Sometimes
in winter the surface waters, which are less salty, were so cold that
the sharks spent more time in warmer, saltier waters below, ... When I glimpsed the sharks' radio positions from these frigid
seas, I often wondered what it would be like to overwinter in the wilds
of an Alaska fjord chasing herring in constant darkness.

Barbara Block

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