The shark thread

Shark week is over, but its never a bad time to celebrate these toothy apex predators! (sounding enough like a cheesy aquarium page? )

Anyhow, post the latest shark news, as well as general discussion about them, here.

To start: Whale sharks are sliding closer to extinction,

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/25017/20160711/endangered-whale-sharks-winghead-bornean-orangutans-now-step-closer-extinction.htm

We has one here!

https://jurassicmainframe.forumotion.com/t361-the-jaws-thread

I'm late, but thanks for the link!

The one in my city has closed down now, but a few years ago, my mum and I went to a place called 'The Australian Shark and Ray Centre'. There were a small number of pools filled mostly with sharks but one had a couple of large rays. Basically, visitors could hire a wetsuit, purchase cups of prawns then go in the pools and hand-feed the sharks and rays. We were the only visitors on that particular day, so we had the whole place to ourselves and the friendly staff even allowed us into the pool with 'Gigantor', a 3-metre Tawny Nurse shark (though we weren't allowed to feed him).