... death and many other names. Its scientific name is carcharodos carcharias, and that scientific name is also used for many other sharks like the hammer head shark and the whale shark. The great white is known for its ferocity in the sea, it can literally kill anything that is in the water. The great white has ... machine because it blends with the water causing its prey not to notice him. It has a torpedo shape body, which makes his very fast on water. This shark has six fins, used for swimming, the main fins are the dorsal fin on its back and 2 pectoral fins on its sides, the other fins...

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... rest of her motherly instructions of safety. I had far more important issues at hand. Today was the day we were going to play a new version of shark. My brothers had discussed it several times recently (after all, what else was there to do while we were stranded inside for two whole weeks?) One ... to get away from each other. After the first victim was claimed the game was in full swing. That sibling would then frantically start screaming "Shark, shark!" and pointing in the directing of the sibling they had figured out was on the hunt. I heard the first shouts of the game coming from .....

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... two tons, this makes for a slow swim speed, but these agile creatures can reach burst speeds of up to 15 mph which is fast for a shark this large. In fact, in South Africa the more aggressive sharks have been observed leaping five to fifteen feet out of the water in search of catching ... death, if it is missed it is called a near miss. If the seal isn't killed instantly it has a very good chance of losing the shark because the shark lost its sneak attack and the seals are much more agile than the sharks. This phenomenon does not only happen in South Africa, recently Chris Fallows and .....

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... of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is lucky it's surrounded by beautiful and colorful coral reef. This is what our islands are made up of. What is a shark? A shark is a fish that is made up of cartilage skeletons and has gills on the side of its head used for breathing. Though many of us are afraid of ... can't live with the other. Let's just say the coral reef ecosystem is Mariah Carey singing that song to the sharks. What causes shark extinction? There are two reasons I came up with that can cause sharks' extinction such as human beings by doing bycatch or overfishing and then there's illega...

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What's in the water? That's the question the characters in this book wondered too. White Shark is a story about a monster in the water that makes Jaws look like a goldfish! The year is 1945. There was a German U-boat that was carrying a few of ... sit there until someone or something sets them loose. The year is now 1996. An oceanographer named Simon Chase, is a shark and environment lover. One day him and his partner, Tall Man, found a pregnant shark that was sick and they were trying to help her. They heard something on the scanner and they had to come back ... the others disappear to? I ...

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This great biography by Rob Thomas is a down to earth book. It is a must read if you like to read biographies. Rob Thomas did a great job on Rats Saw God. Steve York, a straight A student at Houston, at first is doing really good. He has lots of friends and has no problems at home. Later his mom and his dad ... ...

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... all species look different and are unique in their own different way.2 Sharks can range in size from nearly 5 inches, to a 45-foot long whale shark. All sharks use their gills to breathe through by extracting oxygen from seawater. Most sharks have a streamed line bodies and fines to help them glide through ... The temperate sharks live in water temperatures around 50 degrees to 70 degrees.4 All sharks have a backbone like most other sea creatures. The shark's skeleton is made of cartilage unlike most other fish. Cartilage is like bone, but is much lighter and more flexible than it. There...

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... Water must pass across their gills so that they can extract the water from it. Without fins they cannot swim. If the shark cannot swim, the shark will suffocate. Sharks are considered an apex predator. This can also be known as keystone species. Apex predators are adult predators that ... culture. But people who serve this soup are doing so out of tradition. This soup is a tasteless, non nutritious meal, and consumption if shark meat can have undesirable effects on ones heath. The benefits of consuming this soup do not outweigh the consequences of this illegal practice and the ... loomin...

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... to discuss the opening question. Steven Spielberg directed the film in 1975, at the location of Martha's Vineyard, America. Having to build a fake, mechanical shark, the filmmakers also wanted live footage. An important aspect of the location was being able to travel many miles out to sea. The first scene starts with ... know what is going to happen. The music becomes faster, and faster, building to a climax to when the shark attacks, all the while making the audiences" heart beat even faster. When the shark attacks, the girl is pulled under water a little way, and her first thought is t...

