Jaws is real folks - 2000 lbs+ Great White headed towards the NC Outer Banks

[Vanillalite]

https://www.foxnews.com/science/great-white-shark-2137-pounds-outer-banks.amp

A 2,137-pound great white shark is headed toward North Carolina's Outer Banks, researchers have said.

The 15-foot shark named Luna "pinged in" last week off the coast of the Carolinas, according to a Facebook post from international great white shark research organization, OCEARCH.

Luna was over the so-called Charleston Bump, a "deepwater bottom feature 80 to 100 miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina," according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

 

[Byakuya769]

Call in the orcas!

 

[Mathieran]

Welp I'm never going past knee deep at OBX again

 

[TrailerParkRanger]

We're gonna need a bigger boat.

 

[Deleted member 2317]

That's no twenty footer.

 

[F34R]

Welp I'm never going past knee deep at OBX again

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That's too deep!

 

[echoshifting]

I expected shark pics and am leaving disappointed.

 

[Sanjuro]

 

[F34R]

I expected shark pics and am leaving disappointed.

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It's not too far from me, I could go over there and take a few snapshots lol. NO WAY I'm going in the water in the dark though.

 

[Bliman]

 

[Burt]

That's no twenty footer.

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Twenty-five

 

[Fuchs]

Let your teeth sink into this!

 

[THEVOID]

 

[Dead Man Typing]

Twenty-five

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3 tonnes of 'em.

 

[A Wild Shark Appears]

 

[Mathieran]

That's too deep!

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Lol well I'll risk it. I love playing in the waves too much. I figure a shark that big would get beached if it came that close

 

[El Bombastico]

Jaws in the book was almost 30 feet long...

 

[Malajax]

I feel like this is gonna end with a dead shark for no god damned reason.

 

[daybreak]

A quick trip to Wikipedia is telling me that 15ft is actually on the low end of average for female great white shark sizes?

Seems to be that the larger females can grow up to 20ft in length and weigh up to 4,200lbs, nearly twice as heavy as the larger one referred to in the story.

Also, terrifying.

 

[FTF]

Farewell and adieu to you fair spanish ladies.

 

[Whitemex]

" I say we let 'em go"

 

[Strangelove_77]

Can we capture it, run sadistic experiments on it and then eat it?

 

[Anton Sugar]

Isn't there one alive that's 25 feet or close to it? Some kinda big mama shark, can't remember her name.

 

[Deleted member 889]

All of those times my friends and I swam super far out into the ocean at OBX...

 

[Falchion]

I'm a little bit north of that but that's a damn big shark.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

Well I'm going to have nightmares tonight.

 

[Nerdkiller]

Call in the orcas!

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[TheGreatDirector]

Smile you sunova-

 

[V-Faction]

LAWD SHE COMIN'

 

[Hiphopopotamus]

Can we capture it, run sadistic experiments on it and then eat it?

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I see you've been reading my wishbook again

 

[Deleted member 2317]

Twenty-five

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3 tonnes of 'em.

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Still terrifying!

A quick trip to Wikipedia is telling me that 15ft is actually on the low end of average for female great white shark sizes?

Seems to be that the larger females can grow up to 20ft in length and weigh up to 4,200lbs, nearly twice as heavy as the larger one referred to in the story.

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Not only that, but unreliable historical accounts report even larger specimens. And it is known that even greater threats lie in deeper, unobserved waters!

 

[Heroicpiglet]

record killer whale's sound and play it everytime you go swiming

 

[HStallion]

record killer whale's sound and play it everytime you go swiming

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[Advance.Wars.Sgt.]

Shark is likely only gonna be there for fish and mating smh. They're really not the mindless killing machines they're often portrayed as in movies/media.

 

[louiedog]

 

[RestEerie]

now imma just gonna wait for a tornado...

 

[Forerunner]

Isn't there one alive that's 25 feet or close to it? Some kinda big mama shark, can't remember her name.

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Deep Blue. +4k lb and 20 ft.

 

[El_TigroX]

Related, not related... last few years off Plymouth MA when we do a family vacation week, there have been so many sightings, i'm Convinced we're going to get munched.

Edit: bluest, deepest, my hat is like a shark fin.

 

[Burt]

Deep Blue. +4k lb and 20 ft.

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Yup,

that's an OLHC

 

[H2Yo]

I hope people leave it the fuck alone.

 

[Deleted member 7130]

Say what? What are y'all talking about?

 

[Secretofmateria]

I can take him

 

[Candescence]

Fortunately, sharks aren't naturally inclined to hunt humans, to my knowledge they usually mistake folks for more usual prey like seals, especially people on surfboards.

Deep Blue. +4k lb and 20 ft.

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Either she's expecting or good lord that's a fatass shark.

 

[Anubis]

Orcas would handle a great white easily.

 

[Banderdash]

I realised last night, I'm 36... and I've never seen Jaws.

 

[Halbrand]

Deep Blue. +4k lb and 20 ft.

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How many people are inside that

 

[themadcowtipper]

So the Meg is like Highlander a documentary filmed in real time.

 

[BigDes]

Deep Blue. +4k lb and 20 ft.

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Beautiful

Wonder what it was that took a chunk out of her side though

 

[How About No]

 

[Deleted member 13496]

Shark is likely only gonna be there for fish and mating smh. They're really not the mindless killing machines they're often portrayed as in movies/media.

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Sounds like something a shark would say...