Cookie-cutters spend the daytime at depths of up to 3,500 metres, where no great whites venture. Papastamatiou cautions that we can’t be sure of what happened, but here are some plausible guesses. (These chunks are conical, so the cookie-cutter metaphor isn’t quite right “Ice cream scoop shark” or “watermelon baller shark” are more accurate, if less catchy.) Shark want cookie These are serious injuries-the biggest craters ever recorded were 5 centimetres wide and 7 centimetres deep. With twisting motions, it scoops out a chunk of flesh, leaving behind circular craters exactly like those that del Villar saw on the great white. When the cookie-cutter finds a victim, it latches on with its large fleshy lips and bites down with its saw blade. “I dont know of any other animal that leaves a bite like that.” Instead, Papastamatiou thinks that they were the bite-marks of another shark, just a sixth of the size-a cookie-cutter. “A wound from a hook should leave more of a hole and would not be as smooth,” he says. Del Villar took photos of the animal and sent them to a team of scientists, including Yannis Papastamatiou from the Florida Museum of Natural History. Both were just behind the corner of the young male’s fearsome mouth. The other was a round crater, still open and bloody. On 25 August 2010, one of these divers, Gerardo del Villar, saw a great white shark off Guadalupe Island with two odd wounds on its head. Operators chum the waters to lure in the sharks, while divers enter in floating steel cages. Unauthorized use is prohibited.Įvery year, between August and December, great white sharks arrive at the western coast of Mexico, and people jump into the ocean to see them.
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