eek SHARK WEEK shark week SHARK WEEK shark week SHARK WEEK shark week SHARK WEEK shark week SHARK WEEK shark w

omg that last one!

SUCK MY DIIIIIIIIIICK

I'd hit it.

ocean of fear is fucking CRAAAAZY

that last pic is now my work desktop

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/6a00c2251d434d8fdb00d41423b8166a47-.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Stroud

^ i don't know if he is really 'hosting' shark week but i like the idea of getting to 'host' shark week

i mean, who do you have to be?

Don't you ever worry that we're putting a little too much pressure on the sharks with this thing?

Sharks feel not pressure; only hunger.

Always hunger.

SHARM WEEK = 20 YEARS
SHARKS = 100,000,000+ YEARS

NABISCO NOTM

ER, SHARKKKKKK WEEK

I don't know how the manage to stay interesting all week.

Do they have any kind of schedule for this thing? Like

day 1 -- powerful jaws!
day 2 -- biting and eating stuff, featuring some psycho Belgian asshole in a shark cage
day 3 -- there are lots of types of sharks, but forget about that, most of them are boring and totally not scary at all
day 4 -- I guess they must reproduce, maybe that's interesting? no, no
day 5 -- scary shark-attack stories in between us admitting that you will NEVER get attacked by a shark
day 6 -- some crazy-ass Australian guy in a shark cage
day 7 -- in conclusion, BOO! CRUNCH CRUNCH LOL j/k, you'll never see a shark in your life ever

i'd watch that.

but still NABISCO NOTM

day 4 -- I guess they must reproduce, maybe that's interesting? no, no

RONG. Shark fuckin'=GOOD TEE VEEE

this was on at the computer store I went to during a work errand. I was so excited and I wanted to stay. ;_;

I was kinda sad when they had a shark-themed "Cash Cab," but what else can they do on shark week I guess?

*SHARK WEEK game shows, hosted by a shark
*SHARK WEEK cooking shows, hosted by Rachel Ray
*SHARK WEEK cop procedurals, all the plots revolve around sharks

This is the favorite week of the year of all the stoners I've known. Nom nom nom No it are my shark week!

i want to see what shark myths get busted

*SHARK WEEK DANCE JAMS, everyone dancing, dressed like a shark, flippin' out.

What are they going to do on Mythbusters? There can't be that many shark-related myths they won't cover on the other programs.

haha xpost

They're doing an original movie based on the story of the <i>Indianapolis</i>. If this movie does not contain a character named Herbie Robinson from Cleveland who gets bitten in half, I'll never trust again.

I saw sharks when I went diving in Maui last fall, but they were little 6-7 foot black-tipped reef sharks and were extremely boring.

ah here we go:

"Do sharks lose interest in attacking if punched on the nose or jabbed in the eyes and gills? Adam and Jamie put it to the test. Jamie goes overboard to tussle with some fearsome fish. And a scuba tank experiment is so dangerous, the FBI are brought in!"

will there be gratuitous footage of Keri in a bikini?

Haha, they've been bringing the FBI in a lot lately. And WTF at using Three Stooges moves to deter a shark?

http://www.loveredheads.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/kari05.jpg

Like the episode where they covered whether you can escape a crocodile by running in a zig-zag pattern. Who the hell comes up with these animal escape plans?

http://www.loveredheads.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/kari_byron_02.jpg

There should be more of those metal tags at the end of myths, so in addition to "Busted" or "Confirmed" there could be one for "Idiotic"

Do you guys think it's likely there's a bar somewhere in nyc letting Shark Week blare from the TVs? We don't have cable and my wife's the biggest shark obsessive I know...

