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Shark where lives in the sea. The list of beaches of the world where there are most sharks

Where do sharks live?

Sharks live in the waters of the whole world, in every ocean, and even in some rivers and lakes.
  Sharks surprisingly well adapted to their environment.
  They reached this harmony with the sea millions of years ago, and, as far as can be judged, precisely because their adaptation was so perfect in prehistoric times, they have not changed much in their basic features up to now, although the differences between individual species have become much sharper. .
  Millions of years ago, these fish firmly took their place in the aquatic area of ​​the globe, and now it’s even impossible to imagine the consequences of an ecological catastrophe associated with their disappearance ...

Most of them live in salt water, which means that they are in the oceans. However, some of them are known to live in fresh water. Many people are concerned that people are destroying the natural habitat of sharks. Some sharks live in false habitats, along with other species of aquatic life. Most of them are displayed in fairly expensive places around the world.

Millions of people pay to go and look at them while they walk, laughing, the tunnel with sharks from both sides swims. Others are closely watched by researchers to learn more about certain types of sharks. Not all species are well adapted to this, so the process is rather selective.

Sharks and their elements ...

The surface of the Earth is covered with water by 72%, with more than 2 thirds of it with salt water. The average depth of the seas is about 2.800 m.
  They extend from extremely low coastal zones, with a water depth of more than a few hundred meters above the continental shelf, to the deep-sea zone of the sea.
  As on land, where there are mountains, valleys, plains, forested areas or deserts, you can also find a wide variety of living spaces in the seas - algae meadows, coral reefs, pebbles, canyons.
  Conventionally, the sea can be divided into horizontal and vertical water zones.
  Proceeding from the equator to the poles (for example, according to water temperature) various horizontal regions can be distinguished; vertically, the water column can be divided into 3 deep zones:
   - to a depth of 100 m lies a part filled with light, most of the sharks live here;
   - from about 100 m to a depth of about 1.000 m lies the twilight zone;
   - deeper than 1.000 m begins the eternally dark zone.

Even in certain places where it is known that sharks do not live, it is important to always open our eyes when we find ourselves at sea. Sometimes they travel to other places. And even if you are not afraid to risk a shark in the water, it is always good to take precautions.

Seahorse or hippocampus lives in many areas around the world, mainly in North and South America. It is commonly found in shallow tropical waters and very hot temperatures found among corals, algae and mangroves. It is also known that in Europe seahorses inhabit the mouth of the Thames and that many of the largest species inhabit the Mediterranean.

The seabed at depth is characterized by a constant "rain" of dead organisms, which are constantly increasing and supplemented.
   Animals that want to take leading positions here must uncompromisingly adapt to this living space.
  And we can say with complete confidence that a representative of a large family of sharks can be found in any of these zones, anywhere in the world’s ocean. In addition, some species of sharks can live in lakes and estuaries ...

They exist because they are very territorial. Men usually have about 11 square meters of territory, and women have up to 100 square meters. In many regions, this habitat is becoming less and less. If you have marines, your habitat will be reduced to a large pond. This change will lead to high levels of stress and, consequently, to a low survival rate. The younger you are, the more chances you have to adapt, because you are not used to the immensity of the sea.

As a result, those who live in a particular area become aggressive, stressed and prone to more diseases, and this aggressive behavior is a sign that they are looking for a mate to mate or who are simply fighting for territory and food.

Shark preferences in the choice of residence

Despite the fact that a shark of any species, as I have already written, can be found anywhere in the world’s oceans, it should be noted where sharks, like living creatures, prefer to live, breed and feel more comfortable.
Sharks live in coastal and open waters, some in rivers (for example, in the Amazon, Ganges).
  From the reservoirs washing the shores of our country, they are found in the Barents, Baltic, Black, Azov and Far Eastern seas.

For seahorses that live in their natural environment, coral offers the perfect place to relax. Approximately 25% of them spend most of their lives of refugees in coral, well caught between small cracks. The versatility of sea horses and their natural environment are sometimes very impressive. Some experts repair artificial coral in areas where coral reefs have been damaged. The goal is to help seahorses and other creatures maintain the conditions that guarantee their survival.

