1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:04,320 Hello and welcome back, Shark. Here's to another episode of 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:08,280 Deep Dives with Sharks. I am Alex, I am the host here. 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,880 I did not get washed away by one or two hurricanes. 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,680 I somehow made it. But Speaking of Hurricane Milton 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,040 did decide it was going to come right for us. 6 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,920 And as a Northerner, I just kind of decided I wasn't going to 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,960 play with that, so I left. Thankfully, we didn't face any 8 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,920 losses or damage. Goalie was out in California 9 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,360 during it, so she was OK over there. 10 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:31,520 And thankfully we came back and everything was pretty good in 11 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,200 our life, which was nice. Fortunately, some people did get 12 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,040 hit pretty hard. So I am going to ask that if you 13 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,560 guys please can consider donating to the Red Cross or 14 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,320 other organizations that are aiding victims of the 15 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,680 Hurricanes, which I will link in the description of this episode 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,200 as of course, we did do all right. 17 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,280 And you guys did check in, which I do really appreciate, but some 18 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,600 people did lose quite a bit in those storms. 19 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,920 And of course, we can give back. That'd be fantastic. 20 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,800 But no pressure If not, I did want to thank you guys for 21 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,080 checking in, making sure that me and my family were all right. 22 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,000 We all did very good. The rest of my family was up in 23 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,760 Maryland, so they weren't affected really at all, which is 24 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,720 great. And then everyone that's down 25 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:14,960 here, all of our friends made it out all right too. 26 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:18,640 So thankfully there weren't a whole lot of losses there, but I 27 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:19,920 did want to thank you guys for that. 28 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,680 And of course, if you guys want to follow along for more details 29 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,640 on the podcast or on the stream that I've been doing, you can 30 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,600 follow along on Instagram at Deep Dives with sharks. 31 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,480 Twitch is the same name there and Twitter. 32 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,400 You can go to Deep Dive Sharks, although I'm very bad at 33 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,000 updating that and I'm going to try to do a little bit better, 34 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,160 but I still don't use Twitter a whole lot. 35 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,440 So work in progress, we'll see what happens. 36 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,440 But getting into the shark that we have for this week, we have 37 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,840 the salmon shark. Now the salmon shark is a member 38 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,720 of the mackerel shark family, which includes the great white, 39 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,080 the goblin sharks, and basking sharks as well. 40 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,600 Salmon sharks are grayish black in color, but they have a white 41 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,360 belly as many sharks tend to. This is what they're counter 42 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,520 shading is. So that way it looks like it's 43 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,039 the sunlight from below or the dark depths when looking from 44 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:11,760 above. Now these sharks do get black 45 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,400 spots that appear as they age, so the juveniles tend not to 46 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,520 have the spots unless they are stressed with life's issues such 47 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,480 as taxes or bills. You know, things that sharks are 48 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,840 typically stressed out about. They look like a squished great 49 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,600 white or a slightly elongated poor Beagle, which I'm very 50 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,520 excited to do an episode on poor beagles coming sometime in the 51 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,680 future. And I cannot wait to find out 52 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,520 that poor Beagle is actually longer than salmon sharks. 53 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,400 So therefore they're not elongated at all, but the face 54 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,560 is really squished as well. It is rather short. 55 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,080 They have large black eyes, gills that sit a little back 56 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,040 then where they typically are found on other sharks, and a 57 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,000 longer body with a tall dorsal fin that's it's a little bit 58 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,320 lower on their back as well. Their eyes are also angled more 59 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,360 forward than other sharks, which gives them binocular vision, 60 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,480 which is similar to a human, although their eyes are placed a 61 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,240 little bit further on the side of their head. 62 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:06,800 So little bit larger field of vision. 