Something Ate This Shark...but What?
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Length: 2min 55sec (175 seconds)
Published: Fri May 30 2014
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A few years ago we were staying on Stadbroke Island (Queensland, Australia) for a surfing holiday. While we were there, a 3m (9ft) great White washed up on shore with a bite taken out of it right in the middle. What ever attacked it was huge!!!!
A few surfer stories came out of people claiming to have seen another monster shark lurking, however nothing was proven. I for one spent the remainder of the holiday safely at the bar.
The possibility of a underwater Tyrannosaurus Rex is not something we should rule out.
I want to point out something that almost every single person has missed. If the 9-ft shark was simply bitten and the tag was ingested by another animal, then the temperature change would have been immediate. The fact that the temperature change did not occur until 1960 feet below suggests the shark/tag was dragged down before the tag was ingested.
A bigger shark. Great whites average 15 to 16 feet and can get up to 20 feet. This one was only 9 feet. There are sharks over twice his size out there.
EDIT: Mystery Solved it was a bigger great white. Thanks /u/calinzecat
It's The Breach...prepare the Jaegers!!
Greater White Shark
This will most likely be lost in the comments, but this youtube video uses excerpts from a television program that was aired on Australia's ABC last November. It's an interesting watch and they do come to the verdict that it was most likely orcas that have migrated to this certain shelf off the South-West of Australia (where I grew up so I can say for a fact these are big-fucking sharks) where there are many strange species of marine life that migrate and breed there because of the warmer, ideal temperatures.
It's also a prime fishing spot, I've caught about 20 skippy in the space of half an hour.
Information on show (not sure where you can watch the entire thing as I saw it live on television last year): http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/search-for-the-oceans-super-predator/
EDIT: You can view the full thing here.
mystery solved
Maybe another, slightly bigger great white had bitten off a chunk of the shark with the device attached?