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... all the other fish. A Sharks skin texture is different from fish, it has like a smooth leathery feeling. Their skin is like that so they could channel water over the shark's body(Shark-info.com) Sharks also have a unique sense of direction. Unlike fish sharks use their back tail as a propeller it swings its tail back and forth to propel through the water ... . The tail also helps direct its body buy moving the tail up and down the shark will move up and down. Two others that help with the direction are the vertical dorsal fin(s) and the anal fin. These fins serve two important body funct...

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... trophies, meat, and other reasons. We need to save these magnificent animals for they hold a very important role in the ecosystem in our oceans. Shark meat is becoming a product that is very much in demand these days; approximately 125 countries are commercially fishing sharks. Sharks are not only being fished ... a month that is over 2.8 million sharks a year. On a worldwide scale an average of 704,000 tons of shark meat is sold annually each year. At this pace the shark is at serious risk of becoming an endangered species, today there are four sharks that are especially close to this a...

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... by Steven Spielberg called Jaws. Ever since I have been a little kid I have been entranced by this film. The movie is about a killer Great White shark that is terrorizing a small New England town called Amity. The island is a summer tourist haven and the movie takes place on Fourth of July weekend. After ... us care for the three man about to be crammed together in a leaky tub. Second, throughout most of the film we barely glimpse the shark; instead our imagination has over an hour to dream up horrifying images and gross scenarios. These factors alone ensure that Jaws retains its dizzyin...

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... vieweron the edge of their seat? while not even introducing the true star of the movie until it's half way over. The viewer knows that the shark is there and due to several point of view shots, is given the opportunity to see through its eyes. Spielberg uses a lot of camera movement throughout ... the movie, this adds to the success of its suspense. In the scene where Chrissie gets eaten by the shark, the camera goes under water and a low-angle view is used to look up at her body. The camera then switches to an eye-level view ... A combination of cutting to continuity, and parallel edit...

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... have a better chance of netting the fish. I continued to fight the fish while my brother waded out into the water about twenty feet from the boat. "It's a shark!" my brother yelled as he saw the dorsal fin pop out of the water. He headed straight back toward the boat as fast as he could. "Knock em in the head!" Pawpaw yelled as ... he jumped into the water and took the net from my brother. Pawpaw was fearless. He went after that shark the same way he went after any other fish ... . The shark then jerked as hard as it could the other way, snapped the line, and took off toward sea. "Damn,...

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... sequels weren't as good as the original, but the element of vampirism is preserved. It's very simple really: shark preys on man, man is afraid of shark, shar preys on man some more, man hunts shark, shark gets a nice large dinner, man gets smarter, man kills shark. In a vampire book, for example Dracula, it's even simpler: vampire preys on superstitious village, civilized man is foolish ... ...

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... . The revelation made to the correspondent when he recalled the story about the solider helped to determine his fate. This correspondent decided that he will continue rowing even when he saw the shark. The correspondent could have woken up one of the other men but he didn't because he had compassion. The moral decision that the correspondent made to row the boat ... tiny creatures in the middle of the sea. Nature does not feel as if it needs to do anything to favor these men. The captain is hurt and a shark attacks them. They even saw a man who was no help be all he did was spin his coat...

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... paradise. I made my first memory the first dive we did at the shipwreck of Almno. As I swam in and around a shipwreck I got my first glimpse of a hammerhead shark. As I came to the surface I saw it clearly. It was 7-8 feet long. My first instinct was to swim for the boat, but the Captain yelled to everyone to stay still so that's what I did ... coming in, we had to leave the Gulf Stream but not after piling up more memories. On the last day we stopped at another wreck. As we dove down we saw thousands of lobsters since it wasn't lobster season we couldn't catch them but it was all-good....

