Men With Chains, Hooks, Pollution Ail Greenland Sharks in Shark Drunk

Summary: Men with chains, hooks, pollution ail Greenland sharks in Shark Drunk, Anglicized by Tiina Nunnally from the Norwegian Havboka by Morten Strøksnes.

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artworks by Norwegian visual artist Hugo Aasjord (born March 27, 1955), who voyaged to the Lofoten Islands, Nordland County, Northern Norway, in search of Greenland sharks with Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer Morten Andreas Strøksnes (born Nov. 30, 1965): Norway House, via Facebook April 18, 2020

Men with chains, hooks, pollution ail Greenland sharks in Shark Drunk, Anglicized by Tiina Nunnally from the Norwegian Havboka ("Sea Book" literally) by Morten Strøksnes (Norwegian strøk, "brush-/pen-stroke"; Old Norse nes, "headland").

The afore-borne title bares how Greenland dogs and Greenland Inuits (Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, "the people" behave even as they bite Greenland-shark flesh not previously boiled or dried. Greenland-shark flesh contains the chemical compound Urea, formulaed CO(NH2)2, and the organic compound Trimethylamine N-oxide, formulaed (CH3)3NO, even as together they cause fresh-consumed intoxication and paralysis. Norwegian artist Hugo Aasjord (Old Norse aas jǫrð, "god earth/Earth/ground/land/soil") and Norwegian journalist and writer Morten Strøksnes never devour or drink anything derived from Greenland sharks.

The 290-page book evokes Greenland-shark beasts and monsters even as the true-adventure author expresses them a big fishes "for which we have no real use" (Strøksnes:109).

Four-season sections Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring nowhere feature in their respective 12, 20, 28, 39 chapters anything about Greenland sharks fighting carbon dioxide atmospherically, terrestrially, waterly.

The below-given bibliography figuratively garlands Greenland sharks for gobbling carbon dioxide-gaseous dead, dying, injured air, land and marine prey and live prey of carbon dioxide-guarding seagrass. Europeans harvest Greenland-shark bycatch, nontarget, target fishes even as Greenlanders and Icelanders harvest them as targets and Europeans and Greenlanders hurl them, after body-part harvesting, water-ward. Urea and Trimethylamine N-oxide toxins install antifreeze-like ingredients in Greenland sharks even as perhaps only another Greenland shark ingests carbon dioxide-inundated dead, dying, injured Greenland sharks.

Men with chains, hooks, pollution jeopardize slow-aging, slow-growing, slow-moving, slow-reproducing Greenland sharks in Shark Drunk, Anglicized by Tiina Nunnally from Havboka ("Sea Book") by Morten Strøksnes.

Somniosus microcephalus (Latin somniosus, "sleepy"; Greek μῑκροκέφᾰλος, "small-headed") kindles multi-pup litters that each keepsakes one live-birth killing all others even as 150-year-olds first know first-time parenting.

Greenland sharks live 400, 500 years even as they log largest flesh-eating laurels liking Scottish Highland bull-, seal-, whale-blubber bait and haddock, halibut, salmon, wolfish prey. Ten- to 15-foot (3.048- to 4.572-meter), 1,500-pound (680.3886-kilogram), not 24-foot (7.3152-meter), 2,500-pound (1,133.981-kilogram), blunt-, round-snouted, cigarlike-, gray-bodied, longest-lifespanned, powerful-tailed, small-finned, soft-cartilaged vertebrates matter to two Norwegians. Aega arctica (Greek αίξ, "goat[-skin]"; ᾰ̓́ρκτος, "north"; -κός, "-pertaining") crab and Ommatokoita elongata (Greek ὄμμᾰ, "eye"; κοῖτος, "bed/resting-place/sleep"; Latin ēlongāta, "elongated/lengthened/prolonged/protracted/stretched") parasites respectively nestle belly-wise, ocularly.

Shark Drunk observes jelly-sensored ampullae of Lorenzini (Latin ampullae, "[swollen-middle, two-handled vessel"; [Stefano] Lorenzini [1652?-?]) electromagnetically, odors olfactorily opposing Greenland sharks to chains, hooks, men, pollution.

Greenland sharks peregrinate Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific Oceans; Barents, East Siberian, White Seas; Norwegian fjords even as they pursue spawning cod, haddock, halibut, mackerel, pollock, salmon, wolfish.

Norwegian håkjerring (Norwegian hå kjerring, "shark shrew") quest electric-field changes, scent dissipations respectively quantifiable to a few billionths of a volt, a billionth of a part. Greenland sharks rising from 4,000-foot (13,123.36-meter) depths to 150- to 650-foot (45.72- to 198.12-meter) Stavanger-area shallows reveal sharklike bends even as they retain high-nitrogen blood levels. Eight-foot (2.4384-meter) iron hooks to iron chains to iron weights to nylon line supply 60 Greenland sharks in one day off Finnmark from Hammerfest to Vardø.

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On Tuesday, June 27, 2017, New York-based American publishing house Alfred A. Knopf released Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean as the English translation of Havboka: eller Kunsten å fange en kjempehai fra en gummibåt på et stort hav gjennom fire årstider by Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer Morten A. (Andreas) Strøksnes (Nov. 30, 1965); Havboka, with cover illustrated by Norwegian graphic designer Egil Haraldsen (born Oct. 30, 1952), was released by Oslo-headquartered Norwegian publishing house Forlaget Oktober Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015; the book's original title, Havboka: eller Kunsten å fange en kjempehai fra en gummibåt på et stort hav gjennom fire årstider, translates as "The Sea Book: or The Art of Catching a Giant Shark from a Rubber Boat on a Wide Ocean Through Four Seasons": Morten A. Strøksnes, via Facebook Oct. 7, 2015

Acknowledgment

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Dedication

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artworks by Norwegian visual artist Hugo Aasjord (born March 27, 1955), who voyaged to the Lofoten Islands, Nordland County, Northern Norway, in search of Greenland sharks with Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer Morten Andreas Strøksnes (born Nov. 30, 1965): Norway House, via Facebook April 18, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/NorwayHouse/posts/velkommen-til-en-ny-saturdaysamtidskunstin-light-of-tomorrows-book-talk-digital-/2789345131113065/

On Tuesday, June 27, 2017, New York-based American publishing house Alfred A. Knopf released Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean as the English translation of Havboka: eller Kunsten å fange en kjempehai fra en gummibåt på et stort hav gjennom fire årstider by Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer Morten A. (Andreas) Strøksnes (Nov. 30, 1965); Havboka, with cover illustrated by Norwegian graphic designer Egil Haraldsen (born Oct. 30, 1952), was released by Oslo-headquartered Norwegian publishing house Forlaget Oktober Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015; the book's original title, Havboka: eller Kunsten å fange en kjempehai fra en gummibåt på et stort hav gjennom fire årstider, translates as "The Sea Book: or The Art of Catching a Giant Shark from a Rubber Boat on a Wide Ocean Through Four Seasons": Morten A. Strøksnes, via Facebook Oct. 7, 2015, @ https://www.facebook.com/mstroks/posts/970269249682968;
Morten A. Strøksnes, via Facebook Oct. 7, 2015, @ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=970269249682968&set=pb.100000997054733.-2207520000

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