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Sharks Freak Me Out.

by on Jul.18, 2005, under Ramblings

Just when you thought it was safe to get in the water again….
Made the mistake of watching the discovery/national geographic channels yesterday night. It’s probably fairly common knowledge that sharks can attack pretty close to shore but watching it happen really re-inforces that statement.
In this case, they were showing sharks catching/eating some birds that were just learning to fly and so were wading in the ocean. I bet if I were standing on the beach, I could have hit the shark with a well thrown soda can. It was that near to the shoreline.
Switched a channel and it was yet another shark program. They were tagging some sharks for tracking and of course they had to catch them first. You really get a feel of how large these are when they pull them up next to the boat. 11 foot is by no means the largest and it already looks huge next to the humans in the boat.
Next program I switched to was (surprise surprise) sharks again.. myth busters this time, trying out 4 scenes from the original Jaws movie. Stuff I learnt from this show.
* Sharks can grow up to 20+ feet
* A few thousand pounds
* They apparently can pull barrels under water
Suffice to say I’m staying out of the water.


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