The shark's teeth are firmly implanted in the integuments but have
no sockets. They are constantly being lost and replaced. At times teeth
found in a victims wounds give irrefutable evidence of the guilt of the
shark and provide the most positive means of identifying the species.
Most large sharks grasp their food. Their jaws are so powerful that they
can bite through human bones, such as those of the forearm, with ease,
and rip large grooves in the bones off the thigh. Often they have
bitten through a thigh bone as though it had been cut with a
chopper.

The offensive weapons of a shark, however, are not confined to it's teeth.
It can strike with great force with it's body, cut deeply with it's fins, and
kick powerfully with it's tail. The skin of the larger sharks must also
counted as a weapon. It is so rough that victims often show, in addition
to wounds caused by the bite, long grazes on other parts of their bodies
caused by the shark's impact against them. Many references will be made
to this type of injury. Numerous accounts will also be given of swimmers
being thrown bodily into the air by the great force of the shark's rush. At
times during an attack, swimmers near a victim have received severe
injuries in this way as the shark brushed past them on its way to the
victim.

Shark's skin is extremely hard, having countless minute plates of
enamel covered dentine, known as placoid scales, each of which, in
reality is a miniature tooth.These scales are so firmly attached to the
skin they are difficult to remove and are so hard that they will take
a stone like polish. It is therefore not surprising that a six-inch incision
in a shark's hide will soon burr the sharpest knife. Numerous reports
mention that harpoons fired at close range have merely scratched the
hard skin of a shark and bounced off. Other suggest that even a sharp
knife is little defense. Against a large shark, arms and fists are useless.

(((Here's a note for REDSHARK ... Now those skin sections that I
sent to You were from a tiger and mako ... The Tiger shark has rough
and large denticles, the mako a smooth skin, see the nice blue sheen
that it exudes? Have a look at these under a magnifying glass and
You'll really see the difference ... Cheers ;-)))

By TheSharkDoctor

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