Congrats to Penny Palfrey, her coaches, and support crew on her incredible swim!!! I was following it last night online!:applaud::bow: Steve Mullatones who taught our OW Swim Clinic at SwimFest last month was right there with her as well!
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The swim covered 26 daylight hours, or 44 miles of passage. if in my calculations i had used 44 miles instead of 70, then during a 1950's swim (see 2nd pdf) one would have seen one oceanic whitetip every 176 meters, or every 13 minutes. something has to wrong the numbers. What are some estimates on the minimal habitat required to support one adult?
This would depend on the health of the food chain and the surrounding habitat. I can't imagine what the fish population would have to to support that many predators.
Why would he do that if the population was not healthy?
Not sure, but the prime justification for killing wolves is that they kill sheep, cattle, moose, deer etc. In other words the food we eat. They are competitors for the same limited resources. That could be part of an explanation.
The swim covered 26 daylight hours, or 44 miles of passage. if in my calculations i had used 44 miles instead of 70, then during a 1950's swim (see 2nd pdf) one would have seen one oceanic whitetip every 176 meters, or every 13 minutes. something has to wrong the numbers. What are some estimates on the minimal habitat required to support one adult?
This would depend on the health of the food chain and the surrounding habitat. I can't imagine what the fish population would have to to support that many predators.
Why would he do that if the population was not healthy?
Not sure, but the prime justification for killing wolves is that they kill sheep, cattle, moose, deer etc. In other words the food we eat. They are competitors for the same limited resources. That could be part of an explanation.
