What Predator Eats A Nine Foot Great White Shark?

[running_coach]

@Mr_Quatro

Something must be wrong with the electronic tag on the shark as it was reported to have gone down to 2.000 feet.

Only a submarine can go down to 2,000 feet and that is considered crush depth. The submarine would implode at that depth due to the air inside of it and so would any known species of whale.

Mis-reading is all I can think of

According to this, sperm whales have gone to 6,000 ft.

Today, with the use of sonar tracking and attached time-depth recorders, dives as deep as 6,000 feet (more than a mile below the surface of the ocean) have been measured. Routine dive depths are usually in the 1,500- to 3,000-foot range, and dives can last between 20 minutes and an hour.

This article claims a Cuvier’s beaked whale went to almost 3Km.

Satellite tags attached to these animals, swimming off the coast of California, recorded a dive to nearly 3km below the ocean surface, and one that lasted 137 minutes

[Colibri]

@Mr_Quatro

Only a submarine can go down to 2,000 feet and that is considered crush depth.

Someone better inform the animals that live at a depth of 36,000 feet in the Challenger Deep.

Great White Sharks have been reported to go down to at least 3,900 ft.

[Kobal2]

@Mr_Quatro

Something must be wrong with the electronic tag on the shark as it was reported to have gone down to 2.000 feet.

Only a submarine can go down to 2,000 feet and that is considered crush depth. The submarine would implode at that depth due to the air inside of it and so would any known species of whale.

Mis-reading is all I can think of

Sharks are fishes, not mammals. They don’t have lungs to fill with air, so there’s probably not much of a pressure differential between the inside and the outside of the creature. Also unlike a submarine, a fish/sea mammal’s outer shell can freely compress. Well, maybe not *freely *freely, but much more so than a pressurized steel cigar

However, that does bring up an interesting (to me anyway) question : human divers need to be careful and pace themselves when coming back up from a dive to avoid getting the bends. Do sounding whales go through instinctive decompression procedures to avoid that ?

[Mr_Quatro]

@running_coach

According to this, sperm whales have gone to 6,000 ft.
This article claims a Cuvier’s beaked whale went to almost 3Km.

@Colibri

Someone better inform the animals that live at a depth of 36,000 feet in the Challenger Deep.

Great White Sharks have been reported to go down to at least 3,900 ft.

@Kobal2

Sharks are fishes, not mammals. They don’t have lungs to fill with air, so there’s probably not much of a pressure differential between the inside and the outside of the creature. Also unlike a submarine, a fish/sea mammal’s outer shell can freely compress. Well, maybe not *freely *freely, but much more so than a pressurized steel cigar

However, that does bring up an interesting (to me anyway) question : human divers need to be careful and pace themselves when coming back up from a dive to avoid getting the bends. Do sounding whales go through instinctive decompression procedures to avoid that ?

Well kick my butt … I didn’t know that and I’ve been surrounded by these beautiful creatures (blue whales and sperm whales) for days on a nuclear submarine as the sonar operator. They must of thought we were the mother ship or something lol

That’s why we come here to share and learn thank you kindly

[carnivorousplant]

@Kobal2

However, that does bring up an interesting (to me anyway) question : human divers need to be careful and pace themselves when coming back up from a dive to avoid getting the bends. Do sounding whales go through instinctive decompression procedures to avoid that ?

It is nitrogen bubbles in the blood, and whales breath the same air, but it is not compressed in a tank, they hold their breath. Humans do deep dives holding their breath, and obviously do not have time to decompress.
I would say no, since whales hold their breath rather than breathe compressed air, they do not get the bends.

[Ludovic]

carnivorousplant: you have an appetite for sharks?

[Chief_Pedant]

@casdave

Is an Orca big enough?

Yes; Orcas have been documented killing and eating Great Whites.

Well; at least one Orca and one Great White.

Here, for example.

Video at 11.

[LSLGuy]

@casdave

Is an Orca big enough?

ETA: Simulpost w/ **Chief Pedant **…

See also post #2.