Seahorses usually live in almost stagnant or slow waters, due to their poor ability to swim. They often need to be tied to corals or algae to rest. Storms are one of the main causes of death in the navy, since these climatic conditions can drastically change the environment, causing strong movements in the waters and, consequently, a large number of deaths due to exhaustion.

More saturated with the representatives of this family, of course, the warm waters of the seas and oceans. They live in the northern seas and in the cold southern part of the oceans, but the greatest mass of sharks, both quantitatively and in species, live in warm water.
  This is not surprising, because other creatures prefer warm water to cold. And since the shark is an absolute predator, it is also suitable for life where it is easier for it to get food.

Due to the volume of commercial fishing, as well as hunting for medicines, millions of them are annually removed from their natural habitat. Fishing nets can cover large areas where seahorses are known to live, and a large number of them are harvested daily, often by men carrying eggs, from which their young people can no longer be born. Some fishermen, in order to see males with a swollen belly, try to return them to the water, but this is not always done on time. When horses enter the net, they lose access to their reference points, they cannot calm down, and therefore they are quickly depleted.

If there are more than 300 species of this interesting fish in the waters of the oceans and seas, more than 80% of them live in warm waters.
  There is more food supply, less energy is required to keep the body in constant motion, i.e. most of the food produced with great difficulty is spent on "production needs", i.e. on the growth of the body and the movement for the production of the next portion of calories.

We shed light on the mysterious life of these inhabitants of the depths

Regardless of whether they deserve their notorious reputation, sharks are a common source of fear. From the ghost shark to the pixie shark, here we shed light on the mysterious life of these deep-sea inhabitants. The second largest predatory shark in the ocean is one mile per hour. A sleepy name also makes sense in the context of the influence it has on those who eat it. Its meat contains a toxic substance containing trimethylamine oxide and, if swallowed, can cause vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions and the onset of intoxication.

For the same reason, it is most likely to meet a representative of the shark family in coastal sea and ocean waters - there is more food there than in the open ocean and it is easier to get it. After all, all sharks are predators, they need animal protein food for existence.
  Much remains a mystery. Almost nothing is known, for example, about the forms of life in the polar seas and in the depths of the oceans. It is only known that some sharks live there, they feel great (when there is food), on these outposts of fear that instill in us, they bring their offspring.

This shark can also have an abnormally long life. He had a long nose, gray lumpy skin and eyes like dishes, staring blankly at the surrounding abysses. Seven years later, a team of experts identified the creature as one, a kind of shark ghost that never got captured on video.

Despite his name, he is not technically a shark. Chimeras are close relatives who also use flexible cartilage instead of hard bone. Little is known about the group, but researchers suspect that the dotted lines of pits in their faces are used to detect prey. Men also differ in the use of retractable genitals on the forehead.

There is evidence that the prickly shark (Squalus) penetrated the waters washing the Antarctic. In 1912, the body of a two and a half meter shark was found on the coast of Macquarie Island, 1100 kilometers from the Arctic Circle. This shark was a representative of a species unknown to scientists and was named the Whitley polar shark (Somniosus antarcticus Whitley).
  All of the above cases show that sharks live and feel great in cold seas.

I was lucky because nowadays to see a living or dead shark inside the lake seems like a miracle. Cousteau, a specialist in sharks with his sophisticated navigation and diving equipment, traveled around San Juan and the maze of the Solentinam islands, an archipelago of more than 100 islands rich in wildlife and fishing, to explore the habitats of some creatures more mysterious and dangerous: Toro shark .

Cousteau wanted to see whether the lake sharks of Nicaragua, which after centuries of life trapped in the lake, developed reproductive characteristics, and if they had the characteristics of the “sleeping sharks” of Quintana Roo's caves, Mexico. Like Cousteau, other world-famous scientists in recent decades have tried to establish whether the shark-toro has almost disappeared in the depths of the lake, or if it continues the San Juan River, it continues to allow migration of the species into the sea and vice versa.

