The Official Sharks Thread
 

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My new Saturday Six-Pack has uncovered some genuine love for and interest in sharks, so let's use this thread to discuss them. Favourite type, any experience with real ones, favourite shark films, how you wish you had one for a pet, anything. Share the love of sharks!

As a kid my love of evil-looking death machines was nearly as much about sharks as it was about dinosaurs (alright it was definitely way more about dinosaurs but how the **** do you compete with a Stephen Spielberg mov-... oh) , so I was all the **** about them. They're basically the closest things we have to demons that aren't spiders. I've seen/read so many documentaries/books about them that it's retarded. Mostly stuff for kids and young adults, so I'm not any sort of expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I've still got a fair amount of shark knowledge kicking around in my head. And Jaws is amazing. Made me scared to go into pools with deep ends for years.

Thing about Jaws was that Benchley admitted he knew ****-all about sharks, and made up most of what was in the book and later movie; it all impacted badly on the sharks in general and ended up with people hunting them.

Favourite shark hands down: how ****ing alien do these guys look?
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batty kinda hit the nail on the (hammer)head with his post. there's always just been something fascinating about the sheer power these things have.

here are some awesome shark-related reads for us to geek out over:

Greenland shark may live 400 years, smashing longevity record | Science | AAAS

BBC - Earth - One creature had a bite more powerful than any other

https://www.amnh.org/learn/pd/sharks...yth/index.html

imagine being able to swim anywhere in the ocean anytime you wanted and not having to worry about anything, unreal.

don't even get me started on megalodons cause like, dude.

Is there anything of size that is as moment-of-the-kill machine as a Great White? That literally sounds like the worst way to go of anything that isn't a medieval torture, and maybe even then...

I had a Bala Shark as a child.

Not a true shark, but sharky enough for this thread.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVblXMQ2hb8

When Shark attacks they can't react.

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58 BITCH 58

Speaka da Engleesh! Wtf are you saying here man?

You have to have serious respect for shark researchers, especially this guy.

I forgot we used to have one of these. Scare the **** out of you!
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