World's Largest Great White Shark Tagged in Australia

The world's largest Great White shark was recently electronically tagged off Albany's Middleton Beach in Australia. Netizens from all over the world seem to have a fascination with one specific picture that's making the rounds on the web. It features the world's largest Great White shark, which was recently electronically tagged off Albany's Middleton Beach in Australia. Local residents are referring to the female as 'Joan of Shark'. She measures about 16 feet long and is estimated to weigh over 1 and a half tons. The Department of Fisheries was tipped off of her presence after 'Joan of Shark' ventured too close to the popular swimming spot. Albany locals were issued a warning to stay out of the water while authorities handled the situation. Officers from the Department of Fisheries got to work searching for her and eventually located her with their boat. Once secured, they flipped her onto her back while she was still in the water in a state known as 'tonic immobility'. The photo surfacing online shows the officers inserting the electronic tag into her flesh. Once she came to, she was quickly released and reportedly swam out to sea. Department of Fisheries spokesperson Mark Kleeman commented "For the next ten years, we'll be able to keep a track of her movements, which is going to open up a whole new world. We'll have a better understanding of the large-scale movements of white sharks."

Comments

1. Apparently they do not know how big a Great White gets....
2. 16 ft. Guppy. Well, maybe not. Definitely a massive shark, but there are 20 ft'ers out there.
3. 16 feet long! World's largest shark?! What a load of bollocks! A guy in Malta caught one that was 23 feet. Get your facts right!
4. So the world's supposedly largest shark is tagged off the coast of Western Australia. Therefore, anyone who does not have a pool, either has to have air conditioning to cool off, which is VERY expensive to run, or they risk being attacked by sharks close to the waters edge. Why would anyone live there then? Incidentally, before the false lectures from people claiming that there are not many shark attacks off the Australian coast; think again. According to statistics from the USA, the number one fatal shark attack region in the world is Florida, with Australia an ominous second. Hawaii is third.
5. She's beautiful no doubt she will be killed eventually. or caught in a fishing net unable to breath or feed .Go mankind go.
6. 16 feet is certainly not huge for a great white!
7. WA dept of fisheries are seriously a bunch of cowboys with their shark culling program...i hope they wake up to themselves before they kill of the white shark population in western Australia
8. Me an my dad were snorkeling and we saw a 40 foot great white. I shot it with my spear and we dragged it ashore. We have it hidden so we can sell it
9. not even close to the largest Great White
10. I will let u in on a little secret.....there are hundreds of 16 footers out there
11. deep blue is way bigger than this shark
12. there are hundreds of 16 ft great whites out there. funny how the media always pumps up these stories with no regard to facts.
13. deep blue, she's the biggest!
14. She is not even close to the biggest great white ever tagged. That would be California great white name Deep Blue, who is over 20 feet and is estimated to weight 5000 pounds. She was tagged in what is believed to be a mating ground in Guadalupe Island.
15. a great white of that size would have never been that approachable when she is pregnant this is a fake.
    
    
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16. 
    
    The Biggest dolphin
17. Your title Sucks. This is the largest Great White to be tagged, not the world's largest Great White.
18. Where are the Chinese when you need them most?!
19. they need to protect the largest ones, same with crocs
20. largest to be tagged, but there have been 21+ foot great whites captured and killed in the past...maybe if you fucking aussies stopped killing those ones you could tag the real bad ass whites like the ones i speak of...bastards. You get russel crowe that is it!