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Cookie-cutter Shark Bite
The image shows damage to the sonar dome of a submarine. The cookie-shaped divot is probably the result of a bite from a Cookie-cutter Shark, Isistius brasiliensis.
As the shark bit through the rubber dome it left tooth marks which are clearly visible.
Bites by Cookie-cutter sharks on nuclear submarines have been reported by Compagno, 1984. The submarine in this image is not nuclear powered.
Further reading
- Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 4, Sharks of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Part 1 - Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes: viii, 1-250.
