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In the criminal justice system, shark based offenses are considered especially heinous. In California beaches, the dedicated surfers who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Shark Victims Unit. These are their stories.
*cut to two lawyers interrogating a shark* "You say you weren't at *insert beach here* at the time of the murder. But THESE *slams photos on desk* PROVE OTHERWISE" *the shark is literally dead. A shark can't survive in a police station.*
Ik lmfao. It sucks because they have some really interesting studies sometimes, and then they do it one time and they're like "welp we're done" or a storm comes and theyre like "dang i guess we can't do that now" and they just never have any accurate information. I'm going into marine biology and those kinds of things are super interesting. And they just completely skew all of it and barely show anything. I don't like shark week for the dramatization to be honest. If it's a documentary I'd like to learn something. Sometimes they'll show a very interesting behavior that I've never seen before, or a very obscure shark I haven't heard of, and I learn something. I do like that they're promoting the fact that sharks aren't just dangerous killing machines, like that one with Gordon Ramsey in Asia televising the illegal collection of shark fins. That's educational and raises awareness. But most of them are just LOOK AT THIS KILLER SHARK!! ITS SO EVIL!!!
it's giving "the student that paid absolutely no attention during class and then has to write an essay and create slides to present in front of everyone" vibes
So I frequently use RU-vid kinda like background noise, but I was listening to this, and I'm not kidding when I say I thought it was a real narrator at first, then I realized what he was saying was weird, then I realized it was Eddy. He fooled me for sure.
I’m a scuba diver. It’s infuriating the way that shows portray sharks as these psycho monsters. Sharks kill 12 people a year. Vending machines kill more people per year. They’re generally quite docile. They also give you tons of warnings if they’re unhappy you’re in their space. That’s why snorkelers and surfers tend to get attacked more than divers. We can see their body language, they can’t. They often try to warn people to get out of their space for AGES before they attack. They do not fucking eat people. They can’t digest our bones. They don’t like the smell of our blood. We are not in their diet and they know it.
@@ashikjaman1940 honestly I’m not sure but they’ve killed like 37 people in a single year at some point. Probs like the other person said, people shake them to get a free drink or because it ate their money and they trying to get their stuff out of it.
And ironic part more people die from lighting every year than sharks. Lighting kills 28 people per year just in the US and average shark related deaths per year is 6 worldwide.
i had to pause the video and take a lap around my room at that one. not only are we ascribing MORALITY to ANIMALS, but we are also assuming they can tell time???? all the clocks at the bottom of the ocean are stopped 💀💀
Doesn't need to be like 3 kills to be considered a serial killer for a person. I thought from the name it would be about a bunch of deaths but two? Could be intresting sure but not the way they did it.
Well coordinated migrations and mating seasons shows to me they have some understanding of time. However the idea of a culculating pre-meditating murder from an animal seems rediculous
I have to admit, I was expecting a lot of things out of this video, but National Geographic body-shaming a lady shark and claiming her ugly fin is why she can't get a boyfriend was... uh... not one of those things.
Gotta love humans they believe everywhere is theirs even places they cant live in it. Note:Yes, I said they because I am a reptile that try to invade world.
the emphasis on the term “serial killer” is even more laughable when you realize that in order for someone to be classified as such, they have to have claimed at LEAST 3 victims which debunks this awful title immediately…
3 victims AND there has to be a common thread between the victims (e.g., all victims were blonde women like with Son of Sam). A double-whammy of debunking.
That’s such a misunderstanding of the morality of nature (it’s amoral. It’s supposed to be. Morality is a sapient animal thing and we’re very bad at handling it) it is like actually stunning. Anthropomorphizing animals like this is dangerous and rude to the animals and nature in general
isn't the whole point of shark week supposed to be to raise awareness about the fact that sharks have been painted in a bad light for decades and aren't nearly as much of a threat as people make them out to be? I feel like the serial killer one just takes that and chucks it out the window.
Money. The lowest common denominators of society would rather watch a sensationalist piece about "E V I L S H A R K S !" rather than actually learn about sharks.
I think they do that more nowadays than they used to. I don't really keep up on it much, but I watched the Jackass crew's Shark Week special and they were all talking about how sharks are just trying to exist. One guy even got bit by a shark, but only because they were purposefully doing something dumb (trying to literally Jump the Shark), and they all acknowledge that it wasn't the sharks fault.
