Originally Posted by Arya Stark (Post 1356037)

That's funny, I was actually going to say the Nurse Shark for the simple fact that I can pet it at the aquarium.

Also I like big sharks. Maybe you'll remember which one I'm thinking of, bob, but I love the one in the program where they were trying to put a camera on its fin! Not the one where they stalk it, but another one where it was just a painless clip... Do you remember that one? It was SOOOO much bigger than the boat!

Originally Posted by LoathsomePete (Post 1356188)

As for my favorite shark, I'm with bob, I've always liked makos, or at least ever since I saw Deep Blue Sea and was more frightened of them than the great whites from the Jaws series.

In a side note, who's everyone's favorite street shark? Mine's Big Slammu the Whale Shark.

Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR. (Post 1356196)

Its really a big shame that sharks in general have been maligned by utter nonsense and fear mongering. In the Ocean they're truly a beautiful thing to watch. I've certainly seen my share both diving in Mexico and Surfing throughout California. In general its tended to be Tigers, Lemons and plenty of Nurse Sharks. I've never encountered one that would even keep interest after discovering I was human. I think the only danger is the diminishing of their food source. In California its typically seen as a Northern California issue but a few spots i've frequented in So-Cal most notably Solana Beach recently have been sites where people have died due to injuries. The closest i've ever been was a diving trip with my father as a teen. We were diving a reef in baja and came up on a school of hammerheads that exceeded 20 sharks. Was amazing to watch but my balls were in my stomach the entire time. If I were to die from injuries due to a shark I would consider it an honor, one of the most majestic things on the planet.

Originally Posted by bob. (Post 1356272)

yeah the one with the Australian dread lock guy :) which is probably why you told me not to try the drinking game with that episode :)....that was a Great White



i totally forgot about Deep Blue Sea....best speech ever given by Samuel L Jackson



the beach in question about the rouge shark is Surf Beach...fascinating that a surfer died there after a brutal shark attack and exactly two years later on the same day another died.....Fred stay away from this beach next year :)

if i saw a school of Hammerheads i think i would just die....i was going to mention that Discovery just finished an amazing series called North America....i think it was the 2nd episode and they were talking about the Black Fin migration to the gulf in Florida......the show this high shot and there are thousands of sharks in the water....they pan back just a little and you see the beach is literally feet away from these sharks.....and then you see this gigantic fish.....there to feed on the already large black fins.....it was a Hammerhead and it was simply amazing.....

so my personal favorite scene from this years shark week



first off notice that the shark immediately went for the floatation device not the cage itself or an attempt to taste whats inside the cage.....in the full show you know that this is the first time that guy ever got into the water with a shark...let alone an aggressive 18 foot one....he does say NEVER again :)