This incredible compilation of sharks biting and grabbing the bait was filmed off the coast of Jupiter, Florida, by diver Bartolomeo Bove.
He is part of the Florida Shark Diving crew which lets you "as close to the sharks as you can handle."
In the video there are lemon and bull sharks.
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Cyclone Debbie has been wreaking devastation across Australia's north-east coastline this week, slamming locals with severe rains and winds of up to 260 km (160 miles) per hour. Extensive flooding and evacuations are ongoing, and right now, there are no signs of the storm slowing down.
But in the north Queensland region of Burdekin, the residents appear to have gotten off relatively easy, because as local journalist Philip Calder tweeted yesterday, this poor uprooted bull shark is "The only victim of Burdekin flooding."
"He must've gotten caught in a torrent and confused, beached himself on the side of the road,"Calder told news.com.au.
"We were pretty amazed, we were turning up to shoot a flooding road, we weren't expecting to see wildlife as well."
The only victim of Burdekin flooding...a bull shark. #CycloneDebbie@WINNews_TVLpic.twitter.com/ZXZGlAVV16
— Philip Calder (@philipjcalder) March 30, 2017Bull sharks are fairly common in the area, and are an incredibly adaptable species — found all over the world, they thrive in both saltwater and freshwater, keeping to the warm, shallow waters of the coast, or the rivers further inland.
As Calder told The Brisbane Times, it's suspected that this bull shark had been washed up out of its home in the Burdekin River, and in the process of trying to escape a raging torrent, found itself beached on a road in the town of Ayr.
Showing no signs of decomposition, the shark likely wasn't sitting there for long before it was found. Unfortunately, there was no chance of reviving it once the local emergency crew had arrived.
As tough as sharks are in the water, they are incredibly sensitive to drying out and suffocating when there isn't a constant supply of water flowing through their gills.
That's the biggest risk researchers face when they try to transport one from its natural habitat, and one of the many reasons why no one has ever successfully kept a shark in captivity for more than a few months.
Calder says the shark likely came from the Burdekin River, which is "full of bull sharks".
The locals? "They never go swimming in it."
Senior firefighter Ash Ryder from the Ayr Fire and Rescue station told The Courier Mail that the Burdekin River had very quickly reached a peak of 9.5 metres on Wednesday, after rising 5 metres in the space of just 5 hours.
Think it's safe to go back in the water? Think again! A bull shark washed up in Ayr. Stay out of floodwater. #TCDebbie#ifitsfloodedforgetitpic.twitter.com/DpP29Va1JG
— Qld Fire & Emergency (@QldFES) March 30, 2017#Sharknado. Locals at #Ayr sadly discover another of the untold thousands of marine and land animals that were victims of #CycloneDebbiepic.twitter.com/tMf2WBomQH
— Marcus Middleton (@MMiddleton_10) March 30, 2017An actual shark isn't the only strange thing that has been uprooted by the massive storms sweeping the Australian coast this week — entire boats have been flung inland from the sea.
And the destruction to several electrical towers has made for some rather peculiar viewing:
Aerial inspections inland southwest of Mackay located ten damaged towers. No electricity supply impact #CycloneDebbiepic.twitter.com/zqKSpmlLjr
— Powerlink Queensland (@powerlinkqld) March 30, 2017The good news is no deaths have been reported as a result of the storm so far, despite the fact that it's reportedly the worst in the region since 2011.
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A 17-year-old girl has been killed by a shark in Western Australia.
She was attacked around 4pm local time off a beach at Esperance in WA’s south, around 720km from Perth, while surfing with her father.
The girl, from Mandurah, sustained critical injuries in the attack and was treated at the beach by paramedics before being taken to hospital. Police later confirmed she had died from her injuries.
Seven News Perth reported that the girl’s mother and siblings watched the attack happen from the shore. The network said the girl was bitten on the leg and suffered heavy blood loss.
The species of shark involved isn’t known, but great whites are common off the WA coast, especially around Esperance, where there are seal colonies.
