Monster 16-foot great white dubbed ‘Joan of Shark’ closes Australia’s beaches The shark's electronic tag, detected by a satellite monitoring system, is what warned nearby residents to stay out of the water while a team of researchers, shockingly, went straight in. An astonishing photo of the beast flipped on its back is what followed.
A monstrous great white shark has closed Australia's most popular beaches after repeatedly spotted dangerously skimming its southwest coast.
The 16-feet-long female dubbed "Joan of Shark," while estimated weighing 1.6 tons, is the largest shark to be electronically tagged in Australia, the Telegraph reported.
That electronic tag, detected by a satellite monitoring system, is what warned nearby residents to stay out of the water while a team of researchers, shockingly, went straight in.
On Tuesday an astonishing photo captured the majestic carnivore's visit last week after being rolled on its back in the water with bare, human hands.
Mark Kleeman, of the Department of Fisheries, explained the hair-raising process of tagging the shark and the photo that followed.
"In that photo, the shark is upside down, which induces a state called tonic immobility," Kleeman told ABC.net.au of their method of tagging.
"In a sense, the shark basically goes to sleep, which enables our technical officers to do a small surgical procedure to implant an acoustic tag inside the shark's gut cavity," he said.
Once the procedure was finished, the shark was rolled over, so it could swim away.
Joan of Shark hahahaaaa good one, ay!
a swim with her would make a good gift voucher for birthdays and the like 
@lakeland27 wrote:a swim with her would make a good gift voucher for birthdays and the like
next time you have an open wound, let me know and I'll send you a voucher....
*cheeky grin*
i could injure myself at anytime. maybe this afternoon. i'll chop some kindling with a blindfold on if you like