As someone who studies sharks and tries to educate and spread awareness, I really appreciate your video on this. Discovery is sadly no longer about education and is more about mislabeling these animals as mindless killers because that's what brings in the views. It's a shame but sadly people support the lies and continue to make conservation and education efforts more difficult
As an aspiring Herpetologist, I feel that. It’s kinda similar with snakes too. There was one Discovery show where a dude was trying to get eaten alive by an anaconda. The problem is that anacondas don’t eat humans and the “angry” anaconda was simply defending itself from what it perceived as a dangerous animal. It’s kinda frustrating that some “nature” shows are perpetuating harmful stereotypes about animals that lead to them being killed.
@@adoramay9410 There's been no documented cases of anacondas eating people anyways!!! Theres a single story that's dubiously factual, thats IT anacondas preffer slow moving prey they can ambush they don't chase people!!! Snakes don't chase things that's never been a thing with snakes the only "chasing" is when rattles snakes will try to hide in peoples shaows amd will follow them but I've never seen actual proof of this
As a geneticist: There is no too small piece in genetics as long as there’s just one piece of dna at the shark tooth, the police would have been able to extract it via pcr. They were just like f you we will not check a shark tooth for dna for your weird show and so the producers were like, we will just say it it was too small 🤷🏼♀️😂😂
I was so confused i was like "but i watches in forensic files they took the tiniest drop of blood and identified the killer? Why is a shark tooth too small?"
For years, Eddy advocated for the rights of the unverified. Then suddenly he gets the blue check, and he’s all “ohhh sharks I’m better than you.” What the fuck? Smh, unfollowed
Haha i mean..it's also perpetuating the shark fear even though it's as rare as lightning Also I'm FROM Santa Barbara, Lompocs beach is super popular local surf spot, as much as sands or deveroux if you're in goleta, that fake surfer guys full of shit I've surfed there, ive been going in the water in SB county for 15 years haha, nobody's scared of sharks This isn't like the tip of South Africa Also the bites are ALWAYS exploratory haha, they don't attack humans, just bite, think it's gross and leave They aren't the man eating lions of Savo They're goddamn endangered species haha demonizing them is f*cked
Lived in LA my whole life, spent too much time at the beach to count. I can think of one time in my life that a shark attack in a season even warranted an announced warning to beach goers
@@beastofbussycreek Yeah I've never heard a beach shut down because one or two people got attacked by sharks, because costal people aren't idiots and relize the sharks aren't gonna hurt them if they just leave the sharks alone People who live by the beach aren't scared of sharks, i bet you're way more scared of the weather right now than a single shark
I mean very rarely you get an animal with a taste for humans like the biggest case of the two Tsavo Lions who fed on the Arab slave trade and then turned on railway workers. That pair had developed hunting strategies specifically for humans which is why it was such a big deal. But sharks aint like that, people just forget they dont have ands and must use their mouths to explore their world which is why you see them biting at diving cages. So most bites are them seeing what something is and due to the power it causes deaths. But if they actively wanted to kill someone you would see way less survivors from shark bites.
@@rottytherottski522 The only animal species i can think of that hunts humans is polar bears But sharks arent polar bears, you bop em in the nose and they fuck right off sharks are giant babies, like most fish are
I thought Shark Week's purpose was supposed to unvilify sharks. Make people realize that they're just animals and they're to be respected but not feared. Like any other animal.
That was over 20 years ago when Discovery networks weren't just the worst. They threw out science and education nearly entirely by 2006 after TLC blazed a trail of ignorance when it proved there was money in trash reality shows after it had shifted from educational content to reality in 2001.
Really? In my experience it's always been the exact opposite; just a way for people to be like "woah look at the scary shark lol I hope it doesn't eat anyone"
it is shark week is owned by discovery not national geographic. what eddy watched was Disneys attempt to rip off shark week. (i believe they call it shark fest or something else stupid) but eddy did in fact not watch any shark week content
Fun fact; when sharks bite things, like the metal cage from the first shark in the Most Wanted Sharks show, it's often because they're curious and often will bite things in their surroundings to figure out what it is. That's also why most shark attacks happen, the shark has no idea what the human is and is just trying to figure out what it is and doesn't realize that biting the human will hurt it or even kill it. Also the splashing plays a role too as that can scare the shark and sharks when scared will sometimes bite as a way of defense. Sharks are more afraid of us than we are of them. Also we really body shaming sharks now? What if Lucy just doesn't want kids? I think she's fine the way she is and it's no one else's business why she don't got kids.
