Blue Shark Journey products
November 21, 2024
Research Fund 24/11 :: Joel Gayford
December 13, 2024
Our third delivery to the Al Hoceima Aquarium closed a fabulous order that had us drive 4 trucks fully loaded with thousands of fish and invertebrates over 3 trips. Check out trip #1 here and #2 here.
Our customs clearance times in Tangiers decreased from 14 hours in June, to 10 in September and 8 during this past week’s adventure, which shows this was a learning experience for all parties involved.
Many thanks to our friends from Clear Reef, Posidony, TPO, EMAF, Taiba Drawn, Ezequiel Feliciano, Barreto Aduanas, DGAV, Tunipex, EPPO-IPMA, and so many others, including Blue Shark Trade and their awesome Triage, which kept our ammonia at 0,00 ppm throughout the transport! And remember you can call upon us if you’re in the European Union and wish to purchase Blue Shark products, since we began distributing these awesome products recently!
A very special warm thanks to our awesome Flying Sharks crew in Horta, who collected a significant fraction of the animals moved, and our jawsome team in Peniche, who collected thousands of animals, and kept a significant collection of specimens for weeks before each transport.
In these 4 trucks we moved some 3000 Scomber scombrus, 500 Sardina pilchardus, 7 Sarda sarda, and so many Dasyatis, Myliobatis, Mustelus, Raja, Anthias, Apogon, Argyrosomus, Atherina, Chelidonichthys, Conger, Ctenolabrus, Diplodus, Echiichthys, Epinephelus, Helicolenus, Pagellus, Phycis, Polyprion, Sarpa, Scophthlamus, Sparus, Solea, Sphoeroides, Symphodus, Syngnathus, Trypterigyon, Xyrichthys, Aurelia, Asterias, Asterina, Cerianthus, Charonia, Echinaster, Maja, Marthasterias, Nephrops, Ophioderma, Ophidiaster, Steromphala, Scyllarides, Scyllarus, Tritia, and a few others.
During the months involved we enjoyed multiple ups and quite a few downs, but we’re proud to look back and see what we accomplished while preparing this very challenging order and 3 arduous transports.
We’re thankful, again, for the opportunity and look forward to playing with all these friends again in the future.
Meanwhile, the problem with Flying Sharks’ social media…
…is that we can’t stop for pictures while moving fish, which is why 90% of our photos show smiley marine biologists sitting at a table showing off yummy treats and liquor.
One day we’ll be able to hire a dedicated photographer, whose sole job will be to capture those moments when the staff is about to collapse from exhaustion, and still needs to harness a shred of energy to prepare documents in the car, because the customs brokers tend to ignore all documentation that is sent 2 or 3 days before it becomes critically necessary.
This is probably the reason why we receive so many messages claiming our job looks like too much fun and youngsters from all over the globe continuously apply to join our ranks. Little do they know that, behind the vodka tonics and smiling demanor, lies a soul that was desperately struggling to fix yet another problem only a few hours earlier.