I am now obsessed with the GIS for Kari Byron. I had no idea such riches awaited me!

dude you GIS any lady ever and you get tna

I guess what I mean is, I had never thought of Kari in a T n A kinda way before. But that's all changed.

featuring some psycho Belgian asshole in a shark cage
hahaha

but yeah
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/sharkweek.html

tonight is OCEAN OF FEAR
i am kind of glad i don't have tv. because i really like the ocean and i don't want to fear it

rrrobyn those 2 things not mutually exclusive!

yeah but by the time you both love AND fear the sea, you might as well just throw on an eyepatch and stand around on docks telling children scary stories about the narwhal that stole your depth perception

i think i need a diagram

a venn one

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/nitsuh/venn.jpg

those boobs have eyebrows!!

and they've grown together

pirates, the gray area between heart and tits

Nabisco OMG.

that illustration has helped me in many ways

THINGS I LOVE AND FEAR:

- pirates
- sharks
- ninjas
- the mafia
- GIRLS

MOAR SHARX!!!!!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1525000/images/_1528916_shark_atcks_world3_300map.gif

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/photogalleries/sharks1/images/primary/BR6951_22_normal.jpg

http://www.greatwhitesharkdiving.co.za/images/sharkjump.jpg

i think i fall into the pirate badlands between hearts and angry boobs :/

That second to last photo exemplifies the kind of thing on display in Air Jaws, one of the prizes of my wife's DVD collection.

dunno whether this pic makes me wanna laugh or puke:

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/10/21/shark_wideweb__430x319,1.jpg

Don't worry, we're all stuck there with you.

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yeah those things are so boring.

/nabisco

hstencil needs a nap.

i am going to have sharknightmares for sure

That picture's making me sad. Sharks may have to be killed sometimes but they should never be deflated.

http://www.freemyspacegraphics.com/Graphics/Bling!/images/shark_teeth.jpg

john justen needs a penis

:D

they just had the monster shark tournament here. the humane society had planes flying around with banners on them. LOL, like we ever look up from our shark carcasses!

http://www.newenglandsharks.com/_derived/shark.htm_txt_Picture_596.gif

paul wall as a shark ...

http://www.mvgazette.com/features/content/feature_stories/shark_castafari_lg.jpg

we're gonna need a bigger boat

http://www.graphic-design.com/photographic/sharks/art/12girl-sharks-section.jpg

ugh
xpost re: dead sharks

where is teh diagram of feelings abt dead sharks vs feelings abt alive sharks vs feelings abt air sharks?

http://tafkac.org/ulz/shark.jpg

it's sad is all. i stay far away from the shark killers:

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/AP_Photo/2005/08/03/1123083907_4409.jpg

http://www.underwatertimes.com/news2/tiger4.jpg

air sharks >>> dead sharks >>>> donkey balls >>> live sharks >>> john justen

i would also stay away from the shark hunters

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,724136,00.jpg

i caught a mako shark last weekend (no foolin) but released it in deference to shark week.

last week wasn't shark week tho!

sharks will clearly eat you if given the chance.

it goes both ways!

yeah i know but i didn't think the shark was gonna hold it against me.

also shark week = gigantic inflatable shark bisecting the discovery channel building! best way to start yr morning metro ride ever.

http://www.charkbait.com/article/shark2.jpg

UGH :/

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/statistics/Graphs/world_usa_60_02.jpg

hahahahaha scott seward trumps everything.

air sharks >>> dead sharks live sharks >>>> donkey balls >>> live sharks dead sharks >>> john justen >>> shark hunters

-- hstencil, Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:48 AM (7 minutes ago)

See, now this I could get totally behind.

donkey balls still beats you.

Which part of "could totally get behind" do you not understand?

i imagine a lot of things get behind you.

let go.

that's what the shark hunter said, right?

ten years old. Later that year they moved on to a state school for the
Tivadar was a survivor. He would look after his family.
Yet, whether the new government would be benign or hostile was
to people in a far-off land. The editors ran a story on young Georges
but he was intelligent and often demonstrated initiative. When George

If you want to be a sandy douche, do it here so you won't ruin other threads.

http://chezclain.blogs.com/chez_dom_sophie/blue_crush/assaut7.jpg

do sharks get sand in their vaginas?

shark cunnilingus = too terrifying to ponder.

don't knock it 'til you try it

HSTENCIL AND I APOLOGIZE FOR RUINING A PERFECTLY GOOD SHARK WEEK THREAD.

what is up with these morans?

http://www.southboundsportfishing.com/08_August_pics/April/Barbie_shark.JPG

sharks are cute and fun to pet on the head

do female sharks use remoras as tampons?!?

i didn't ruin shit.

that kinda thing can't ruin shark week
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oh oh this one

http://www.paddlenround.com/img/shark-kayak.jpg

oh now i get it

http://www.kevlacat.com/Images/fish6.jpg

rrrobyn we still have poppyseeds

and sharks

I really wish I had digitized the picture of my dad holding a baby shark with a cigarette in it's mouth from his days on "assignment" in the marine corps.

