WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.379 Okay, Chelsea. I don't think this is outside 00:00:02.379 --> 00:00:04.120 my wheelhouse. It's different than anything we've 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:06.179 been following. Definitely a new story. Well, 00:00:06.179 --> 00:00:08.900 I'll tell you if it's outside. A new source that 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:11.419 I've never used before. So we'll see what we 00:00:11.419 --> 00:00:14.859 feel about it. We'll see. TheMirror .com. This 00:00:14.859 --> 00:00:18.059 article is from February 6th, 2025 by Douglas 00:00:18.059 --> 00:00:21.019 Witchbeard. And article title, Dead Great White 00:00:21.019 --> 00:00:24.179 Sharks Keep Washing Up With Enlarged Brains And 00:00:24.179 --> 00:00:28.379 No One Knows Why. Oh, that's weird. Yeah. Experts 00:00:28.379 --> 00:00:30.739 have been left bewildered as great white sharks 00:00:30.739 --> 00:00:33.100 within large brains keep washing up dead along 00:00:33.100 --> 00:00:35.880 the eastern seaboard of America. Marine wildlife 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:38.000 specialists still cannot pinpoint why the cluster 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:40.380 of nine apex predators have been discovered on 00:00:40.380 --> 00:00:43.320 beaches over the last few years. With most displaying 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:45.479 the same rare medical issue, the first white 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:47.759 sharks to wash up on a beach was found on Prince 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:50.179 Edward Island in Canada, oh, in August of 2023. 00:00:50.590 --> 00:00:52.630 There were initially no physical signs of why 00:00:52.630 --> 00:00:54.390 the ferocious animal, which measured just under 00:00:54.390 --> 00:00:57.429 9 feet long, had passed away. Only when a research 00:00:57.429 --> 00:00:59.469 team cut it open did they discover that it had 00:00:59.469 --> 00:01:14.019 died from meningoencephalitis. which causes brain 00:01:14.019 --> 00:01:16.920 inflation. The unusual disease can be infectious 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:19.280 in sharks and is typically spread via bacteria, 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:21.560 viruses, or parasites according to the National 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:23.819 Library of Medicine. However, the team that examined 00:01:23.819 --> 00:01:25.719 the carcass said it was not clear what exactly 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:27.939 caused the illness in the large fish. Despite 00:01:27.939 --> 00:01:30.579 the disease's scarcity, a further four of the 00:01:30.579 --> 00:01:32.579 animals were discovered dead on beaches across 00:01:32.579 --> 00:01:35.519 eastern Canada along the same time. Half of these 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:37.980 were eventually discovered to have the same illness. 00:01:38.379 --> 00:01:40.739 The deaths came as further shark carcasses were 00:01:40.739 --> 00:01:43.099 discovered on beaches across the US between 2022 00:01:43.099 --> 00:01:46.439 and 2023. The animals were discovered in Massachusetts, 00:01:46.980 --> 00:01:50.540 Long Island, New York, and South Carolina. Dr. 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:57.659 Ellison Newton, the chief veterinarian for OCEARC 00:01:57.659 --> 00:02:07.180 told the New York Times Quote, I feel very strongly 00:02:07.180 --> 00:02:09.460 that there's something significant going on. 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:12.400 End quote. Despite the deaths, sharks seem to 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.379 be no less prevalent in US waters. There were 00:02:15.379 --> 00:02:18.800 69 unprovoked shark bites on humans in 2023 globally 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:21.280 with a whopping 36 instances happening in the 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:23.379 American coast, according to the International 00:02:23.379 --> 00:02:25.659 Shark Attack File. In November last year, the 00:02:25.659 --> 00:02:27.879 officials in Hawaii said a surfer in Maui had 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:30.740 his legs severed during a shark attack. I always 00:02:30.740 --> 00:02:33.159 hate, aside from this, whenever we talk about 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:36.379 sharks, we have to bring up shark attacks, which 00:02:36.379 --> 00:02:40.099 we shouldn't have to. Oh, we do have to. Yeah, 00:02:40.139 --> 00:02:43.180 I know. But like saying that, by the way, yeah, 00:02:43.300 --> 00:02:46.199 like 30 shark attacks off the coast over this 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:48.539 period of time. And they kind of make it seem 00:02:48.539 --> 00:02:51.199 like prevalent. And it's not like this is not 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:53.219 something we should be worrying about at all. 00:02:53.259 --> 00:02:55.629 Yeah. Literally, any time I mention a shark, 00:02:55.810 --> 00:02:58.889 I then have to pivot to talk about attacks. Yeah. 00:02:59.310 --> 00:03:01.689 Always. Every time. And you know what? They actually 00:03:01.689 --> 00:03:04.310 end it with a description of a shark attack. 