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Title: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: JediMAC on July 14, 2003, 02:54 AM
(http://www.websmith.co.za/images/jaws/cage.jpg)

Ever since I was a little kid, I've always been fascinated by sharks.  When I first saw Jaws way back in 1977 on "ON TV", that fascination turned more specifically towards Great White sharks (and Tigers to a lesser extent).  I think they're the most amazing and breathtaking creatures on the planet, not to mention one of the most misunderstood.  A buddy and I have long been planning on trying to do a Great White Shark diving expedition (or maybe just one from on a boat) up near the Farralon Islands near San Francisco, where these sharks are quite abundant due to the huge seal population.  I also came real close to dropping about $800 on a huge, and very real Megalodon tooth last year...

(http://www.apexpredators.com/images/products/4599-06L.jpg)

One of my favorite weeks of the year for TV is fast approaching as well...  SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel!  It's airing sometime in the first half of August.  So, anyone else have a thing for sharks too?  I know at least David does...

(http://www.white-shark-diving.com/images/gws12_1.jpg) (http://www.white-shark-diving.com/images/wshark3b.jpg) (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/photogalleries/images/0603_shark6.jpg) (http://www.apexpredators.com/images/products/BR100AL.jpg) (http://www.apexpredators.com/images/products/2483-11L.jpg) (http://www.apexpredators.com/images/products/BR6951_21L.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone fascinated by SHARKS?!
Post by: Angry Ewok on July 14, 2003, 03:19 AM
Yea, being attacked by a Shark is one of my more reaccuring nightmares, and has been so since I saw the movie when I was about 3 and was still living on our sail boat.

I'd say I'm fascinated by them, but I'd prefer never seeing one in person (again).
Title: Re: Anyone fascinated by SHARKS?!
Post by: JediMAC on July 14, 2003, 08:31 AM
Yea, being attacked by a Shark is one of my more reaccuring nightmares...

I have shark dreams at least once a week...  I'm not always being attacked by them, but at least they're always chasing me, or I'm having to save other people (like my wife) from them munchin' on her!  Some pretty scary ones though...   :-\
Title: Re: Anyone fascinated by SHARKS?!
Post by: Reconsgt on July 14, 2003, 08:55 AM
I usually watch shark week, expecially the GW shows. I have no desire to dive with any sharks but I can't peel myself away from some of the shows.
Title: Re: Anyone fascinated by SHARKS?!
Post by: DSJ™ on July 14, 2003, 10:43 AM
I love watching shark documentaries on tv. Nothing like listening to the theme from Jaws.  :o Jaws Theme (http://www.telusplanet.net/public/djustus/John%20Williams%20-%20Jaws%20Theme(1).mp3)

Though I'm not sure what Jaws is really scary. In the water or on the land.  :o   ;D

(http://www.jamesbondmm.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/villains/tswlm/jaws001.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone fascinated by SHARKS?!
Post by: dustrho on July 14, 2003, 10:45 AM
I'm not really fascinated by sharks in an obsessing way, but I always watch Shark Week on Discovery Channel.  You couldn't get me to jump in the water where sharks are swimming.  No way!  I'll just watch the sharks from my family room, and not in the water.   :-*
Title: Re: Anyone fascinated by SHARKS?!
Post by: Lemon-Viper on July 14, 2003, 11:00 AM
Sharks are my favorite animal.  If I could have a big enough tank in my house I'd have 3.  The shark tank at Sea World in california was almost as fun as Disneyland.  I could have sat there for hours watching them.

My favorite show on sharks that I've seen so far is the one about seal island.  Seeing a great white jump out of the water while nailing a seal was really cool.  It's supposedly the only place in the world they do this at.
Title: Re: Anyone fascinated by SHARKS?!
Post by: Morgbug on July 14, 2003, 11:49 AM
Heh.  Sharks cool.  Bit Teeth ;D

I've always been fascinated by sharks as well.  Just really cool, amazingly powerful beasts.  

