Discovery started sowing the seeds of this before Shark Week even started. (JACK OFFS), I agree with everything youve said. A group of great whites was feeding on swordfish. Also if you watch closely when they show submarine by the oil rig its tail fin is horizontal just like the tail fin of a whale. They are definitely targeting the more suggestible viewers and providing external content that will further legitimise the show to people who turn to google to look up more information, or see the youtube video in the show and decide to look it up. The reality is it is human nature to try at almost any cost to rescue another human being. Language is a living thing. Theyre optimistic that this tagging will encourage the study of other deep-sea creatures in their natural environments. While the content is duplicated on the Discovery website, this is also out there on its on, with no kind of oversight or accountability. I have always found the possible existence of creatures and alien sightings to be cool even though Im 20. Luke Andrews For Mailonline, It broke the boat, quick get out! Shark takes a chunk out of navy officers inflatable boat after they smacked it on the head while untangling it from fishing nets, Jawsome! A Blue Planet II submarine was shoved by sixgill sharks last summer. Those would have died on water contact. After that things just started getting weird. It was seen approaching him twice before he disappeared in a flurry of thrashing. While bluntnose sixgills appear to be rather cosmopolitan, having been spotted near the coasts of every continent but Antarctica, it is unclear whether theyre highly migratory or merely spread out. if I want to see some fake shark garbage I watch sharknado I mean seriously Ive been watching Shark Week since I was a little kid now I have to explain the my little kids that this is fakeDiscovery Channel has really disappointed me again thank goodness for DVR I didnt waste two hours of my time. I am a Zoologist specialized in behaviour, and have just completed my M.Sc. We Love Shark~Week, & would like to watch REAL Stories About REAL Sharks!! Discovery should be ashamed. These submarines are very easy to keep, pilot, and maintain. The next night, no sharks appeared. Stop making fake-u-mentaries!! same here, i was all into it crunching on my doritos and gulping down my ginger ale. You could see its whole jaw wrap around the thing which turned out to be a person. His diving goggles and a dark patch of blood were all that remained in the water. The shark can float vertically and stay there like a harrier? Wish they made more like that one. Discovery is in my back yard filming their new doc T-Rex lives, in Alaska!. But anyways the show did exactly what they wanted it to it got the ratings they got the viewers thats all it was ever meant to do whether we like it or not they already got the ratings thats all that counts. Four 533-millimeter torpedo tubes and four large 650-millimeter tubes could deploy up to forty wire-guided torpedoes, mines, or long-range SS-N-15 Starfish and SS-N-16 Stallion antiship missiles. Conducting research on one of those submarines would be orders of magnitude more expensive than tagging sharks from a boat. 2) The Coast Guard was involved Map showing distance between Hout Bay and Dyer Island. I love learning more about these creatures I have a healthy respect for and this just sucks! The man was terrified and tried to swim back to shore, but the shark kept pushing him further and further out. I plan to study sharks once I complete my degree and its shows like this that will make my job more difficult. Two horribly fake stories back to back now in as many years. Did I just waste 138 min watching a fake documentory? They really had me fooled. Jeff. The idiot's guide to commanding a German submarine and fleeing to America with it. First of all, Michelle, Thank You for telling us The Truth. I look forward to Shark Week all year and this just ticks me off. People who do this are historically regarded as charlatans. Maybe those actors should contact her and tell them their ok lol. From pioneering the use of solar energy to helping to eradicating disease, here are just a few ways the 39th U.S. president has made the world a better place. While OceanX declined to comment on its costs, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which wasnt involved in the bluntnose sixgill tagging project, reports that use of their 55-year-old submarine, Alvin, costs $45,000 a day. THEN they could not rescue the man who was being pushed by the sharks snout further out to open sea? In 2005, Dean Grubbs, now the Associate Director of Research at Florida State Universitys Coastal and Marine Laboratory, was the first scientist to affix a bluntnose sixgill with a satellite tag, which gathers data about light, temperature, and depth. At 16.5ft in length, it is even the same size as one. What the hell are DC thinking about airing a piece crap like this. Really. June 29th represented the teams last chance to tag a bluntnose sixgill before Nadir and the research boat that housed it would move on to another project. I believe nothing else Descovery Can ell says now they have discredited themselvestheir Producers should be firedand me personally. Or that schedules are prepared months ahead of time. So they goes our cruise for next year I cant convince her its fake! None of the researchers who published Props recovery were contacted by Discovery Channel. On Roku, you can watch movies and television shows. Around 9:50 p.m., which the scientists had taken to calling sixgill-oclock after they noticed shark activity consistently increase then, a male sixgill swam past the sub, sending silt from the ocean floor swirling. The mechanical shark that was a blockbuster. Rated 5.00 out of 5 $ 498.68. Yes! The tag that Naylor applied to the sixgill has a three-month lifespan. ", Kathy Geldenhuys was sitting on a nearby bench. One is named for animals and shows no animal shows any longer and the discovery channel shows this garbage. Im so glad to find out it was fake my mother nearly had a heart attack while she watched it! No one knows for sure if the submarine shark is still alive. A man pushes a shark back into the sea after finding it on tourist beach.A man in Australia pushed a shark back into the sea, after it was seen swimming in shallow waters near beachgoers.The 6-feet long Dusky Whaler shark was spotted near a beach in Caloundra on Queensland's Sunshine Coast on Friday, causing some tourists to panic.After being pushed back into deeper waters, the shark stayed in the area for a while, before swimming further out to sea.Tourist Tash Kimlin said she shouted out to her two young