No worries, shark lovers. Catch and release.

damn, Air Jaws and Air Jaws II are out of print - http://www.amazon.com/Air-Jaws-II/dp/B00006AUI4

http://67.19.149.2/~kazooo/portfolio_images/henry_sharks.jpg

i guess i've never really understood the gaping trophy shot thing, but it's not hard to understand really.

http://www.driftalaskacharters.com/_img/trips_shark_01.jpg

http://www.swordfishingcentral.com/albums/babes-fishing/shark004.jpg

http://www.kg-ordo.net/cache/egallery_1099194642/personalalbums/AltynbekUsupbaev/c899.jpg

i understand that people are weird

i kinda like hammerhead girl. ;_;

meanwhile, it's adorable when a seal kills one.

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-04/seal-eats-shark.jpg

man, when is catfish week!

http://www.elklakeshores.com/images/pictures/Elk%20Lake%20cat%20fish%202005.jpg

seals can't help killing sharks and being adorable!
they're just born that way. just like hammerhead girl

http://www.saveourseas.org/images/SurfLifeArticleFactVsFearLilley.jpg

there should be a catfish week

also there should be a no limits on picture size never ending week

still my fave thread:

Pictures of people holding fish

so bizarre to me. maybe it's ME that has the problem.

rrrobyn, as long as we have poppyseeds, sharks, hammerhead girl and catfish...

the world's alllriiight

oh how the tables have turned, SEAL!
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/11/shark191106_468x397.jpg

hahahaha!

they still like clubbing seals where rrrobyn is from. ;_;

;_; i'm not sure i'm from the same canada as those guys though

btw

http://drugsbite.com/images/shark.jpg

seals could be the baddest motherfuckers in the animal world -- they could be as nasty as weasels or piranhas, for example -- and people would STILL love them because they are so puppy-dog cute!

except for folks from newfoundland, though -- they'd STILL club those fuckers to death.

/digression

it should say "clubbing seals bites!"
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ts: sharks vs seals

http://www.sharkforum.org/DB7b-1.jpg

^ totally has a seal in its mouth

there should be a catfish week

Just show the Okie Noodling DVD on repeat!

I ate catfish tonight. In a burrito. :)

But the restaurant was playing U2 :(

And "When Love Came to Town" played followed by "Angel Of Harlem" >_<

But it still tasted good.

good lord, what restaurant?

i loved that album when i was 14 and that's pretty much all it reminds me of if i ever hear songs from it now
i have never eaten catfish!

San Loco Wmsburg.

Rrrobyn, eat catfish! You will not regret. It tastes nothing like cat.

xpost - that's not a restaurant

since when did brown loco have a williamsburg location?!?

one day i will eat catfish! in the u.s. south somewhere

this one is good

http://www.brookdale.cc.nj.us/staff/sandyhook/tripdata/Women%20in%20Science/Shark.jpg

eisbar is so out of the loop.

pnt has decent catfish for being up nawth.

Where you grown from, hstencil?

kentucky, bro

sorry, i don't do williamsburg.

OK I grant you catfish authority.

http://static.flickr.com/27/89085177_63a5076a33.jpg

xpost, obv

http://image03.webshots.com/3/6/84/52/18568452rIogEVteDs_ph.jpg

anyway, more shark v. seal!

http://www.brandoncole.com/profile%20photos/SHARKS/great%20white/nj5.jpg

http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/shark/english/images/Sable%20shark%20kill%201.jpg

another shark ... versus a navy SEAL:

http://vernettiarts.com/files/images/heli_shark_attack.jpg

I need shark v polar bear. Anyone help me out?

and the snopes debunking of the shark v. navy SEAL photo.

http://vicissitude.net/Images/Cat-KittenRideShark.jpg

yeah love it when eisbar posts 3 year-old fake internet photos.

lol
http://www.validorbit.com/images/shops/amitreal.gif

I need shark v polar bear. Anyone help me out?

