Mako Sharks

Sharks are the stuff of nightmares for many people, and while most of us may have not have even actually encountered a real shark, just watching movies and videos about them sends chills down our spines. The movie Deep Blue Sea, released in 1999, captured audiences with its jaw-dropping portrayal of sharks.

One of the sharks showed in the movie was a mako shark. This shark, also known as a shortfin or longfin mako shark depending on the subspecies, is a huge mackerel shark that lives in almost all of the world's oceans and seas. Shortfin sharks are known to dwell in tropical and temperate waters while longfin sharks prefer to live near gulf stream waters. 

Many mako sharks are known to dive deep, about 490 ft or 150 m from the water's surface. However, these sharks also have a tendency to stay near by the island shore or at coral reefs especially when hunting. 

Around the western parts of the Atlantic, these sharks can be seen in the Maxican Gulf ,Nova Scotia and Argentina. Up north in Canada, they are common but not abundant. It’s been observed that if there are many swordfish in one area of the ocean, you’re more than likely to find multiple mako sharks nearby. Swordfish more or less live in the same environmental conditions as  mako sharks and they are their natural prey.

Mako sharks are known to take long travels and swim rapidly when hunting. A female mako captured and tagged in California was recaptured in the Pacific after just a few days. It’s estimated that the mako shark can swim, at an average, over 58 km in a day.

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Great White Shark

If you ask moviegoers, especially the older crowd, what their scariest movie is to date, you’d probably get Jaws as an answer all the time. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the movie shocked millions of moviegoers, forever ingraining the images of man-eating sharks into our minds. It starts with showing how a small island community, whose chief income maker are its wonderful beaches, becomes shocked with news of a shark attack.

Sheriff Martin Brody finds the victim’s remains and starts to contemplate on closing all the beaches and turn the area to a ‘no swimming’ zone. However, Mayor Larry Vaughn, together with many local businessmen, disagree with the idea. Sheriff Brody backs down, but then regrets it after a boy is killed by another shark attack. The boy’s mother places a bounty on the shark and the small island community then becomes swamped with fishermen and shark hunters. Quint, a fisherman from the island who has extensive experience in hunting down sharks, becomes interested and offers his services. Soon, Sheriff Brody and Quint, with the help of Matt Hooper, a marine biologist set off to capture and kill the shark.

The shark featured in the movie is a great white shark, which has made a name for itself as one of the largest shark species. Found in many of the world’s oceans, the largest great white shark ever recorded was 20 feet in length and weighed 2,268 kilograms, however, there are claims of even bigger great whites swimming in the deep. These sharks reach their maturity at 15 years and can live over 30 years.

Although many people fear these massive apex predators, they are actually shy of humans. Some great whites do swim near boats, but only because they are used to humans feeding them.

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Mako Sharks

Mako sharks took new sizes and intelligence variables in the 1999 action/sci-fi thriller Deep Blue Sea which starred Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows and Samuel L Jackson. In the movie, researchers dealt with genetically modified mako sharks in a contained research facility which was dedicated in finding a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease.

The plot took an interesting turn when three of the genetically modified – now bigger, faster and smarter – makos escaped from their enclosures, leading to a story where the once captors were now escaping from the captive sharks.

Though the mako sharks in Deep Blue Sea were comparably as large as Great Whites, mako sharks in real life aren’t exactly known for their gigantic size, but their link with human shark attacks is quite famed as their intelligence and speed is also one which many seafarers have heard about in one point in time.

In fact, the mako shark’s reputation for speed and intelligence was what made it the “star” in Deep Blue Sea, which looked into how potentially dangerous the mako shark is if it were actually bigger in size.

Highly migratory as a species, mako sharks are predatory, oftentimes following a prey’s life cycle and attacking particularly when a prey is vulnerable.

Given how limited knowledge about them is, inaccurate estimations of the mako’s lifecycle peg them to live as long as 32 years when talking about female makos, as males tend to live as long as 29 years. They could grow as large as 260cm for males and 335cm for females, based on the same study conducted by Natanson et al. in 2006.

As predators, they tend to swim under or beneath their prey, lurking away from a prey’s line of sight, then burst upwards in attack.

Silent, fast and smart, makos are often encountered in tropical and offshore temperate waters in different parts of the world, and if you do have plans of a snorkeling or scuba diving trip, it’d be best to ask if mako sharks are known to prowl in the locations you intend to spend your water-adventures in. 

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