Did sharks eat Titanic passengers

[medge...@webtv.net]

Did Any sharks eat any of the people floating in the water who were not
in life boats .i heard that some of the bodies found looked like sharks
ate them ,some were torn apart like JJ Astor.

[Ryan Dutcher]

No sharks did not eat Titanic passengers. The mangled bodies such as J.J.
Astor was probably caused by the 1st smokestack falling into the water and
striking a number of people in the water. I don't think sharks go that far
north but again I'm not a shark expert.

-Ryan Dutcher
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[Ryan Dutcher]

[Ryan Dutcher]

[Rose Conway]

The message <69lkqc$l62$1...@newsd-153.iap.bryant.webtv.net>
from medge...@webtv.net contains these words:

> Did Any sharks eat any of the people floating in the water who were not
> in life boats .i heard that some of the bodies found looked like sharks
> ate them ,some were torn apart like JJ Astor.

Unlikely to have found sharks at that latitude I'd have thought, it
would have been too cold. I read that JJ Astor was covered in soot
and its thought that he was hit by a falling smoke stack.

Rose

[Ryan Dutcher]

No sharks did not eat Titanic passengers. The mangled bodies such as J.J.
Astor was probably caused by the 1st smokestack falling into the water and
striking a number of people in the water. I don't think sharks go that far
north but again I'm not a shark expert.

-Ryan Dutcher
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[Jocammel]

The water was at the freezing point. Sharks don't like cold water. They live in
the high rent district of the ocean.

[David Stinson]

In article <19980116085...@ladder02.news.aol.com>, joca...@aol.com (Jocammel) wrote:
:The water was at the freezing point. Sharks don't like cold water. They live in

:the high rent district of the ocean.

Actually it is recounted in Robert Ballard's DISCOVERY OF THE TITANIC that
he encountered a shark near the wreck.

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The message <69oh2m$60n$1...@nnrp1.ni.net>
from dsti...@ix.netcom.com (David Stinson) contains these words:

> ctually it is recounted in Robert Ballard's DISCOVERY OF THE TITANIC that
> he encountered a shark near the wreck.

But was he there in April in sub zero temperatures. Probably not. I
suspect he did his discovering during warmer summer months.

Rose

[Elsa22]

I always thought it was cold water that sharks preferred.

Dina

[Derek]

David Stinson wrote:

> :The water was at the freezing point. Sharks don't like cold water. They live in
> :the high rent district of the ocean.
>

> Actually it is recounted in Robert Ballard's DISCOVERY OF THE TITANIC that

> he encountered a shark near the wreck.

Yes but was it July and 60 degrees at the time? I would guess it was.

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[TresBonBon]

>Did Any sharks eat any of the people floating in the water who were not
>in life boats .i heard that some of the bodies found looked like sharks
>ate them ,some were torn apart like JJ Astor

No, the water was too cold for sharks to be there.

[Steve]

On Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:18:09 -0800, Derek <doba...@ups.edu> wrote:

>
>
>David Stinson wrote:
>
>> :The water was at the freezing point. Sharks don't like cold water. They live in
>> :the high rent district of the ocean.

This is relatively untrue. There are many species of sharks that
inhabit the colder reaches of the ocean. I worked on a fishing vessel
in the Bering Sea as a fisheries biologist and we caught a number of
large Salmon Sharks in near freezing water.

However, sharks in general are exceedingly rare in the vastness of the
ocean... most likely the reason why none happened to show up (if this
is the case) at the sinking of the Titanic.

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[David Stinson]

In article <34c4e0a8...@207.235.38.3>, ska...@JABBAntr.net (Steve) wrote:

:On Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:18:09 -0800, Derek <doba...@ups.edu> wrote:
:
:>
:>
:>David Stinson wrote:
:>
:>> :The water was at the freezing point. Sharks don't like cold water. They
: live in
:>> :the high rent district of the ocean.
:
:This is relatively untrue. There are many species of sharks that
:inhabit the colder reaches of the ocean. I worked on a fishing vessel
:in the Bering Sea as a fisheries biologist and we caught a number of
:large Salmon Sharks in near freezing water.

:
Steve,

Next time please check your attributions - I didn't say that - in fact my
post was a comment on sharks existing in those waters as Robert Ballard's
book DISCOVERY OF THE TITANIC recounts him seeing one on one of the
TITANIC dives.

What you showed was the previous poster, whom I quoted to refute his
statement.

