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A large white shark 5 meters long was spotted last Thursday in the western Mediterranean. A scientific expedition named Alnitaka has published photos of a huge carcarodon (scientific name of the white shark) on his Facebook profile. The shark was seen near Cabrera, a small island in the Balearic Islands, to which it belongs to understand, Ibiza and Formentera, notorious seaside resorts, very popular in those times.
The observation in the Balearic Islands. Thursday, June 28 at 10 am, the Alnitak 2018 science expedition, along with biologists Riccardo Sagarminaga Van Buiten and Fernando Lopez-Guardoni, photographed and videodocumentato, 8 miles from the island of Cabrera for more of 70 minutes, the presence of a white shark 5 meters long in the waters near the national park. This event is of particular value because no official observations have been made for 30 years, but until now, they had always been without photographic or video documentation and therefore at the limit of the popular legend or of the rumor
White sharks in Mediterranean. That of the great shark is not an unusual presence in our sea, indeed there are many observations. In the Balearic Islands, from 1920 to 1976, there were at least 20 white sharks mistakenly caught by fishing boats, while another Mediterranean island, Malta, is the record for the largest fish ever caught in the world , 7.16 meters and 3 tons of weight. A theory based on genetic studies would like white sharks that live in the Mediterranean to come from Australia, who came "by mistake" 450,000 years ago and could no longer get out of the Strait of Gibraltar.
Cacarodon. A true living fossil, it is the last representative of a family of great marine predators. It is present in all the temperate waters of the world, from New Zealand to South Africa, via Mexico and California. On average, 5 meters long can have a bite of 80 centimeters wide which is the delight of documentary filmmakers and directors like Spielberg (the director of the Shark), a little less than his prey. His diet varies according to the areas in which he moves. In the Mediterranean, it is rich in tuna, swordfish, sea turtles, other sharks, dolphins, while in other parts of the world it can include seals, penguins and small cetaceans. The statistics, published by the Florida Museum of Natural History and contained in a database called ISAF, indicate that in the world between 1876 and 2008, there were 244 unprovoked attacks, of which 65 proved to be fatal. A very low average that alone explains that, despite his atavistic hunger, we are not really his favorite food.
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