Comments on: The Truth About Shark Week

By: libby

libby — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:20:07 +0000

cool topic, he! honestly, what would be so bad bout getting eaten alive by a shrk? i mean, it's not like it was a pesonal thing or whatever just so happen that a shrk was hungree and i was food. complete consumption HAS happened (teresa cartwrite, shirly ann durdin and linda horton) try selling a pro-sympathetic-save-the-shrk line to these women's families. o.k over bitching here a bit. well gotta go, got my brand new yellow two piece on and heading out to th ebeach, c'ya later…i hope :/

By: Samantha Lambert

Samantha Lambert — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:24:00 +0000

Shark attacks are often a case of mistaken identity. On rare occasion, when a shark does bite, it is not because they are hungry. We are not like them, therefore they are curious. They want to explore us, like we want to explore them. Most sharks lack the proper equipment they would need to go after large animals like us, and they know that. Their teeth are ineffective cutting tools and cannot remove something larger then their mouths. They are picky eaters and wont go after something they know they can't eat. In most cases of shark mistakes, flesh is never removed. The person inevitably ends up back on shore. Even in the odd case when someone does die, it is usually due to blood loss, not because the shark ate the person.

watch "SHARKWATER" you'll have a new perspective.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:27:50 +0000

I think what they're trying to say is that they don't want to be the one the shark mistakes for a seal… who would?! I love learning about sharks, but I'm definitely freaked out about going in the water with them! It's not necessarily the omg, they might eat me. It's more of the omg they might rip my leg off.

By: sara

sara — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:52:41 +0000

The fear everyone has of sharks is RIDICULOUS. I go to the beach all the time and was actually about half a mile down from where a teenager got attacked two (or was it three) summers ago. Yes, scary, but the reason he was bit was because he was standing in waist-high water fishing WITH BLOODY BAIT trailing out from his pocket. In my opinion thats just kind of asking for it… I've also snorkeled in FL reefs and seen sharks swimming around in their natural habitat. Sharks only attack people because they confuse them for seals or other food, not because they like to eat humans.

By: J - NYU

J - NYU — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:11:51 +0000

If I was hungry, and I was a shark, and I saw a human within reach, I'd eat him.

Just sayin'

By: Robet-a

Robet-a — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:47:59 +0000

I never get attacked by sharks because as soon as I hear them humm that theme song from "JAWS" I get out of the water

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:51:06 +0000

actually, the reason the sharks let people go is cause they eat fish, not people, but are blind. they have a keen sense of taste, and when they realize that they havent got the fish they want, they let them go. there are very few documented cases of a shark ever eating anyone, the ones i have heard of dating back to the early 1900s in new jersey (which was the inspiration for jaws). when people die in shark attacks, it is because after the shark tastes you, the little taste can be fatal. they arent trying to lure you into the water lol.

By: LOCK DOWN THAT SECTO

LOCK DOWN THAT SECTO — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:26:58 +0000

R BECAUSE SHARKS ARE READY TO ROCK THAT SAW.

I CALL IN DANGER CLOSE STRIKES EVERY TIME I GO TO THE BEACH LETS SEE A SHARK SURVIVE SOME FUCKING DAISY CUTTERS WHILE I GET MY KNEES ALL OVER THAT SHARKS BALLS>