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Title: Shark Week
Post by: kopfjäger on August 14, 2012, 06:11:50 PM
I love me some big shark.

Spielberg was 27 when he directed Jaws.
$9,000,000 budget
$470,653,000 at the box office  :o
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: kopfjäger on August 14, 2012, 07:02:18 PM
This episode, The impact of "Jaws" on shark science, was amazing.
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: kopfjäger on August 14, 2012, 07:15:09 PM
VOLKSWAGEN SPONSORS SHARK WEEK ON THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8FcyFLzhUc&feature=youtube_gdata_player#)
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: fastwin on August 15, 2012, 07:27:30 AM
Sharks are bad ass. They are the raptors of the sea. [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: zooom on August 15, 2012, 08:02:59 AM
news posted a story in relation to this week with this video

http://www.youtube.com/embed/6HU7lcOTLjc (http://www.youtube.com/embed/6HU7lcOTLjc)


source of the article for the video here -> http://www.wtop.com//541/2992624/Shark-Week-spawns-cuddly-terrifying-parody-VIDEO (http://www.wtop.com//541/2992624/Shark-Week-spawns-cuddly-terrifying-parody-VIDEO)
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: fastwin on August 15, 2012, 08:25:30 AM
That's some funny shit! [laugh]
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: IZ on August 15, 2012, 09:06:45 AM
Awesome footage of the Great White getting caught on the shark cage last night. Hard to see how big those things really are on film. 

Never heard about that actual footage piece for Jaws that they got for the movie. Interesting!

Posted up pics from the shark cage we did in Hawaii in TOB. We had a couple dozen sharks circling plus, 3 big Tigers.  Awesome!!
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: Blackout on August 15, 2012, 02:27:59 PM
Before I die (or perhaps the day I die) i wanna go down in a shark cage amongst the Great Whites.
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: IZ on August 15, 2012, 02:52:59 PM
Just get eaten by one. There was a shark attack victim that was interviewed Monday night who said it was almost a peaceful experience. That was the time when the shark had her in it's mouth and dragging her down into the ocean. She saw the pretty, red bubbles floating up into the light.
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: fastwin on August 15, 2012, 05:42:35 PM
I've had some peaceful experiences but that wouldn't be one of them! [laugh] I'd have both of my thumbs jammed into it's eyeballs on the way down. ;)
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: kopfjäger on August 15, 2012, 06:45:40 PM
Jaws The Indianapolis Speech (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nrvMNf-HEg&feature=youtube_gdata_player#)
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: NoisyDante on August 15, 2012, 10:24:07 PM
Sharks really are majestic creatures, especially at the 20 second mark.

Great White Shit Shark (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUUl_Pbyzo#)
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: 1.21GW on August 24, 2012, 01:34:07 PM
Quote from: Blackout on August 15, 2012, 02:27:59 PM
Before I die (or perhaps the day I die) i wanna go down in a shark cage amongst the Great Whites.

Me too.  I looked into this when I was in SoCal.  Apparently, there's a place in Baja where you can do it.  $$$ though.
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: IZ on August 25, 2012, 02:40:26 AM
Quote from: 1.21GW on August 24, 2012, 01:34:07 PM
there's a place in Baja where you can do it.  $$$ though.


Definitely worth it!! 

The tiger sharks were enough for me.  I'd have a heart attack seeing a great white swimming towards the cage!!



Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: RAT900 on August 25, 2012, 05:57:55 AM
Quote from: kopfjäger on August 15, 2012, 06:45:40 PM
Jaws The Indianapolis Speech (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nrvMNf-HEg&feature=youtube_gdata_player#)

my son was was about 22 and working a register at Barnes and Noble in Queens

old codger came up to his register to buy a book, had a baseball cap on...it was for the Indianapolis

My son knew the story and asked the fellow if he was actually on the Indy and was one of the survivors

guy was quite surprised that a kid would know of it and said "yes" in  a near whisper .... my son closed his register

and talked with the guy for about a half hour...end of the conversation he looked at my son

and thanked him for listening,

son said he was the one that should be saying thank you to the codger

guy shook his head no and said just by my son knowing what happened to his ship

knowing what they went through, knowing that his story would be remembered...

was thanks enough
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: IZ on August 25, 2012, 08:17:28 AM
 [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: Two dogs on August 29, 2012, 02:53:47 PM
Shark cage diving should be banned !
Yes it would be awesome to see a great white up close in safety film it and post it up on your facebook page  [roll].
But from someone who has seen one face to face in the wild without a cage while surfing
in South Australia I am lucky to be still here.
What this tourist activity is doing has increased the frequency of human attacks expediently .
So you lay a burly trail out of blood, fish oil and chum to attract a shark he/she swims along the trail and oh look here what's at the end of it a human.
It has been well documented in South Africa the increased frequency of attacks post cage diving and there is a push there to ban it.
We have had a lot of attacks recently by huge great whites in Western Australia lately one two days ago actually who luckily survived but when your dealing with a five meter plus animal in a lot of cases there is nothing left to bury.
These animals return to known feeding sources and now there are sharks on the WA coast that are not just biting and releasing when realising that you are not a seal they are eating people , and it usually only takes two bites .
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: kopfjäger on August 29, 2012, 03:13:03 PM
^^^ I think it's more a cause of the booming Seal population.
Title: Re: Shark Week
Post by: IZ on August 29, 2012, 05:49:35 PM
Quote from: kopfjäger on August 29, 2012, 03:13:03 PM
^^^ I think it's more a cause of the booming Seal population.

Agreed.  Hasnt this on Shark Week for the last 25 years?! ;)

Two..are you kidding?!  You looked death in the eye, surfed away and now you're whining about it?!  We had to pay to see that! I need to take a trip down unda!  [thumbsup]