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... scene. Soundtracks such as these are important to set the mood for different scenes with in a movie. In Jaws, when the great white shark spots his pray, we are greeted with an ominous low-tempo sound. As the shark approaches his prey the music picks up speed and builds an intense, heart pounding feeling that something bad is about to happen. This ... music is usually followed by the inevitable shark attack or "almost" shark attack. The feeling of dread that the music creates helps to invoke the drama and fear of the scene into the viewer's person. These kind of strong ... ...

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... three hundred fifty species of sharks. They can be broadly categorized into the following four groups: Squalomorphii, Squatinomorphii, Batoidea, and Galeomorphii. The shark family Sphyrnidae that includes the Hammerheads are part of the Galeomorphic classification. They are probably the most easily recognizable of all the sharks. The ... . The following four are the main categories: 1. Scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini)-Pectoral fins are tipped with black this grey shark. The maximum length is about 12 feet. 2. Bonnethead (Spyrna tiburo)-With a h! ead shaped like a shovel the bonnethe...

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... to the boat and sets sail for home. The blood of the fish leaves a trail of blood. The blood attracts a mako shark but before the shark can eat the fish, Santiago kills it with the harpoon. The harpoon stayed on the shark so now if another attacked he wouldn't be a able to stop it. Soon enough more sharks come, he tries to stop ... up and the sharks eat the Marlin. Santiago gets mad with himself for going to far. The next day, the skeleton attached to the boat astounds fishermen. They think it's a shark because they don't know what really happened. Manolin finds Santiago in his cabin an...

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... longer than the boat, it must be tied to the side rather then towed behind. Santiago puts up the mast and sets sail to the southwest, back toward Havana. (2) A mako shark strikes the marlin and tears off at least forty pounds if flesh before Santiago can kill it. In the killing, he loses his harpoon. Now there us a massive trail of ... the water, which will inevitably attract other sharks. Santiago kills two more with a knife that is tied to an oar. But a quarter of the marlin is now gone. Later, a third shark destroys even more of the marlin before Santiago can kill him, and the knife ...

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... survivors of the initial explosion. By the time rescuers arrived, more than a week later, all but 10 sailors - floating on life rafts and debris - had died of exposure or in shark attacks. This website claimed that "George spent four days calling for his brothers before deciding - in his delirium - to swim off into the ... shark-infested water." "You and your husband have given a lesson in great courage to the whole country," wrote first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in a condolence letter that was later published in newspapers. ... Sollars, Edward's widow. "After he parachuted out, he wande...

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How to keep the elephant-nose fish The Elephant-nosed fish, or Ubangi Mormyrid [Gnathonemus Petersii] is probably the most commonly encountered of the elephant-noses. It belongs to the Mormyrid family, fishes related to the knifefishes of south-America. ... as two vertical bands crossing it's body. It is slender and streamlined in shape, with a soft extension under it's mouth, used for probing for worms in the sand. The Elephant-nosed fish requires a relatively large tank, as it is quite active, of about 50 gallons as a youngester, and about 65+ at full size. They can reach 10" in very large...

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... her arm. Bethany just held on to her board until it let go. After she let go, she told Alana "A shark just bit me". Alana noticed that the ocean suddenly turn red. Crying she said "Dad hurry! A shark just bit Bethany!" Alana's father quickly paddled over to the two girls. As soon as he reached them he told ... and she could've died." Throughout this entire experience Bethany remained positive and calm. She never gave up her dream of becoming a professional surfer. She didn't let some dumb shark attack keep her from achieving her dream. Most people would give up on surfing after an attac...

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... dignity and determination by telling himself that "every day is a new day. "This character trait is also very evident when Santiago battles a large marlin and must fight off several subsequent shark attacks. During these battles, Santiago shows great endurance and incredible strength. All that Santiago had in his boat to eat and drink was a bottle of water and some strips of ... it with his harpoon. As Santiago sails on with the fish, the marlin's blood leaves a trail in the water which attracts several sharks. The first to attack is a great Mako shark, which Santiago manages to kill wi...

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