Sharks don't have hands. Really their only feeling sensory organ is their mouth, and as a predator it's their natural instinct to bite things to be exploratory. It is literally the same thing as a cat play-biting you or chewing on some crinkly plastic, only sharks are much bigger and have more teeth so it's more dangerous for us.
For the first one I'm imagining some guys in a business meeting saying "Gen Z is a key demographic. How can we get them instrested in Sharks? The second one is the same thing but for fans of true crime documentaries. It is so funny how much it seems like that guy is planning a murder and is trying to find a way he can plausably frame a shark for it. Also I'm never going to forget the phrase 'hot fuckable shark'
The reason "Brandon the dog trainer" ended up being the host of this show is probably because everyone in the industry who knows anything about sharks would turn this garbage down. It does nothing but hurt the industry as a whole. Thank you for pointing out the absurdities of these shows rather than continuing the false naratives.
I'm coming to realize that a lot of these shows seemed scientific and educational but we had more luck emailing a marine biologist ourselves than listen to these shows.
in the past, shark week actually was more educational. it's been garbage for years, but there was a time when it wasn't full of sensationalized bullshit.
I know when I was a kid it helped me become more passionate about the ocean and about animals in general and now I'm about to start actually making a difference when it comes to that so at least it did something. I might be looking at it through nostalgia glasses but it used to be less egregiously horrible
Most marine biologists will beg you not to do this-they’re normally pretty busy, and get swamped by “email an X” assignments for school, etc. There is a lively marine bio population on Twitter (& probably Instagram); great place to learn more and interact with experts.
@Lord Ass Very few marine biologists are paid to answer email. They’re paid to do research-often from the government money they successfully petition for and win. Expecting people to respond to hundreds of emails a week, something that takes time to do well, is absolutely unreasonable. And I imagine you’d be hugely offended if anyone told you that you should spend hours a week on your job, answering email, but not being paid to do it. 🙄
I did my dissertation partially on this! With one section on how giving animals human personalities (whether negatively or positively) can be damaging for their conservation. The selfie obsessed shark got me laughing 😂
I’m a fish biologist and I screamed through this whole video 😭 the sad thing is you could frame these things in an educational videos. Have shark researchers/biologists break down and explain viral shark videos. Use the surf beach attacks as a springboard to talk to the researchers on things like the migration patterns and how the way great whites hunt and how to best avoid run-ins with them. Explain why they’re important members of the ecosystem despite their occasional risk to people. I guess thats not as sexy as a fuckable shark tho 🤷♀️ Thank you for another awesome video!
My brother’s a surfer and while he was paddling he accidentally hit a shark in the face. The shark left him alone. Wow it’s almost like sharks aren’t raging blood thirsty predators
Not like i think sharks are blood thirsty murderers, but its probally the best place to have hit the shark. If one does bite you and doesnt let go people suggest you bop it on the nose or stab it in the eye. If he hit it on the tail it might have gotten spooked and bit in defense. Either way glad your brother is okay.
When Eddy started doing his own voiceover, I genuinely didn't notice and only even bothered to question it when I heard "hot f*ckable shark" and I experienced a very wide range of emotions
i thought it was real too but when i heard "hot fuckable shark" instead of realizing it was eddy making a joke i just thought the producers were really fuckn weird
Even at that point I was suspicious but still not sure until he started talking about kissing the shark, and I had to go back and find when the switch happened
"Sharkano" is especially funny to me because it's clearly aping off of the recognizability if "Sharknado," a movie made by Asylum pictures, which owes much of its success to aping off the recognizability of mainstream movies. I.e. making a movie called "Transmorphers" so people would accidentally rent it from Red Box.
I’m glad that he did a documentary about sharks and made them out to be what they actually are, just animals and actually talked to professionals and not people who know nothing about sharks.
