Great White facts:

* They are streamlined, torpedo-shaped swimmers with powerful tails that can propel them through the water at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour.
* Highly adapted predators, their mouths are lined with up to 300 serrated, triangular teeth arranged in several rows.
* They have an exceptional sense of smell to detect prey and have organs that can sense the tiny electromagnetic fields generated by animals.
* Main prey items include sea lions, seals, small toothed whales, and even sea turtles and carrion.
* The great white population is decreasing precipitously due to overfishing and accidental catching in gill nets, among other factors.

With new episodes airing Sunday nights, and repeats thought the week, you have several opportunities to catch this new show!

For details on Expedition Great White, check out NationalGegraphic.com

As luck would have it there is now an oil spill in Alaska on the pipleline, which is majority owned by BP! You know, I thought about my first statement, and I wondered when the last spill was. A few google searches later and.. It turns out looking back in to the past was quite chilling, echoing back to 1979.

Aren’t we supposed to learn from our mistakes? If not, we’re screwed. But don’t let me throw a downer on your friday. Did you know that 1,000 fishermen have pushed their way in to help clean up the spill? You do now!

So your Fishing Fury tip of the day: At the end of the night, find the most beautiful girl you can and kiss her. You never know what will happen next.

Using a remotely operated vehicle, they caught a rare glimpse of the huge oarfish, perhaps the first sighting of the fish in its natural setting.

The oarfish, which can reach 17m long, has previously only been seen on a few occasions dying at the sea surface, or dead washed ashore.

Their strange appearance may have provided the basis for the sea serpent myths told by early ocean travellers.
Not only are they elongated, they also have a prominent dorsal fin which gives it an unusual “serpent” appearance.
Recalling the event Professor Benfield explained how at first, they thought the fish was simply a drilling pipe called a riser being lowered into the water.

“We saw this bright vertical shiny thing, I said ‘are they lowering more riser?’ as it looked like they were lowering a huge pipe.”

“We zoomed in a little bit and we said ‘that’s not a riser that’s a fish!’”

On another ROV survey in the Gulf of Mexico, the team came across the deep sea manefish (Paracaristius sp.).

This observation enabled the scientists to get a rare insight into the behaviour of the fish in its natural environment.

That gave them a further understanding of how it lives and what it looks like.
“When you see manefish collected in trawls they are incredibly beat up, they don’t look like much of a fish at all,” said Professor Benfield.

“So to actually see this fish in its natural habitat with its fins beautifully splayed out almost as a parachute, we get an idea that it’s a really good swimmer.”

Manefish are thought to steal food from or feed on a jellyfish-like animal called a siphonophore.
This may explain why the fish needs to swim so accurately.

“This fish has very precise control over its orientation and position, so if you are in very close proximity to an animal with tentacles that could potentially damage you, you want to able to really precisely control your locomotion.”

via BBC News

Well at least moving forward we can do the right thing. The music in these videos was provided by The Total Camble Experience.

I know you’ve probably seen these videos before, but it spent some extra hours up late getting the audio to match perfectly (or as perfectly as possible) with the video. So please, for the sake of all the sleep I lost, watch them!

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Enjoy!

via Le Mouching

These incredible photos were taken by Jon Schwartz

“They were flipping out because they’ve never seen anything like that in their lives, and they started looking at the eyes, and the eyes were red and pink, and they started hollering out albino, albino, and then they called into the marina, and that’s when we learned that it was a special thing.”

via Blue Water Jon