Great White Shark: Road Trip

An inside look at how the Monterey Bay Aquarium brought a young white shark from Marina del Rey to Monterey. There's more to see at http://www.mbayaq.org/whiteshark/. The mission of the Monterey Bay Aquarium is to inspire conservation of the worlds oceans.
(c) 2006 Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• great
• white
• shark
• sharks
• Monterey
• bay
• aquarium
• aquariums
• marine
• biology
• animals
• ocean
• oceans

[Baltimora1957]

Thank God. Those sharks need to be protected.

[DotsyOO7]

i have a terrible fear of water lakes,rivers the sea but this is what fasinates me about this animal since i saw jaws when a kid it struck fear into me but there also suck a beautiful animal please lord dont let them be extinct the world and sea would never be the same with out them if i ever get the cash together im gonna pluck up the courage to go diving with them love them

[Catdogika102]

beautiful

[francoisgrenier]

you cant stop that shark from its instinct.

[SQUILLA898]

The Aquarium has no intention of holding a white shark that is larger than 6 feet long, 200 lbs. I volunteer there on Sundays and work with husbandry staff to feed tuna and clean the tuna holding tanks, so I also get to see the current white shark quite frequently. We released our most recent baby about 2 weeks ago; she was about 5.5 feet long, about 100 lbs. We have no intention of holding one longer than 6 months in captivity.

[sharkboy214]

nice looking fish glad they only keep them for a while then release them when they get a bit bigger (and start preying on other tank mates)

[Mrfeet6634]

This young sharks

[Baltimora1957]

Yay they released her back into her home. :-)

[Baltimora1957]

For some reason Great Whites can not survive in captivity. Does anyone know what eventually happened to this one? Did it survive or did it die? I hope they released back into the wild where it belongs.

[Baltimora1957]

We're just too bony for them.

[boycrayz101]

my almost uncle randy is telling the shark to swim ahahaha