true , it does n’t look good . A exposure has emerged of a cleaning woman lying next to a dead great blank shark and grin wide - eyed and worked up at the tv camera . The cleaning woman in query , a marine life scientist , has come up under flack for the shark “ selfie ” that has since gone viral – but her co-worker , Giancarlo Thomae , promise it was all done in the name of scientific discipline .
The shark was found washed up on a Californian beach last weekend , presumably because it had beach the night before . Thomae , a marine life scientist at the University of California , Santa Cruz , was alarm to the front of the now asleep shark by his mother , who had seen a situation on Facebook . Concerned the physical structure would be traverse by by the sunrise lunar time period , he and his colleague headed over to Seascape Beach Resort to take its measurements before it was too tardy .
There was a just a small job . They had no equipment to measure it with . Which is why , as they wait for colleagues to bring said equipment , the pair develop creative . Thomae asked his workfellow to lie down next to the shark to get some gumption of scale of measurement .
The photo , pack by Thomae , is vaguely remindful oftrophy huntingphotos , which may explain why it was satisfy with such an outcry on social culture medium when post on Facebook by TV post KSBW . ( The photo has since been removed . )
" Taking selfies really ? Have some Effing RESPECT ! Do n’t care if she ’s a ' scientist ' it ’s tasteless , " one individual wrote .
" This could not be more messed up … A dead shark is not a pic op , ” said another .
“ This was once a living being and it ’s just hunky-dory to repose next to it smiling ? This is appalling aaaannnnnd i ’m raging . Justice needs to be had , ” demanded someone else .
In an interview with theSacramento Bee , Thomae defend his activity .
“ As a life scientist and a nature - lover , it makes me happy that mass care so much about wildlife , ” Thomae narrate newsperson . “ I ’m sorry if my photo offended anyone , but we just needed scale for reference . ”
In the end , they were able to measure the shark , which turned out to be 2.7 meters ( 8 foot 9 inches ) and 227 kilograms ( 500 quid ) , and take it away for a necropsy ( aka an animal autopsy ) . As of yet , there has been no Word of God on its reason of last . The juvenile male person has several mark and wounds from tussles with ocean lions ( or " dinner " to the shark ) but Thomae does n’t think they killed him , calling them " computed tomography scratches " .
[ H / T : Sacramento Bee ]
