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Nascent Drama

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Will a shark drown if it stops moving?
Shark Breathing: Buccal Pumping and Ram Ventilation
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Shark Week Blog
Get a first-hand account of a real-life shark expedition at Expedition Shark Live! Look out for Shark Week, starting July 27 on Discovery Channel.
 
Sharks take "doing the wave" to a whole new level. They swim by waving their body in side-to-side curves. It starts with the head turning first one way, then another.
 
The movement ripples down their torpedo-shaped body, pushing the water away and providing forward propulsion. Last comes the tail, the fins shaped to allow them to move quickly and achieve immense liftoff or propulsive downward thrust.
 
Obviously a shark has to swim to catch its prey, meet its mates and avoid its predators, but does a shark have to swim just to stay alive?
 
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