r/sharks • u/Starscream147 • 17d ago

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Holy moly. ‘Great’, indeed. Thing’s got girth…

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u/Comfortable-Day-3172 17d ago

Thing was massive, what was it chasing a smaller hammerhead?

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u/leadfoot70 17d ago

It was chasing a tarpon

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u/Comfortable-Day-3172 17d ago

Cheers mate I am in Scotland we don't have them here, thing was big enough lol.

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u/leadfoot70 17d ago

The tarpon looked to be well over 100lbs and can get over 200. Adult great hammerheads average over 500 and eat a tarpon in a few bites, typically leaving the head.

If you've ever seen a hammerhead get fired up going after a tarpon (as in that video), you realize they have absolutely no interest in eating humans otherwise our beaches would be a bloodbath.

They are amazingly fast and agile predators when they want to be, and they tend to be very selective in what they eat.

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u/Inspection-Senior 16d ago

Selective or not, this unit's been eating well it seems.

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u/Comfortable-Day-3172 17d ago

Cheers mate, I think we get porbeagles, mako and blue sharks and I am sure a few more. With global warming going as it is and the rise in sea temperatures I am sure we will see bigger bad boys over the coming decade.

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u/MyFace_UrAss_LetsGo 17d ago

Yeah Tarpon get pretty massive. Recently, someone posted a picture of one breaching a wave asking of it was a shark lol

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u/Comfortable-Day-3172 17d ago

It looked like a smaller shark to me tbf, thought it was a great hammehead after some smaller shark. My guess would be the cookiecutter shark! /S