In 1954, near Dakar, West Africa, where one of the deepest places of the World Ocean is located, the bathysphere was lowered to a depth of four kilometers. And here, in absolute darkness, where the water pressure is 413 kilograms per square centimeter in the spotlight in front of the bathysphere window, a two-meter shark flashed with large bulging eyes.
  “Every time we descended to the depths,” wrote the head of these studies, “we saw at least one shark. It was unlikely that it was pure coincidence. Rather, we can conclude that in these depths, in the biggest dungeon of the world , live thousands of sharks. "

In Japan, dry, salted and smoked shark meat is a traditional food; On the basis of this meat, various dishes are prepared, such as the Hoshizame: fresh pieces of the musk shark, which are boiled and to which is added a paste of beans in vinegar; with the ovaries, sharks cook arsuaki, which are pasta. Yaki Chukuva, Kamaboko and Hampen - this is a sausage type ham that is very popular on the market. In the markets of Spain, Portugal, France, Greece and Turkey, different types of shark meat are presented in different markets, and the United States has developed a market for canned, smoked, dried or sliced ​​meat for human consumption in countries where there is a custom to eat it.

About sharks nothing can be said with complete confidence and least of all - where to find them. Fascinated by the pursuit of shoals of fish, either under the influence of a stray current or an unexpected change in temperature, sharks of any kind can go very far from the place that is considered to be their home.

However, in fairness, it should be noted that in the cold latitudes and in the depths of the ocean and in open waters far from land you can meet a shark. For example, polar sharks, alets, and some others, prefer the cold waters of the seas, where they feel great. Anyway, the concept of cold water for fish is quite relative. Much more important for them, as for all predators of the planet, is not the temperature of the environment, but the presence of food in the area where it inhabits.

Thomas Thorson on the San Juan River. This river is the natural rise of thousands of bull sharks. Without knowing why, a migratory miracle happens day and night. They move from Barra del Colorado in the Caribbean to Lake Nicaragua, becoming the only planet with this resident.

And the freshwater shark of Lake Kokibolka or Nicaragua is under threat. The shark was hunted by the boatmen of Morrito in the marshland of the lake in the department of Chontaley. The place is very far from the mouth of the San Juan; where economists and biologists are looking for him. In swimming, boatmen assured me that sharks can be found all over the lake, but mainly in the area of ​​Solentiname and San Juan; but that in the islet of Granada and elsewhere near the Rivas region there were families of poverty.

The Australian bull shark, the white-spotted and oculus cat sharks belong to the bottom sharks. The spotted shark of the wobbegong is quite bizarre: it has adapted so much to the bottom way of life that it has become completely flat, the complex spots perfectly mask it against the background of the bottom. Fluttering skin patches around the mouth of the predator attract crabs and octopuses, which, barely approaching, end up in the mouth of the wobbegong.

Most of my interlocutors told me that the shark had died out. Randy Wayne White, one of the most famous adventurers in the United States, went to Nicaragua to hunt for a freshwater shark from Lake Kokibolka or Lake Nicaragua. White, in the last chapter of his book of adventure, describes his visit to Nicaragua in the mid-1990s. He also insists that the Toro shark, which he unsuccessfully searched for several days on the lake and in the waters surrounding it, would almost disappear. the mouth of the river San Juan.

Toro Shark is a variation of the Sardinian shark, which measures up to 4 meters long and is found in rivers like the Mississippi in the United States and the Ganges of India. It was the work on the freshwater shark of Nicaragua, a researcher, Dr. Thomas Thorson, which aroused White's curiosity for Nicaraguan Esku.

The American magazine Forbes has compiled a list of beaches in the world where the most sharks are found. In total, about 500 species of these predators live in the seas and oceans of our planet, but most of them are not dangerous to humans.

However, in places where sharks are common, incidents sometimes happen, sometimes tragic.

