Here I am immersed in an oceanic world, 40km offshore with 120m of water below me, and I can\u2019t get that cute and crazy song out of my head. Baby shark, do do do do do do\u2026<\/p>\n
Pinkfong\u2019s YouTube version of Baby Shark has become the most-viewed video of all time and I find I\u2019m just as consumed by the meme as everyone else. But what\u2019s the story behind baby shark?<\/p>\n
Sometime in the 1970s a very strange campfire song started being sung by children at American summer camps. Various versions emerged involving increasingly gruesome scenes complete with physical gestures. These were not quite the happy anthropomorphism of mummy, daddy and of course baby shark that we know today. It\u2019s only speculation, but perhaps no coincidence that the 1975 release of Jaws had firmly embedded the fear of sharks, especially the great white, in the American psyche.<\/p>\n
This beautiful baby shark is a blue shark (Prionace glauca) and is perhaps only a couple of weeks old, its youth betrayed by the strange little caudal extension trailing from its tail. When this baby shark grows up I\u2019d be just as happy swimming alongside her as I am now.<\/p>\n
If we\u2019d been out here with Pinkfong\u2019s baby shark and mummy shark just happened along, perhaps I\u2019d be thinking, we\u2019re gonna need a bigger boat!<\/p>\n
For now at least there have been no confirmed records of great white sharks in Irish waters, so I\u2019m more than content floating out here with the blue sharks and children\u2019s songs stuck in my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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