Yeah those are the type of shows I watch during shark week not like what's on here. There was one about how sharks are getting harder and harder to find where they used to be abundant so they'd film there due to global warming and its effects on everything, man-made problems, and everything else that was pretty interesting
the truly funny part to me is that to be considered a “serial” killer, 3 lives must be claimed. even if they were correct in it being a singular shark, it’s just a repeat offender at best.
@@jayedgar1384 It's not a murder, though. Sharks are literally incapable of performing "murder". They can kill you, yes, but that doesn't qualify as murder in anything but a colloquial sense at best. I wouldn't be so pedantic if one of the main points of the video wasn't that sharks can't really murder you. They are wild animals and, as animals, they are simply doing what they must (or what they see as necessary) to stay alive. "Murder" on the other hand is usually defined as "the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought" (Merriam-Webster) and is specifically a crime. That means it's an activity that is defined by the law. Since human law can't really apply to sharks, they can't really be guilty of murder. To put it otherwise, it's like accusing a cliff of being a murderer because people just can't help but try and get close to the edge to take selfies. Cliff has nothing to do with their ensuing tumble into the great unknown. Cliff's a good guy, he did nothing wrong! On the other hand, if killing other species for the purpose of feeding WAS qualified as murder, guess which species of nearly 8 billion individuals would immediately have to get the chair?
Putting aside how sharks don't have the mental capacity to be intentionally evil (dolphins do, don't think about it too much) and that there is absolutely no reason to believe that one shark killed two people, but serial killers have 3 or more individual kills. The shark wouldn't even be a serial killer. You've got a shark with maximum two kills, without malice. I need a documentary on serial killer vending machines
9:15 Perfect choice of clip, Eddy. I love when RU-vidrs under the same "commentary" umbrella do these out of context cutaways. They are all so unbelievably funny.
That serial killer shark show was DEFINITELY the brainchild of some coke-addled boomer who was like "Sharks are in! true crime is in! what if we made a true crime show about sharks!?!"
Honestly I think it’s kind of gross that Discovery and National Geographic are pumping out these kinds of shows that misrepresent sharks so much. Like these are companies that pride themselves on being accurate about the animal world yet they willingly disregard that sharks are super hated and at risk from these kinds of public perceptions.
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. Gets me frustrated. Just admit that you love the videos I make, my dear paola
6:08 made me howl laughing. Calling a shark in the ocean “on the loose” is so funny. Bitch it LIVES there. I’m not on the loose in my own apartment. If it was on the streets of like Orange County? Then we can call it “on the loose”
As someone who was a HUGE shark girl as a kid, Shark Week was quite literally more exiting than Christmas to me and I have so many great memories of watching it all week, learning so much, and loving these super awesome animals, but as I got older I was less and less inclined to watch because it was becoming SO commercialized and focused on “big killer great whites” and celebrity appearances, and LESS about the research and appreciation which is what drew me in originally. It’s so sad :/ I don’t even bother watching it anymore. I still love sharks, and I always will, but it’s just disappointing that something that started out as a week of shark love and destigmatization has turned so cheesy and embarrassing to watch. Great vid Eddy
I think it did help a lot of future conservationists and biologists find their passion but yeah they are really attempting to undo all that shit but I guess they don't need the planet to survive as much as the need that moneyyyyyyy
I grew my love for sharks as a kid from books in the library. I lost interest in them from watching these kid of shows and getting so frustrated at frustrated at the misinformation. Sharks are incredible. They're way more misunderstood then we give them credit for
Somewhere in a board room they were discussing how they get people to pay attention to their shark shows and someone said “well people like social media influencers and true crime” so they forced it
It would have been way more interesting to do an actual true crime story about people needlessly killing sharks, which literally does happen because of great porn like this, and it would actually be informative, educational and interesting.
