howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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There is a programme showing on BBC2 currently about the West of Ireland..Galway, Connemara etc and the waters off there. It is about an English chap, a jovial marine biologist, who has gone to live there for 6 months ( we do let the odd englishman in !!) and is mixing in with the population while he registers just what inhabits the unexplored waters there. Off the west cost it is of course the Atlantic, dark and deep.
But there are whales, dolphins, basking sharks there for sure...and are seen regularly and indeed have been on this programme. I believe there are other sharks too, but as of yet in the programme we havent seen any of these other more dangerous varieties.
The waters are not warm there.
Usually the reason given, as I see in the feature above there, for there being no sharks in these waters, is down to temperature. But many manage off the coast of Ireland (west side) where the temperatures are not warm.
Sea temperatures are rising generally anyway...so be prepared for the inevitability.
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
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The Daily Mail has now turned it's intolerance towards animals.
I can see the headlines now: "keep immigrant marine life out!" accusing them of taking the jobs of indigenous mackerel. Although they might approve on the grounds of them being 'great whites'.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
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or members of the eu,they have passports,id cards as well,and the worst ofenders are tagged.
