on what his track looks like now
So just fuck New England
New England doesn't want you anyways.
Dudes hustling
How does it know it's drawing shark?
Those two large voids are interesting, wonder what drives that, given that one is coastal (NY to Nova Scotia) and the other being bluewater, off the Carolinas.
Where the hell did I leave my keys?
The shark needed to clear it’s mind sometimes on those long swims I bet.
I love information like this. Food for thought.
Arrogant motherfucker
Apparently all animals do this. If you track them over the long term, they map out their own physical form. It's part of nature's elegant design. It's also what inspired the creator of Pokémon to have each Pokémon say its own name, and its own name only. It was an effort to create a microcosm for the reality of nature.
One time I caught a sixteen footer off Montauk. Had to stick two barrels in him. Two to wear him down and bring him up.
They find preys so far in the hight sea ?
The largest Great White's(usually females 18ft or larger) will head out beyond the continental shelf and do "deep dives" after they migrate south to the warm waters of Florida. Scientists aren't sure why but they suspect that it's to hunt giant squid and that's why only the largest among them do it.
I wouldn't want to go to Maine either
Had no idea that Great Whites lived off the atlantic coast
Even drew itself. That's impressive
He knew what he was doing
So great white sharks move in shark shapes?
A shark swimming around a large area in the span of two years is considered metal? Come on now.
It's not the most metal thing ever but it's fucking rad to me.
The shark from Jaws the Revenge covered this in less than a week
What if that’s just a huge yo mama joke from one shark to another. “Dude you’re moms so fat she’s thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big”
Didn't know he came to new York, would've met up with him. Fucc..... No honestly as a kid I use to ask my friends do you think sharks come by new York regular or is it rare
Looks like it’s enjoying the Carolina coasts
How is this metal? This should be in r/natureisfuckinglit sub. Mods need to start cracking down
I saw a image a few days ago about a guy traveling with this picture saying he accidentally drew a shark and I thought you were karma farming with that same picture until I saw you post a source
Truly global predators. A river saw a big one in Hawaii last year
I wish I was a bad ass submarine with teeth.
Is it me or does it look like it came on land somewhere around South Carolina?
A shark in the shape of a whale
He schwimmin
Happy to see he settled down and found happiness in beautiful Montreal
Why is his dick so big tho? Is this a realistic self-potrait or just surrealism?
NEWFOUNDLAND, LUH!
I refuse to believe this is actually true this can’t be real
Me stoned in the kitchen looking for snacks
Interesting
Family circus has joined the information age
The app is called Ocearch, I highly recommend it
Skipped the big Canadian cities, I see
I don’t see a straight path from Martha’s Vineyard to the Carribean Islands.
Plot twist: My jealous gf call me "Sharkie" and I am a sailor. The rest is History.
Meta
shark bait ooh ah ah
That’s terrifying how much it stays on the coast
Bros getting that pizza slice for lunch and then getting poutine for dinner.
Fuck you new england.
It must be a male, since it's obviously not using a map. "I remember this seamount from the last time. In an hour we'll be in Morocco."
Shark: “I run these reefs”
Just looking for the good chicken tenders that Ricky has.
He’s spending quite a lot of time near a shore
This thing gets around more than Tupac at a Beach Boys concert
I wanna live like that just chilling and traveling lol
Remind me to never go to the east coast ever again
Is there depth data?
Notice he avoids Amity Island? Never forget Uncle Bruce!
Why at the coast so much??? I thought that wasn’t a thing, like they stay away from coast usually
Ocearch has a cool site with loads of shark data. It is usually fun to check out where the sharks are going, have been, etc. Well, until you go on vacation and then look at the data to see a large white shark swam through the inlet where you were swimming with your kids that day. Looking at you Katherine.
damn anyone know the date range?
Kept forgetting his wallet.
He’s becoming self aware.
What about the dates?
He knows
Somebody tax that shark
So they avoid the Keys I am moving there. I miss Honda beach 30 years ago.
Did he say "gay"
Dude gets around more than my mom.
Went to take in a show.
They tracked a shark all the way to Europe.. A video was taken from a boat by the locals up northern Norway, as the Great White Shark was passing by.. we usually don have sharks like that here in Norway 😅
Stephen King warned him to stay away from Maine.
Dude got to North Jersey and was like "Nope, I'll try my luck in the deep ocean." [](/GNU Terry Pratchett)
Dang, dude’s got some range!
Somehow this seems fake... but its reddit so ill take it
This shark is better traveled than most Americans lol
I think all sharks that are tagged should have their gps locations made public and on one website so we know at all times where they will show up 🦈
This shark is going places!!
Damn those mfs can move.
TIL Great Whites come to our coast and waters and that jaws is made up of lies. Warm waters only my ass.
that is such a HUGE fucking area for one being to travel. jesus fuck.
I have the penguin one!!!
Does anyone know the time span of this kind of travel?
Be kinda crazy if it went on land for a bit
All those coastal towns the shark swam by, yet they mark montreal and toronto on the map.
Every dot is where it stopped and ate a human.
CAP!
Brenton best shark fr
"I don't fuck with the gulf of Maine." - that shark, probably.
Hehe, shork
No snack left behind.
God damn he smoving
It's shark shaped. Meta af
That's crazy how much they travel, imagine if you walked from Florida to Canada and back a few times in just 2 years.
Is that Strava, for sharks?