;__;

xpost oh we all love it yeah

it's funny! he can help it, being so far behind. he "doesn't do williamsburg."

rrobyn wins

so sorry i can't be an underemployed williamsburger with enough time to keep on top of important things like internet hoaxes ...

from three years ago!

i guess i should just move to greenpoint, get drunk and harrass women when i'm not bashing jews since that's what hpencil thinks that that's what all us polacks are good for.

it's a good picture though even though it's a hoax (i can tell from the hoaxational pixels)
xpost

eisbar, u so mad

Let Bigos be the field of peace.

he's like a shark who smells blood.

SHARKWEEKTHREADJUMPSTHESHARKRECURSIVELOOP.JPG

a lawyer shark!

http://www.iciclesoftware.com/LawJokes/shark.gif

more like paczki stuffed with too much jelly -- THAT shit looks more like blood.

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/jkn0025l.jpg

http://swimatyourownrisk.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/blogger/blogger/7194/799/1600/shark_week.0.jpg

okay this made me laugh ridiculously

http://www.bearskinrug.co.uk/_articles/2006/02/21/shark/hero.jpg

BTW on "Bite Force 2" last week (which I was able to see only cause we were on vacation), it was shown that the humble Nurse Shark generates a bite force almost equal to the Great White. (Great White = 600something lbs, Nurse = 500something.) This is cuz the GW relies on the slicing action of its teeth to dice up its prey, whereas the Nurse is crushing shellfish with its platelike jaw.

Also, pound-for-pound, Tasmanian Devil did not do too badly either.

http://www.myspacebackgrounds.eu/wp-content/img/greatwhiteshark.jpg

http://sharkspage.com/jpgs3/sharks_flyers60.jpg

aww he look kewt!

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http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d150/suicidetekky/shark.jpg

this is courtesy of Curt1s on the noize funny thread, wait until the end for the relevant bits:

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=137966&vid=702227&b=0

shark bite foot

http://www.surfersvillage.com/gal/pictures/Shark-foot_Gal.jpg

HARN Museum in Gainesville has a 1/1 mockup of the jaws of the prehistoric sharks that lived in the (wider, deeper) prehistoric Florida rivers. Srsly it's as big as the one behind that hockey guy.

he's a friendly guy!
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v622/dysign/ilx/?action=view¤t=greatguywhiteshark.jpg

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v622/dysign/ilx/?action=view¤t=greatguywhiteshark.jpg

nerd shark

http://www.tudiscovery.com/tiburones/que_es/popup_que/asset/07914907646434433_elephant_shark_380x290.jpg

oh ffs

ghostface on shark n***as (biterz):

Niggaz is fuckin crazy... knowhati'msayin?
Hell yeah man
Word... you know how niggaz be bitin and shit
Niggaz be bitin mad styles n shit from niggaz man
Yeah, no doubt
That's what i be hatin man, i can't stand a fuckin bitin ass nigga
Wanna use your lines all ahead of time
Word
Before you even get a chance, to shine on your own shit
True, nah niggaz be killing me though son because
Yaknow, they be take be comin with your words and shit
They hear you say one word then here they come with the word
Tryin to flip it and bounce it on some bullshit
Yeah, yeah
Not sounding like first of all and shit
Yeah
Yaknowhati'msayin? boom, but then you got niggaz son on the real
Yaknowhati'msayin? niggaz niggaz niggaz niggaz is bitin off your
Album cover and shit
Yeah!
Whoa bad enough they biting lines like niggaz killed me
Yeah
When they came with some nas, niggaz bit offa nas shit!
Knowhati'msayin?
*chuckling*
Word niggaz niggaz niggaz niggaz caught his little album cover move
And then they got wise to that shit
Yeah
I'm like damn what the fuck man?
It's like these happy-go-lucky niggaz man when they get on man
They wanna pop a little, a little champagne
Word like i said
Youknowhati'msayin? every few, every time you see em
Youknowhati'msayin? like, front on don't fuck with me
Yeah man
You gonna play that role play it though
Yo man, it's like this man, niggaz man
Niggaz know not to fuck around with this shit
I don't give a fuck how nasty they are
Nah son, let me tell these niggaz somethin god
I don't want niggaz soundin like me... on no album!
Youknowhati'msayin? for real cause i'ma approach a nigga man
For real man, i don't want nobody sounding like me man, for real son
No doubt
Bad enough nigga, i don't want nobody sound like nobody from my clan
Man keep it real, get your own shit man, and be original
Word up
That's all man
And you'll be a better man
And you gonna come out on your own
Word up
Whatever how you gonna take it man, fuck it
Word up

