Shark Week!
 | Author: Jauretsi | Posted: July 28th, 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized | | Comments Off |
Best thing about Summer
I was giddy like a child last night watching my cable. It was the first night of Shark Week on Discovery channel (That’s Ch66, Time Warner, for Manhattan folks). Being a Florida girl with a fisherman father, I’ve been an avid watcher of this longest running Cable series — celebrating its 20 Year Anniversary! My first dog was named Calypso after Jacques Cousteau (shark god himself) because that was the name of his boat — random trivia, I realize.
The programming is basically 1 week of unadultered shark revelations. There’s a doc on flying Great Whites near Australia (see video here on homepage). The shows generally travel to different continents and the docs range from shark scientists to tribal cultures off little islands — all sharing their shark stories. Add incredible ocean cinematography.
(Sharkman)
Last year, Shark Week featured Sharkman (photo above), some sort of shark whisperer guy who swims UNPROTECTED and plays with Great Whites and casts them under his spell.
(Final Scene in JAWS. Can Air Tank Really Act As a Bomb? See Mythbusters This Week)
Last nights programming was a special Mythbusters. The questions being: Can a shark really be blown to pieces if you put a bullet through an air tank? According to the “making of the film”, the books original author told Steven Spielberg it was impossible to do this, and not accurate. Spielberg of course said, “I don’t care” and opted for his ending of blowing up JAWS into bits and pieces. All I know is my movie theater cheered their butts off.
Check out Mythbusters programming times to see the experiment’s answer for yourself.
J
