Holy SHIT! Sundog, did you just see that Greenland Shark???

[Maddy McCall]

Never heard of anything like that!

[sundog]

1. no dammit!

i was too preoccupied posting in your other thread!

see what you made me do! :grr:

[Maddy McCall]

2. Lemme see if I can find some photos for you.

It's a shark that lives in the ocean from Greenland to New York, it's a giant! It's blind because it has parasitic worms in its eyes.

Looking for a photo. BRB.

[Maddy McCall]

3. Greenland shark...

The Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus, is the one shark able to inhabit Arctic waters year-round. Only on a few rare occasions has it ever been observed alive by divers, and usually under conditioned circumstances. As my colleague Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark puts it, you are more likely to encounter the Loch Ness Monster than a Greenland shark. We should know. Dr. Harvey-Clark and I, as well as John Batt from Dalhousie University, have been searching for Skalugsuak unsuccessfully in the Arctic, Atlantic and Saguenay for close to five years. Skalugsuak is the shark's name in Inuktitut. Inuit legend says an old woman washing her hair with urine wiped it dry with a cloth that was blown into the sea by the wind. There, it became Skalugsuak, the Greenland shark. The legend makes a lot of sense. The shark's flesh contains a high concentration of urea that renders it inedible, even toxic.





http://divermag.com/archives/nov2003/atlantic_nov03.html

[sundog]

4. oh wow

i think i have heard of that one - it's a vegetarian so to speak...

inuit legend! even cooler :D

[FuzzySlippers]

5. That's one ugly motherfucking shark.

See my sig line.}(

[Maddy McCall]

6. Is that Shark Sushi?

LOL!

[sundog]

7. shaddup you witch!

:P