Shark experts have named a great white after basketball legend Kobe Bryant, who was apparently fascinated with the fearsome creatures.

The 12-foot-long shark was spotted in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalupe Island, Mexico, which is a gathering spot for white sharks, according to Michael Domeier with the Marine Conservation Science Institute. The shark is a young adult and is new to the area, he said.

Kobe Bryant studied sharks and even dove with them. Now a great white is named after him
By David Williams, CNN

Kobe Bryant told the Players' Tribune that he studied great whites to help him prepare to guard Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson. This is a photo of the shark named after the Los Angeles Lakers star.

Kobe Bryant told the Players' Tribune that he studied great whites to help him prepare to guard Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson. This is a photo of the shark named after the Los Angeles Lakers star.

(CNN)Shark experts have named a great white after basketball legend Kobe Bryant, who was apparently fascinated with the fearsome creatures.

The 12-foot-long shark was spotted in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalupe Island, Mexico, which is a gathering spot for white sharks, according to Michael Domeier with the Marine Conservation Science Institute. The shark is a young adult and is new to the area, he said.

"I lived in Southern California during Kobe Bryant's entire career as a Laker, so I could personally feel the shock of his sudden death despite the fact I was thousands of miles away in Patagonia," Domeier told CNN in an email.
Bryant died last month in a helicopter crash that also killed his daughter, Gianna, and seven others.

The Marine Conservation Science Institute (MCSI) maintains a photo-ID database of the sharks that migrate to the waters around Guadalupe Island each year. Researchers can use the photos to identify sharks by their distinctive coloring, scars and other features.

Kobe Bryant studied sharks and even dove with them. Now a great white is named after him
By David Williams, CNN

Kobe Bryant told the Players' Tribune that he studied great whites to help him prepare to guard Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson. This is a photo of the shark named after the Los Angeles Lakers star.

Kobe Bryant told the Players' Tribune that he studied great whites to help him prepare to guard Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson. This is a photo of the shark named after the Los Angeles Lakers star.

(CNN)Shark experts have named a great white after basketball legend Kobe Bryant, who was apparently fascinated with the fearsome creatures.

The 12-foot-long shark was spotted in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalupe Island, Mexico, which is a gathering spot for white sharks, according to Michael Domeier with the Marine Conservation Science Institute.

The shark is a young adult and is new to the area, he said.

"I lived in Southern California during Kobe Bryant's entire career as a Laker, so I could personally feel the shock of his sudden death despite the fact I was thousands of miles away in Patagonia," Domeier told CNN in an email.
Bryant died last month in a helicopter crash that also killed his daughter, Gianna, and seven others.

The Marine Conservation Science Institute (MCSI) maintains a photo-ID database of the sharks that migrate to the waters around Guadalupe Island each year. Researchers can use the photos to identify sharks by their distinctive coloring, scars and other features.

The photographer who first captures full-body pictures of the left and right side of a shark can pick its name, but many are just known by a number.

This shark was #24 -- which was also one of the numbers Bryant wore as a Los Angeles Laker. That's not the only connection between Bryant and the shark. Martin Graf, the diver, who photographed #24, actually took Bryant in a shark cage back in 2013 and gave him an up-close look at two great whites.

Graf runs Shark Diver, which takes divers out to Guadalupe Island for encounters with great whites. He was on a cruise ship with limited internet access, but Cindy Michaels, the director of communications for Shark Diver shared the story with CNN

Kobe Bryant studied sharks and even dove with them. Now a great white is named after him
By David Williams, CNN

Kobe Bryant told the Players' Tribune that he studied great whites to help him prepare to guard Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson. This is a photo of the shark named after the Los Angeles Lakers star.

(CNN)Shark experts have named a great white after basketball legend Kobe Bryant, who was apparently fascinated with the fearsome creatures.

The 12-foot-long shark was spotted in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalupe Island, Mexico, which is a gathering spot for white sharks, according to Michael Domeier with the Marine Conservation Science Institute.
The shark is a young adult and is new to the area, he said.

"I lived in Southern California during Kobe Bryant's entire career as a Laker, so I could personally feel the shock of his sudden death despite the fact I was thousands of miles away in Patagonia," Domeier told CNN in an email.
Bryant died last month in a helicopter crash that also killed his daughter, Gianna, and seven others.

