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After chasing the blacktip
shark down, Blackie the shark
dog pins down his quarry and
proudly waits for us to catch
up to him. (Photo courtesy
Foster Bam)
tongue. He was bleeding, but that didn't slow him down. He simply
lived to chase sharks, and he'd quiver with excitement waiting to go
after them.
We kept our sharks in a couple of small cement, rock-lined fishponds
on the base, left over from the Pan Am days. Supplied with constantly
running seawater, they made ideal holding pools until the time came
to pack the sharks up for the weekly flight back to Hawaii. We had to
keep Blackie away from the ponds so he wouldn't jump in and catch
them again. He had a hard time understanding why those particular
sharks were o¤ limits but others were okay. That concept was just a lit-
tle more than he could grasp.
The shark collecting accomplished, we headed for the south end of
the lagoon, where a few months earlier Waikiki Aquarium's director Dr.
Leighton Taylor and others had been swimming with a young twenty-
four-foot whale shark ( Rincodon typus ) they named “Mini.” Apparently
 
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