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/dysign/ilx/greatguywhiteshark.jpg

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_02/WhaleSharkWENN_468x336.jpg

THAT'S A WHALE SHARK NO FAIR!!!

Jesus how is it 1:30? I'm goin to bed.

exactly. shark ya later.

yeah me too

http://theroguejournal.com/stories/humans-dinner/man_food.jpg

scott - that thing is hilarious!

GAH

the signing shark, that is. not that ^

just home from the tattoo parlor, where I got a sweet shot of a bikini girl straddling a hammerhead shark inked on my left bicep -- you're all welcome to see it at the HStencil/Universe Peace Talks

http://i0005.photobucket.com/albums/0005/icanhascheezburger/2007/7/31/1/128303454529957500Thanx4theAd.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Jabberjaw.png

http://www.sirgeorgeyoung.org.uk/pageimages/shark_big.jpg

This is an ad for a seafood buffet, believe it or not.

http://adsoftheworld.com/files/images/shark-bite.jpg

http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/18131.jpg

http://photos18.flickr.com/23837315_6e6edde04d.jpg?v=0

is that a dog or a pikachu?

jon probably knows
i think it is a picture of a dog - a cute dog!

those white guy dreads might be the scariest thing on this thread

what does he have shells in them?? ugh

i'd rather pay attention to the cute dog.

also might have to load all messages to take a peek at hammerhead girl again. *swoon*

Said to a friend the other day "dude, you're like a drunk shark, you have to keep drinking or you'll die"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2sZf8R4_oXk

STAX WEEK (or at least night)

that stax thing was so beautiful. i watched it at work (don't tell). i almost cried. course they almost ruin the whole glorious thing by ending with fucking bono! *sigh*

yeah i was just gonna go to the thread on ilm and be all "bono wtf?!!?"

jermaine dupri was cool tho.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/singingshark.jpg

tracer you sharked that from scott seward.

http://board.crewcial.org/img/sharky.gif

are the squiggly lines supposed to represent bad breath?

I watched the episode of Planet Earth (the David Attenborough-narrated version, thanks) that had the super slo-mo shots of a shark breaching and chomping a seal. It was AWESOME. And then at the end, there was another 15 minute doc about how they got those shots. The went shark hunting. It was exciting.

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no i believe that shark is smoking

prove it

party shark is smoking, you just can't tell because of ilx's crap white background

this guy is called a Ragged-Tooth shark. Guess why.

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/2391516-md.jpg

Well I'm up there beside the magic man
And he layed some tricks for me
He said you do need help my friend
I whispered, obviously

He laid a spread of Jacks and Queens
And he begged me take my pick
But every face it had your face
I cried out, I am sick

Sick of hauling your love around
Want to run my train alone
But the engine tracks straight through your heart
And weighs me like a stone
Oh it's a hard love to love you it takes up all my time
Having you so familiar like past lives and nursery rhymes

So I gave away the pictures and your golden ring
And the phone calls you sent me and the silver birds that sing
Then the man he told me something that really brought me down
Your things were blown away it's true but you were still in town

The magician left a message, it flashes when I hide
Accept the chains of loving,
Accept the rails remove yourself from her side
Do without her love

As I lay back in the speeding train, I keep it by my side
I could mail a letter to you but I still have my pride

Three times I've sent you back from me three times my boat's gone dry
And three times I've seen the shooting shark lighting up the sky
Oh it's a hard love to love you babe it takes my breath away
The fourth time round is the last time round there's nothing else to say
(Buck Dharma/Patti Smith)