63 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,760 We have about 180°. They go a little bit further, 64 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,960 closer to 200. They grow to be around 6.6 to 65 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:18,680 8.6 feet or 200 to 260 centimeters and can weigh about 66 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:24,120 485 lbs or 220 kilograms. So they're not necessarily huge. 67 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,040 They're around the average length that sharks tend to grow 68 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,280 to. The largest confirmed individual 69 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,640 was 10 feet or three meters, which of course in comparison to 70 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:36,360 other sharks like great whites that can grow to be 24 feet. 71 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,720 Whale sharks, of course, that can grow up in the 40s, fifties, 72 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,560 even 60s, and there's just others that tend to grow 73 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:47,320 anywhere about 141516 feet. These sharks aren't huge, but of 74 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,320 course they're not as small as cookie cutter or dwarf Lantern 75 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,080 sharks, which are about not even a foot long. 76 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,240 So very there quite a bit. Now, the salmon shark is 77 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,920 typically found in the Pacific Ocean in the Northern 78 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,800 hemisphere, in offshore waters, so really about subarctic to 79 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,560 subtropic waters. Some countries they live around 80 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,320 include Japan, the US, mostly around Alaska, Canada, Russia, 81 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,800 China, and the Korean Peninsula. Humans don't often come in 82 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,200 contact with these sharks as they are offshore, and humans 83 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,040 don't tend to be offshore quite a bit. 84 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,840 They're also not a commercial fish. 85 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:28,880 There's not a commercial market for them, which is rather rare 86 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,080 among sharks, especially since many sharks are caught for a 87 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:36,480 variety of reasons, but the skin and heart are seen as delicacies 88 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:38,800 in Japan. Although they are not caught in 89 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,840 mass for consumption, they are actually known as a nuisance 90 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,560 among commercial fisheries as they often damage fishing gear 91 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,760 going after the Fisher's catch. They can sometimes get caught as 92 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,760 by catch, but more often than not they're getting one over on 93 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,480 the fisheries versus getting got by the fisheries. 94 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,440 So to explain that in not weird terms, they usually do more 95 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,600 damage to the boats and the Nets then the Nets in the boats can 96 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,560 do to them. They do tend to eat salmon, 97 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,400 which is how they got their name, but they also eat squid, 98 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,200 sablefish, which look rather interesting, definitely worth a 99 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,920 look up. And herring. 100 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,200 And as you may know, salmon and herring do tend to make up quite 101 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:16,960 a big portion of fishing industries. 102 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,840 So when salmon sharks are going after them, they tend to bite 103 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:23,360 into Nets and that can cause the fishing gear to get damaged. 104 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,040 So connecting the two dots there. 105 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:29,240 Now sports fishers in Alaska and Canada will try to catch Sam 106 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:33,000 salmon sharks, but they are limited to only two a year or 107 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 one a day, depending on the jurisdiction they are in. 108 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:39,960 Now one a day does tend to sound like a lot, especially when 109 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:44,520 there's 365 days in a year or of course if it's a leap year 366. 110 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:49,160 But in the grand scheme of things, getting 365 sharks out 111 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,520 of the whole population is not a whole lot. 112 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,680 Now mind you that is quite a bit, but also sports fishers 113 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,880 don't tend to go out every single day, so they're not going 114 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,880 to really catch 365 sharks. Plus it's not even guaranteed 115 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,120 they'll get a catch that day. So even if they do somehow 116 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,400 managed to go out every single day, they might not get one. 117 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:09,720 Or if they get 2 that day, they can only keep 1. 118 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,640 So it does help to limit the numbers so that way they do not 119 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:16,800 plummet and the shark does not go into any sort of danger area 120 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,080 population number wise. Now there have been a few 121 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,440 reports of individuals being bitten by salmon sharks. 122 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,000 Of course, when you are fishing for them, you tend to come in 123 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,800 contact a bit more fisheries trying to get them away from 124 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,560 Nets. There's a food source, they're 125 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,080 in hunting mode. They might bite you, but for the 126 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,240 most part the numbers are generally low. 127 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:37,400 The food source of these sharks has declined, which has caused 128 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,640 the salmon sharks to hunt outside of their typical menu a 129 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,560 bit and also driven them into some areas a little bit closer 130 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,440 to shore. But thankfully they're not quite 131 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,240 knocking on our doorstep like other sharks such as the angular 132 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,960 rough shark, which has been pushed rather close to shore. 