children when the alarm was raised. I agree this is bullshit. With the mermaid junk, the megalodon farce and now this. The fake-u-mentary is supposedly based in Hout Bay, but continually shows a map of Dyer Island and Geyser Rock and refers to Shark Alley that are all in Gansbaai, ~100km to the east. As silly as it was, at least last month's "Sharknado 2" was entertaining. This attack has reportedly prompted discussions about introducing an electronic detection system. The submarine shark is a migratory species, and can be found in all the worlds oceans. However, the most important improvement was to stealththe new Akulas were now significantly quieter than even the Improved Los Angelesclass submarines, although some analysts argue that the latter remain stealthier at higher speeds. This species is found throughout the world in abundance. There is so much real shark science occurring that could be featured, why make something up? I refuse to watch anymore of it. How STUPID am I????? We recommend Feedly for RSS management. Eventually, Grubbs, Edd Brooks, and Brendan Talwarboth of whom are researchers at the Cape Eleuthera Instituteconvinced OceanX to back the mission, which also received funding from the Moore Bahamas Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies Vibrant Oceans Initiative. Plus, the endeavor would be tricky: With the shark unrestrained, it would be much harder to correctly position the tag. Which was subsequently found by Mel Thurmond who comments about wanting to know more about the footage and hes been doing shark research in that area. The U.S. Navy still operates forty-three Los Angelesclass boats, though fourteen newer Seawolf- and Virginia-class submarines still beat out the Akula in discretion. I am greatly disappointed just like a lot of other shark week fans. Check out as guest. These sharks are really a mystery. There were numerous criticisms of how the programing of Shark Week was handled. 100%. Deep Blue is a large Great White that is estimated to be approximately 6 m (20 ft) long. The Rainbow Bridge comforts many pet parents. It's a wonder that "Shark of Darkness" fooled anyone. The great white shark wiped out the megalodon, an aquatic creature. Why should I trust anything else produced by Discovery Channel now? Its Megalodon all over again. He has also worked in education, editing and refugee resettlement in France and the United States. After practicing in a pond with a shark carcass, the teams first trip was scuttled when a giant female sixgill turned her belly to the submarine at the exact moment when they prepared to shoot a tag at her. Im boycotting that channel. Wont watch Discovery ever again. The same thing happened to me last year during the megaLeDon special about the boat in Hout Bay that was rammed from underneath by a giant shark they chose to believe as megaLeDon within the first few seconds few minutes maybe of the show I looked it up on the Internet there was nothing about it no newsclips no nothing a few hours later there were tons of sites dedicated to this sink. Ian Klopper, a spokesman for the National Sea Rescue Institute, said: "You can rule out any chance of finding him alive. Now you might be thinking Ive delved a little too far into this and maybe Im a bit crazy or something. I grew up with Shark Week and if this is going to start being fake their stories and documentaries- well then Discovery has some serious apologizing to do to the public. Dates, locations, facts, numbers, and so many other things that were said has no info to back it up!! It stopping in the water with the little boy attack and the digital images from above looking down- had me played for a FOOL NOW! Like the Megladon B.S. At the time he left the water. This is day 2 and Ive watched one show. Since then, National Defence has pumped billions into repairing and converting them for. Thanks for posting this. Very sad. Finally, in June, they embarked on their thirdand final trip, which would last a total of four nights. Roger, Nadir. A compact sub like this can dive to a depth of 40 meters for up to 2 hours and has a seat capacity of 3 people. Phillip brown was spearfishing barramundi off the coast of queensland on. Their radar and microphones were destroyed beyond repair leaving the Americans blind in the water. Though he couldnt see well, Naylor felt confident he could predict where the shark had gone. The submarine shark is a large predatory fish that can grow to be up to 20 feet in length. Who created it? What is wrong with discovery and animal planet too, are they both run by the same morons? Yet nobody saw him on the way in? Only good great white documentary I know of was done by PBS Nature series. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoS. Like the guy Boyd Roe I mean(mark elderkin). #donewatching, Believability went downhill after boat capsized. Skinner, 37, a Zimbabwean who lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was standing chest-deep 100 metres from the shore and adjusting his goggles when the shark struck. To be perfectly honest The above will be the only one posted. I am glad it was not true. While I like the concept of shark week as a legitimate means of annually examining the state of the world regarding these ancient and magnificent creatures, the Discovery channel has faked its way into profound scientific disrespect now and should no longer be considered a reputable source of scientifically valid information regarding sharks and perhaps other subjects as well. How do you think they would feel with this mockery?? A crew of around seventy could operate the ship for one hundred days at sea. I miss what the Discovery channel used to be. While watching this clip i was researching trying to find something , anything to support what i was watchingFAIL Im so disappointed that Discovery would go this far, I look forward to shark week/ Fest every year in hopes of new footage since the last 2-3 years was a repeat of the lastlet me just say IM DONE discovery this is so distasteful to create this especially since a real tragedy happened with the sinking of JOY RIDE and two human beings lost their life. Deep blue sea (1999) 1. The Paula 84 account (youtube.com/user/yachtorknot15) actually uploaded the shark attack footage in the show, weeks before Shark Week began. about 2 years ago, in november, i was fishing for red fish in a saltwater creek just a few feet deep(maybe just above my knee) in my kayak. Source: www.dailymail.co.uk. Females tend to be larger than malesmeasuring up to 18 feet at maturityand give birth to 40 to 110 pups at a time, but we dont know where they breed or how long they gestate. 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