Japan Shark!
Two days ago, a friggin’ huge shark was captured off the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture. Fisherman attempted to bring the huge fish to an aquarium, but it did not survive the process. At the time, the news media was unsure of exactly what type of shark it was, but it has since been identified as a basking shark. The shark was 9-meters long and weighed over 4.5 tons, making it the largest shark of its kind captured in Japanese waters. Here’s a video of a very excited Japanese reporter at the scene of the gigantic shark corpse:
The workers in the video are busy scraping the guts out of the shark and putting them in buckets so the creature can be stuffed and put on display at an aquarium. They aren’t exactly ethusiastic about the reporter’s “WOW THAT’S A REALLY BIG SHARK! WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE BEING IN THE BELLY OF A GIANT SHARK? LOL” questions.
Here’s another clip from a news program that built a 1:1 scale mock-up of the shark in their study. It gives viewers a much better idea of just how big the shark was:
Once it’s stuffed, the shark will be going on display at Aqua World Oarai. No word yet on whether they’re planning to put the buckets of shark guts on display too…
[Hat Tip to Japanjin for the article link and information.]
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Wow, that is a helluva shark!
Its very big, it looks like a small plane
that is looks so nasty that its not even funny how the hell did you real that thing in its like impossible
What a bunch of utter morons! That type of shark is completely harmless and deserved better than to end up stuffed somewhere.
OMG! how could someone kill such a gental giant. Basking sharks eat nothing but krill. Completely harmless. I can not believe the bad wrap sharks are getting these days. it discusts me to hear of finning, and the shark fin moffia. discusts. i have dedicated my life, to sharks. to saving them, to loving them and to helping them. they are so important to our eco system you have no idea. no sharks. no air on earth. no air, no people. they have been here for so long. future generations are going to look back on us and think, what the hell were they thinking. did you know that soda machines kill more ppl a year than sharks. not even vending machines. just soda, alone. we only fear them because we know so little. and because mankind loves to have a monster, someone to hate, and blame. its not right. its not right at all. watch the movie shark water to hear more. please do because these gental giants are disapearing so quickly. we will have just found out that they can cure cancer or something and they will all be gone. we are only hurting ourselves.
woah… calm down.
Hey, it’s a shame it was killed, but at least it will be put on display and put to good use by educating others about how impressive and important these “gentle giants” can be…. either that or people will just think “woah.. that sure is a big-ass fish!”.
(BTW, I’m sorry, but with your misspelling of “gentle” I thought for a moment it said “genital giants).
I mean “WAS put on display”, not will be, as I now noticed the date of the post
If you want to get your message out, make sure people can read it. It doesn’t matter what the content is if your language is so garbled that people are turned off from the first line.
BTW, I harpooned a 5m vending machine the other day. Is that a step in the right direction?
dude they eat plankton
Omg that is a big shark and its probaly not a harmful shark bt look on the bright side at least there nt just throwing it bac down der 2 get eatin there hanging it up so the whole can c its beauty; )
The human race sucks. Can’t we leave animals alone? Exploit, enslave, destroy.