>>JENNIFER WAUGH: AND AMELIA ISLAND MAN CAN NOT BELIEVE HIS GOOD FORTUNE, HE FOUND A SECOND
A SECOND MEGALODON SHARKS TO YESTERDAY DURING HIS MORNING WALK ALONG THE COAST IN NASSAU
COUNTY.
>> LIGHTNING DOES STRIKE TWICE
ONCE IN A WHILE A FEW WEEKS
AGO, I FOUND A MEGALODON
SHARK TOOTH
THIS MORNING. I FOUND EVEN A
BIGGER ONE. THIS IS AN
INCREDIBLE FAR INCH MEGALODON
SHARKS CHOOSE.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: IS IT CREDIBLE MEGALODON SHARKS BY THE WAY WERE ROUGHLY 34 FEET
LONG WHEN THEY ROAMED OUR
WATERS MORE THAN 2 MILLION
YEARS AGO AND WE’RE SHOWING YOU
THE PERSPECTIVE ON THAT LINK
THAT IS THE LENGTH OF AT LEAST
2 FULL-SIZE CARS LOOK
AT THAT WE HAVE THESE 2 TAPES
SURE HEARST PAID TO CAPTURE
THAT LENGTH AND THEY PACKED A
FEROCIOUS FIGHT AS WELL BRUCE
IS HERE IS GOING TO HELP ME
MEASURE THE SIZE OF
THAT BITE.
>> OKAY 9 ALL RIGHT SO OK, YOU
CAN’T COUNT IT OFF FOR OKAY,
THERE’S ONE FOOT 2 FEET 3 FEET
4 FEET
5, 6, 7, 8,
BINGO 9 FEET RIGHT THERE THAT’S
THE BITE DIAMETER, OK, SO 90
OK, HOW HOW TALL
ARE YOU THE FIGURE ON ABOUT
5.10 OK SO AT LIKE 3 AND A HALF
TO YOU.
TO YOU. >> AND THAT IS LITERALLY THIS SHARK COULD EAT U HAUL I MEAN
LOOK AT THAT BITE DIAMETER
THAT’S IMPRESSIVE.
>> THAT THE SIZE OF THOSE TEETH
IS IMPRESSED, I KNOW, AND I
WANT TO SHOW YOU SAID IT HAD
HOW MANY TEETH IN.
THAT MEANS THEY’RE MORE TEETH
OUT THERE ON
THE BEACH. CERTAINLY ARE AND
WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT MORE
ABOUT YOU GOT THAT THERE
RUNNING INTO.
>> THAT IN
THE WATER. OKAY SO JACOB DANNER
IS THE MAN WHO FOUND THE
MASSIVE SHARKS TEETH RIGHT
ALONG OUR COAST. HE’S JOINING
US THIS MORNING,
GOOD MORNING. THANKS FOR BEING
HERE WITH US REALLY APPRECIATED
THIS MAKES US FEEL
SO SMALL.
>> DOES IT’S LIKE OH MY
GOODNESS YOU WOULD WANT TO MAKE
THAT WATER WE SAW THE VIDEO BUT
DO YOU MIND IF I PICK THIS OUT
I MEAN IT IS JUST FOR JUST
FOR PERSPECTIVE AND I KNOW THAT
THAT FREDDY’S HERE I MEAN IF
YOU LOOK AT IT IN MY HAND.
SO SO CHECK IT
TELL US.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: FIRST OF ALL
DO YOU NORMALLY GO OUT LOOKING
FOR SHARKS TEAS AND THAT’S HOW
YOU FOUND THIS I MEAN ARE YOU
YOU KNOW
NO I’M AND THURSDAY US I HAD
NEVER FOUND A SHARK’S TOOTH IN
MY LIFE UNTIL MARCH A YEAR AGO
WHEN I MOVED TO
FERNANDINA BEACH.
>> AND IT WAS ONLY GOING TO BE
THERE A MONTH I HAVE BEEN
TRAVELING ALL OVER THE WORLD I
WOULD HAVE BEEN GONE
FOR YEARS CORONAVIRUS BROUGHT
ME BACK AND I’M LIKE I’M IN A
RENTED BEACH HOUSE FOR A MONTH.
AND HERE.
AND HERE. >> AND IT’S STUCK SINCE THE I FOUND I FOUND MY FIRST SHARK’S
TOOTH. YOU SAY
YOU KNOW A QUARTER INCH TO A
HALF-INCH THAT’S THE USUAL
SIZE, BUT I HAVE ON A
FEW BIGGER ONE SO IT WAS THIS
THE FIRST
20 FOUND. WEEKS AGO 3 WEEKS
YEAR THESE ARE DIFFERENT ONES
THAT I
HAVE FOUND.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: OKAY SO THIS
IS THE THIS IS THE MEGALODON
SHARK SEASON, THIS IS BIG SO
THIS IS ABOUT 3 INCHES OF SPACE
4 AND THEN 3 WEEKS LATER YOU
FIND THIS ONE. HOW DID YOU
FIND IT.
