Katherine Perkins73 years old, spent a pleasant holiday in Florida when something happened to him that he is unlikely to forget. While sailing with friends, sailboat (Histiofor) jumped across the sea in search of fish to skewer, with the bad luck that he speared his groin. Everything was so fast that the woman did not have time to react and move away. His companions ran to put pressure on the wound and headed to the port, from where she was taken by plane to the hospital. Fortunately, despite the proximity of major arteries, he lived to tell about it, although perhaps with a little more fear of the sea.
It should be noted that, as unpleasant as this story was, Katherine was at the center of it. sailboat habitat. We share the sea with countless animals that usually leave us alone. In fact, they leave us much calmer than we leave them. But we are also subject to similar accidents, which are nothing but the result of the normal activities of these animals.
As for the sailboat, it is a charming animal, both because of its great speed and because of its way of hunting. The combination of both qualities paid off for Katherine. However, since you have been saved from the attack, now is the time to learn a few things. curiosities about this animal.
Sailfish, bullfighter of the sea
A sailboat is physically characterized by two structures. On the one hand, great dorsal which gave it its name. It extends almost the entire length of its body and far exceeds its entire thickness.
On the other hand, his upper jawmuch harder and longer than the lower one, protrudes forward, forming a ledge in the form of a sword. He uses it to hunt fish, one of his favorite dishes is sardines, so you can say that the sailboat began to cook barbecue long before the beach bars appeared on the beaches of Malaga.
But before piercing his victims, he acts like a shepherd with them. And it has been observed that they usually swim on the surface, where there are schools of fish that they like best. When they reach one they use their fins to graze or weather themlike a bullfighter with his cape. The difference is that they do it simply to feed themselves and survive without torturing the fish or making a show out of them.
Once they are stunned and guided where they want, sometimes alone and sometimes in the company of other sailboats, they proceed to eat them. directly or after passing them through the stylet of the jaw.
water cheetah
The sailfish is considered one of the fastest fish in the world. Although there is some disagreement about this. Sometimes the swimming speed was assumed to be about 30m/s Or what is the same 109 kilometers per hour.
However, subsequent research has shown that it is actually much slower than it appears. To start when he’s not hunting usually does not exceed 2 m/s. We might think that only the ardor of capturing prey makes him swim at great speed. Even then, however, things don’t go that far. In 2015, a study was conducted to measure the swimming speed of this and other fish by placing sensors in their tails. Thus, it was seen that even in the most intense moments they floated, at most, at 10 m/s. Another study published a year later made a similar analysis which concluded that the sailboat topped out at 15 m/s; for if they exceed them, they can damage their tissues.
What happens is that they can move the stylet of the jaw very quickly and with great precision. Perhaps this is what led to confusion in earlier speed measurements. And, no doubt, this is what prevented poor Katherine from avoiding those fish that jumped over the water while she enjoyed her vacation at sea.
Source: Hiper Textual
