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Journal of the fortyfifth day on board

16th June, 1999

Do you recognise him?
24 hours ago he was 36 years old with short hair.
In this photo, John Abela has got younger. He is 23 and is living one of the most important days of his life.
Beside him there is Carolina, the biggest white shark in the world, a female over 7 metres long and weighing around 4 tonnes.
Carolina remains caught in the lens of Alfredo, the fisherman who then dragged it into port.

“When we got this large shark onto the deck her heart was still beating. Her mouth was enormous and from her stomach enormous we pulled a dolphin, a 'verdesca', a large turtle and a few rubbish bags. Mesuring her was easy but weighing her was a problem: in Malta there were no sclaes big enough. We cut the shark into pieces and measured her bit by bit. I bought the jaw from Alfredo and spent 3 months cleaning her. Today I have the mouth, the biggest sharks mouth in the world, the mouth of Carolina the priness of the deep.
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Now and again there are people who, for different reasons, contest the length of this shark, but the measurments are correct: I would not have had any reason to increase them. Besides which the jaw of Carolina is not for sale and I will not be separated from it for any amount.”

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Alberto Luca Recchi
con un mako della
collezione Abela

 

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