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Caribbean reef shark. Though many people fear sharks, reef sharks do not bother divers.

#1: Robyn Broyles (ginkgo100) on Aug 1, 2009 [HINT]

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Thanks, Adam. The hardest part was actually the mouth. It was hard to get it to look like a shark's mouth.

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I should add that MOST reef sharks USUALLY don't bother divers. There have been reports, though, especially if the sharks are conditioned to associate divers with food.

I've dived with blacktip and whitetip reef sharks in an aquarium and those sharks stayed away from divers. There were sand tiger sharks, too, which ignored us completely. I was careful to stay out of their way!

Robyn, where did you dive with sharks in an aquarium? What an incredible experience that must have been. Wonderful puzzle!

I worked briefly as an aquarium biologist at Denver's Downtown Aquarium, formerly known as Ocean Journey. Most of the time it was actually quite tedious, as the reason for diving was to scrub algae from the decorations in the tanks! But there is one large tank with a daily "dive show" that just consists of the diver swimming a few laps and waving at the visitors. I enjoyed that dive, blowing bubble rings at the kids, hamming it up a bit. The sharks were NEVER fed when there was a diver in the water, so they never learned to associate divers with food. The fish, on the other hand, were fed by divers, and they would bite ears and fingers—sometimes drawing blood!

I also dove with piranhas, in a tank too big to clean without getting in but still small enough to be cramped. Piranha are big chickens that don't deserve their reputation. But that could have been only because they were well-fed...

Wow.

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

Thanks, Gator!

what a great shark
fun solve too

What a great image!

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