-B-U-M-P-E-D---F-O-R---S-H-A-R-K---W-E-E-K-
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/MrTsharkpunch.gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_Week

" * In the NBC sitcom 30 Rock Tracy Jordan encourages Kenneth to "Live every week like it's Shark Week." This itself was referenced on the Mythbusters 2008 Shark Week Special when Adam Savage encourages viewers to do the same."

http://ilike.com/user/SharkWeek

http://i34.tinypic.com/16hp645.jpg

LIVE EVERY WEEK LIKE IT'S SHARK WEEK

http://content.pyzam.com/funnypics/stupid/st4.jpg

love this thread

bumped 4 shark week

http://vimeo.com/14054518

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp7q52WAkG1qd3ppyo1_400.jpg

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp9f3hCpDt1qaaafzo1_500.jpg

lol

BUT WHAT IF SHARK WEEK IS BAD FOR THE SHARKIE-POOS?????

After all guys, IT'S SHARK PORN

In addition to fakery, Palmer points out that the animals themselves are often endangered by filmmakers. “We get too close, we harass them, we’re desperate to get the money shots,” he says.

Yeah, what kinda faggot pinko worries about driving important predator species to extinction, right?

["Jaws"'s] key mistake was portraying great white sharks as vengeful predators that could remember specific human beings and go after them to settle a grudge.

"The movie certainly gave sharks too much of an ability to engage in revenge," Burgess said.

As a consequence of this depiction of sharks as monsters bent on massacring swimmers and boaters in "Jaws," dozens of shark fishing tournaments popped up. "A collective testosterone rush certainly swept through the East Coast of the U.S.," Burgess said. "It was good blue-collar fishing. You didn't have to have a fancy boat or gear — an average Joe could catch big fish, and there was no remorse, since there was this mindset that they were man-killers."

This proved to be part of a growing shark-hunting trend that dramatically reduced nearly all shark species over the following decades, Burgess said. In the waters off the U.S. eastern seaboard, populations of many species of sharks have dropped by 50 percent and some have fallen by as much as 90 percent.

Further compounding the effects of the fin trade on shark populations is the sharks notoriously slow reproductive cycle. Many species valued in the fin trade breed only once every two years and usually give birth to only a few pups each breeding cycle. "Shark populations are very likely experiencing a net loss each year as a result of shark harvesting outpacing shark reproduction," said Harvey. "Sharks simply cannot reproduce fast enough to meet the
demands of the global fin trade."

Scientists and conservationists agree that shark populations cannot sustain this level of exploitation indefinitely. "We are already seeing huge declines in certain shark populations in many regions around the world," said Harvey. "Recent studies of hammerhead populations in the northwest Atlantic, for example, have shown a catch rate decline estimated as high as 89% since the mid-1980s and the great white populations in the same region of the Atlantic may have declined by as much as 79%." Harvey adds that several species are already in such decline that it may be difficult for them to recover, with the end result being the potential ecological extinction of some species of sharks from the world's oceans. "Although there are many factors at play in the decline of shark population around the
globe, much of the decline can be attributed to the overharvesting of these species in an effort to accommodate the
global demand for shark products."

In the last decade of his career, [Peter]Benchley wrote non-fiction works about the sea and about sharks advocating their conservation. Among these was his book entitled Shark Trouble,[7] which illustrated how hype and news sensationalism can help undermine the public's need to understand marine ecosystems and the potential negative consequences as humans interact with it. This work, which had editions in 2001 and 2003, was written to help a post-Jaws public to more fully understand "the sea in all its beauty, mystery, and power."[8] It details the ways in which man seems to have become more of an aggressor in his relationship with sharks, acting out of ignorance and greed as several of the species become increasingly threatened by overfishing.

Benchley was a member of the National Council of Environmental Defense and a spokesman for its Oceans Program: "[T]he shark in an updated Jaws could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim; for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors."[9]

He was also one of the founding board members of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute (BUEI).

Because surely there is a way to prevent news sensationalism and the public's desire to hear less about shark attacks on humans?

