Best-Selling Author Believes 70-Foot Prehistoric Great White Shark is Still Alive!

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Best-Selling Author Believes 70-Foot Prehistoric Great White Shark is Still Alive!

West Palm Beach, FL, June 10, 2009 -- Imagine you’re out in a fishing boat a few miles off shore, when a seven-foot dorsal fin cuts the surface of the ocean like a sail! The creature, a 70-foot, 50-ton Great White Shark, is so big its current actually drags your boat as it passes by. And God help you if it’s hungry.

Meet Carcharodon megalodon, or MEG for short, the most fearsome creature ever to live. The shark dominated our oceans over the last 35 million years, and only disappeared recently…or maybe it’s still out there!
Best-selling author Steve Alten has written four books about these real-life monstrous sharks and he believes the creatures may still exist in the deepest, most unexplored realms of the ocean.

“Over 70% of the planet is covered by water,” says Alten, who earned his doctorate degree from Temple University. “Man has only explored 3% of our oceans and less than 1% of the abyss, so we have no idea what is really out there, waiting to be discovered. Megalodon was the apex predator of all time. It hunted whales. It could live in tropical seas or cold water. To assume it simply died off because we haven’t documented a sighting is simply not good science.

Alten’s new release, MEG: Hell's Aquarium, introduces man to the most nightmarish prehistoric sea monsters ever to have existed, but Megalodon remains the ultimate alpha monster. “We’re talking about a massive shark with senses that could detect the vibrations of a beating heart a mile away, smell a drop of blood or urine in the water, or track the electrical impulses generated by a swimmer’s moving muscles. Meg could easily swallow six people whole, and it may still be out there.”

Cue the JAWS music: Summer 2009 is here – just stay out of the water!

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