Posted on 07/15/2021 12:50:33 PM PDT by mylife
As Discovery’s Shark Week swims on, Monday’s special called Expedition Unknown: Shark Trek, featured Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, trying to conquer his fear of sharks by boldly going and jumping into the water with them.
“I am deathly afraid of sharks,” Shatner told the show’s host, Josh Gates. “I really am.”
So to ease the Star Trek actor into things, Gates started by taking Shatner through a couple of relatively safe visits with hammerhead and reef sharks, neither of which are known to eat or attack humans. But those were just the appetizer courses, the main course was swimming with potentially deadly tiger sharks, and hoping not to become the main course.
With Gates and a team of experts at his side, Shatner came face-to-face with various tiger sharks while underwater, some as long as 15 feet. And while there were a couple tense moments trying to predict when and where the sharks would swim next, Shatner seemed to genuinely love the experience.
“They’re so beautiful, they’re unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” he said.
And despite the danger involved, viewers on Twitter loved seeing Shatner in the water with the sharks, saying things like, “William Shatner is one of the greatest icons and greatest human beings, and to see him on Shark Week is beyond a treat. Thank you, sir.”
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They’re beautiful, he says. What they say about him: “He’ll make a good meal for 2 or 3 of us!”
Yes , I remember he fought against the Gorn. If he could handle a Gorn, he can handle a shark.
Gates started by taking Shatner through a couple of relatively safe visits with hammerhead and reef sharks...
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Hammerheads have to be one of the coolest looking sharks. It’s one of those animals that if it didn’t exist, and someone drew a picture of one, you would think that’s absurd; a shark could never look like that!
Gorn: 18:00 Strength, 3 Dex.
“and making out with Nichelle Nicoles was a fantasy for more than just me, back in the day...”
And to think the first interracial kiss on US television was between Kirk and Uhura.
I had the hots for Uhura.
Nichelle keeps going at 88 years old.
“I am deathly afraid of sharks,”
Newhart: Stop it!
But did he ever get over his fear of that “thing” on the aircraft wing?
As though his fear of sharks is irrational!
Hammerheads are safe? Yeah, ok.
He’s still going at 90! Amazing!!! He hosts the tv show on the History channel and I thought he was in his late 70’s!
Clint taught us “Don’t let the Old Man in”
I went to visit my grandmother in NC, after I had seen Jaws. Of course, we went to the beach. Spent that vacation wading a lot.
I wish Rush could have lived past 90. I doubt we’d be hearing about ‘sharks’.
He overcame his by being eaten...
Sarc/
Shark Week, always jumps the shark...then beats the crap out of it.
I don’t like to lose....Spock, it’s been 2 hours. Are you ready?
I bet by the end of the show he boinks the cute one
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