Shark Week

[The Chef]

Re: Shark Week

I'd rather see a week about dolphins or whales. They communicate, have social hierarchy, are intelligent and need more attention as they are fished out in the Pacific to the point of their endangerment.

Sharks are too primitive. I don't need a week of watching sharks eat stuff in slow motion. They don't really interact with each other. They aren't that mysterious or intelligent. They have huge teeth and bite hard. Nothing different than an alligator, really, just in salt water.

The first show I watched on Shark Week this year was the episode on Monday, where some South African or Australian guy kayaks out to sharks by the beach and gets them to bite his paddle. He called it research. It took 20 minutes to show that.

The next thing he did was get into some custom-built submarine and went in murky water to look at sharks. One shark swam close to him. He yelled. Meanwhile, there was a cameraman following him the whole time, so he actually had no reason to be in this ridiculous contraption. That took 20 minutes.

Finally, he got on a custom-built raft and floated out behind his boat with a fake seal by him. A shark jumped up and ate the seal. He took a picture of it, and they showed the replay at least 15 times. That took 20 minutes.

So in one hour, I watched this bald guy with a weird accent trick me into watching him kayak, submarine, and raft float around sharks under the guise of research and science. That's when I stopped watching Shark Week.

There always has to be one I guess. I actually enjoyed that episode you mentioned and I enjoyed it based solely on watching these creatures do what they normally do, hunt and fly out of the water while doing it. To each their own.

[fishepa]

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I watch shark week every year.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Sharks don't interest me.......but then again Discovery channel don't interest me either. That has to be one of the least watched channels in my house.

[Brankles]

Re: Shark Week

There always has to be one I guess. I actually enjoyed that episode you mentioned and I enjoyed it based solely on watching these creatures do what they normally do, hunt and fly out of the water while doing it. To each their own.

Play on playa. If you enjoy it, that's fine with me.

With that said, can't wait til Jersey Shore 2 on Thursday hahaa

[Sandman42]

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They're running out of content. Was watching earlier tonight and they actually did a shark bite survivors/dramatization show. Maybe its just me, but I can't stand watching any show that has dramatizations.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

Re: Shark Week

I'd rather see a week about dolphins or whales. They communicate, have social hierarchy, are intelligent and need more attention as they are fished out in the Pacific to the point of their endangerment.

No animal on earth is killed more senselessly and more often than sharks. And no animal has less done for them in terms of protection than sharks because of the idiotic notion that they are an evil being that needs no sympathy. What's even more idiotic is thier extinction would throw the oceans into chaos as they are at the top of the food chain and it would have a dramatic effect on countless ocean species and would have a much more profound negative effect on the ocean ecosystem than dolphins or whales. More sharks are killed in one week than whales and dolphins combined in a year. We are talking in the tens of millions a year. It's not even for food but for thier fins that add nothing to the taste of soup and are simply used for texture.

[The Chef]

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They're running out of content. Was watching earlier tonight and they actually did a shark bite survivors/dramatization show. Maybe its just me, but I can't stand watching any show that has dramatizations.

I agree, I was a little disappointed today as I was checking the guide and noticed that there were hardly any shark related shows on today and out of the few that were on there was only one new episode at that. Seems a little weak when youve got all these promos for shark week and I turn it on and instead I get old episodes of American Chopper.