Posted on 06/24/2025 12:47:57 PM PDT by jerod
Bull Sharks on the other hand......
They have a face only a mother shark could love.
Uh huh. Still no go for me.
Bull sharks are the worst. Mean and can swim into freshwater.
Over 50% of shark attacks are Bull Sharks.
Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It’s really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that’s all.
I’m sure those sharks who ate the men floating in the water after the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in 1945 never thought sharks were “fetishized”.
In WWII, there were plenty of incidents besides the USS Indianapolis that got no publicity at all. When the USS Wasp was sunk in September 1942, many men were attacked by sharks and gruesomely torn to pieces in full view of men on ships who were unable to save them. They were forced to watch this terrible spectacle until the sun finally set and covered the scene with darkness.
When we are in control of ourselves and the elements we find ourselves in, we are the top of the chain. When we are not in control, we become prey.
There is a reason wolves were hunted to near extinction in many places, and it wasn’t solely because they were attacking livestock. Same with sharks.
Yeah cool story that great white sharks aren’t really villains. Take a nice leisurely swim 500 yards off the beach in Martha’s Vineyard… Or along the great barrier reef, or in Sydney Bay, orb The Farallon Islands…. Get back to me if you live.
This is right up there with those females who are always lecturing us about how rattlesnakes are beautiful animals
The shark population needs to be reduced.
Except that it was inspired by actual events: the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916.
I was 14 when my own MOTHER handed me her copy of, ‘Jaws’ and said, ‘You have GOT to read this!’
Then, I was dumb enough a year later to sneak into the theater at age 15 to see the movie. It was the first R-rated movie I had ever seen.
Dumbest thing I have ever done to myself! *SHUDDER*
They are!
At least rattlesnakes don’t chase you, unlike wolves and pumas and mooses. (A moose once but my sister.)
We have a horror of being eaten.
A white shark attacks and kills you because he mistakes you for a seal. A bull shark attacks you and bites off your leg because he wants to eat it. He doesn’t care what you are. A tiger shark knows you are a human, and kills you in order to eat you.
So what? With all three, you’re dead.
Fond memories of seeing this film for the first time in a theater in 1975 when I was 25.
Iirc, there was some theory being discussed many years ago that for certain larger shark species common to the Yellow Sea and Western Pacific areas, especially tiger sharks, became somewhat conditioned by naval warfare battles and ship sinkings during WW2. Show up at a ship sinking and catch a snack.
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