I had a friend addicted to shark porn. He would just sit in front of the TV all day, flipping the channels, looking for sharks. It got to the point where he couldn't even maintain a normal relationship with regular fish. They'd have to spread chum just to get him off the couch.

Hmmm if only some television outlet that airs a well-promoted and highly viewed block of programming about sharks were to use part of it to discuss how rare and unlikely shark attacks are instead of bandwagoning on misplaced fear I wonder what would happen what a mystery etc. etc.

shark on the subway

http://gothamist.com/2013/08/07/photos_dead_shark_on_subway.php

Mel Brooks did a riff on a classic David Susskind Show about seeing a shark on the Brighton local, so I think he put it there.

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Hmmm if only some television outlet that airs a well-promoted and highly viewed block of programming about sharks were to use part of it to discuss how rare and unlikely shark attacks are instead of bandwagoning on misplaced fear I wonder what would happen what a mystery etc. etc.

Not really sure how much fear is misplaced given that sharks attack humans--last year the US had the most "unprovoked" shark attacks ever (53 incidents, including 26 in Florida alone.) One a week seems like a better bandwagon than a shoe bomber, but what do I know.

Not really sure how much fear is misplaced given that sharks attack humans.

I know you are not this stupid.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/06/us-shark-attack-statistics-fears

Last year, 80 unprovoked shark strikes took place worldwide: seven resulted in deaths, including one in California. Fifty-three strikes took place in US waters, nearly half of them off Florida.

According to the file's analysis of data from 2000, beachgoers faced a one in 2m chance of dying from drowning and other causes based on visits to east and west coast beaches. By contrast, they faced a one in 11.5m chance of being attacked by a shark, and less than a one in 264m chance of dying from a shark bite, since just one person died that year in US waters from an attack.

Put another way, more Americans were killed by collapsing sinkholes (16) than sharks (11) between 1990 and 2006, and more by tornadoes (125) than sharks (6) in Florida between 1985 and 2010. (And for all you Sharknado fans, those were shark-free tornadoes.)

"Tides and currents kill more people [at the beach] than sharks that kill people," said Gregory Skomal, a shark biologist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.

You are literally more likely to get hit by a bus shortly after hitting "Submit" on ILX than you are to get attacked by a shark anywhere in the world ever.

All of which is incidental as to whether we're hunting sharks to extinction, which we are, which will have rather profound (read: bad) consequences for marine life overall.

An even more poignant comparison: In 500 years of recorded history, there have been fewer confirmed, unprovoked shark-attack fatalities worldwide than there will be motor vehicle deaths in the United States this month.

BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID.

I can't erase the fact that once a week, someone gets bit or that people are irrational in their fear. You know how many people die from accidental drowning each year?

I thought you would point out that there are likely more people in the water than ever before, that we've likely changed the ecosystem, and that other environmental impacts are leading to rising shark attacks.

Not really sure of there is causation between shark attack sensationalism and extinction but I fear it would be challenging to prove. It seems a reasonable hypothesis though.

That said, I agree with you that sensationalism is a menace and we should stop it everywhere. Just not really sure how to put that Jaws Pandora back in the box. There is much more interest in killing, blood, and gore than the mystery of great oceanic creatures.

Yes, there are more people in the water, and more people are traveling to beach locations. That's certainly a factor.

Sensationalism-induced fear is driving a lot of the "WHOOO LET'S KILL SOME SHARKS!" hunting. A lot more is being driven by idiocies like shark's fin soup and folk medicines. I don't know which is easier to get a handle on; probably the former. The latter problem is trans-jurisdictional and there's no real authority with the power to make it stop.

Humans are terrible.

Well, you could argue that the bloodsport around sharks probably makes people feel less bad about lopping a fin off. And overall, we're pretty nonchalant about killing the organisms that aren't cute or have no obvious use (hello mosquitos!).

Overall, I agree with you that I should try to be less terrible. Then maybe I can take the moral high ground every now and again.

Meh, for all you know I'm Ariel Castro.

As long as there are shark tornados, I will remain fearful of sharks.

400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’

The team found that the sharks grow at just 1cm a year, and reach sexual maturity at about the age of 150

I hope they have some decent shark dentists, wouldn't fancy a toothache that lasted for 3 centuries.