Looking for the Greenland shark in the North of the Saint-Lawrence in Canada

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Baie Comeau area is wild like the rest of the province of Quebec

The city was created by Napoléon-Alexandre Comeau who gave his name.

The area of Bay Comeau is not only one area very rich for the cold water dives but this is also splendid landscapes and savages who extend on tens of square kilometres. The city belongs to the district of Manicouagan for the federal one and to counted of Rene Levesques for the provincial one. It was named in remembering Napoleon-Alexandre Comeau, geologist and naturalist of the northern coast. The very rich fauna of the area, beavers, mosses and caribous allowed the first inhabitants to come to settle there is more than 6000 years. They were then the Vikings, about the year 1000 who settled, then Jacques Cartier at the 16th century. The true settlement dates from the 19th century and today, they are still 30000 people who live in the area. At once left Comeau Bay, which is striking it, is the immense surface of the forests of virginals which extend on hundreds from kilometers.
This wood gives best fiber for the newspaper. After each turn of a road which never seems not to finish, one lets oneself surprise by small lakes surrounded by flowers and where the clouds are reflected. Area Comeau the Bay is located at 8 hours of car of Montreal which alternates the modern city with a wild nature which gives the impression never not to be pressed by a human being.

The water is almost freezing but the variety of the species is impressive

A fast encounter with a Greenland shark but very impressive.

Usually the Greenland shark lives even more in north not far from the Arctic circle. Today, this species of sharks is always the subject of scientific studies because knowledge is still reduced. It is known however that it is the second plus carnivorous shark of earth after the white shark and it is the largest fish of Arctic water and probably the only shark of polar water of the north of the Atlantic. Its length average is 2,5 to 4,5 meters but it could reach 7 meters. The shark is generally finds between 200 and 400 meters and of the studies showed that it grows only from 0,5 to 1 centimeter per year. One can thus advance the assumption that a shark measuring 7 meters could be 200 years old!
The majority of the photographs of sharks of Greenland are taken after the Eskimos caught them with a line. At Baie Comeau, at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence, the sharks can be photographed in their natural habitat. Unfortunately, ...(this article is for sale).

Baie Comeau and the dives in pictures.