Which beaches are the most dangerous, shows the ISAF (International Shark Attack File). The International Registry of Shark Attacks records all known similar cases in the past 500 years.

In his account of his journey through Managua, Granada, San Carlos and the Solentinam Islands, White describes the descriptions of places, highlighting the vivid natural beauty of Nicaragua. Bely, who, during his days in the city of Granada, talked with various people in search of reliable information about the existence of the Toro shark; I was surprised when he learned in a conversation with visitors from the China Nitsa food restaurant that in the 1970s shark hunting was industrialized due to the demand for shark fin and its meat in the Japanese market.

According to White, the Japanese set up two shark processing plants in two places in Lake Kotsybolka. Obviously, the plants were installed during the reign of Anastasio Somoza, who was overthrown by the Sandinista revolution in July. In an interview with the boatman of San Carlos, Randy White gathered a story about sharks that the villagers had been repeating for several generations: in recent decades, sharks have attacked their victims, especially children on the banks of a river or a lake. They told Randy that sometimes, when sharks were caught by experienced fishermen, and when they opened the belly of the beast, the bodies of children were found that disappeared from the waters of the lake.

Although shark attacks are always terrifying and attract attention, it should be noted that the likelihood that a shark will attack you is less than the likelihood that you will be struck by lightning.

Beaches with the most sharks:

Australia: Brisbane

The coastal waters of Australia are full of all kinds of sharks. Most attacks occur on the east coast, but more deaths are in the south. None of the beaches is completely safe.

In a message sent to Washington, a diplomat wrote that Sharks were abundant in the lake. That the locals called them "Tigron" for their greed. And that sometimes the squale attacked the bathers on the lake. Perhaps in both stories there is an exaggeration, but the truth is that back in the 50s. the Sierra Mountains and the sharks of Lake Nicaragua dwelt, and the travelers to the lake could sometimes see legendary sea animals.

For centuries Tiburan returned to the San Juan River to the lake, adapting to fresh water, becoming a unique view in the world. This is the mythical inhabitant of Lake Nicaragua, one of the largest in the world. One of the world's water reserves. The Panama Canal did not exist, and Nicaragua had an interstate route that allowed attackers to travel from the Atlantic and into the Atlantic in the Pacific Ocean and vice versa during the years of the California Gold Rush and the Mexican-American War.

Florida: New Smyma Beach

The wonderful climate and sandy beaches attract not only vacationers to the coast of Florida. Sharks are comfortable here too. True, sometimes they confuse bathing with fish.

California: Bolinas Beach

The sea north of San Francisco is teeming with seals, and therefore sharks. Bolinas Beach is located in the center of the so-called "red triangle", an area where there are especially many white sharks.

Hawaiian Islands: Oahu

According to the ISAF, Oahu is the second largest shark attack in Hawaii.

Hawaiian Islands: Kahana, West Maui

According to the ISAF, 100 cases of shark attacks on humans have occurred in Hawaii since 1882, 33 of them off the island of Maui.

South Africa: Kosi Bay

In the bay of Kosi Bey several lakes merge together and flow into the sea. In search of prey, sea sharks swim in fish-rich freshwater lakes and rivers.

South Africa: Gansbaai ("Shark Street")

The so-called “shark street” is a narrow passage between two islands in the sea near the town of Gansbaai, east of Cape Town. It is home to one of the largest white shark populations in the world.

South Africa: Umhlanga Rocks, Kwazulu-Natal

Since the 1960s, underwater networks have been installed at the favorite South African resort of Umhlanga Rocks to protect vacationers from sharks.

Bahamas: Grand Bahama

Since 1749, the island of Grand Bahama has had only four attacks, but here is the so-called “tiger beach”, a place with a lot of sharks.

Brazil: Recife

With its rich fish coral reef, the city of Recife on the northern coast of Brazil attracts sharks looking for food. According to the ISAF, in the state of Pernambuco, where the city is located, most shark attacks occur in South America.

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