It’s the first fatal shark attack this year in WA. PerthNow reported that the attack took place at the same place Sean Pollard, another surfer, lost his right hand and his left arm in a shark attack in 2014.
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The video opens with a close-up shot of a great white shark swimming in a turquoise ocean. But when it zooms out, the camera reveals the bustling coast of a Southern California beach.
"You are paddleboarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks," says a voice. "The sharks are as close as the surf line."
The voice belongs to Deputy Brian Stockbridge of the Orange County Sherriff's Department, who on Wednesday advised a group of paddleboarders at Capistrano Beach to "exit the water in a calm manner," according to The Orange County Register.
The sharks were seen just south of California's San Onofre State Beach, where a woman was bitten by a shark last month. The area was put under shark advisory, according to an announcement from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
But while it might seem as though sharks are becoming a bigger threat to people, experts say the opposite scenario is closer to the truth.
"We may never know exactly how many sharks are out there, or exactly how many are killed each year," said David Shiffman, a marine biologist. "What we do know, from a variety of different types of analysis, is that many species of sharks are decreasing in population at alarming rates."
The causes? Hunting sharks for their meat and fins, and irresponsible fishing practices.
According to a recent report by the nonprofit conservation group Oceana, thousands of sharks are caught and trapped in fishing nets and other fishing gear every year. Some estimates say this unintended catch, or "bycatch," is 40% of the world's total catch, or about 63 billion pounds a year.
One frequently cited survey analyzed data gathered from fisheries between 1986 and 2000 and found that hammerhead populations had declined by an average of 89%, great whites by 79%, tiger sharks by 65%, thresher sharks by 80%, blue sharks by 60%, and mako sharks by 70%.
In sharp contrast to the way they're typically portrayed, sharks also possess several characteristics that make them vulnerable to exploitation, such as maturing later and having fewer young.
"We all know sharks are in trouble,"Jennifer Schmidt, a geneticist and the director of science and research for the nonprofit Shark Research Institute, wrote in a recent blog post for the institute.
Shiffman told Business Insider that although some shark populations, including great whites, were recovering, declining populations spell trouble for other marine life since the animals play a role in oceans' health.
Sharks are apex predators, which means they keep dozens of other ocean populations in check, according to the nonprofit organization WildAid. Sharks keep food webs in balance, stabilize other fish populations, and prevent the fish they prey on from taking over vital seagrass bed habitats.
"Recent victories in restricting shark fishing and regulating the fin trade are essential to prevent extinction of many shark species," Schmidt said, "but it will take a long time for these actions to impact such depleted populations."
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Imagine being one of the paddle-boarders shown in a video released May 10 by the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
It's a clear, sunny day as you plod along on the water, when suddenly a police helicopter begins circling overhead. Within moments, a man's voice booms through a loudspeaker.
"Attention in the water, attention in the water: This is the Orange County Sheriff's department. Be advised state parks is asking us to make an announcement to let you know you are paddleboarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks," the voice says. "They are advising that you exit the water in a calm manner."
The helicopter then flies away, leaving you with this harrowing information.
Maintaining a "calm manner" would be next to impossible as you scramble to shore. However, a look at the statistical likelihood of dying from a shark bite should give you some solace. Sharks injure more people than they kill, but both events are extraordinarily rare — especially compared to other threats that people face.
In 2013, sharks killed only 10 people out of about 7 billion. In 2014, just three people lost their lives to the predators.
The numbers are getting lower each year as more sharks die as by-catch in fishing operations and get hunted for their dorsal fins.
Below is the average American's lifetime odds of death from a shark attack (in bold) compared to other threats we face.
The risks are ordered from the least likely to the most likely causes of death:
These odds above are based on a previous analysis by Business Insider, and the data primarily come from a 2016 report by the National Safety Council and the National Center for Health Statistics' final 2013 report on causes of death in the US, which was released in February 2016.
However, these odds don't factor in a person's individual behaviors, age, sex, location, or other things that can affect risks — they're averages of the entire US population.