I've had the good fortune of diving with sharks already.  Once intentionally, several times not so.  In Australia (waaaaaaay back in 1988) I took  my open water certification (PADI, NAUI purists can bite me).  During that course we were told that seeing a shark is a very rare occurrence in open water and should be enjoyed, particularly at a reef where food is abundant and they are not likely to be overly aggressive.  First dive down during certification we're all doing our little bouyancy exercises and oh, looky there, a little 6' black tip reef shark.  Whoo, screw buoyancy, that's a frigging shark!  It was just a fleeting glance and class resumed.  The best part is the dive instructor was just as pumped as we were so nobody got grief over the exercises.  This was at Bait Reef just off the Whitsunday Islands (Airlie Beach).  

Drifted up the coast to Townsville and wanted to go on a couple of dives up there, but budget was rather restricted.  Beer or diving?  Beer one.

Over to the west coast for Christmas and went on a dive off one of the beaches to a small wreck and we saw a hammerhead out there. Most impressive, but just a little guy, about 10 feet in length.  About a week later it was killed due to proximity to the swimming beach :o

Just after Christmas I blew some cash and went to the aquarium for a shark tank dive.  There were grey nurse sharks, black tip and white tip reef sharks  that we got to dive with and touch.  Very cool but pretty much a huge adrenaline rush.  They'd been fed and were fed while we were down there but touching them and realizing it could snap your hand off pretty quick is kind of humbling and exciting at the same time.  

Just prior to leaving Australia I went back up to Airlie Beach and was fortunate to get paired up with a former Navy Seal as a dive partner.  We did all sorts of things I would never otherwise do (swimming through small tunnels in the reef).  We also went to a more advanced depth, about 85 feet (BTW, by then I had my advanced open water certificate so I was certified to do so) and saw three white tip reef sharks patrolling the depths of the reef (though it probably dropped off another couple of hundred feet).  

FWIW I have my rescue diver certification now, though I'd consider it lapsed.  I started my divemaster course as well but never finished.  When the buglet is old enough to dive I'll get fired up again.  For now all I use dive gear for is to clean my pool.  No sharks in there ;)
Title: Re: Anyone fascinated by SHARKS?!
Post by: Nicklab on July 14, 2003, 01:33 PM
I used to be really fascinated by sharks.  That abated somewhat after I got bit on the foot by a sandshark about 15 years ago.  

I was bodyboarding in Florida, and I was out on a sandbar about 100 yards offshore.  I was stepping around, and looking for some good waves to ride.  I took a step, and my right foot sank into something in the sand.  All of a sudden, I felt something sharp on the top and sole of my foot.  At that point, I jumped, turned and swam for shore as fast as I could!  I don't think I ever swam faster than I did that day.  I think I still have a couple of marks on my foot from that day.

I still check out things like shark week on the Discovery channel from time to time.  I even saw underwater photographer Al Giddings at a trade show during the spring.  I thought that was kinda cool.  He's done some of the greatest and most pioneering underwater Shark photography around.  He even did some of the underwater photography for "JAWS".

I think one channel had a pretty big shark special on last night.  So, I do check those out from time to time.  But I have a lot more respect and a healthy fear for sharks because of that day about 15 years ago.
Title: Re: Anyone fascinated by SHARKS?!
Post by: Angry Ewok on July 15, 2003, 04:13 AM
Partly related note, I went to the Coral Reef Imax running at most Imax joints - the damn show only had one bit with sharks - had White Tip sharks (I think it was white, maybe gray), it was pretty awesome, had about 300 of these sharks swimming in this bigass pack with the Imax crew being floated directly into them...  :-[
Title: Re: Anyone fascinated by SHARKS?!
Post by: Boba Binks on July 16, 2003, 08:36 AM
I love sharks. They are very powerful yet so graceful at the same time.
Sharks are the main reason that I learned to Scuba.

There is just something so inspiring about a wild animal as such that is larger than you when it swims by. It is errie buy really tense in a way jaw dropping.  *No pun intended  :)

One day I hope to dive the Great Barrier Reef.

I have a tat of a Great White Shark that I designed on my left leg.
(http://www.djsyczylo.net/davidsbio/anktat.jpg)
Title: Shark Week on the Discovery Channel!
Post by: JediMAC on August 12, 2003, 03:55 AM
(http://a1672.g.akamaitech.net/7/1672/34/56eb670a193545/dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/photogalleries/sharks/gallery/greatwhite2_hzoom.jpg)

One of my favorite weeks of the year for TV is fast approaching as well...  SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel!  It's airing sometime in the first half of August.

