Friday, 6 August 2010

Cue creepy Jaws music....

Hello! Drawing ever closer to the deadline, a feeling of urgency is creeping into my work, together with a nervousness that I still haven't completed any GIS maps. Going out on the boat is a great stress reliever, and our encounters continue to be memorable. Two days ago, 5 miles into the North sea, we spotted a fin shape moving through the water, but it wasn't moving like cetacean. To our complete shock and amazement, we had stumbled across a shark! Only two and half metres long but a shark nonetheless. We didn't get good enough photos to clearly identify it, but we think it was probably a porbeagle (possibly a mako). It stuck around for about half an hour, fishing at the surface before disappearing. It left us completely in awe (and made us all think twice about sitting with our legs dangling over the edge of the boat in the future). Hope all goes well, see you soon!

Jenny

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