133 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,720 These sharks are also under Least Concern when it comes to 134 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,960 conservation status. They have been doing very well 135 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,200 out in the wild. They don't come in contact with 136 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,960 humans a whole lot. They don't go and get haunted by 137 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,080 a lot of predators and they reproduce pretty well, which 138 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,440 they are ovoviviparous, which means that they have eggs 139 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,360 internally that hatch and then they give birth later. 140 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,680 So their numbers are doing pretty well and thankfully 141 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:19,000 there's not a market to hunt them or go after them, so 142 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,560 they're doing pretty great, which is fantastic, but that of 143 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,120 course is what I have for the salmon shark for this week. 144 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,600 If you guys have any questions or want anything clarified or 145 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,400 anything like that, feel free to send it over on Instagram or pop 146 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,400 in twitch chat or send it over on Twitter. 147 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:36,840 Of course the handles were mentioned earlier, but once 148 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,480 again, it is deep dives with sharks or deep dive sharks. 149 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,240 You'll see the same logo there. But going into shark safety. 150 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,720 Now, one thing I wanted to talk about with this of course does 151 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,040 come on the back of people asking, well, we've got the 152 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,400 portions where we talk about how to be safe around sharks and how 153 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,360 to help individual sharks. And we even talked about how to 154 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,120 protect sharks in our daily lives. 155 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,320 But we're not really looking at the whole picture. 156 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,560 How are how are we protecting sharks overall? 157 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:04,720 So that is exactly what we're going to look at today. 158 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,720 And of course the main article I used was by the NOAA Fisheries, 159 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,680 which is NOAA. Firstly, there are many agencies 160 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,520 that have been working to help protect sharks and that goes all 161 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:19,040 the way from NOAA which is the National Oceanic Atmospheric 162 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,960 Administration, Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, Shark Trust, 163 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,880 Project Aware, and Shark Alliance, just to name a couple 164 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,840 of them. Now these agencies vary in size 165 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,000 but have been been instrumental in shark conservation. 166 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,760 Sharks do tend to rule the oceans, being an apex predator 167 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,480 and all helping ecosystem stay in balance through controlling 168 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,360 fish populations. But humans decided one day they 169 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:45,360 wanted to wade into the water and touch things because we 170 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:46,720 never keep our hands to ourselves. 171 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,120 Rather rude we got to stop doing that. 172 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:52,320 But humans overfished and over haunted many animals into 173 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:56,120 extinction or being endangered. Thankfully other humans came 174 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,480 along and realized the importance of animals and nature 175 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:00,360 and are trying to put an end all of that. 176 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,960 Noah has worked to protect over 20 species of sharks within the 177 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,920 US and has worked with other countries to set up protections 178 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,600 across many oceans. Now you may have recently heard 179 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,480 of NOAA a bit as they do help the track and monitor 180 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,400 hurricanes. And as we started this episode, 181 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,360 it's hurricane season. Quite a few have been forming. 182 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:21,920 So they've been mentioned quite a bit in the recent news. 183 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,800 NOAA overseas the commercial and recreational fishing in the US, 184 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,320 meaning they can limit how many fish are caught legally. 185 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:32,360 This of course they can try to limit poaching, but that comes a 186 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,040 whole another different conversation. 187 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,680 They also partner with the DNR, which is the Department of 188 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:41,320 Natural Resources on enforcement of regulations as well as 189 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:44,160 regulation adjustment. Outside of the US, many 190 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,280 organizations have come together to aim to limit the number of 191 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,800 sharks caught in different countries, including those that 192 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,280 frequently consume sharks for a variety of reasons. 