>> IN THE SHOW BED WASH BOTH OF
THEM WERE WORSE SUBMERGED UNDER OTHER BITS OF BROKEN SHELL BUT I’VE TRAINED MY EYE
TO KIND OF LOOK FOR A LITTLE
TELL TELL YOU KNOW SOMETIMES
YOU’RE TOTALLY BLIND. YOU
SEE NOTHING.
>> AND THEN OTHER TIMES YOU
STUMBLE ON CASE OF THAT SAID IS
THERE A SECRET TO FINDING IT,
YOU SAID THERE’S A TELLTALE
SIGN I MEAN I LOVE FINDING THAT
FOR THE TEXTURE AND YEAH AND.
>> YOU KNOW THE ANGLES OF THIS
ALL OF THESE
TEETH HAVE THE UPPER PART IS T
IS THE ROUTE AREA AND THEN THIS
IS
THE CROWN. SO YOU SEE THE SHINY
TEXTURE IS SAYING HERE YOU WHEN
YOU PICK THEM UP I MEAN THEY
ALL LOOK LIKE THEY WERE JUST
POLISHED I MEAN I THINK IT’S
JUST ALL THE WASH OF THE SAND,
IT’S LIKE A POLISH IS
THAT FINE.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: SO HOW YOU
KNOW YOU BECOME REALLY KIND OF
AN EXPERT IN US HOW HOW OLD
ARE THESE.
>> WELL ANYWHERE 3 AND A HALF
MILLION YEARS AGO. I THINK WHEN
THEY WERE EXTINCT THROUGH.
SEVERAL MILLION YEARS AGO,
DOZENS AND
DOZENS BUT.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: AND SOME
OTHER INTERESTING THINGS THAT
ARE UNUSUAL ALONG YOU KNOW THE
COAST IN NASSAU COUNTIES ARE
SOMETHING CALLED THE ACTUALLY
OR IS THERE SOMETHING THOUGH
ABOUT AMELIA ISLAND AND THE
THINGS I’VE HEARD.
YOU KNOW OF OF INTERESTING
FINDS ALONG MAKE IT UNIQUE BUT
I THINK PART OF IT, ESPECIALLY
BEHIND OF
4 CLINCH.
>> THERE’S AN AREA WHERE THE
SAINT MARY’S RIVER COMES IN AND
KIND OF MEETS THE OCEAN AND
THAT’S A PLACE I THINK I’VE GOT
MY RECORD THERE THAT I FOUND
33 SHARK’S TEETH AND ABOUT 2
HOURS. BUT THEN YOU CAN GO AND
FIND NOTHING SO YOU KNOW I GO OUT TYPICALLY TO WATCH THE SUNRISE. MY BODY
HAS KIND OF SINK TO THAT I GOT
TO WATCH THE SUNRISE.
BUT I’M GOING TO ALWAYS BE
LOOKING DOWN JUST KIND OF FOR
TREASURES YOU NEVER KNOW
ALL KINDS OF INTERESTING SHELLS
PIECES OF DRIFTWOOD I MEAN LIKE
HERE THIS IS A ANIMAL A TELL
VERTEBRAE THAT’S PREHISTORIC
THIS PIECE RIGHT HERE THAT IS
YOU CAN SEE THE SEPARATION ON
THE SIDE THAT’S A A PRETTY
STARK A STINGRAY
BARB.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: THAT IS
INCREDIBLE TAKE UP, I WILL WILL
YOU PROMISE THAT YOU WILL CALL
IT IF YOU FIND ANOTHER ONE OF
THE
SHARK’S TEETH.
>> I AM FASCINATED BY THIS WE
ALL ARE EVERYONE USERS BEEN
LIKE
HEY KYLE. SO IT’S JUST SO
INTERESTING FUN AND SO UNIQUE
TO OUR COAST WHICH ISLAND SO
IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO
TALK TO WANDER AND YOU’RE LUCKY
THAT YOU LIVE ACROSS FROM FROM
THE BEACH IN CAN WALK DOWN
THERE ALL THE TIME RIGHT FOR
SHARING AND I’VE HAD PEOPLE UP
THERE SAYING YOU SHOULD KEEP
THE SECRET.
>> ONE THAT I WANT
TO SHARE THE BEAUTY AND THE JOY