shark week "primal scream" - waste of time

most boring Discovery "shark show" ever. The best part was the final
30 seconds - they run an ad where they want $21.95 for the DVD. Best
laugh I've had all week. Total crap.

"Jeff Fawcett" <jefffawcett@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> most boring Discovery "shark show" ever. The best part was the final
> 30 seconds - they run an ad where they want $21.95 for the DVD. Best
> laugh I've had all week. Total crap.


yeah, I could tell it was crap during the first few minutes when they
showed her at the surface screaming for help and being all panicky. I
haven't even dove yet, but I would assume a veteran professional underwater
videographer who's been in the business for a long time like her would be
more calm. And then she does the Rocky thing and goes it training to go
back and take the sharks on - lol.

On 25 Jul 2004 21:01:29 -0700, jefffawcett@yahoo.com (Jeff Fawcett)
wrote:

>most boring Discovery "shark show" ever. The best part was the final
>30 seconds - they run an ad where they want $21.95 for the DVD. Best
>laugh I've had all week. Total crap.

So, what was it all about. We saw the ad and my wife said "damn, I'm
going to be shaving my legs then".

--
dillon

When I was a kid, I thought the angel's name was Hark
and the horse's name was Bob.

here is their ACTUAL copy from the DVD they are selling:

Follow veteran underwater photographer Valerie De La Valdene to the
Galapagos Islands as she re-lives her most harrowing adventure in 17
years of diving: a savage shark attack that almost took her life.
During a recent expedition, Valdene survived a near-fatal attack by an
aggressive Galapagos shark – and her own handheld video camera
captured her fight for life and her exhausting journey back to land.

Watch as Valdene's amazing ordeal – from her initial confrontation
with a shoal of mostly harmless Hammerheads to her frantic battle with
a hungry Galapagos – is told through a combination of stunning
real-life video and dramatic re-enactments. It's a gripping,
first-hand look at the power and brutality of nature and the undying
strength of one woman's will to survive.
************************************************** ***************

1. it wasn't a "recent expedition", it was 11 years ago
2. there was no "savage attack", there was NO ATTACK AT ALL
3. obviously then it wasn't "near fatal" - one shark brushed against
her fin. That's it. Basically a small shark came up to see what she
was and quickly turned around.
4. the only "frantic battle" was her screaming like a lunatic until
she finally got a clue and started swimming toward land.
5. "undying strength of one woman's will to survive" is the most
comical bit of hyperbole I have ever seen.

She made a rookie mistake by getting so caught up in looking through
her camera that she didn't notice she was being swept away in the
current. And this group of veteran divers KNOW they are diving in
strong currents but they don't make any effort to stay in contact
underwater.

Discovery has hit a new low.

She should have taken the" PADI shark dive in strong currents course".

I don't see what her big deal is about, she wasn't attacked by a shark, she
wasn't lost at sea over night. Just freaked out after losing sight of her
boat.. The worst mistake after losing track of her boat in the current was
trying to climb ashore on a jagged coastline in high surf.

>Discovery has hit a new low.

Discovery needs to make up it's mind on how it potrays sharks. They keep
playing "good shark , bad shark" with their commentary. They try to scare
veiwers and over dramatise how deadly and scarey sharks are and then in the
next instant try to to say they are not ruthless killing machines, chance of
attack is slim and sharks need protection more than people.

In the show about the sharks of Coocos Island, the host wore a hard hat dive
set up and was walking on the bottom stomping on the reef. He said it was ok
because the coral was dead due to el nino. Doesn't new coral grow on the dead
structure? Isn't that how reefs are seeded? Doesn't walking on the dead
coral, kill the new growth?

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"LUK4WIND" <luk4wind@aol.com> wrote in message
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> She should have taken the" PADI shark dive in strong currents course".
>
> I don't see what her big deal is about, she wasn't attacked by a shark,
she
> wasn't lost at sea over night. Just freaked out after losing sight of her
> boat.. The worst mistake after losing track of her boat in the current
was
> trying to climb ashore on a jagged coastline in high surf.

That and the fact she didn't drop her camera or 28 lbs of weight. There was
sort of a reason for it though, since she wanted to be under the water for
the swim towards the rocks. She eventually dropped all gear, except the
camera of course. Otherwise we wouldn't have had 30 minutes of screams to
listen too.

>
> >Discovery has hit a new low.
>
> Discovery needs to make up it's mind on how it potrays sharks. They keep
> playing "good shark , bad shark" with their commentary. They try to scare
> veiwers and over dramatise how deadly and scarey sharks are and then in
the
> next instant try to to say they are not ruthless killing machines,
chance of
> attack is slim and sharks need protection more than people.
>

I totally agree with this. I used to respect them for the way they were
trying to remove the evil stigma that sharks had after Jaws etc. Now they
seem to have taken a complete 180 with shark week this year being nothing
but the "Evil Sharks".

Glad I didn't waste my time.


--
solomiata

Pax
Tulsa, OK
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On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 03:51:35 -0400, "Kriterian" <kriterian@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>
>"LUK4WIND" <luk4wind@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:20040729022113.19157.00002540@mb-m06.aol.com...
>> She should have taken the" PADI shark dive in strong currents course".
>>
>> I don't see what her big deal is about, she wasn't attacked by a shark,
>she
>> wasn't lost at sea over night. Just freaked out after losing sight of her
>> boat.. The worst mistake after losing track of her boat in the current
>was
>> trying to climb ashore on a jagged coastline in high surf.
>
>That and the fact she didn't drop her camera or 28 lbs of weight. There was
>sort of a reason for it though, since she wanted to be under the water for
>the swim towards the rocks. She eventually dropped all gear, except the
>camera of course. Otherwise we wouldn't have had 30 minutes of screams to
>listen too.
>
>>
>> >Discovery has hit a new low.
>>
>> Discovery needs to make up it's mind on how it potrays sharks. They keep
>> playing "good shark , bad shark" with their commentary. They try to scare
>> veiwers and over dramatise how deadly and scarey sharks are and then in
>the
>> next instant try to to say they are not ruthless killing machines,
>chance of
>> attack is slim and sharks need protection more than people.
>>
>
>I totally agree with this. I used to respect them for the way they were
>trying to remove the evil stigma that sharks had after Jaws etc. Now they
>seem to have taken a complete 180 with shark week this year being nothing
>but the "Evil Sharks".
>

What did you think of the snark week commercials. "I am death, and
you are in my world". Why didn't they just have an oboe, playing that
famous tune?


--
dillon

When I was a kid, I thought the angel's name was Hark
and the horse's name was Bob.