193 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,920 Some organizations were able to introduce imitation shark meat 194 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,960 to countries that frequently consume shark fin soup, which 195 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,760 has had some success. Although similar to Beyond 196 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,560 Burgers and Impossible Burgers, some people just feel like it 197 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:07,720 doesn't replicate the original enough to be worth trying and or 198 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:11,560 continuing to consume. For me personally, when it comes 199 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:14,440 to Impossible burgers or Beyond meat, anything like that that 200 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,160 I've tried, I feel that it tastes pretty similar to what it 201 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,040 is aiming to be. I do love a good cheeseburger of 202 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,720 course, and I am now realizing I should probably be eating more 203 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,440 Impossible burgers than regular burgers since they help the 204 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,760 environment and have some health benefits, but they also do have 205 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,360 a butt load of sodium. But you know when some lose 206 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,120 most. Which is a quick shout out to 207 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,560 Grass, Geno and Amelia for the amazing phrase. 208 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:39,200 And I don't even know if they listen to this, but if they do, 209 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,480 I'm still using that phrase. Guys, thanks. 210 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:43,320 But of course you may be thinking. 211 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,920 So really the only hope I have is to just hope an organization 212 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:48,920 can set up regulations to protect sharks. 213 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,920 Well, not really. As previously mentioned, you can 214 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,120 support companies and products that do not utilize shark bits 215 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,160 or contribute to overfishing practices, which is why you got 216 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,800 to check what you are buying. You can also write local 217 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,880 legislators to push for more protections for sharks and for 218 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,800 our oceans overall. I am planning on flooding my 219 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,600 local legislators with so many letters about protecting sharks 220 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,760 and all around Florida, especially with the upcoming 221 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:18,520 election, which I do need to go into a minor political rant once 222 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:21,080 again. So if you are living in the US, 223 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,440 of course, as you know, the election is coming up November 224 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,680 5th. And all I got to say is just 225 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:29,840 please go vote and please go vote for those that will protect 226 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,200 the environment and the sharks and the oceans. 227 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:35,160 I don't see how we could all be here. 228 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,800 Listen to this podcast, spending time together, having a good 229 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,400 time. I assume we all love sharks and 230 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,920 the oceans and things like that and then look at all this and 231 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,440 figured that you need to vote for someone who's not going to 232 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,080 do anything to protect those things. 233 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,480 So all I'm asking, please go out there, have your voice be heard. 234 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,160 If you're outside the US, sorry this doesn't pertain to you at 235 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:56,200 the moment. But when your elections do come 236 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,440 up, if you have those, please support politicians and local 237 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,160 leaders who will help to protect the oceans and the sharks around 238 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,400 us. It's how far political I'm going 239 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,800 to go with that. But that of course, is what I 240 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,880 have for the safety segment of this episode. 241 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,120 Once again, if you guys have any topics or anything you want me 242 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,960 to talk about or anything like that, send them over on social 243 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:19,840 media. I'll also eventually get an 244 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:21,760 e-mail if you guys be more comfortable doing that. 245 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,520 I think I have one. It might be deep dives with 246 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,520 sharks at Gmail. I'll double check that and 247 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,400 update that in a little bit. But I'll also put that in the 248 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,440 link of this episode description. 249 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,960 So you guys have another option to reach out to me, which is 250 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,960 fantastic. But going on to Shark News now, 251 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,160 we do have two stories once again. 252 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,120 The first one is that UCSB researchers use drones to 253 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,000 develop shark prediction technology. 254 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,840 And this comes from KCBX, FM, Central Coast Public Radio, 255 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,240 which I could probably do a better radio voice, but I'm just 256 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,840 trying to read this because I've messed up recording it 16 times. 257 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:03,280 So that's fun, but the, as the title says, University of 258 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:06,280 California, Santa Barbara is trying to create shark 259 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,960 prediction technology by monitoring ocean water 260 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,640 conditions that would be favorable for sharks. 261 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,560 Now they're mostly utilizing drones currently to monitor 262 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:17,320 where the sharks are going, but there is already a lot of 263 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,240 technology out there such as acoustic tags and things like 264 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,080 that, that are monitoring the sharks directly. 