Legends 76: Unfamiliar Waters
3/30/202627 min
Moving from the familiar to the unknown comes with a lot of risk. And if the stories about one family are true, that risk can involve a terrifying new reality.
Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Alex Robinson and research by Jamie Vargas and Alex Robinson.
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First 90 secondsAaron Mahnke· Host0:00
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Shark migration patterns are changing. Now, in case you didn't know, sharks don't just pick one corner of the ocean and then stay there. We might better describe sharks as nomadic, as they love to stay in one area for a while before moving on to someplace else. That move can be driven by any number of biological impulses too. For some, they travel farther in order to mate, while others do so to give birth. Even when it's chasing a meal, sharks might follow that food to the ends of the Earth. But the most common reason behind these annual trips is really quite simple. They are cold-blooded, which means that once the weather gets chilly, they become heat-seeking road trippers. But now the oceans