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If the ocean is a shark’s vast marine buffet, then humans are the Brussels sprouts—we’re far from the favorite. But that’s no consolation to a swimmer like Kori Robertson, who was attacked in early 2011 while wading in the ocean off the coast of Texas. A 12-foot shark took a bite of her thigh then quickly spat her out.
Sharing the world’s waterways with sharks means that occasionally we bump into one another—and the encounter doesn’t always end well for us humans. But don’t let that keep you from the water: shark attacks are very rare. Still, some beaches—for various reasons—attract more sharks than others.
To get some perspective and uncover the worst beaches for shark attacks, we culled data from news reports, the International Shark Attack File, and the Global Shark Attack File. Globally, there have been 447 fatal shark attacks and 2,320 nonfatal incidents since 1845. The number of reported shark attacks increased worldwide in 2010, with 79 attacks, up 25 percent from 61 the prior year, according to the International Shark Attack File. That said, in the U.S., the last decade has seen 230 deaths from dog bites and only eight from sharks.
“For an animal so large, sharks are remarkably cautious,” says Ralph S. Collier, president of the Shark Research Committee and author of Shark Attacks of the Twentieth Century. “They use all their keen senses to determine if something is food. The last thing they do is put it in their mouth. When they realize it’s of no interest they release it,” he says.
The three most likely sharks to attack a human are bull sharks, great white sharks, and tiger sharks. Different species have different personalities, and getting inside their brains is the first step in knowing which beaches should be avoided.
“Great white sharks spend most of their time in the open ocean,” explains Marie Levine, executive director of the Shark Research Institute and archivist for the Global Shark Attack File. Bull sharks love brackish river deltas and have been found as far as 60 miles inland, while tiger sharks are doggedly curious. They feed on carrion, turtles, and garbage, and are therefore most likely to give us an exploratory bite.
Two rules of thumb: never swim alone and, if you’re actually attacked, take aim with repeated hard blows to the eyes or gills, not the nose.
It’s no coincidence that the most dangerous beaches are the ones where tourists and locals flock to swim, surf, and snorkel; more people equals more potential for attacks. Some beaches, however, are particularly infested.
With 238 to date, New Smyrna Beach consistently sees more shark attacks annually than any other beach on the planet. (In 2008 it recorded more than a dozen incidents, according to the Global Shark Attack File.) The beach is part of Volusia County, which accounts for roughly 37 percent of Florida’s attacks. New Smyrna Beach has never yet had a fatality; most attacks amount to minor nibbles by young bull sharks, some no bigger than river trout. Still, it pays to have every bite treated by a doctor. “Bull sharks eat carrion so those cuts can easily become infected,” cautions Ralph S. Collier, president of the Shark Research Committee.
Encounters with great white sharks have been recorded along popular beaches from Bondi Beach to Byron Bay, with 55 fatalities and 171 unprovoked attacks. The problem may lie in the proximity of the continental shelf. “Very deep water close to shore compresses the habitat of coastal sharks and allows pelagic species like the great white shark to come close to shore,” says Marie Levine of the Shark Research Institute. Lisa Mondy recently had her arm bitten to the bone by a great white shark after falling from her wakeboard near Port Stephens—the same spot where surfer Ben Morcom was mauled in 2007.
Cage diving with great white sharks draws tourists to South Africa like sharks to a bloody carcass—which is exactly what many tour operators use to guarantee sightings. Chumming the water with blood teaches sharks to associate humans with food and, according to Surfers Against Shark Cage Diving, the number of fatal attacks in South Africa has skyrocketed since the introduction of cage diving in 1992. There have been 23 fatalities since 1990, more than during the entire previous century. The style of attacks supports their case: white sharks are hunting at surf beaches.
At this water slide at Siam Park in Tenerife, Spain, you come face-face with sharks.
It starts off along the Lazy River and then speeds up all the way to a tunnel where you can see sharks swimming around you.
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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — A section of Southern California coast has been closed again after at least four sharks were spotted close to shore.
