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55 MIGRATIONS A Ferocity and Beauty You Can Almost Touch In August 2004, a young great white shark was accidentally caught by a fishing boat off California. A great white is the holy grail of an aquarium collection, except that the species tends to not thrive in captivity. This shark not only attracted thousands to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, but she surprised all by becoming the longest captive great white, breaking the world record of her predecessor (198 vs. 16 days). In her time in the tank, she grew from five feet, weighing 62 pounds, to six feet, four and half inches, weighing 162 pounds. Even as a juvenile, she still projected that movie-terror/awe of her larger cohorts in the wild (how easily our minds fill in soundtrack and footage ). The aquarium wanted to keep her longer, but she killed two of her tank-mates, soupfin sharks, her aggression escalating as she grew larger. Before she was unleashed back to the bay, they attached a transmitter to her dorsal fin to track her travels. In six months, she swam more than 100 miles off shore, then her transmitter fell off and she vaporized into the blue. ...

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