20-foot-long shark discovered, almost as big asJaws

A pair of fisherman haul in this Jaws - sized monster from Mexico ’s Sea of Cortez . This great white shark was only five animal foot short of Steven Spielberg ’s monster , but still giving enough to devour any swimming plans we had this summer .

Reports have this twenty - groundwork sea heavyweight weighing in at 2,000 pounds . The fishermen who plant this dead goliath initially mistook it for a particularly large haul . allot toGrindTV :

The shark was dead when it was bring to the surface . The fishermen , whose skiff measures 22 fundament and is powered by a 75 - HP outboard , required an hour to tow the carcass two land mile to the coast . About 50 masses help drag the goliath onto juiceless sand [ … ] It persist unclear what the fisher did with the shark , but scientists were hoping to obtain tissue samples for study .

California State marine biologistChristopher Lowefurther elaborates that great whites are n’t a all rare breakthrough for the area :

While it ’s strange that fishermen will land shark that with child , the occurrent of declamatory grownup bloodless sharks is not uncommon for Gulf waters [ … ] In fact , several satellite tagged shark from California and Guadalupe Island [ west of Baja California ] have travel into the gulf . So we know they are there .

And lest we block , here ’s that notorious Jaws clip in which the crew of the Orca size up their 25 - base brother ( who does have about 2 tons on this baby , but still , that ’s a right bad fish ) . We pledge you king ( or pansy ) of the ocean !

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