I am from Florida, by my own count, we have well over 50 types of sharks in our waters, and many are infamous (Tigers, Great Whites, Bulls, etc.); but up until recently, I had no idea I was getting in the water with these strange looking beasties! Actually, no bather, surfers are even diver need worry--you need a deep water submersible to actually be anywhere near them in the water. Most interaction that these creatures have with humans is when the poor things are hauled up on fishing boats by accident. Such was the case recently in the FLA Keys, when one was hauled up on a shrimper. Captain Carl Moore says he snapped some shots and put the thing back in the water. They are weird though; a real living fossils with distendable jaws! Just as an observational note on my part: the sharks hauled up quite often off the coast of Japan, appear to have a much lighter skin pigment than those in US water, which appear darker and redder. Their lengths are the same, though. You can access the Wikipedia page for them here.
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| Here is the photo from Moore taken in the Florida Keys on the 19 of April this year |
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| Talk about "Jaws"! |
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