Well, Shark Week is now upon us!  Who's been watching it?!  Tonight's episode was HORRIBLE - only bad episode I've ever seen in about 10 years of watching this annual week-long special.  Bunch of "car guys" built their own boat and shark cage and went diving out here off of SoCal and didn't see squat.  Not even any sharks in the show...  What the hell's up with that?!

But last nights show was very cool, as it examined in great depth the only two serious shark attacks ever caught on film - a Great White munching a girl's leg off right in front of all of her friends, and a shark scientist getting his entire calf ripped off by a Bull shark - all on film!  Great stuff!   8)  (obviously not for the people getting chewed on though)

Tomorrow night's episode is going to be great too!  They're going to have Manny the "Shark Man" on, and he'll be free diving with the nastiest sharks around.  I've seen him free dive (as in NO CAGE) with several Great Whites and Tiger sharks in the past, so this is some seriously awesome footage coming up, I'm sure!  Crazy M.F. he is!   8)

It's on all week long at 9pm each night.  Here's the Discovery Channel's page (http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/sharkweek.html) on the show.

(http://a28.g.akamaitech.net/7/28/34/17cdba3d351ca2/dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/photogalleries/sharks/gallery/greatwhite4_hzoom.jpg)
Title: Re: SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel!
Post by: dustrho on August 12, 2003, 07:13 AM
Matt, did you happen to see "Anatomy of a Shark Bite?"  That was one awesome hour-long special!  I'm not even going to go into details about it, because you've got to see if for your own eyes.  The very last seconds of the show are the best!   ;D
Title: Re: SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel!
Post by: JediMAC on August 12, 2003, 07:23 AM
Matt, did you happen to see "Anatomy of a Shark Bite?"  That was one awesome hour-long special!  I'm not even going to go into details about it, because you've got to see if for your own eyes.  The very last seconds of the show are the best!   ;D

Hell yeah, I saw it Chris!  That's what I was referring to right here:

But last nights show was very cool, as it examined in great depth the only two serious shark attacks ever caught on film - a Great White munching a girl's leg off right in front of all of her friends, and a shark scientist getting his entire calf ripped off by a Bull shark - all on film!  Great stuff!   8)  (obviously not for the people getting chewed on though)

And it was a TWO-hour show, not just one like the rest are.  That last shot of the guy getting carried out of the water was gnarly!   8)  Just wish there was some better footage of the girl with no leg getting pulled into the boat after the Great White mowed on her!  Dumb crap who was filming the whole thing dropped the camera and was screaming like a little girl at that point...   ::)

Tonight's is going to be great as well.  No attacks, but a crazy fool in there just swimming around with these bad boys - and I mean the BAD BOYS, not the run-of-the-mill reef or nurse sharks.  Whites and Tigers!  Insane...   :o
Title: Re: SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel!
Post by: Chris on August 12, 2003, 01:24 PM
I will be tuning in tonight, love the sharks. ;)
Title: Re: SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel!
Post by: Snively Bandar on August 12, 2003, 06:32 PM
I saw that episode the other night too, and agree with you guys on those unbelievable attacks by these amazing predators!   :o  I'll definitely be tuning in tonight as well, since it looks like another great episode.  There's something about any types of wild animals that can eat people that's just too fascinating to pass up!  So count me in!   8)
Title: Re: SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel!
Post by: JediMAC on November 4, 2003, 04:37 PM
So a poor little 13 year old hot shot surfing chick in Hawaii just got her arm bit off by a 14-15 foot Tiger Shark...   :'(  OUCH!  She's OK (aside from a missing arm), and sounds like she's going to bounce back and keep at it.  She was already lined up with a bunch of sponsors and everything.  Bummer.  Hopefully she doesn't lose too much ability-wise, and can keep surfing at a competitive level, since it was basically her whole life, and was going to be her future as well...

Here she is in action:
(http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/04/05/20031104084209990001)

Here's what's left of her board after Sunday:
(http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/05/02/20031104084209990006)

Here's the article (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/11/02/shark.attack.ap/index.html) on it from CNN...