the best part of all this is that i grew up with shark week, i remember the mermaid bullshit, and as a kid old enough to only believe things when given proof but too young to know about primary sources, i totally believed the mermaid schpiel. but yeah i saw all of these growing up
Honestly the moment I realized the narration was a joke was when he said "fucking." I might've been tricked even longer if he hadn't used that word lmao
"Once again, the killer shark stays one step ahead of the investigation" I don't think I can describe the laughing fit that came over me after hearing this sentence
Shark Week Unhinged. It's like the writers of Jerry Springer and Maury were hired by Discovery. 9:11 "Can you come? I don't know what kind of come that was." - DEMONETIZED
I listen to this cool podcast called Ologies, in which the host interviews experts in very specific fields, and her episode about sharks was so sad because it was basically an hour of debunking all the egregious lies shows like this perpetuate about sharks 😣😔
that thing about the "shark diva devouring an aluminum cage" is so ridiculous cuz like - biting shit is how sharks investigate. It's not like they have arms or hands, so the only thing they can use is their mouths
as a marine/fisheries biologist, this is my favorite video of yours. the amount of non-scientists who think they know more than me because of random trivial reasons kills me. there's a lot of dishonest and manipulative documentaries about marine biology related fields, not just on Discovery Channel, and it's honestly terrible.
Have you ever checked out TheMalibuArtist? Here on RU-vid. He’s amazing and he’s definitely doing the right thing for sharks. He films marine life with drones like sharks, dolphins. He definitely deserves more attention. I love his videos.
@@FukaiKokoro I've seen some of his stuff, he looks like he does a good job keeping a healthy distance from the animals he's observing, which is really great. NOAA's currently working on drone guidelines for protected marine species, but it doesn't look like what he's doing is influencing their behavior, my only worry with his content would be copycats who aren't as careful about ensuring they're not disturbing the wildlife. Ugh educational content can be so hard for that reason ahaha, it's a bummer, but I really like his content.
I never liked how they demonize sharks. Sharks are really not that bad, and also many shark species endangered. It just bothers me when people are trying to save these animals, but people just keep dramatizing them. This just makes people not want to save them. Sharks are a very important species and I just hope none of them end up going extinct. 🦈❤️
Sharks are STUPID FISH who just want to eat TASTY SEALS AND FISH. They don't go out of their way to eat gross humans. They don't have hands, so they have to examine things with their mouth. Dolphins should be the ones being demonized. They know exactly what their doing when they kill things
when you first called Lucy fugly in your fake narration i thought it was from the actual documentary and got extremely offended on her behalf lmao. also love how not even animals are safe from traditional gender roles and the sense of entitlement some people have to know why you haven't fulfilled those expectations (yet).
@spindletea the program also called that aluminum munchin’ shark a ‘diva’ for just being a shark. I would say that’s ascribing some stereotypically feminine characteristics to a shark
it's been proven that sharks actually don't like the taste of humans. if they attack it's because they're literally starving and are desperate, feel threatened, or make a mistake.
Thank you for talking about this! Jaws and the concept of shark week in general has always been just so damaging for sharks. Like most sharks attack surfers because from under water they look like sea turtles, and once they realize "oh shit, not a turtle" they spit us out because we aren't very appetizing!
I’ve worked with sharks before specifically the dogfish which is the smallest type of shark (they’re adorable and I suggest looking them up). I have gotten so many people coming up to me asking if they will be eaten or attacked by a dogfish even though they are 3-5ft long and pretty skinny. One of our dogfish had and injury similar to the one the shark slash had and that was likely because someone caught a shark, freaked out and ripped the fish hook out instead of properly taking out the fish hook cause they were afraid. That shark has permanent neurological damage because that wound got infected and the infection spread to his brain. He was also only 2ft long when we found him. These tv shows cause very literal harm to these animals and I don’t think shows like this should be even allowed to exist.
I remember seeing a clip of a show that claimed that great whites loved heavy metal because it makes them come to eat the food where they put the speakers Nevermind that sharks have an excellent sense of smell and have electroreceptors to find prey, they like metal because "sharks and metal makes sharks cooler and scarier."
I heard that they like heavy metal because some sounds are similar to that of fish thrashing in pain, but they could also want to just investigate the sound? Either way, smart animals that deserve better
This is making me think of that scene from Strange Wilderness where the narrator say, "Menacing and terrifying. The shark has been menacing and terrifying for over a decade."
I took a marine biology class a few years back and learned that sharks don’t eat people and almost always mistake humans for sea lions and sea turtles. The silhouette of a surfer on a board from beneath the surface of the water looks similar to animals in their diet. It’s frustrating when people say they are killers because they’ll eat members of their own species before knowingly eating a human
i've got a case of shark autism and most shark week documentaries are like. hey they're just dudes chillin. but it's always the insane titles that are just so strange that i watch them just to get a kick out of people's like stupidity.
