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Mystery Bay

2025/6/19
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Alison Koch: 我在洗车店工作时，在一辆车的后备箱里发现了一些照片，这些照片让我震惊。照片里是一条巨大的大白鲨，它跃出水面，像飞机一样在空中飞翔。我一开始很怀疑这些照片的真实性，因为我在大学学了三年海洋生物学，却从未听说过会飞的大白鲨。后来，我认识了摄影师，并亲眼目睹了大白鲨捕食海豹的场景。我被眼前的景象震惊了，决定 посвятить 我的一生来研究这些鲨鱼。

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Alison Koch, a marine biologist, discovers a photograph of a great white shark seemingly flying out of the water. This serendipitous event leads her to False Bay, South Africa, where she witnesses firsthand the incredible hunting prowess of these sharks and it changes her life's path.
  • Alison Koch's initial discovery of a photograph of a great white shark flying.
  • Witnessing the shark's hunting behavior in False Bay.
  • Alison's decision to dedicate her life to studying these sharks.

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This is episode four of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.

Alison Kock was working at a car wash in Cape Town when she made a discovery that completely changed the course of her life. Inside a customer’s trunk, she found photographs of white sharks flying so high above the water they looked like airplanes. She followed those photographs to False Bay, “the Great White Capital of the World.” These sharks, in this place, are the apex of apex predators. Or they were. Until they mysteriously began to disappear.

Special thanks to Kathryn Ayres.

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