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Shredded by Killer Whales. Silly

[thekma...@gmail.com]

September, 1985. Warmest month for
North Atlantic.

[jamespen...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Ryan Dutcher wrote:
> No sharks did not eat Titanic passengers. The mangled bodies such as J.J.
> Astor was probably caused by the 1st smokestack falling into the water and
> striking a number of people in the water. I don't think sharks go that far
> north but again I'm not a shark expert.
>
> -Ryan Dutcher
> medge...@webtv.net wrote in message
> <69lkqc$l62$1...@newsd-153.iap.bryant.webtv.net>...

> Did Any sharks eat any of the people floating in the water who were not
> in life boats .i heard that some of the bodies found looked like sharks

> ate them ,some were torn apart like JJ Astor.

Sharks aren't the only thing in the water that can tear you to pieces. What about "killer whales" or Orca's? I'm sure I've seen video of them snatching seal and the occasional polar bear cub off of ice flows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccxgpKfEiUY

[jald...@gmail.com]

Interesting post

[Pan Szymanowski]

jald...@gmail.com wrote:
> Interesting post

There are no sharks in cold water.

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On Thursday, 15 January 1998 08:00:00 UTC, medge...@webtv.net wrote:
> Did Any sharks eat any of the people floating in the water who were not
> in life boats .i heard that some of the bodies found looked like sharks
> ate them ,some were torn apart like JJ Astor.

Many Shark species frequent or even live in colder waters. Take the Greenland shark for example, which is often caught below an icy surface. The Greenland shark was thought to only live in the deepest parts of the ocean but studies have observed them feeding much closer to the surface.

[thekma...@gmail.com]

jamespen: RE: Astor

Remember the forward funnel tipping over
toward the end of the sinking? Supposedly
JJ Astor was one of those impacted by it,
which would more readily explain his body's
mangled condition.

[danse...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 10:00:00 AM UTC+2, medge...@webtv.net wrote:
> Did Any sharks eat any of the people floating in the water who were not
> in life boats .i heard that some of the bodies found looked like sharks
> ate them ,some were torn apart like JJ Astor.

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On Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 9:00:00 PM UTC+13, medge...@webtv.net wrote:
> Did Any sharks eat any of the people floating in the water who were not
> in life boats .i heard that some of the bodies found looked like sharks
> ate them ,some were torn apart like JJ Astor.

i know

[Ayrton James C. MANLULU]

NO THERE ARE NO SHARKS EAT THE PEOPLE BECAUSE THE WATER IS VERY COLD

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[Tim Maynard]

There are many species of Shark that are quite happy in Cold Water, Great Whites and Mako Species will frequent cold water, however, sharks will be more than happy to feed on bodies found in the area and there would have been many

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[Arlo Gleich]

> > actually it is recounted in Robert Ballard's DISCOVERY OF THE TITANIC that

> > he encountered a shark near the wreck.

Yes, but at that point the area surrounding where the Titanic sunk was just chalk-full of hundreds of bodies. After a while when the some of the bodies drifted into warmer waters sharks would've ate them. By the time Ballard is referencing, the sharks would have worked up the nerve after a long time of slowly inching closer and closer to the wreck to eat.

[Chip MC]

On Thursday, January 15, 1998 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Ryan Dutcher wrote:
> No sharks did not eat Titanic passengers. The mangled bodies such as J.J.
> Astor was probably caused by the 1st smokestack falling into the water and
> striking a number of people in the water. I don't think sharks go that far
> north but again I'm not a shark expert.
>
> -Ryan Dutcher
> medge...@webtv.net wrote in message
> <69lkqc$l62$1...@newsd-153.iap.bryant.webtv.net>...

> Did Any sharks eat any of the people floating in the water who were not
> in life boats .i heard that some of the bodies found looked like sharks
> ate them ,some were torn apart like JJ Astor.

Um, greenland sharks live in those cold waters, but dont feed on humans. Couldnt tell you.

[Russ James]

Russ James - Greenland Sharks live in cold water and live extremely deep. The record Greenland shark caught on a rod and reel was recently caught from a kayak, yes a kayak, by a professional fisherman who was fishing 3000 feet down. It was over 1300 lbs. They swim slowly and are some the oldest living creatures on earth with sharks determined by scientists to be over 500 years old. They can grow to over 20 ft long. They eat all animals that sink down to the bottom, including seals, , dolphins, whales and yes, people, that have died and sunk to the bottom. It is the northernmost shark in the world, north of Greenland (its namesake) and Iceland.

[Isabella Jackson]

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