I love the shows that are like “in the 2015 deaths by sharks were double. Here we’re gonna answer why?” Then you find out that it went from 1 to 2. Also they said it was pollution
there's so much vilification and fear-mongering about sharks ever since Jaws came out and it's done SO much harm to the shark population. I really appreciate you calling it out here, Eddy. sharks are enormously important to marine ecosystems and, just as the New Zealand shark expert said, shark attacks are pretty much always accidental. sharks aren't interested in eating people; they just sometimes mistake people for seals and take a bite. The fact that sharks tend to swim away after a single bite should be proof of that; if they were really killing people in order to eat them, then all the people attacked by sharks would, y'know, *get eaten,* not just be bitten and then abandoned (as they usually are). It's just an unfortunate truth that one bite is often enough to kill people regardless. Most shark attacks are from great whites, tiger sharks, and bull sharks, which all frequent shallower waters and are all known to be aggressive, but there are over 500 species of sharks in the ocean, and lumping them all together as equally dangerous is incorrect and, for a television show, irresponsible. A bull shark isn't an angel shark isn't a sand shark isn't a nurse shark, and even the most dangerous species are just following their instincts to get by. I wish these guys got the kind of appreciation that land predators like big cats get, because they're really actually amazing creatures. ANYWAY good video i liked it very much
Have you ever checked out TheMalibuArtist? Here on RU-vid. He’s amazing and he’s definitely doing the right thing for sharks. He films marine life with drones like sharks, dolphins. He definitely deserves more attention.
And like, if I was swimming in the ocean and saw a shark anywhere even close I would personally be scared shitless. But that doesn’t mean sharks are psycho killers. Like if i saw a bear outside i would also be terrified but that doesn’t make me like bears any less. Just bc an animal is kinda scary doesn’t make them any less important
The main cause of death by shark is not being eaten, it's bloodloss, due to how large and jagged their mouths are. The shark literally realizes its mistake and swims away almost immediately after a bite, unfortunately creating time for the human to bleed out before they are rescued. And yet somehow, they're totally vicious maneaters...
Dramatized death on TV, especially from these older mainstream TV shows, is definitely not handled correctly. I never realized how disrespectful it could be until I saw a documentary about the Norwegian flight Partnair Flight 394, which my great-grandfather was co-piloting. I knew the plane crashed but seeing a CGI recreation and an actor badly playing my great-grandfather screaming was so off-putting. The episode is even called Blown Apart, like, how disrespectful can you be? Definitely hate how these old networks dramatized death for views. Great vid though, eddy! glad to see you post:)
I feel the same way about true crime shows and podcasts which cover recent stories. They claim to be respectful then choose salacious titles and luxuriate in small upsetting details. It reopens wounds for everyone who knew and loved the person under discussion in real life. Even if they don’t listen to the podcast some of them are so big it’s impossible to avoid completely! NPR did a podcast about a murder in my neighborhood (multiple people, including a child, were killed) and there were radio ads and signs on busses and it was so painful for everyone to have to relive that.
I quite enjoyed ACI back in the day but looking back at it now its kind of messed up how overly dramatic and sensationalized it was, especially after the first couple seasons. Thankfully there's quite a few youtubers that cover these topics in a much more respectful manner today.
"If I showed a dolphin TikTok, it would kinda know what it is" lol this killed me. I was just watching a doc yesterday in class and dolphins can recognize symbols and patterns so I feel like ur right in a sense
Even if that was a single shark that specifically targeted both victims, it STILL WOULDN'T QUALIFY AS SERIAL . You need to have three or more kills of a similar profile to be classed as a serial killer
I also took a trip down the shark week section on disney plus last month, so i love that i found a video of you covering it from 2 years ago. A similar experience, separated by time
But Eddy, two of those attacks were on the SAME DATE, two years apart. Obviously that day must have meant something to the shark -- perhaps a lost baby shark do doo do doo do do?
I will have you know that i was drinking while reading your comment but then i got to baby shark do do do do and almost spit out my drink from laughter.