Officials in San Clemente say the water is off limits Sunday from one mile (1.6 km) north to one mile (1.6 km) south of the city beach's pier.
Closures were ordered in the same area a week ago after two dozen great whites were seen, including one about 10 feet (3 meters) long.
Juvenile great whites, typically under 8 feet (2.4 meters), are common along Southern California, where they feed on small fish. As they get larger, white sharks start feeding on bigger marine mammals, a factor lifeguards use to consider closures.
Last month a woman was injured by a 10-foot (3 meter) white shark at San Onofre State Beach, south of San Clemente.
A 10-foot great white shark jumped into a small fishing boat off Evans Head on the north Coast of New South Wales on Saturday.
Fisherman Terry Selwood told the ABC he was fishing offshore when the predator jumped more than three feet out of the water, "right over the top of the motor and then dropped onto the floor."
The boat itself was only about 15 feet long.
Selwood, who was injured in the incident, had to call the local marine rescue at Evans Head for assistance.
He was taken to hospital and treated for a cut to his arm.
Selwood, who has been fishing for 60 years, told the ABC that there was no reason for the shark to breach as it did as conditions on the water were smooth and he wasn’t fishing using burley.
“Really, it’s not a great story, it’s just a mundane thing that just happened and it’s over and done with, but something that I’ll remember,” said the veteran fisherman.
“But we’re all well and now I’ll just get on with life and repair the damage he made to my boat.”
Evans Head local Genevieve Francis was there when the boat was pulled in to the dock.
She posted this photo of the shark in the boat to the community notice board Facebook page:
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Most of the millions of beachgoers who flock to southern California’s coast never notice the baby sharks swimming laps just offshore, but that’s starting to change.
The sharks aren’t on the prowl for sunblock-glazed snacks: the Southern California Bight – the coastal waters from Santa Barbara to the U.S.-Mexico border – is a white shark nursery.
It’s where the young predators hide out, stay warm, and learn to hunt, before joining adults in deeper seas.
Though their species has long been declining, baby white sharks are making a surprising comeback in the Bight.
Their return tells a bigger environmental success story: federal and state regulations stretching back 40 years have curtailed pollution and repaired the marine food web that includes white sharks (formerly called great white sharks). “You can’t have an ecosystem that’s badly damaged and have predators,” Chris Lowe, director of the Shark Lab at California State University-Long Beach, says.
The Bight’s baby white sharks declined for a number of reasons, Lowe says: poor water quality, their decimation as gillnetting bycatch, and the near-extirpation of the prey that adult sharks rely on.
Likewise, no single environmental law saved them. Instead, a suite of regulations enacted from the 1970s to the mid 1990s helped restore southern California’s coastal ecosystem enough for its white shark nursery to eventually start recovering. (See timeline).
In 1994, California passed a white shark fishing ban and a gillnet fishing ban, both of which protected baby white sharks. Since then, researchers have documented baby shark populations growing in the Bight. The sharks shape the Bight’s ecosystem, in turn. California’s seals and sea lions have rebounded so well under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, predators are needed to cull their populations and keep them healthy, Lowe says.
Meanwhile, development projects such as marinas and residential buildings constructed in California’s estuaries have pushed stingrays out of their traditional habitats and into coastal waters, where the rays provide easy food for baby white sharks.
In future, the sharks’ appetites might even make people safer: Stingrays injure beachgoers on California’s coast far more frequently than white sharks do, Lowe says, though he acknowledges that’s a hard argument to sell to a shark-phobic public.
“You hear about all the bad things we’re doing to the planet, to the ocean: the pollution, overfishing, global climate change,” Lowe says. Marine life faces continued threats, but the recovery of the shark population is a sign that humans are doing something right. “Maybe at a regional scale, but at least it’s a start.”
1971 - Clean Water Act
Southern California went from having some of the worst coastal water quality that existed in the U.S. – with primary treated raw sewage released one mile from shore – to having some of the best wastewater treatment in the world today.
