Jumping Sharks!

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There you are, minding your own business, just hanging out in the Indian Ocean, when all of a sudden a 21-foot great white shark launches itself into the air and flies at you -- like a Huey! -- and you've got time for just one thought (probably Man, his dental bills gotta be murder) before you're tickling a shark uvula on the way down his gullet.

I'm never going to the Indian Ocean! You can't make me.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/images/031124_breachingshark2.jpg

Full article at National Geographic

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/photogalleries/sharks1/images/primary/2483-11_normal.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Steve-O and Chris Pontius visited Seal Island and filmed these sharks in the first episode of Wildboyz.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

There was a great photo of someone hanging out of a helicopter and a huge shark leaping at him - I assume it was photoshopped, but it looked very spectacular.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Also I thought this thread was going to be about Happy Days and the meme that got its name from there.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 1 December 2003 21:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not that it would change my likelihood of wanting to go anywhere near those sharks, but the article describes them as 12 feet long, the biggest 13 to 16 feet long. I saw that helicopter shot too, and my reaction was "yeah, riiiiiight."

http://www.pibmug.com/files/blackhelicopter.jpg

― Hunter (Hunter), Monday, 1 December 2003 22:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

That helicopter photo is a hoax. National Geographic picks it apart.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

the funny thing about that picture is that part of the bay is not uncommon for great white sharks to be because they breed a little north of there off the coast of the little town of tiburon (spanish for "great white shark").

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 00:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

i hope that guy has his 'bat shark repellant' in his utility belt.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 11:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

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