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Post by radio on Aug 13, 2014 19:32:38 GMT -5
Hmmm. guess we can't embed a video here. Please follow youtube link
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junglejim
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Post by junglejim on Aug 13, 2014 22:47:11 GMT -5
Very funny, nothing beats really fresh shark.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 14, 2014 8:31:05 GMT -5
LMAO,I posted this on F/B a week ago....Very funny..
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 22:04:20 GMT -5
Some of the best fish I ever ate was shark ceviche on the beach south of Punta Dominical, Costa Rica. For $3 we got a heaping pile of shark on a crispy corn tortilla. It was so good, I had 2!! The shark was caught by the husband that morning. The wife prepped the ceviche for sale that day. The "restaurant" was their kitchen and the food served under shade of mango trees, in the yard outside the kitchen window. Yes, the food was served thru the kitchen window! lol
But, even that cannot compare to the freshness of the shark in your video.
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chassroc
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Post by chassroc on Aug 16, 2014 12:50:00 GMT -5
Haven't had shark for a long while.
We'd often catch em off the Jersey Shore, clean and fillet and they were good...real firm as I recall.
Nothing dramatic like a Great White or Tiger or Hammerhead
I think they were called Sand Shark (Dogfish?)...been so long I cant remember.
The mate would cut the line if you hooked a big shark(and it was they're equipment) Guess they didn't want to chance anything...that sucked
Charlie
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Post by gemfeller on Aug 16, 2014 13:00:28 GMT -5
I used to see thresher shark in the markets often here in CA and it was very good -- firm texture like Charlie said. But I haven't seen any offered for a long time now.
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Post by chassroc on Aug 16, 2014 13:02:54 GMT -5
They served up a 809 pound tiger shark to the homeless yesterday...
I think they got 75 pounds of meat out of the 809 pound carcass
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Post by gingerkid on Aug 16, 2014 13:38:33 GMT -5
Enjoyed the SYFY promotional vid for Sharknado, radio! "So sharky..." Anyone watch Sharknado (part II or I) or Discovery's Shark Week?
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Post by vegasjames on Aug 16, 2014 14:49:55 GMT -5
I think they were called Sand Shark (Dogfish?)...been so long I cant remember. There are 119 species of dogfish shark ranging in size from about 6 inches to over 30 feet. My favorite has always been the chain dogfish. Very beautiful deep water sharks.
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Post by vegasjames on Aug 16, 2014 14:52:35 GMT -5
They served up a 809 pound tiger shark to the homeless yesterday... I think they got 75 pounds of meat out of the 809 pound carcass Yes, most of the shark's body mass is composed of their livers, which serve several purposes. One is a fuel source. Also since sharks lack an air bladder the oil in their livers help maintaining their buoyancy. By the time you factor in other organs and cartilage there is not much room left for meat.
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Post by vegasjames on Aug 16, 2014 14:54:32 GMT -5
Enjoyed the SYFY promotional vid for Sharknado, radio! "So sharky..." Anyone watch Sharknado (part II or I) or Discovery's Shark Week? I started to watch Sharknado II, but it so ridiculously stupid that I finally changed the channel. Watched a little of shark week when I have had time since I have been in to shark research since I was in 6th grade. I was really hoping to be a marine biologist specializing in sharks.
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Post by radio on Aug 16, 2014 15:18:41 GMT -5
Enjoyed the SYFY promotional vid for Sharknado, radio! "So sharky..." Anyone watch Sharknado (part II or I) or Discovery's Shark Week? I started to watch Sharknado II, but it so ridiculously stupid that I finally changed the channel. I couldn't even get past the title far enough to watch any of the flick. I understand Tara Reid did a halfway respectable job of acting in it though. A few years ago a ta party, she had a much more serious wardrobe malfunction than Janet Jackson did!
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Post by gingerkid on Aug 16, 2014 21:16:33 GMT -5
Yep, the Sharknado movies are a bit insane. How 'bout SyFy's Sand Sharks movie? Did chuckle with Al Roker warning about the possibility of an EF5 Sharknado. I didn't realize the severity of shark species being threated (finning, etc...). It's really sad and you don't hear much about it.
