Shark Week

[firstaid]

I love Shark Week soo much, it gives me a excuse to watch something else besides Dirty jobs on the discovery channel.

I know they are trying to be edgy and appear fresh with the Shark programming, but what's with the stoopid titles of the shows? For instance, some of today's shark episodes were called "Shark Battlefield", "Air Jaws" and "Summer of the Shark" or "Summer of Terror".

I watched "Shark Battlefield" today and I felt like I was on drugs with all the sharp back and forth cuts from actual film of the sharks to computer animation. There was no "battlefield", but just a Tiger Shark looking for food.

I am definitely interested in this South African guy who, regularly free dives with Great White Sharks. He reaches out and touches them with out any protective cage.

[kateln]

So I'm watching a show on the shark attacks in NJ in 1916--which were the basis of the book/movie Jaws and I'm surprised that they're claiming it as a Great White attack. I thought it had been pretty much proven/established that it was a Bull Shark because it also went into a fresh water river, and aren't Bull Sharks the only ones that can go into both kinds of water?

National Geographic had an interesting special on this a few years ago, in which they were conjecturing that a Bull Shark may also be responsible for some attacks that are currently taking place on the Ganjes river.

[footballerswife]

I saw this story on the news this morning: Tourists see great white shark off England. Crazy!

[luciano]

There was no "battlefield", but just a Tiger Shark looking for food.

You are obviously not looking at it from the perspective of the fish that were collectively known as "food."

So I'm watching a show on the shark attacks in NJ in 1916--which were the basis of the book/movie Jaws and I'm surprised that they're claiming it as a Great White attack. I thought it had been pretty much proven/established that it was a Bull Shark because it also went into a fresh water river, and aren't Bull Sharks the only ones that can go into both kinds of water?

I have it recorded on my TiVo, but haven't seen it yet. I thought that the Oceanic Whitetip Shark [which is just giving all of us a fabulous bitchface there] was the one that was mostly responsible. They seem to love shipwrecks, as they were also responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people who were tossed into the sea after the Nova Scotia was sunk.

[bloo]

I thought that there were two different NJ attacks: a Great White attack and a Bull Shark attack. The Bull Shark is the one where it went up a fresh water creek and killed a few people. Bulls can swim in fresh water for some time. One was actually caught north of St. Louis in the Mississippi River.

ETA: I just did some more reading. The 1916 NJ attacks have a couple of theories: rogue GW, Bull or different sharks. A GW was caught with human remains

[sardonictart]

Love shark week, but I found the last show that I watched fear inducing: Top 5 Eaten Alive. Dear God. I'm going to be in the Mediterranean for a month soon, and I'm afraid of putting my toe into the water. And I've been around the ocean since I was a baby! Meep. Maybe I can find a hot guy to "help" me with my problem while I'm there.

[kateln]

bloo said:

I thought that there were two different NJ attacks: a Great White attack and a Bull Shark attack. The Bull Shark is the one where it went up a fresh water creek and killed a few people. Bulls can swim in fresh water for some time. One was actually caught north of St. Louis in the Mississippi River.

ETA: I just did some more reading. The 1916 NJ attacks have a couple of theories: rogue GW, Bull or different sharks. A GW was caught with human remains

I'm bleary eyed from lack of sleep here--so I may be asking a dumb question, but how good was the technology in 1916 to identify partially digested human remains?

The multiple shark theory makes more sense to me then if it was a Great White only. Like I said, I don't think Great Whites can handle freshwater, or at least not as well as Bull Sharks can, it's actually not THAT unusual to find Bull sharks in rivers.

[bloo]

sardonictart said:

Love shark week, but I found the last show that I watched fear inducing: Top 5 Eaten Alive. Dear God. I'm going to be in the Mediterranean for a month soon, and I'm afraid of putting my toe into the water. And I've been around the ocean since I was a baby! Meep. Maybe I can find a hot guy to "help" me with my problem while I'm there.

You should look for the show "."Prowling Sharks in the Mediterranean

Found the times:
link for times, times are Eastern

Kateln, I am with you in that the shark that went down the creek had to be a bull.

[sardonictart]

You should look for the show "Great Whites in the Mediterranean."

*shivers* I've actually seen that one. It was a few years ago, I think. It made me really fear for my uncle (who is a sponge/sea stuff diver.) And, of course, now I'm totally paranoid that I'll get mangled by one. I have the weirdest reaction to sharks - I find them fascinating and hate to see them end up in shark fin soup. But at the same time, I have yet to try surfing in California for fear of looking like a tasty, injured seal.

ETA: I think that the NJ creek shark was a bull shark too.

[kore]

We have A LOT of sharks in Florida, especially on the Gulf of Mexico side. I haven't been in the ocean for a swim since I was 5.

Shark Week, even though brings on the fear, makes me appreciate these Big Fishes. I think I actually became a little emotional over seeing a bunch of Fishermen/Sportsmen smiling over their recent kill. I really felt for that shark.


Lastly- As a kid I had a bumper sticker from some local scuba shop that said "Be Kind to Animals. Kiss a Shark."