will someone be born one day that can swim faster then a shark?

Answer 1

it is called evolution.. so maybe.. there are many different sharks (very small too; it total: there are 354 different species) and sharks can only swim very fast short distance.

HOWEVER:

Water is a very dense medium - about 750 times that of air - and requires enormous power to move through quickly.

***Most large sharks are cold-blooded and cruise at a leisurely 1.5 mph

There exists a dubious record of a small Blue Shark about 2 feet (0.6 metres) in length which was found to swim steadily against a current at 17.7 miles (28.5 kilometres) per hour and was reported to achieve 43 miles (69 kilometres) per hour in short bursts. The most reliable record of a Blue Shark at speed is 24.5 miles (39.4 kilometres) per hour for a 6.5-foot- (2-metre-) long individual.



other results:

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/JenniferPuglia.shtml

An average speed is between 9.7 - 26m/s.. so that is &^$$(@# FAST.


AND MAN????

In 1998 Benoît Lecomte swam across the Atlantic Ocean, a total of 5,600 kilometres in 72 days, swimming 6 to 8 hours daily. He was accompanied by two sailors on a sailboat.

AND the fastest: The fastest breaststroke swimmers can swim around 1.67 meters per second, The maximum swimming speed in the front crawl is around 2.17 meters per second. (If the faster start and turns are included in the measurement, the average speed may be higher.) While the butterfly style has a higher peak speed in the cycle due to the double arm pull/push, the average speed of butterfly is only 1.98 m per second.

so a MAN needs to go still a LONG way

Answer 2

If you're going to talk about evolution - there's no selective pressure right now to make humans swim that fast (do you think that people that can swim faster have significantly more children than the rest of us?), so unless things change a whole lot, the answer to the question is no.

That being said, in hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years, things could change a whole lot, so maybe one day evolution will favor offspring that can swim faster. But if you're going to go down that line, sharks are _fast_. I can't see any animal that isn't specialized for an aquatic lifestyle being able to outswim them. So if any of our descendents evolve to the point of looking like dolphins, then maybe they'll be able to outswim sharks, but I doubt most people today would still consider those descendents "human."

Answer 3

Yes. His name will be Bernie Forrest. He will grow up in suburbal Sacramento and not realize his talent until one fateful day when his family goes on a sailing trip from San Francisoco to Eureka. Somewhere around Fort Bragg, young Bernie will be hit by the swinging boom and be dashed overboard. Several rather hungry white sharks immediately circle him, ready for some human tartar'. Amazingly, Bernie, terrified, will swim for his life only to realize that he can swim much faster than a shark. After that he will find gainful employment at MarineWorld USA, Dultuth Chapter, racing various members of the shark and dolphin families.

Answer 4

Yes-at about the same time as a shark gets out of the water and runs faster than a man![or woman]

Answer 5

No I don't think so. Human body are not designed to live and master the skill of living underwater. the human genetic make up has its limitations that prevent it from doing so. It would also become problematic if the people ilegally cross the international boundary like the shark do.

In a similar manner I don't think anyone would be born one day that can outrun a horse.

Answer 6

no. the physiology of a shark is so perfect for swimming and living in water that the human form will not ever master it. basically, sharks have 400 million years of development on us. humans, even ian thorpe, are not built to swim fast. we are clumsy primates in water. our physiology is best suited for terrestrial life.

Answer 7

in million yrs yes because of evolution we came from the sea as Bactria originally and the ice and the glaciers are melting there for the earth will have more water and because of the o-zone lair is ******* up there will be less and less oxygen in the air so humans will have to adapted to staying in water in millions of years through evolution

Answer 8

If you mean a human being, and swimming without technical or mechanical assistance, the answer is NO.

Answer 9

yes, human can achieve that shark's speed at this time, as we evolve, but to think that if human evolves, sharks evolve as well...
so the is no way to beat the sharks speed..

Answer 10

do you even know how fast a shark can swim? your nutts..but it does make you wonder...one day star trek...maybe one day..ha hah