Jane Stevens at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA - In case you missed seeing this video of the baby white shark who was released from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, it's worth taking a look. He ate salmon steaks -- "restaurant quality" -- which were suspended from a pole by a thread. That diet helped him grow 13 inches in the six months he lived at the aquarium. Here's the link to the video.

We're keeping our fingers crossed that he'll make it past fishing nets and hooks to survive to adulthood, when he'll be more than three times longer than he is now. He might even decide to make his fall and spring home territory around the Farallon Islands. These rocky isles have enough seals to sustain large white sharks who live in the cold waters of the North Pacific Ocean. Here are three scenes that we're imagining for little Streak:

One is how he spends most of his time, peacefully cruising the clear ocean water. Another is when TOPP researchers tag him. And the last is when he grabs a bite to eat.

A white shark wearing a pop-up satellite tag on its back swims slowly past a researcher's camera.

A day at sea with TOPP researchers looking for white sharks. They put out a seal decoy to attract sharks, tag them and then video them as they swim by for identification.

Seals swim fast. To grow to be big and strong, white sharks need to be faster. They grab a seal suddenly and so quickly that the seal hardly knows what's hit him (or her). Seabirds hover to pick up leftovers.