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Post by vegasjames on Aug 17, 2014 7:09:13 GMT -5
I started to watch Sharknado II, but it so ridiculously stupid that I finally changed the channel. I couldn't even get past the title far enough to watch any of the flick. I understand Tara Reid did a halfway respectable job of acting in it though. A few years ago a ta party, she had a much more serious wardrobe malfunction than Janet Jackson did! Now that would have been a lot more fun to watch than Sharknado II.
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Post by vegasjames on Aug 17, 2014 7:47:45 GMT -5
Yep, the Sharknado movies are a bit insane. How 'bout SyFy's Sand Sharks movie? Did chuckle with Al Roker warning about the possibility of an EF5 Sharknado. I didn't realize the severity of shark species being threated (finning, etc...). It's really sad and you don't hear much about it. Yes, finning is really terrible. It is not only very cruel to cut off the fins of the shark then thrown them back in the water to drown, but it is also decimating many species. The average gestational period for most sharks is around 2 years, so they are not fast reproducers either. And some species only have one or two pups each time. For example, sand tiger sharks start with around 25,000 eggs. But the egg sacs become the food for the fastest developing embryo for the gestational period. If two sharks start to develop at the same rate in the same womb they will fight to the death inside the womb. So there is only one survivor per womb. Female sand tigers though have two wombs and thus only give live birth to two pups after all that time. And these sharks were wildly hunted especially after Jaws came out because they looked so ferocious but were perfectly harmless to humans. So divers would go out and kill these sharks to pretend they were heroes when they were just stupid cowards. Anyway, back to finning. Another thing a lot of people do not realize is that the fins provide NO flavor to the shark fin soup. It only provides a gel-like texture that can be obtained from other sources such as seaweed algin. It's popularity has more to do with being a status symbol due to the high cost. Just like beluga caviar, which tastes like fish crap!!! But there is this prestige of eating it because of its cost. There are definitely a lot of foods that taste a lot better for a fraction of the cost. I am glad that Shark Week has come about because there are so many misconceptions about sharks giving them a bad, undeserved reputation. And they are educating people in other ways as well. For example, I have tried to explain the importance of sharks to the ecosystem for decades and now they are really getting this point across. In fact, I used to volunteer for Greenpeace but quit when I asked why they were doing nothing to save the sharks. I was told because they were not popular enough. They may not be as popular as whales and dolphins, but they are so much more important to the ecosystem. People use to ask me all the time if I was worried about sharks when I was out diving. I always told them no because they were more predictable than the person walking down the street. If people really think about it they really have a much greater chance of being killed by another human being than a shark. I have seen a number of sharks while out diving and have never had one bother me. Most attacks have actually been due to mistaken identity, being mistaken for the sharks actual prey, or simply human mistake or sheer stupidity. For example, in the former most great white attacks were from the shark mistaking the person for a seal. Surfers with short boards and especially with fins look a lot like a seal from below. And divers in black wetsuits with fins look a while lot like a seal. I wear a blue we suit since sharks CAN see color and blue is the last color of the spectrum to go underwater. Since there are no blue seals I feel a lot more confident I will not be mistakes for a seal. Other sharks have accidentally bit people while chasing fish in low visibility water. Since they are more reliant on pressure waves detected by the lateral line and their electrical sensory in low visibility splashing can make a shark mistake a person for an injured fish and the electrical currents given off by our bodies can be mistaken for those given off by a fish body. Examples of the later including fishing for sharks near swimming beaches, which have lead to attacks, stepping on a bottom dwelling shark or divers grabbing a shark's tail in which the shark simply swings around and bites the diver. One famous shark researcher, Stewart Springer, lost a finger or two while prodding underneath a pregnant shark. Turns out the shark was giving birth and the pup being born got its first meal. And some "attacks" are not really attacks. One of the funniest stories I read from the International Shark Attack Files (ISAF) was about a guy who was on his 40' boat when he caught a 5 pound shark. He decided to put a cherry bomb in the sharks mouth and lit it then threw the shark back in the water. The shark got his revenge when he swam under the guy's boat blowing a hole in the bottom sinking the boat. I would not really consider this an "attack" although it was counted in the ISAF as one.
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Post by radio on Aug 17, 2014 8:34:49 GMT -5
Now that would have been a lot more fun to watch than Sharknado II. PM atcha
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