...and here's a nasty ol' Tiger Shark, or two:   :o
(http://www.seapics.com/picture_gallery/shark/Thumbnails/000250.jpg)

(http://www.afunk.com/mammals/tigershark/pictures/004.jpg)
Title: Re: SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel!
Post by: Jesse James on November 4, 2003, 09:21 PM
Eh, ya go in the water you take the risk...  I wish her the best of luck and that she hadn't lost a limb but such is life...

I dig those shark photos though!  :)  

I've heard so many people whining in the last couple of days since that incident that all sharks should be killed though, and that's just such a disturbing mentality...  My friend Eric's that way, and was one of the anti-shark people.  So was Howard Stern on Monday morning...   ::)
Title: Re: SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel!
Post by: Scott on November 4, 2003, 10:09 PM
When we went snorkeling in Hawaii they told us after we were already in the water that the Bay we were in was one of the worlds largest breeding grounds for Hammerheads.  They then told us though that it was 6 months until breeding season so shark sighting were rare.  Nice guys though, got us all worked up for nothing
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: JediMAC on March 10, 2005, 04:41 PM
Bump.  Just because sharks are still cool, and I wouldn't mind seeing some more pix of them...   8)
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: hansolo_506 on March 10, 2005, 04:50 PM
Ask and you shall receive!
(http://byerly.org/shark/mega3.jpg)
(http://www.oceanspirit.com/Whale_Shark.JPG)
(http://www.whitesharkdiscovery.com/media/photos/photo04/mrtouch1.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Famine on March 10, 2005, 05:06 PM
(http://byerly.org/shark/mega3.jpg)


I'd cry. I'd cry hard. :-[ :'(

Kevin
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: JediMAC on March 10, 2005, 05:12 PM
(http://www.whitesharkdiscovery.com/media/photos/photo04/mrtouch1.jpg)

I love this shot.  It's amazing how the Whites go into that trancelike state when you rub them on the nose.  More amazing that it was just discovered a couple years ago.  Even more amazing that so many people, like this guy above, are doing it all the time now.  Trance, or not, that's freakin' crazy to be messing around like that, that close to a Great White's open jaws...!!!
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Jesse James on March 10, 2005, 05:25 PM
I like Whale Sharks.  They're like the Ithorians of the sea...  *sigh*

That shot with the guy's hand on the GW's nose is funny.

The shot of the surfer's just a classic though.  Looks like a Megalodon flying out of the surf on him.  :)
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Shannon (Princess) on March 10, 2005, 10:24 PM
I like Whale Sharks.  They're like the Ithorians of the sea...  *sigh*
My son's "Sharks!" book says you can fit two school buses on their back... I'm thinking these are the short buses??
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Jesse James on March 11, 2005, 12:41 AM
I had such a flurry of jokes invade my mind I'm almost dizzy.

Hmmm, I'd assume they're the "short" bus as well.  Or Micro-buses maybe.  Whale Sharks are big, but  I didn't even think you could fit two buses on their backs.

I'd love to see the attempt though.  The shark would kill its first person I do believe.

(http://www.oceanspirit.com/Whale_Shark.JPG)

This one doesn't seem able to do that...  Maybe he's but a sharkling?
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Famine on March 11, 2005, 01:02 AM
(http://www.mna.it/italiano/Scopri_Antartide/img/orca.jpg)

Kevin <3 Orcas.

Free Willy makes me cry to this day. Or at least perspire from my eyes.

Kevin
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Deanpaul on March 11, 2005, 01:46 AM

Kevin <3 Orcas.

Free Willy makes me cry to this day. Or at least perspire from my eyes.

Kevin

Mods, please move this to the "whale" thread.  :-*
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Jedi Idej on March 11, 2005, 02:29 AM
Has anyone heard much about the great white at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/whiteshark.asp)? Four months in captivity and counting.

A few other non-great white sharks got too close and she bit them. Two of those died.

(http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/content/images/whiteshark/p_whiteshark_obw2.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: JediMAC on March 11, 2005, 02:51 AM
Mods, please move this to the "whale" thread.  :-*

No kidding.

Sharks, Kevin.  Sharks.

