Its shark week/ Shark Fest

[vetteguy53081]

As many know, this is annual Shark week and ive seen many fascinated with sharks and eels in their tank. Ive always had an interest in sharks and fascinated by their appearance and behaviors. I know we have several shark owners on R2R.

How many have watched or have been watching shark week?
What have you liked the most and the least thus far?
Is there a particular episode that has stood out for you?

I liked the bull Shark vs. Great white and Sharkano- Hawaii. There are a lot of repeats and some too focused on tracking sharks.

 

[dangles]

Honestly I find it too cringey to watch. Nature-based television has shifted so far away from education over the last 10-15 years. They’re way more concerned with ratings, which just means drama and “shock p 0rn”

 

[vetteguy53081]

Honestly I find it too cringey to watch. Nature-based television has shifted so far away from education over the last 10-15 years. They’re way more concerned with ratings, which just means drama and “shock p 0rn”

I cant argue with that. With some episodes, who wants to go in the water?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

No kidding about shark week! I saw what looked like to be a shark off the gulf coast of Alabama this week! Everyone was just starting at the fin as it was racing through the water.

 

[Shon]

I can't remember if it was shark week or bbc earth or what, but the video of a group of sharks gorging on a floating whale carcass was cool to watch. I only use tv for background noise nowadays, which is usually iHeartRadio..

 

[Tcook]

They had an episode on sand tigers off Long Island. Never heard of that shark before. I remember when jaws first came out. Much fewer people were going into the water that summer and this was on the west coast!

 

[fish farmer]

Honestly I find it too cringey to watch. Nature-based television has shifted so far away from education over the last 10-15 years. They’re way more concerned with ratings, which just means drama and “shock p 0rn”

Same here. I gave up on shark weak about 10 years ago, back when it first started in the 80s they had the old school 60's era research and some classic Rodney Fox footage.

 

[LuizW13]

I used to LOVE watching Shark Week- but I haven't had cable in a long time so I never get to watch it anymore

 

[StatelineReefer]

Shark Weak...

 

[Salty_Northerner]

I used to love watching Shark week but I'm a cord cutter and refuse to pay the high price for cable where I live.

I have shark month every year when we go to Australia.
I was in Harvey Bay out on the giant pier talking to fishermen and watched a massive Tiger shark swim just beyond where the people were swimming. It was nerve racking to say the least. I asked the fisherman, are the ppl not afraid of sharks being so close? He replied by saying NAH, there's so much food in the water they don't bother the ppl where their at.

Also had a bad experience with a bull shark when I was walking way out from shore. Something was nudging me in chest deep water and after noticing a fresh water river not far from me it clicked! Yup time to vamoose real quick! Now when I go down under we just hit the Perth Aquarium

 

[kevgib67]

Shark week was huge in my house when my boys were young. I really built it up and my sons waited with anticipation. Every night we watched. The episode that has always stood out to me was when 4 men were standing waist deep with bull sharks swimming around them. They had a camera above and below the water. As one of the men were arguing that bull sharks aggression was overblown as bull shark bit and removed his calf.

 

[fish farmer]

This is a good watch if folks haven't seen it, Valerie Taylor's story...

Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story (2021) ⭐ 7.5 | Documentary, Adventure

1h 35m | TV-PG

www.imdb.com

 

[Slocke]

To echoes others I grew up on educational Animal Planet and Discovery and remember mythbusters shark week most fondly. That megalodon lie/scam/BS was the final nail in th coffin for me.

 

[cwerner]

I just went to Shedd aquarium last week and their shark display was very neat. I plan on making a display like that myself some day. On an unrelated note, anyone have a spare 100 million dollars? I'll pay you back with some monkey NFT's.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

To echoes others I grew up on educational Animal Planet and Discovery and remember mythbusters shark week most fondly. That megalodon lie/scam/BS was the final nail in th coffin for me.

Yep, I remember always looking forward to the mythbusters crew partaking in shark week.