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Mike Spalding. Mike Spalding (born 1947) is a marathon swimmer, and one of only two people to have swum all nine channels of the main Hawaiian Islands. [1] He lives on Maui. On March 16, 2009 Spalding became one of the few humans to be attacked by the deep water cookiecutter shark. He was bitten by one of the sharks while swimming between the ...
Scymnus unicolor Müller & Henle, 1839. Squalus fulgens Bennett, 1840. The cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis), also called the cigar shark, is a species of small squaliform shark in the family Dalatiidae. This shark lives in warm, oceanic waters worldwide, particularly near islands, and has been recorded as deep as 3.7 km (2.3 mi).
Isistius. T. N. Gill, 1865. Type species. Isistius brasiliensis. (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Isistius is a genus of dogfish sharks in the family Dalatiidae. They are commonly known as cookiecutter sharks. Members of the genus are known for their unusual behaviour and dentition. [2]
“A key clue to the new population’s presumed habitat range lies in cookiecutter shark bite scars observed on almost all the orcas,” according to the release. “This parasitic shark lives in ...
At 20 inches long with a substantially large jaw for a shark of its size, the Cookiecutter shark is lethally vicious. While only one Cookiecutter has ever been seen in Guadalupe, their bites are ...
Shark bite victim's arm was 'shredded,' paramedic says Gordon Wilson, the Palm Beach County Fire Rescue firefighter and paramedic who treated Reinhardt, is a shark-bite survivor himself.
Rodney Fox. Rodney Winston Fox (born 9 November 1940) is an Australian film maker, conservationist, survivor of an attack by a great white shark, and one of the world's foremost authorities on that species. [1][2] He was inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame in 2007. [3] He was born in Adelaide.
The dramatic ocean saga that led to three men being rescued this week from a sinking inflatable catamaran off the Australian coast has been pinned on an unusual culprit: a small, cigar-shaped ...