The Marine Conservation Science Institute (MCSI) maintains a photo-ID database of the sharks that migrate to the waters around Guadalupe Island each year. Researchers can use the photos to identify sharks by their distinctive coloring, scars and other features.
Vanessa Bryant to receive fan tributes left for Kobe and Gianna Bryant at the Staples Center
Vanessa Bryant to receive fan tributes left for Kobe and Gianna Bryant at the Staples Center
The photographer who first captures full-body pictures of the left and right side of a shark can pick its name, but many are just known by a number.

This shark was #24 -- which was also one of the numbers Bryant wore as a Los Angeles Laker.
That's not the only connection between Bryant and the shark.

Martin Graf, the diver, who photographed #24, actually took Bryant in a shark cage back in 2013 and gave him an up-close look at two great whites.

Graf runs Shark Diver, which takes divers out to Guadalupe Island for encounters with great whites. He was on a cruise ship with limited internet access, but Cindy Michaels, the director of communications for Shark Diver shared the story with CNN.

She says he met up with their dive boat in a private yacht.

"He got into our cages and he spent a good short chunk of the day, hanging out on the boat and in the cages," she said. Bryant told Graf that he became interested in sharks when he was living in Italy as a kid, she said.

The designs of some of Bryant's Nike shoes were inspired by sharks and he wrote in a 2017 article for The Players' Tribune that he studied great whites to help him prepare to guard Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson.

Divers wear wetsuits and weights in the cage and breathe through a hose known as a hookah that is attached to a regulator, Michaels told CNN. "We didn't have a big enough booties for him so he had to wear his own sneakers into the cage," she said.

Once Shark Diver and MCSI decided to name the shark after Bryant, they announced the news to their social media followers with minimal fanfare.

"Our hearts go out to everyone involved and the families and friends and we just, we want to make it special for them and for the shark community and those who are his fellow divers," Michaels said. "I think it's just kind of a cool thing to do for him."

She said they have not been in touch with the Lakers or with Bryant's family, but she would love for them to know that the shark community appreciated him.

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/10/us/kobe-bryant-great-white-scn-trnd/index.html

Name it whatever you want, it can never play Basketball.

Kobe Bryant told the Players' Tribune that he studied great whites to help him prepare to guard Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson. This is a photo of the shark named after the Los Angeles Lakers star.

Just curious though,
How can the behavior or adaptation of Sharks help one in basketball

Dem no go let this guy Rest in Peace..

A Legend never to be forgotten tho..

Its Gigi's death that is annoying me..

Death has no respect for anybody..

When its your time you pay.

FTC: Fourth to comment

Okay

Inspiring.

Ehnehn

Massive

Awesome. Kobe heart feel with love

Is the Shark aware of its naming? What right have they to give it such name? Na una child?

That shark go die when it's old na ni. And Kobe will die again. ..

So, what's the essence?

Rip Man!

Good to be a legend. Nice to read how he went an extra mile to learn to guard from Sharks for a game he loved and lived for.

Not nice

It's safe to call it Kobe Shark.... Na like that some oyinbo go adopt da name

Life is truly unfair....

What happens to the other 7people (excluding the daughter) that died alongside him. Those ones are heroes too to their own respective families and loved ones.

My people hustle oooo, may we never be in the list of "....and many more", or "others".

.....#BiafranFirstInlaw!!!

Allow the dead rest jor

The scientists are liars
God created heavens and the earth and all that is in them
Men have never been to the moon because it's impossible
Neither can they go to the sun
You've been brainwashed since your school days to make you believe in bullshits
Climate change is a hoax
God make all these things to happen
He can because HES ALMIGHTY
and nobody can question HIM

Hmmm

Wow! What a great guys

Nice

OK

We are just still in SHOCK!

A Great Guy is gone.

RIP Kobe Bryant and all the other 8 people that died in the crash.

A Black Sunday it was!

And in my Kwontri a dog was named after Someone and instead of appreciating the gesture, the owner was arrested

The shark doesn't care. Kobe himself doesn't care also, because either he's enjoying in heaven or languishing in hell.

Hmmm... Oríṣiríṣi. So na to dey name fish after a Man remain for these people now? Na wah ooo

1Roddibetguy1:
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I amm ready . If only u are ready to press on

Perhaps they should name a basketball court after him, and also a team after him.

Studied great white, to help him prep on how to Guide the famous Allen Iverson ... Interesting...

Lol man wants to live forever, he forgets he must first shed this mortal cloak to open the veil. Shark wey go still die.