If you want to discuss the time the killer whale killed the young Great White (caught on tape), then that would be fine here.  Otherwise, I'll have to say take Dp's advice and start a Whale, or Free Willy thread.   :-*

As for Whale Sharks, I think they can grow up to about 50 feet long.  No idea how long school buses are these days though.  Unfortunately, whenever I see a Whale Shark now, I always think of that "interesting" segment from the movie Jackass.   :-\

Idej, thanks for the reminder on that Monterey Bay Aquarium white.  I hadn't heard squat on that since the initial hoopla died down after the first few weeks.  Glad to hear the shark's still doing well.  Since it was a baby when they caught it, hopefully it will adapt to captivity better than all of it's predecessors.  Interesting to hear that she's chewin' up the other sharks in there!

I'll definitely be paying a visit to see it the next time we're up in the Bay Area, that's for sure.
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Mikey D on March 11, 2005, 08:13 AM
Anyone see the promo for the new exciting made for TV movie - Spring Break Shark Attack?  Looks like a classic, might even rival Jaws for best shark, like, forever!!!

Looks like a piece of ****.  The only redeeming quality might be the chicks in skimpy bikinis.

Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Famine on March 11, 2005, 12:31 PM
(http://kevvo.250free.com/meshark.JPG)

I loved that day of fishing. Thats a sand shark that I cought off the coast of Glouchter Massachusets when I was 13. :)


Kevin
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: DSJ™ on March 11, 2005, 12:51 PM
Care to go for a ride!  :D

(http://www.jokeemail.com/pictures/shark_bus.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Famine on March 11, 2005, 01:15 PM
That poor poor woman.

The Great City Transport Shark strikes again!

Kevin
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Mikey D on March 11, 2005, 01:41 PM
Speaking of which, when is Shark Week on the Discovery Channel?  Usually in the summer, but you have to plan early, you know.
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: JediMAC on March 12, 2005, 05:55 AM
(http://www.websmith.co.za/images/jaws/cage.jpg)

One of my favorite weeks of the year for TV is fast approaching as well...  SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel!  It's airing sometime in the first half of August.

So I'd guess it'll be around the same time this year.  I think it's fallen in late July before as well, but you get the jist.  Can't wait to see what the Whites can do this year!   8)
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: hansolo_506 on March 12, 2005, 11:51 AM
Knock, knock...
"Candygram..."
(http://ultrawarp.com/chevy/cards/landshark.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Mikey D on July 6, 2005, 08:26 AM
Just bumping this thread for a couple of reasons.  First, Shark Week on Discovery Channel is nearing.  Shark Week (http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/sharkweek.html) starts July 17th with Mythbusters Jaws Special

Second, mods at some other site seem to have their hands constantly on the lock thread button and close a perfectly good thread (although not as great as this one).

Just no political talk or Matt will be forced to lock this one too.  ::)
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Vator on July 6, 2005, 08:44 AM
Second, mods at some other site seem to have their hands constantly on the lock thread button and close a perfectly good thread (although not as great as this one).

Just no political talk or Matt will be forced to lock this one too.  ::)

Theyre just doing there job!!!!!!  :)
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: ruiner on July 6, 2005, 01:27 PM
(http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/03/05/30/rnemo.jpg)

Sharks are cool, there's no denying it.

Just ask my 2 year old - I swear I've seen Finding Nemo twenty times...really.


Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Famine on July 6, 2005, 01:33 PM
So a couple of people this year got eaten by sharks? :-\


And she wants me to swim in the ocean? ::)

Kevin
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: JediMAC on July 19, 2005, 07:22 PM
(http://www.websmith.co.za/images/jaws/cage.jpg)

One of my favorite weeks of the year for TV is fast approaching as well...  SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel!

Dammit!!!  Thanks for the reminder everyone!  I already missed the first episode of Shark Week this year.  Sheesh!  >:(

Last night's was pretty cool though, as it was all about survivors of Great White attacks.  8)
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: JediMAC on July 19, 2005, 07:24 PM
Just bumping this thread for a couple of reasons.  First, Shark Week on Discovery Channel is nearing.  Shark Week (http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/sharkweek.html) starts July 17th with Mythbusters Jaws Special.

Uh, whoops!  Looks like Mikey did indeed remind me less than two weeks ago...