1973 - Marine Mammal Protection Act
Marine mammals in U.S. waters have made an astounding recovery from the early 1900s, when most marine mammals in coastal California had been hunted to near extinction: for food or fur, or out of a belief that they competed with fishermen.
1994 - California Proposition 132
Passed by ballot measure in 1990, the California coastal gillnetting ban, which went into effect in 1994, has saved many animals from dying as bycatch, including marine mammals and several species of fish: white sharks, thresher sharks, leopard sharks, white sea bass, and more.
1996 - Sustainable Fisheries Act
After this extension of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, coastal fisheries reduced bycatch and became more sustainable. Fisheries recovered, not just in California, but in other parts of the country as well, rebuilding a torn food web from the bottom up.
1999 - Marine Life Protection Act
Today, California’s system of marine protected areas function as a network for conservation, sustainable fisheries, recreation, and education. They also help to rebuild southern California’s food web.
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Michael Phelps is racing a shark.
Yes, a shark
Having conquered the best swimmers humanity has to offer in a variety of strokes and distances, apparently Phelps has decided that the only competition left for him is a creature that calls the sea its home and has been evolving for the better part of 450 million years into the perfect killing machine.
That, or the paycheck is pretty solid.
The exhibition race will take place as a part of Discovery Channel's much beloved Shark Week, and can be seen on July 23rd.
You can read the press release announcing the event below:
They are one of the fastest and most efficient predators on the planet: Sharks. He is our greatest champion to ever get in the water: Michael Phelps. 39 world records. 23 Olympic golds. But he has one competition left to win. An event so monumental no one has ever attempted it before. The world’s most decorated athlete takes on the ocean’s most efficient predator: Phelps V Shark – the race is on!
A quick Google search will tell you that sharks can swim about 31 mph, while Phelps clocks in at around 6 mph, so unless he gets a serious headstart on his competition, he has less of a chance in this fight than Conor McGregor does in his.
That said, it's good to know Shark Week is back soon, and if anyone is capable of pulling off a miracle in the water, it's probably Michael Phelps.
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A summer season of shark attacks has left many beaches around the world empty, but the likelihood that the average person will die from a shark attack is relatively low. In fact, sharks don't even place in the to 10 deadliest animals to humans. But the animal most commonly responsible for human deaths around the world may surprise you.
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On Sunday night, "Shark Week" viewers were disappointed to find out that swimmer Michael Phelps, sometimes called the greatest Olympian of all time, did not actually race against a great white shark.
Instead, Phelps raced against a simulation of a shark, using a special swimsuit with a large fin to help him move through the water at superhuman speeds.
Even with the help of that monofin, though, Phelps lost to the shark by two seconds.
That's because great whites are really, really fast. They can speed through the water at 25 miles per hour (mph), potentially achieving 35 mph for the short bursts. That allows them to propel their entire bodies out of the water.
Even top Olympians like Phelps are unlikely to surpass 6 mph while swimming in the conventional way.
For the "race," Phelps swam 100 meters alone in chilly open water off the coast of South Africa. Viewers watched a simulation of a shark swim alongside him. Discovery producers calculated that shark's speed by towing a seal-shaped decoy in front of a real white shark for 100 meters, and measuring the shark's time. The ocean swimmer came in at 36.1 seconds, just over 6 mph.
Great white sharks often go much faster than that, of course, but the producers of Discovery Channel's "Shark Week" pointed out that the sharks don't usually keep their speeds up for distances as long as 100 meters.
Under the conditions set for the race, Phelps did pretty well: He beat the world record for the 100m freestyle (set without special gear) by about 10 seconds. Of course, his monofin made a big difference.
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The moment of glory for #TeamShark!!! #PhelpsVsShark#SharkWeekpic.twitter.com/NWYp1CwiRa
— Shark Week (@SharkWeek) July 24, 2017Phelps says he's down to race again.
Rematch? Next time..warmer water. #SW30@Discovery@SharkWeek
— Michael Phelps (@MichaelPhelps) July 24, 2017Although many fans were disappointed that they didn't get to watch Phelps race a real shark, none of us should really want to watch him attempt that. Such a race might end badly, as evidenced by this Discovery video showing a determined shark chasing down a decoy.
