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Anyone else REALLY look forward to this week every year???

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Blood in the Water at 9est. About the 1916 shark attacks off the New Jersey coast.

Yea, I watched some of it tonight.  Good research-type real info type stuff and a little scary too.

Hell, after Jaws came out I could hardly take a shower. If you don't think you're fish bate when you enter the ocean, you are mistaken.  I remember when I asked if sharks came up into the Chesapeake bay when I lived on the water in Md.  Yea, but only Bull Sharks was the answer.  Hell, later I found out they eat up more peeps than you can imagine, many many miles up into fresh water rivers.

I love to water ski and I feel like something's about to gobble me up every time I fall and have to wait on the boat to pick me up - in fresh water land locked lakes.

Yea, I like shark week.

LA

Last month I did some diving while on vacation in the bahamas. On my last dive a seven foot long Caribbean reef shark had a little swim through on us. It just appeared out of the blue haze, looked at the dive group and cruised right through. It was so effortless in its motions, just ominously moving through the water like living submarine. I would have thought I would be scared but was awestruck instead. I ended up learning a lot about sharks from the divemaster and have a new appreciation and respect for them now.

man has no business in water

Humans kill far more sharks than sharks kill humans. Sharks are an essential part of the marine ecosystem. I am in awe of the animals and enjoy watching shark week programming, but I don't like the fearmongering aspects of it. It's far more salacious than educational much of the time.

Discovery Channel's promotion for this year's Shark Week created quite a buzz, mostly by freaking people out -- exactly what they intended!

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/07/08/whats-up-with-discovery-channels-shark-week-promotion/22522 (http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/07/08/whats-up-with-discovery-channels-shark-week-promotion/22522)

That is quite the experience!!!!  My wife and I are getting SCUBA cert. by the end of the year.  I can't wait to go!!  Where did you get certified?

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Shark Week rawwwks.  8)

I would love to go diving in a shark cage where they're dumping chum in the water to get them all riled up.....  [thumbsup]

i have a buddy that does that....

...'cept he's the guy outside of the cage taking pics of the people in the cage.

Nah, I'd rather be in the cage and freaked out.  ;)

Come visit me, we can go cage diving in False Bay of the Cape coast [thumbsup]

Biggest great white`s you will ever see

"Shark Week" was what my last gf called her monthly visit from Aunt Flo.

"Sorry, babe, it's Shark Week." = least favorite words.

I took the book portion in college and did the final open water cert. with Dive Abaco in Abaco, Bahamas which is a group of out islands east of nassau. All the diving was done at an underwater preserve/ Bahamian nat'l park. It was pretty high priced compared to some other places but incredible.

I think I'm going back in March, this time I'm going to try and do a shark feeding dive now that I have the cert. Shark feeds were outlawed in FL and the US I think, not for the danger but because environmentalist say it spoils how the sharks naturally feed, or something along those lines. In that area the local sharks are predominantly reefs, some lemon sharks too. There are some bull sharks and tiger sharks but they are less likely to encounter and they are more dangerous so that is a good thing.

cool, i think we are doing the book portion here in NJ and the actual cert dives in the keys.