Toxic.
We human, we wily, wacky humans have all, each of us, been in at least one unhealthy relationship on our lives. Maybe a boyfriend who wore, used, Mick Fanning’s signature bottle opening sandal. A girlfriend who flashed around all over town. A husband who refused to do laundry. A wife who disappeared without a trace before suddenly returning very much overweight and vicious.
Sharks are no different and one particularly popular yet extraordinarily dangerous Great White named Katharine, who vanished off the face of the earth for over a year, just re-emerged likely 1000 lbs heavier and lookin’ for dysfunctional love.
Katharine had been fitted with a tracking device, much like an ankle monitor used for Mama June, but the signal went dead.
Where did Katharine go? She describes herself as “misunderstood but sassy” on her personal Twitter account, terrifying scientists and researchers alike as both descriptors are favored by the most problematic exes.
Extremely scary but let us turn to The Gray Lady for the absolute latest.
For years, Katharine, who is named after Katharine Lee Bates, the writer of the verses to “America the Beautiful,” delighted the public, especially when she drew near coastlines, as reports of her whereabouts appeared on Ocearch’s online tracking map.
Her Twitter account (“misunderstood but sassy girl just tryin’ to get some fish”) gained more than 61,000 followers.
“The people in Florida just fell in love with her,” said Chris Fischer, the founder of Ocearch. “She became the ambassador, the diplomat for the ocean.”
And then came May 12, 2019. A ping placed her about 150 miles off the coast of Charleston, S.C.
After that, nothing. She was not heard from again.
Had she died? Was she looking for a bigger boat? Was she practicing social distancing?
Then at the end of March came a single faint ping. It was first thought to be a “ghost transmission,” said Bryan Franks, an assistant professor of marine science at Jacksonville University in Florida, who works closely with Ocearch.
On April 4, three more pings came in less than 24 hours. Mr. Franks said that many signals in a compressed time led researchers and the satellite company that collects the data to believe it was indeed Katharine.
Rough guesses based on those transmissions put her about 200 miles off the coast of Virginia. Katharine was not considered a full adult when she was tagged in 2013, but she has likely added 1,000 pounds since then, Mr. Fischer said.
Do you think Florida will take her back?
Let’s hope the state has more sense.
Let’s really hope that lessons were learned as they relate to “toxic” relationships and that Florida is ready to prioritize emotional health.
More as the story develops.
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She’s the one that pinged in the Pamlico River, inside Pamlico sound, scores of miles from the open ocean. She is a sassy lady.
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Maybe she took a honeymoon to Bora Bora which is probably out of range of those monitors.
After this all blows over they’ll definitely have to have an Oxford / Wiki do over on the definition of the word ” essential ” . Just as one man’s trash is anothers gold so to one man’s essential is anothers lifesblood. A few cases in point on our end of the pond , you can buy a tin of peas , spaghetti etc but not a tin-opener. You can buy a two plate gas hob , the gas and whatever you intend cooking but not the pots . I asked the one manager at our local Pick & Pay that has a clothing section whether I could buy a three pack of underwear to which I received an emphatic NO , IT’s NOT ESSENTIAL . Go tell that to the old lady that fainted in the deli section when I bent down to get a garlic loaf off the bottom shelf and she got an eyefull of my yesterday today and tommoriw . I have no doubt as to what her concensus on what “essential ” would entail would be. Likewise sound system 2 meters from the till . Ogle all you like but heaven forbid you should ask if you could buy one as your soul requires essential calming noise to help beat tbe absolute monotony and bordeom of lockdown. That’s like being almost pregnant but not quite.
Katherine?! Really? I know it’s a Great White and all, but naming her one of the whitest of white woman names makes me automatically think “that fucking shark must be a white supremacist!”
“When June sat on my lap, she didn’t really ask for nuth’n, but I couldn’t feel my feet”
– Sugar Bear.
Florida should throw this big minx some cheesballs and send her packin’!
Fat girls need love too
Respect for Derek using PAWG earlier this week.
Impressive.
I’m disappointed I missed that one.
I’m too lazy to search back for it.
It takes hours on the web before you see PAWG enough to kinda ring a bell that it’s a thing, and that you should try to figure out exactly what it is.