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The Killer Shark Caught in the Thames in 1787
- arprocter 10y agoDepending on where in the Thames the shark was caught, it was more likely unwell due to being in freshwater instead of saltwater
- totallymike 10y agoI feel like there's a Doctor Who joke to be made out of this.
- Apocryphon 10y agoI feel like if this happened on the other side of the Atlantic, there'd be a punchline along the lines of, "So that's what happened to the alligators!"
- Someone 10y agoThe watch makes this a good story; swimming up the Thames isn't that extraordinary. The beluga (a whale living in the Arctic) nicknamed Moby Dick that swam 300 km up the Rhine certainly bests that: "On May 18, 1966, a few Rhine skippers near Duisburg reported a white whale in the Rhine to the water police. They reacted by first making the mariners take a blood alcohol test, which came up negative" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_(Rhine) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_(Rhine). Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFBGhB-APMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFBGhB-APMs. This beluga apparently was on board a ship that sank while carrying it to England)