Sharking

Never in my life did I think I would ever feel comfortable in the water with a shark..but somehow I managed to sign myself up for a sharking trip last Friday night.  A small group of us set out at 7:00 pm to a shallow mangrove lagoon.  There,we set up a net that stretched out  100 meters from the shore  and was staked down at the other end in waste deep water.  From that point on, it was mostly a waiting game.  The 7 of us standing quietly in the water, waiting for something to hit the net.  After a few false alarms we finally caught one!! Untangling it from the net we discovered that we had captured a juvenile female lemon shark.  We measured and tagged her so she could be recognized if she was ever re caught.  The tag also registered her in a database of sharks that are recognized by their tag number and name bestowed upon them by their captors.  Because our shark had never been tagged before we were given the task of giving her a name.  On Friday June 14th, our shark, Lady 'Merica, was released back into the wild to hopefully be recaptured and studied further in the future.

#teamAmerica

 

a quick game of ninja

 

Me & Lady 'Merica