{"id":254,"date":"2006-11-11T21:10:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T05:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/blue-shark-photo\/"},"modified":"2006-11-11T21:10:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T05:10:39","slug":"blue-shark-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/blue-shark-photo.html","title":{"rendered":"Blue Shark Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 80s and 90s we used to leave the docks really early on summer mornings, motor 10-20 miles offshore in our little boats, far enough to get into really blue and bottemless water, drop a bucket of chum in the water, and make bets on when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/blue_shark_photo.html\">blue sharks<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Prionace_glauca\">Prionace glauca<\/a><\/em>) would show up.  When they arrived we would hop in and spend the day swimming around trying to photograph them, sometimes on a tank and sometimes just freediving.  It was great fun.  The last few times I did this, though, there were very few sharks, and none of the big ones we used to see.  I hear talk nowadays that most of the blue sharks have now been fished out, presumably by longliners.  This was shot about 3&#8242; deep at sunset &#8212; bits of plankton are seen in the shot, they rise to the surface at nightfall.  This is a juvenile, and shows none of the scarring acquired during mating that the mature males and females tend to exhibit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=02286\" title=\"A blue shark swims through the open ocean in search of prey,...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/blue-shark-prionace-glauca-underwater-image-02286-850890.jpg\" alt=\"A blue shark swims through the open ocean in search of prey, backlit by the sunset, Prionace glauca, San Diego, California\" title=\"A blue shark swims through the open ocean in search of prey, backlit by the sunset, Prionace glauca, San Diego, California\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A blue shark swims through the open ocean in search of prey, backlit by the sunset.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=02286\">02286<\/a><br \/>Species: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/blue_shark_photo.html\" title=\"Blue shark photos\">Blue shark<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Prionace_glauca\" title=\"Prionace glauca photos\"><i>Prionace glauca<\/i><\/a><br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=san_diego&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">San Diego<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 80s and 90s we used to leave the docks really early on summer mornings, motor 10-20 miles offshore in our little boats, far enough to get into really blue and bottemless water, drop a bucket of chum in the water, and make bets on when the blue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sharks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}