Shark map t-shirt from Threadless
Map Attack: Shark
Week Begins on Sunday
This
Sunday, July 23, marks the beginning of the 29th annual Shark Week on Discovery Television. The network devotes a week of special
programming devoted to sharks. On Sunday
the network will air “Phelps Versus Shark: Great Gold Versus Great White,”
where Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Michael Phelps will “race” a shark.
The
Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) on the
second floor of Bracken Library includes numerous maps about the world’s oceans
and their habitat, including sharks. A
popular map available in the GRMC is Shark
Attacks of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico (above, click to
enlarge).
The
map was published by Sealake Products in 2006.
It includes descriptive and historical notes about shark attacks of the
last century along the eastern coast of the United States and in the Gulf of
Mexico. The types of sharks are shown
for each incident with a date, and the map includes photographs of the sharks
and actual-size examples of shark teeth.
Maps
from the GRMC circulate for two weeks or longer. For more information, please contact the GRMC
at 765-285-1097.
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