Looks like I'll have to demand that you folks send me PM reminders from now on as well.  :-\
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Famine on July 19, 2005, 07:32 PM
Hmm...PM's? How about phone calls at 3:00 am? :-*

Kevin
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Jesse James on July 20, 2005, 03:22 AM
I missed the Myth Busters episode that was gonna pick apart the Jaws films.

Did they figure out if a great white could be blown up by shooting oxygen tanks?
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: JediMAC on July 20, 2005, 03:47 AM
Did they figure out if a great white could be blown up by shooting oxygen tanks?

Dunno.  That's the episode that I missed on the first night.  My guess would be yes though.

One of tonight's three episodes was way cool.  Three different divers free swimming with Great Whites (NO cages).  One was a girl too!  One of them even went so far as to grab several rides on the Whites by hanging on to their dorsal fins.  Crazy ****!  :o
Title: Re: The Official 'Sharks are Cool' Thread.
Post by: Mikey D on July 20, 2005, 08:09 AM

Uh, whoops!  Looks like Mikey did indeed remind me less than two weeks ago...


Dumbass.

I think Mythbusters re-airs tonight.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Jesse James on July 21, 2005, 01:26 AM
I caught it on a whim just when it started actually.  It was good...  Sorta funny.  About what I expected overall with the myths.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Mikey D on July 21, 2005, 07:26 AM
The lead in to Mythbusters, Anatomy of a Shark Bite, was pretty gruesome (at least the ending).  It's about one of the only shark bites on a human caught on tape and then the victim trying to recreate the event a year later to see exactly how a shark bite works. 

During the show they showed the actual shark biting many times, but at the end they showed the aftermath.  Dude lost his entire calf muscle and all you see is flesh hanging off his leg bone.  All of it done by an animal with a bite only twice as great as a human.

Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: JediMAC on July 21, 2005, 08:48 PM
Dumbass, indeed!  :-\

The lead in to Mythbusters, Anatomy of a Shark Bite, was pretty gruesome (at least the ending).  It's about one of the only shark bites on a human caught on tape and then the victim trying to recreate the event a year later to see exactly how a shark bite works.

I believe that entire episode was an exact re-run from last year, for some reason.  Bummer.  I wish they'd show the other clip where the girl gets munched by a Great White with cameras rolling during her Senior High School trip I think (shark stays under water the whole time so you can't really see it).  She "only" lost her leg, but it was a pretty good battle, with folks screaming at her to watch out, and trying to help her and pull her away from the shark.  No idea why they haven't exploited that cool footage on Shark Week yet (happened about 3 years ago now).

As for Mythbusters, eh, that was kinda lame.  They just went through the whole Jaws movie and tried to recreate the stuff from it to see if they could really happen that way in the real world (shark towing a boat, shark ramming a hole in the boat, blowing up a shark with the oxygen tank, etc.)
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Dressel Rebel on July 21, 2005, 09:36 PM
(http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=shark+attack/v=2/SID=e/TID=I999_73/l=IVI/SIG=144sgkffe/EXP=1122082363/*-http%3A//us.tv1.yimg.com/tv.yahoo.com/images/he/photo/tv_pix/cbs/spring_break_shark_attack_photos/sharkattack1.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: DSJ™ on July 28, 2005, 10:08 PM
Scientists to breed test-tube sharks (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/07/28/test.tube.sharks.reut/index.html)
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: DSJ™ on July 3, 2006, 02:19 AM
Eating for 56? Heavily pregnant shark surprises scientists (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/30/hammerhead.mother.ap/index.html)

Record Hammerhead Shark Was Pregnant (http://www.wftv.com/news/9451628/detail.html)
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: name on July 3, 2006, 08:20 AM
I'm just posting to say that I'm at the beach this week and I don't appreciate this thread floating to the surface on the one day I found a wifi coffee shop.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: JediMAC on July 8, 2006, 03:58 AM
Thank god this thread got bumped, or I'd have likely missed Shark Week this year.  Thanks Dale!  Yeah, bummer about that bigass Hammerhead shark getting caught, with over 40 babies just a day or two away from birth.  Idiots.

Hopefully Richard didn't get eaten on his trip.  That'd make for a ****** birthday, for sure...
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: nitro on July 8, 2006, 02:01 PM
Anybody know when that movie "Meg" is hitting theaters? It's based on the bestselling book about a meglodon...
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Jesse James on July 8, 2006, 04:58 PM
Shark week's awesome...

