Glass Bottom Boat Adventure in Shark Lagoon / Ripley's Aquarium of The Smokies + Penguin Encounter
A visit to Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg Tennessee . Took a ride on the glass bottom boats over shark lagoon and had an up close encounter with a penguin .
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today's adventure brings us to
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Gatlinburg Tennessee to Ripley's
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Aquarium of the Smokies which is not
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only my personal favorite but looks as
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if it's been rated the best in the US my
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goal today after stepping inside is the
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not only meander around but also do some
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of the extra special add-on things that
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can be done on-site
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alright enough talk let's do this
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join me shall you starting off with the
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red-bellied piranha Chuck hits don't get
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too close
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the Stingray is having a staring contest
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by the way Michael from ntl vlogs is
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here there is a piece of glass
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separating the two of us but that iguana
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up there is just chillin just hanging
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out up on the rock they were taught to
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go once particular to wrecks up that guy
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he didn't do anything okay now he's
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going the right way don't get too close
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to that thing it's a scorpion fish here
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comes another one this thing's like a
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very very prickly a little public
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behind-the-scenes of the filtration
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system by peeking down you can get a
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glimpse of some of the mechanics and how
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they work
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noticing over here this particular
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creature looks like a spider of sorts
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looks like a almost like a daddy long
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leg of the scene this tank has a
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waterfall that gives it water it cycles
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around and then back up and then falls
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back down just to keep it all fresh
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there's some very large fish down in
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that thing
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not something you would see in the wild
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inside a tree trunk some aquatic life
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but they are here at the Ripley's
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Aquarium
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Oh as a catfish catfish down there on
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the bottom near the rocks
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he heard me
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it's coming forward one could lose track
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of time just standing here staring at
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these beautiful creatures peacefully
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meandering around
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the waterway just to give a little
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perspective of what I was just looking
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into that's a large that's a very large
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tank there are a few seahorse in here
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but look at the one that looks like a
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plant it's kind of nodding its head
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look at that thing that's amazing that's
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a fish look up there it's a shark up top
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I'm safe and sound inside this tube
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however they're everywhere my goodness
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notice on the surface is a glass-bottom
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boat which I will be boarding a little
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bit later but pretty much from any angle
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it is impressive most impressive clear
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this guy always vlogging always ntl
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vlogging that's Nemo right there and
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then there's a rope bridge and above the
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rope bridge is a a skeleton
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version
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what is that or like a like a
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prehistoric crocodile of sorts very
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beautiful oh look up here looks like
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he's having a bad day looks like he
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hasn't had us his coffee and I get that
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way sometimes you fellas know what I'm
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talking about you don't have your double
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shot you get a little little crabby a
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recreation of the Edmund Fitzgerald down
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here and you can see what happened look
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into the look into the windows they're
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completely submerged and every possible
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these stingrays are no joke they're
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probably like four feet wide and that's
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not even including the tail it's hard to
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get the perspective and these things are
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huge
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we now have tickets for the penguin
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encounter I have to ask you
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not me either it's about to happen
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I'm very excited I like pinkie I love
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whom they have a great exhibit Kate you
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probably see right we'll do that after
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we'll see the penguin through the
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through the glass first
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and this is mr. Joe bitter he'll hear us
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call me Jojo or he knows it he's fixing
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his feathers he knows what's about to
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happen so he isn't a scam I've never
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seen one that means he has a warm
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weather hurt so you don't have to worry
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about this roommate to hofler it's
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actually a little chilly in here for but
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it would be okay for this 30-minute
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don't be afraid of me Joe
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it's okay tried to fly at mid teens 20s
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and up they slow down and get
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caught by predators predators that
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here's a shot of the Stingray lagoon
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from the second floor
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you see underwater and on the surface
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all in one shot this is just so dang
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cool
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remember earlier when I was in the shark
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tank from below well now it's time to go
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above the glass-bottom boat adventure
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it's happening
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you can see the tube down there and you
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can see you can see the sharks swimming
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around so close you could reach out and
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touch it if you so choose it's frowned
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upon
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notice how everyone's gonna peek to the
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opposite side I don't blame them
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wonder if anyone going through that
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tunnel has ever seen jaws three
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peering over this rock formation those
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are very very close there's a fin
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sticking out of the water oh my gosh
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that's just like in the movie there's
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another one coming in hot oh wow
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love showing Finn here show me show me
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some thin
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Wow
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can't touch the Sharks but you can reach
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out and pet a stingray
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make it a little bit easier for you to
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see our beautiful animals that are down
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there like that big shark
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guys must guard the glass-bottom boat on
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shark Lagoon we do have 18 full-grown
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sharks in here we have 12 sand Tigers 3
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nerd shirts - sand bars in one black
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debris as you are sitting out 750,000
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downs of mandates all motor makes a
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movement because will we're not near the
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ocean and home people of those two homes
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on the world and everything in here is
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off it's not swimming around under its
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own power
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it's made out of plaster cement and
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latex that is one of our sand Tigers it
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just swam over us it was a female
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the reason if we know I have any love
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for a lady here is number one it's
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illegal to harvest it from the oceans
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and number two if we were to grow it in
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here with the amount that we have I'm
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going to take about three hundred
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thousand years and we don't have to wait
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that long if you look down below us
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you're going to see the most dangerous
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animals in the entire exhibit in this
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minute someone will pop up we call these
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the people fish yo fish with black
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stripes running down its face that is
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called a pork fish right the reason for
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that being is when the male's want to
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show dominance to get angry on each
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other they have played their swim
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bladders run their teeth up against it
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that it sounds like a pig oinking that
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is one of our three nurse sharks they're
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the only shark in this tank that does
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not have to move its entire life it
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might be able to break all the other
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sharks they do
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is that Nelson tanker right there this
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right here is Miss Lucy she is one of
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our to salt fish she is our heaviest
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fish at 6700 now
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little notice what you see on the end
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broad stroke it is made of substance
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called there
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which case you didn't know that's the
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same stuff
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and fingernails invader has no monetary
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value but due to people thinking that
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that nose looks like an awesome trophy
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they have been overfished to the point
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where there's only about 4000 of them
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left in the wild there's one of our
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mouths and tigers
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that we have she will take out a fish
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you don't care if it's having to get
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back that day just sit down in endo
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matter she'll take it out for the fun of
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it
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hey right down here is our only female
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nurse shark neck speckles early style I
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could call her that because those two
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white spots on it bed the guys you
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notice how the bottom ones swimming a
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little bit slower than the top one
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because of top ones in a little doze
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it's sleeping
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these seven-foot jaws contain 173 feet
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belonging to the super-sized
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Megalodon just 25 the things Elvis
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every bugger contending with semester
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using composition of matter we have you
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sometimes features decimator commodities
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that they're very difficult and very
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very bad everything that's the never an
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answer they were coming through their
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first factor
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picked up our photo ops in this one I'm
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giving the thumbs up sitting closest to
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the penguin and then over here Michael
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he's pointing directly at it and the
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penguin is staring at staring at it like
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it's a it's some kind of a meal he's
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gonna take a bite out of this finger but
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that's that's a some little
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documentation for posterity that's gonna
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see you guys in the next video I'm
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pretty happy I came out from the shark
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Lagoon unscathed no you didn't I did it
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Oh what the heck
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vlog
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