265 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,720 So of course this hasn't fully helped to prevent shark bites. 266 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,200 It's probably limited a few, but for the most part it hasn't 267 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,080 really stopped anyone from getting in the water or anything 268 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,480 like that. So they figured why are we only 269 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,040 looking at the sharks instead of what brings sharks towards 270 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:41,720 shore, which tends to be that warm water that comes to the 271 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,680 surface, especially as deeper waters tend to cool. 272 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,280 So all that water gets pushed towards the surface makes it 273 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,200 nice and kind of like a bathtub. If you guys have ever had a 274 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,400 really rough day and then the shark here is decided, you know, 275 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,520 I'm just going to hang out, have a nice little bubble bath and 276 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:58,560 calm down. It's usually nice and warm. 277 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,480 Well, when that surface water gets really nice and warm, 278 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,800 that's when sharks tend to come up and they get to have their 279 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,200 own little bath, as some would imagine. 280 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:10,800 But this of course can bring sharks closer to shore as the 281 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,800 water will be warmer. The shallower it gets suddenly 282 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,800 get closer and closer to the beach. 283 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:20,240 Now monitoring for things such as current water temperature, 284 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,680 food, population, things like that, if their food is coming 285 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,080 closer to shore and the warm water is coming closer to shore, 286 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,400 you've got a pretty good equation for a shark to come 287 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,800 closer to shore. Now, this doesn't mean that 288 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:32,840 they're going to start closing beaches or anything like that. 289 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,360 We're not having the Amity Island where we're just going to 290 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:37,840 close the beach because there was a shark. 291 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,440 That's not the greatest idea. Although in that movie, they 292 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,400 should have probably closed the beach for a little bit because 293 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,200 that shark was he was nuts. I'd there's nothing better I can 294 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:48,840 say about Jaws. Jaws was just nuts. 295 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:54,000 But what this is not to close beaches or to ruin anyone's fun. 296 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,160 It's more to make sure that we can try to limit the number of 297 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,880 bites and make sure that people are able to be informed before 298 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:02,720 they get into the water and things like that. 299 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,840 Because often times people may notice, oh, there's an uptick in 300 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,720 shark bites but not realize where it's coming from. 301 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:10,840 And they'll still go in the water thinking, well, it can't 302 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,760 happen to me, but there have been quite a few. 303 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,560 We still aren't outside of the national average or anything 304 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,520 like that. And as of course, the seasons 305 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,960 begin to change, those shark bites will go down again. 306 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,800 It's more of a density problem as we talked about earlier, 307 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,000 rather than the sharks are going crazy and trying to bite 308 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,640 everyone, which rather nice. But hopefully with this 309 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,200 technology, they'll be able to alert local authorities so that 310 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,720 way signs can be put up warning people that there are favorable 311 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,840 conditions for a shark to be closer to shore. 312 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,720 So that way people can be well informed before they get into 313 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,680 the water versus having to see someone get bit and then your 314 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,360 only reaction is to run away or or try to help. 315 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:53,480 Which once again, as always, please do not put yourself in 316 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:57,640 danger if things are already handled or if you feel that you 317 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,560 are not equipped to handle the situation, make sure you keep 318 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,960 yourself safe. Everyone asked me that quite a 319 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:05,240 bit. I don't want you to put yourself 320 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,880 in danger to save a shark or save someone else. 321 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:11,840 You have to save yourself sometimes, but that's what I 322 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:17,480 have to say about that. Now going into our next topic, 323 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,560 we have Teen surfer survives shark bite in Florida and this 324 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:25,280 one was reported by The Inertia. Now I do really like how they 325 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:27,680 presented this article. They don't focus on how 326 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,600 terrifying the experience was or that the shark is a monster, 327 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,240 that it was an attack. They call it a bite and present 328 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,760 it pretty factually. So to go over it very factually, 329 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,200 a 16 year old surfer had fallen off his board and was reaching 330 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:43,560 to get back on when a 5 foot bull shark decided to grab onto 331 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:45,880 his arm for a couple seconds and then let go. 332 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,760 The surfer begin paddling back to shore, yelling for help and 333 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,040 only focusing on the fact that he needs to get back to shore to 334 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,760 get help. He did catch himself realizing 335 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:58,360 that he was bleeding pretty bad and could attract another shark, 336 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,560 but sharks tend not to go back due to a lot of commotion. 