BTW to answer my Q last year about if Mythbusters determined if you could blow up a shark with an oxygen tank, the answer is no.  The tank just blew around the testing facility wildly, but didn't explode...  The only hole was the one made by the bullet and was the exact size of the bullet.  It didn't even punch through the tank, just went in and rattled around inside.

Sharks are cool.  Monkeys riding on sharks are even better.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: JediMAC on July 10, 2006, 04:06 AM
Anybody know when that movie "Meg" is hitting theaters? It's based on the bestselling book about a meglodon...

From everything I heard, that movie project got nixed several years ago.  Disney (of all companies) supposedly got the movie rights to it, IIRC, but for reasons I no longer recall, the movie never got out of the preliminary planning stages, unfortunately.  I was really hoping to see it come to fruition, but who knows, maybe someone will pump a little life back into the project someday...
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: JediMAC on July 25, 2006, 11:44 AM
Phew!  I thought I'd managed to miss it again, but after getting off my lazy ass, and bringing up the Discovery Channel's site, I found out Shark Week's starting a little late this year, on 7/30 (this Sunday night).  Here's the lineup (http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/schedule/schedule.html), for anyone who digs this **** as much as I do:


Sweet, shark pr0n!  :P

Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Stim on July 25, 2006, 04:05 PM
Anybody know when that movie "Meg" is hitting theaters? It's based on the bestselling book about a meglodon...

From everything I heard, that movie project got nixed several years ago.  Disney (of all companies) supposedly got the movie rights to it, IIRC, but for reasons I no longer recall, the movie never got out of the preliminary planning stages, unfortunately.  I was really hoping to see it come to fruition, but who knows, maybe someone will pump a little life back into the project someday...

New Line picked it up in 2005, Jan De Bont (Speed) was attached to direct.  Hasn't been much news since then though...
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: name on July 29, 2007, 05:46 PM
Iiiiiiiiiiiiit's Shark Week!

2 hour doc on the shark attacks of the USS Indiana tonight at 9.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Tracy on July 29, 2007, 07:00 PM
Iiiiiiiiiiiiit's Shark Week!

2 hour doc on the shark attacks of the USS Indiana tonight at 9.

I have been looking forward to the doc on the USS Indiana sinking and subsequent attacks all month.  We watch Dirty Jobs and Man vs. Wild quite a bit and its been heavily promoted by Discovery Channel.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: name on July 29, 2007, 09:23 PM
Indiannapolis.  My mistake.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: DSJ™ on July 18, 2008, 01:28 PM
Jumping Shark Caught on Camera (http://www.myfoxhamptonroads.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6988224&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.3.1)

(http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m3/jul2008/5/2/259671D2-CB0B-9E3C-B860615935087551.jpg)

(http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m3/jul2008/5/1/2596ECA6-BD9C-3659-88E446EC954727CA.jpg)
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Nicklab on July 16, 2009, 02:36 PM
Just caught a promo for Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.  And it jogged my memory about something that just happened in my area this week:

THIS STORY (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090715-giant-basking-shark-long-island-picture-ap.html) made the local news.  This shark washed up on the south shore of Long Island the other day.

(http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/images/090715-giant-basking-shark-long-island-picture-ap_big.jpg)

It's a huge shark!  At least 20 feet long.  But ultimately harmless, since it was a basking shark.  These sharks have no teeth and feed on plankton.

So what do you think about going for a swim off of Long Island or the Jersey shore now?
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Morgbug on July 16, 2009, 03:59 PM
So what do you think about going for a swim off of Long Island or the Jersey shore now?

Same as always, too much trash in the water to go swimming there.  ;)
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Angry Ewok on July 16, 2009, 05:32 PM
You know, if I was fishing or swimming and I saw that thing... I'd probably have a heart attack.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Nicklab on July 16, 2009, 06:09 PM
So what do you think about going for a swim off of Long Island or the Jersey shore now?

Same as always, too much trash in the water to go swimming there.  ;)

Let's not get personal about our friends from Staten Island.

