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Ken Whelan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
229 total appearances

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Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

of Greenland and Canada on the far side.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

And they're trying to go through this gap between Greenland and Canada up through what they call the Northwest Passage, up by the edge of Alaska and out into the Pacific.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

This was going to be really, really valuable from a commercial point of view.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

So there was a lot of efforts made, but unfortunately it was very difficult because obviously at that stage it was frozen.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

And increasingly over recent decades, indeed, we talked about it at one stage in one of the programmes some years ago, increasingly there's a lot of floating ice now.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

So there's a lot of actually loose water, if you like, underneath that ice.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

And we are seeing jellyfish and so on that are intrusions from the Pacific into the Atlantic.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

And the whole focus was on this Northwest Passage, but equally on the far side of Greenland.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

And Greenland is this enormous island, you know, the size of Europe, this massive great piece of ground.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

And on the other side, then you have the Northeast Passage.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

So the Northeast Passage potentially could be really important as well from a navigation point of view and also important as well from a defence point of view.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

And that's why there's this incredible focus on Greenland.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

But from an environmental point of view, things are happening so fast and so extensively in Greenland.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

I think for creatures that are very long lived, they're going to need a very stable environment.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

And certainly we're seeing evidence from the salmon point of view that that environment may not be as stable as we think it could be.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, we don't know.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

But what's it doing here?

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

Well, that's the point.

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

I mean, how did it get here?

Mooney Goes Wild
Greenland Shark Washes Up On Irish Coast For First Time

What is it doing here?