337 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,680 Usually when there's yelling, screaming, things like that, 338 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,240 they tend to not want to be involved in that. 339 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,520 And also especially since it wasn't a good meal, the shark 340 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,960 wasn't about it. So thankfully he was all right 341 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,680 and did not get bit a second time. 342 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,040 He was able to get back to shore where they were able to stop the 343 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,640 bleeding by tying a tourniquet by his shoulder, which I did 344 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,400 mention before. Tourniquets are very helpful, 345 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,640 definitely look into how to use those properly. 346 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:27,680 But thankfully he was OK. They were able to stop the 347 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,800 bleeding and then get him over to the hospital where they found 348 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,640 he did not have any ligament or tendon damage and would be able 349 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,960 to make a full recovery. He stated he plans on returning 350 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,400 to the water as soon as he is able to, noting he didn't want a 351 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,840 small bite, well a small speed bump as he changed the two to 352 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,400 control his life. So on this, the story really 353 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,320 focused on the facts of what happened without adding a lot of 354 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,640 fluff or filler about how terrifying the shark was or how 355 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:55,040 horrible the incident could have been. 356 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,480 Of course, the incident could have been much worse, and I'm 357 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,040 very glad that it was not. But a lot of times you'll see 358 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,640 different news stories talk about how horrifying and how 359 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,840 terrible and the screaming and all the blood and everything 360 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:08,680 like that. And it's like, yes, like this 361 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:12,560 does happen during a shark bite. But at the same time, we're out 362 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:17,040 here kind of villainizing sharks for being a shark. 363 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,080 Like they're trying to figure out what we are in the kind of 364 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,240 took a little bite and realized, oh, snap, they're really, 365 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:23,960 they're really fragile. That's not great. 366 00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:26,520 So I love stories when they report like this. 367 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,680 They tell you what happened, where it happened, what the 368 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,560 outcome was and how the person's doing. 369 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,040 And thankfully in this case, the surfer seems to be doing very 370 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,160 well. I do of course know that it will 371 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,200 take time for him to get back in the water, but I'm hoping it 372 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,160 happens faster than he thinks it will, and I'm hoping it happens 373 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,600 very soon. But of course, this is one of 374 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,520 those situations where it was reported very well. 375 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,160 It seems like the surfer's doing great and it's kind of just the 376 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:56,320 the best of a bad outcome or best of a bad situation. 377 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:57,520 I should say it was a good outcome. 378 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,240 But yeah, one of those best of a bad situation moments because 379 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,960 yes, this is unfortunate, but it wasn't really hyped up in the 380 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:09,280 reporting and thankfully the injury was minor at at most with 381 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,160 this like it, it's it's going to take some recovery and some some 382 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,320 time to to heal. But it was very, very good 383 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:19,920 outcome of this and I wish him a speedy recovery there. 384 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,120 But that of course, is what I have for this episode. 385 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:25,760 I want to thank you all for listening and tuning in and 386 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,520 sending all your things and all your love and everything there. 387 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:30,040 You guys are absolutely incredible. 388 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:31,400 And I know I thank you constantly. 389 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,960 But once again, it's just wild to me that I get to talk about 390 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,840 sharks and y'all want to listen and send me more sharks to talk 391 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:39,440 about, which I really, really appreciate. 392 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:41,480 So of course, thank you all there. 393 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,600 Follow on Instagram or Twitch at deep dives with sharks to get 394 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,480 more sharky content there. 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