;D
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Tracy on July 16, 2009, 06:22 PM
We're heading for a vacation on one of NC's barrier islands next week.  We almost always have a siting of one while we're there -- but they are always the kind with big white teeth.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Matt_Fury on July 16, 2009, 11:28 PM
Where exactly will you be Tracy?  I used to live on Roanoke Island.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Jesse James on August 2, 2013, 07:27 PM
Guess what time it (almost) is!
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Matt_Fury on August 2, 2013, 11:54 PM
I love the promo with Snuffy the Seal!   :D
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Tracy on August 12, 2013, 02:04 PM
I'm vacationing on Oak Island in NC for the 4th year in a row. This morning we saw a 4ft shark just a few feet offshore in maybe 12-15" of water. We have always known they were close by on OKI - but not that close!  I know the odds are in our favor - but it makes this mama just a little nervous to have her 8yo start Surf Camp tomorrow - though it doesn't seem to phase her one bit. She just wants to surf.     8)
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Nicklab on August 12, 2013, 02:27 PM
Shark Week is definitely one of the highlights of the summer as always.  But is anyone else getting annoyed with the fake documentaries that Discovery Networks have been running over the past couple of years?  I would have gladly tuned in to a show about the prehistoric shark Megalodon.  A shark that was as big as a whale is fascinating all on it's own.  So why did Discovery need to produce a fake documentary, complete with their fictionalized "home video" of a whale that had been bitten in half?

To that end, I found the shows about the Great White Sharks that have been frequenting Cape Cod far more interesting simply because it's a real, natural occurance.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Matt_Fury on August 12, 2013, 05:06 PM
I was extremely disappointed with the Megaladon fakeumentary as well as their late night talk show.  The could've done an actual show about the Megaladon and I would've been happy.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: BrentS on August 11, 2014, 09:52 PM
Anyone watching Shark Week?  We are watching the documentary "Jaws Strikes Back". Some pretty awesome footage in this one.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Jesse James on August 11, 2014, 10:47 PM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1Tg9OQRp1FU/UgQaI4AsEsI/AAAAAAAAD88/wc_KdaT2EBI/s640/sb1.gif)
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Nicklab on August 12, 2014, 08:57 AM
I definitely enjoy some Shark Week.  But the fake documentaries get to be a bit much.  I expect shows on Discovery to be about something REAL.  When they ran the fake documentary about Megalodon last year I was a bit put off.  This year's doc on the "Submarine" shark from South Africa could've been totally interesting if it had just been based completely in reality.  But again they went with another fake documentary.  Not cool.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: Phrubruh on August 12, 2014, 09:44 AM
Only caught a few minutes of the submarine shark. The interviews I saw felt very Duck Dynasty fake. Why can't they get actors that can actually act?
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: IncomT65 on August 12, 2014, 11:02 AM
I'm a huge shark fan. Jaws scared the **** out of me, when I saw it for the first time on VCR. That was last weekend  :P ;D

Seriously, sharks are the bomb (do kids still say that these days?) When I went to junior high, I held a 'show and tell' about sharks, which I thoroughly prepared. A zoo in a small town nearby received lemon sharks back in the 80s, which got me extremely excited back then.

Of course, I love Shark Week as well. It will air here in Holland in the week of August 18th. I don't care much for the fake documentaries, but the  real ones are always impressive to watch.

Favourite shark? Difficult to say. The blue shark is a real beauty, but the whale shark is really majestic. The common thresher has this beautiful tail with the extremely long top part. But I guess either the great white, tiger shark or mako are my favourite.

Least favourite, mostly because of the way they look, are the sand tiger shark and the basking shark. Of course, there are more exotic fuglies, but these two have always been my least favourite.


And let's not forget MisterJaw and Cat Fish! Hahaa!
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: IncomT65 on August 13, 2014, 01:42 AM
Saw this on the morning news just now ;)

http://www.telegraaf.nl/tv/opmerkelijk/22958159/__Duiker_schrikt_van_walvishaai__.html

Couldn't find an English article, but you get the picture.
Title: Re: The Official Shark Thread
Post by: JediJman on August 13, 2014, 07:50 AM
I saw most of the doc on Submarine this week.  I don't even mind the shockumentary filming, but the 5 minute recap every time they come back from 5 minutes of commercials is so irritating.  I think I saw maybe 20 minutes of content in one hour.