The Shark House

Journal Entry

From the journal of Minnow Gray

The two-chambered heart of a white shark is S-shaped and proportionately slightly smaller than a human’s. The interesting

thing about them, though, is that unlike most fish and even other sharks, their exceptionally muscular ventricle wall allows

them to operate like a fine-tuned athlete, almost mammalian in nature. Their heart rate is believed to be somewhere in the

neighborhood of eight to twelve beats per minute. I know because when I quiet my mind, I can hear that slow and insistent

thump.