CARCHARODON

Other than her obvious mystery and primeval beauty, there is a unique quality of the great white shark that particularly appeals to me: the refusal to be held alive in a zoo or sea world or aquarium environment. There have indeed been several attempts to keep them in captivity and each time the shark died, or had to be released, within a short time; and so without wishing to over-dramatise the point, I wish I could say that I'd have that same courage, that same capacity for rapid self-destruction, if ever presented with a metaphorically comparable dilemma.