Monday, February 2, 2009

Cousteau's Graet White Shark]['

Comments
1.Near the end of the third expedition of the crew encountered seven Great white sharks at once. For some reason they were very aggressive and repeatedly made bite attempts at the divers. Some of the crew figured it was because of all of them were together is why they were so aggressive because the Great white is a lone creature that only usually get together to mate.
2.Also the Shark Amy returned and did something that surprised teh crew she came up to the plastic cage put her snout up against it and hovered there for awhile just staring. Arrington who was in the cage in the time said he wasn't scared because the shark was not in a attack position all it was doing was looking and inspecting. He described it as that the shark was just as king who and what are you.
3.During the last part of the third expedition the team encountered the largest shark of all the expeditions they called her Bertha and she was at least eighteen feet long very close to the largest shark on record that was actually measured which was nineteen feet long. Some people who actually have enough credit not to be lying have even claimed to have seen great whites over twenty feet long but since they were not measured properly it does not count.
4. At the end of the third expedition the crew was away with family while Cousteau got a call from Barry who gave him bad news that three of the sharks they tagged had been caught already by fishermen one of them was a seven foot young male called Tiny.
5. The crew found out that people didn't care as much about a animal that didn't have a name. But when an animal has a name even a shark people fell sorry for it . The crew didn't consider the sharks they named just any sharks they were their sharks and they the team felt bad for them.
Questions
1. How come no other sharks but White's come around with all the chum they throw?
2. How did Amy see with her snout against the tank?
3. How big was Bertha's mouth?
4. What would a shark the size of Bertha eat?
Vocab.
1. Lithium. A soft, silver-white metallic element.
2. Ambient. Completely surrounding; encompassing.
3. Solemn. Serious or earnest.
Literature Terms
1. Irony. The crew felt sympathy for the dead sharks while any other person would not care some would think it good that their dead
2. Foreshadowing. In the book for one of the sharks it says it was the largest they had come by so far hinting that a larger shark would be found.
Final Comment
It amazes me that Animals like the sharks can go so long in their lives without wanting to socialize with other sharks.

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