Of course, if Phelps really wanted a challenge, marine biologist Andrew Nosal suggested he take on the fastest shark out there, the mako, which can leave great whites behind in its wake.
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A special wetsuit has been developed that is able to make swimmers almost invisible to sharks.
Known as "Elude", the wetsuit works by obscuring the user's figure with unique colouration and shaping patterns to disguise swimmers in the water.
There has also been another wetsuit developed that does the opposite. With its zebra-like pattern, it actively deters sharks from approaching the swimmer as it could be seen as a dangerous food source.
The wetsuits themselves are not shark-proof but they are designed to reduce the chance of attacks.
You can find out more here.
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That sharks represent a risk to swimmers and surfers isn't news to beachgoers. But these predators are not actually looking to feed on humans.
To better understand why a tiny number of sharks do sometimes bite people, we interviewed George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research and manager of the International Shark Attack File. Following is a transcript of the video.
Of course the biggest myth of sharks is that they are all man-eaters. And probably 95% of all shark species have never bitten a human.
My name is George Burgess. I serve as director of the Florida program for shark research at the Florida Museum, which is part of the University of Florida.
There are a relatively small number of sharks that actually get involved in shark bites. Any species that gets about six feet or so in length is a potential danger simply because — whether they intend to bite the human as prey items, or just by mistake — the jaw is big enough to do damage. So those are the ones we are most concerned about.
In the ocean sometimes, humans simply are the right size for those animals to give a shot at because we are in the appropriate size range, and oftentimes were are behaving in an appropriate fashion for the things they normally eat.
In areas where seals or sea lions are found, of course, we look an awful lot like a seal or a sea lion when we are at the water surface, or even more so if we have a black wet suit on. But that said, none of these species are going after humans normally as prey, simply because we are not part of the food chain.
We are not members of the marine environment — heck, we can’t even breath underwater. So we are occasionals when we are there. We are ecotourists when we enter the sea. So as a result, sharks are not looking for humans as normal prey items.
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George Burgess, the director for the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History and contributor to "SharkFest," explains what people can do to avoid a shark attack. Following is a transcript of the video.
Shark attacks have been increasing. They’ve actually been increasing for the last 11 decades.
When we enter the sea, it’s a wilderness experience. If you’re paranoid about getting bitten, obviously stay outside of the water. Work on your suntan, drink a cold one on the beach, enjoy the scenery. But if you go in the water, you know that there’s going to be some risk, and it’s our duty to reduce that risk if we can.
How do we do that reduction? Well, first of all we can go out in groups.
There’s safety in numbers. There’s a reason why fishes are in schools and antelopes are in herds. It’s because there’s safety there. So go together as a group. Don’t become isolated, because carnivores such as sharks go after the lonely person.
Don’t go in the water between dusk and dawn — time periods when sharks are most active in feeding. Avoid certain areas where sharks are likely to be found: inlets, channels. If you see seabirds diving, if you see fishes jumping, if you see humans fishing off of the shoreline, that means there’s fish around. If there’s fish, there’s probably sharks.
So just by doing those common-sense sort of things, we can reduce our risk.
If you see a shark while in the water, of course the first thing to do is get out, if you can. And that seems obvious to most people, but surfers in particular, who swim a lot in the water and see sharks, oftentimes don’t worry about it, because they’ve been with them before. And then sometimes they get bit. So get out of the water if you see a shark.
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Astonishing footage has emerged of dozens of sharks and a whale feeding on baitfish just beyond the surf break in the tourism region of Forster/Tuncurry on the New South Wales mid north coast.
White, bull and bronze whaler sharks are among the predators chasing the fish, while a Bryde’s whale, a baleen feeder, also joins the feast.
The NSW Department of Primary Industries posted the footage, taken from a chopper as part of regular aerial surveillance, on YouTube.
Here’s the footage:
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