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Girthy
Canoga Park, CA
July 2005
AUG 02, 2007 09:12 PM
AUG 03, 2007 02:58 AM
It's probably affecting their ampullae of Lorenzini, the organs they use to sense EM fields of objects and entities in the water.
As for the hammerhead mythbust...perhaps (and this is only a guess) since the magnets have a very limited range and the aforementioned EM sensing organs are located in the head, the odd shape of the Hammerhead provides a natural insulation. There's also the possibility that they just ignore it at that point, that the drive to feed and smell of fresh food overrides the disorentation. But I'm no marine biologist.
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
opir said:
Actually, flipping thru & seeing a sort of "Mythbusters" for sharks, they had a hammerhead shark dig right into a piece of chum placed directly over a magnet. Didn't phase the damn critter in the least. So that magnet theory ain't all "thumbs up"...
Did they say what kind of magnet? Also, clearly this is because it was a hammerhead shark, a species which everyone knows is part robot and entirely unstoppable. 
Maybe neodymium. That's always the popular rare earth magnet.
AUG 03, 2007 08:22 AM
AUG 03, 2007 09:27 AM
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
This is why I love the amount of smarties on this site: having never been diving before, I wouldn't have known this. I feel schooled. 
I've never been either, wanna try it out?
thefreak
NEWSWIRE
Gardner, MA
AUG 02, 2007 08:24 PM