00:03:04.349 --> 00:03:07.550 So I'm going to end that there, Chelsea. Oh, 00:03:07.569 --> 00:03:10.870 OK. The rest is literally just a description 00:03:10.870 --> 00:03:14.949 of a shark attack. I'm not sure what to do with 00:03:14.949 --> 00:03:17.949 this information now. Is it about the first thing 00:03:17.949 --> 00:03:21.090 or the last thing? Yeah. Hold on. What's the 00:03:21.090 --> 00:03:23.800 table? Did you say it? Yeah, the title was, Dead 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:25.599 Great White Sharks Keep Washing Up Within Large 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:28.120 Brains, and no one knows why. Then is there something 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:30.599 about shark attacks? No, it's just that thing 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:34.080 where, like, media has to talk about shark attacks 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:36.879 when they talk about sharks. And it just, like, 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.639 it inflames people's fear of sharks and, like, 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:42.740 actually prevents us from, like, preserving them 00:03:42.740 --> 00:03:46.250 as a species, I think. Probably. Well this is 00:03:46.250 --> 00:03:49.169 interesting. Yeah, rare disease. Not that many, 00:03:49.430 --> 00:03:51.530 but that's a lot of great white sharks to be 00:03:51.530 --> 00:03:55.430 washing up on shores. Yeah, and is this more 00:03:55.430 --> 00:03:57.710 than the Mirror reporting this, or do you think 00:03:57.710 --> 00:03:59.569 they're making it up? I don't think they're making 00:03:59.569 --> 00:04:01.469 it up because they used a quote from a New York 00:04:01.469 --> 00:04:04.469 Times article that seemed to be covering the 00:04:04.469 --> 00:04:08.409 same thing. Okay, well this is weird then. Maybe 00:04:08.409 --> 00:04:12.129 it's microplastics. It could be, but that wouldn't 00:04:12.129 --> 00:04:14.409 explain, like they said it was bacterial, did 00:04:14.409 --> 00:04:18.029 they not? Like the meningitis -ish name? Which 00:04:18.029 --> 00:04:20.209 I don't think is on plastic, and if it is, man, 00:04:20.250 --> 00:04:22.889 we have a whole other issue. Yeah, that's cheating. 00:04:23.470 --> 00:04:25.730 Does that word just mean inflammation, and it 00:04:25.730 --> 00:04:28.269 could be a bacteria? I don't actually know. We're 00:04:28.269 --> 00:04:30.889 not scientists is the problem here. No. We're 00:04:30.889 --> 00:04:35.410 not. This is all speculation. All of it. And 00:04:35.410 --> 00:04:37.709 now we have to pivot to shark attacks. Are they? 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:40.800 Are they just getting too smart and it's accidentally 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:42.500 killing them because their brain gets bigger 00:04:42.500 --> 00:04:43.819 when they get smart? Because their brain gets 00:04:43.819 --> 00:04:47.000 so big. Yeah. Maybe they're going through a revolution 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:50.399 right now. Maybe all those cans and bottles that 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:52.680 are ending up in the ocean, they're reading them 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:56.120 and it's causing them to get smarter and it's 00:04:56.120 --> 00:04:59.160 crushing their brains. Because their skulls can't 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:02.310 like hold the brain that big. Yeah. they were 00:05:02.310 --> 00:05:04.029 never meant to and in fact it might be a safety 00:05:04.029 --> 00:05:06.269 mechanism so that you know they never can get 00:05:06.269 --> 00:05:08.310 to a point in evolution where they create global 00:05:08.310 --> 00:05:10.769 warming and kill off the species really brilliant 00:05:10.769 --> 00:05:13.009 if you think about it from a shark point standpoint 00:05:13.009 --> 00:05:17.970 yeah but any event you guys got 48 hours don't 00:05:17.970 --> 00:05:20.649 learn too much because that could have been what 00:05:20.649 --> 00:05:22.589 happened here and it might be transferable to 00:05:22.589 --> 00:05:24.970 humans we don't know for sure again we're not 00:05:24.970 --> 00:05:27.910 scientists so don't think about too much just 00:05:27.910 --> 00:05:30.910 just focus on the fun i'm not learning anything 00:05:31.129 --> 00:05:31.490 Bye!