Shark Quest Quotes

“Zero-data” is documenting the absence of something—in this case, sharks. And this data is vital for the SharksCount program. . . . If you go on a dive and see no sharks, please record that dive on your datasheet and report it to us. All your diving information is valuable. —Michael Bear, citizen science project director, Ocean Sanctuaries, San Diego, California”
― Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators

“The initial reaction of kids, faces upturned and eyes wide open, gazing at the shark tank, most often conveys a combination of elevated energy, bravado, and anxiety. . . . In the quiet of night and trust of closing eyes to sleep, and then awakening to find that all is well, the kids’ demeanor and attitudes are often transformed into calm, awe, and respect. —Clarinda Higgins, former assistant curator of education, the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, Connecticut”
― Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators

“A successful dive is usually a dive where you are fortunate to see sharks of any sort! —Sylvia Earle, marine biologist and oceanographer, Twitter feed, May 2017”
― Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators

“Our long-term satellite tracking data is showing that [individual shortfin mako sharks] can travel over 10,000 miles [16,093 km] in a single year, and they also are starting to show indications of round-trip, repeated and predictable migration patterns. —Mahmood Shivji, Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute and the Save Our Seas Shark Research Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida”
― Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators

“Awwww. So cute seeing a baby white. —Instagram comment about Ocearch researchers’ photo of capturing, tagging, and releasing a baby great white shark”
― Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators

“Clark trained sharks to push a button for food. From that experience, she concluded that sharks are intelligent, since they can be trained.”
― Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators

“Their biological goal is to stay well fed, safe, and physically strong long enough to reproduce and to produce enough offspring to maintain the long-term survival of their species.”
― Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators

“Everything about him was beautiful except his jaws. . . . When the old man saw him coming he knew that this was a shark that had no fear at all and would do exactly what he wished. —Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea”
― Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators

“No matter the color, shape, or size, all sharks are cartilaginous fishes, a biological class called Chondrichthyes.”
― Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators

“You’re bigger than me, and more powerful. You’re the product of 450 million years of evolution, and you are, as sharks go, perfect. You win. —Shark Week executive producer Brooke Runnette, in an imagined conversation with a great white shark, in an article in the Atlantic, 2012”
― Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators

“seventy-three million sharks of their fins and throw the animals back into the water, often alive, for the sake of this soup.”
― Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators

“The release of [the 1975 movie] Jaws contributed to people wanting to exterminate sharks. Sharks have much more cause to fear humans. Today sharks are decreasing in all oceans because of human activity. —Alessandro De Maddalena, shark expert, in Sharks of New England, 2010”
― Karen Romano Young, Shark Quest: Protecting the Ocean's Top Predators