Never in my life would I see myself hearing a documentary voice over say this sentence...: *"Fans don't know for sure why Lucy's still not a mom. It could be that Male sharks are turned off by her misshapen fin."*
The delivery of "I'm not saying that great whites and serial killers and exactly the same… but I'm I saying that the venn diagram of sharks and serial killers just became a complete circle? Absolutely yes." was just great. LOL
I used to watch Shark Week every year, but it’s gotten old. Leaving that aside, speaking as someone who’s majoring in biology, it’s also not very scientific; it’s overly dramatic and just…not great. I understand the shows need to have some entertainment value to keep people hooked, but this isn’t the best way to do that. The whole point of Shark Week originally was to stop people from being so afraid and hateful towards sharks after the first Jaws came out - a noble goal. But it has devolved into absolute garbage TV, that plays up the danger and treats sharks like monsters. Can they be dangerous? Yes, obviously. But they’re just predatory animals, not the mythical creatures that are hungry for human blood portrayed in these shows.
Hi, same boat as you! You might've already been aware of the other shark-TV-a-thon, but if not, National Geographic has since started their own "Sharkfest" that is on par with their scientific standards for the most part. Focusing more on the appreciation and respect these animals deserve. It is not the sensationalist drivel of Discovery Channel, that's for sure.
I stopped watching shark week because they showed an episode of one those wildlife guys, using his blood and the blood of tuna fish to see which the shark will "attack". It was bullshit and basically made the guy state that sharks will definitely attack people. Not the whole, a shark doesn't know what mammal they are smelling, so they gotta touch it to make sure it is the correct one to eat or they are stuck with a low calorie meal that'll leave him feeling sick.
3:33 sharks usually aren’t aggressive unless they think you are food or if you’ve already done something to make them feel threatened, at least that’s what I know.
sharks are actually incredibly peaceful creatures when they arent threatened or hunting. human beings kill so so many more sharks a year than they kill us. theyre sweet creatures and its so upsetting to see how media portrays them as horrible monsters. if people just left them alone then there would barely be a problem. sharks rarely attack people and when they do its either because they feel threatened, or mistake them for food (which is pretty rare because sharks dont like the smell of our blood and know we dont have enough meat for them to eat). sharks warn people when to get out of their waters but people dont listen. its heartbreaking. sharks are wonderful creatures and deserve so much more than the horrible reputation they get.
exactly!! adding on to this i hate when people try to judge sharks by human or even just mammalian standards of sweetness or docility, we need to judge them by their own behaviour not ours. they just want to be left alone by the strange apes that wont stop doing board tricks on their roof and getting in their home with weird goggles smh
I gotta say, THANK YOU FOR STICKING UP FOR SHARKS, ALSO. They are wonderful animals, I fell in love with them as a kid going to a marine biology day camp (I live on something like the deepest bay in the world, so there's a lot of marine bio education here.) They are SO important to the ecosystem, and even if they weren't it is iNEXCUSABLE how they are treated not only by media, but by fishermen and finners. People are often abhored at things like the seal hunt up here, which ironically, the overfishing/killing of sharks contributes to. Part of the reason the seals are culled (humanely, and specifically not mothers with pups or pups) is because the cod up there is so depleted, and it's the seals main food source. Meanwhile there's not enough sharks and large whales to eat the seals, they get overpopulated and starve. In the ocean, it's ALL connected, so we need to be understanding of that.
Yep it really throws off the balance of the ecosystem to take out all the natural predators... and yet humans always manage to mess these things up time and time again despite knowing the consequences. Obviously the less human interference in the ocean the better, so I find it rather backwards to solve the problem of “we killed too many animals” to be “let’s kill even _more_ animals”, so I also find the mass slaughtering of seals to be abhorrent... I wish people would just leave the sharks and seals alone and let nature sort itself out. The ideal solution would be to kill _less_ wildlife, not more.
I as a child who grew up on Animal Planet and Nat Geo was pissed, and still am pissed, that shark week turned into this horrible anti-shark garbage. They’re not monsters or psychos, they’re literally just wild animals. If a horse killed somebody people wouldn’t call for the slaughter of all horses, they’d just go “oh thats a bad horse” but if any shark bites its immediately a “maneater”. They’re wild, beautiful creatures that deserve more respect. They’re like ocean dogs, they have no hands so they put things in their mouthes. Only issue is that sharks have sharper teeth.
legit the whole point of shark week is to raise awareness about the villainization of sharks in the media but then docs like these are still considered as a parts of it. exhausting tbh.
