Sharkbite Summer
Now there may be some grumblings that this year's Shark Week has been unimpressive. Granted Sunday's Programming, Blood in the Water was a valiant, yet ultimately flawed attempt, it was original. Monday's first program, Deadly Waters with the Survivorman was solid. The Survivorman hand fed a Great White a blue fin tuna. He got rammed in the shark cage. Would we have liked the Survivorman to do more crazy survivorman shit? Of course, but these are sharks in the ocean, not rattlesnakes in the fucking Yuma Desert. Monday's second program, Day of the Shark II, brought the awesome. Bad ass flesh wounds, actual video of a Great White getting stuck in a Shark Cage, and a Navy Seal fighting a Bull Shark.
We went into Sharkbite Summer with Tiger Shark level hopes. Sharkbite Summer chronicled the summer of 2001 in the United States which sent beach vacationers, and especially the media into full on panic mode.
Listen, the show started out in Florida with a Bull Shark biting clean off a boy's arm. Did everyone panic? No. One guy wrestled the fuck out of the Bull Shark and somehow managed to drag the animal with the most testosterone on the fucking planet clean out of the water. We'd end here confident of the pure awesomeness. But it didn't there. Another guy pumped a couple of hollow points into the Bull Shark's head (sad, but he did bite the boys fucking arm off). While the boy was being airlifted to the hospital, they cut open the Bull Shark's stomach and retrieved the boys missing arm. They sent the arm to the hospital where doctors reattached the arm and the boy lived and regained use of said arm. Anyone who tries to hate on that needs to back the fuck off.
In all honesty, Sharkbite Summer could have done a better job of tackling the sheer frenzy the media pumped into the United States. People were literally afraid to go into the water, even though the stats on shark attacks were basically the same in 2001 as they were in 2000. But otherwise, the show did a solid job recounting the most drastic of the shark attack stories of that summer, including the 8-year old boy in Virginia who lost his life after a Bull Shark severed his femoral artery. They interviewed the boys father and it was effective and heartbreaking.
Now there may be some grumblings that this year's Shark Week has been unimpressive. Granted Sunday's Programming, Blood in the Water was a valiant, yet ultimately flawed attempt, it was original. Monday's first program, Deadly Waters with the Survivorman was solid. The Survivorman hand fed a Great White a blue fin tuna. He got rammed in the shark cage. Would we have liked the Survivorman to do more crazy survivorman shit? Of course, but these are sharks in the ocean, not rattlesnakes in the fucking Yuma Desert. Monday's second program, Day of the Shark II, brought the awesome. Bad ass flesh wounds, actual video of a Great White getting stuck in a Shark Cage, and a Navy Seal fighting a Bull Shark.
We went into Sharkbite Summer with Tiger Shark level hopes. Sharkbite Summer chronicled the summer of 2001 in the United States which sent beach vacationers, and especially the media into full on panic mode.
Listen, the show started out in Florida with a Bull Shark biting clean off a boy's arm. Did everyone panic? No. One guy wrestled the fuck out of the Bull Shark and somehow managed to drag the animal with the most testosterone on the fucking planet clean out of the water. We'd end here confident of the pure awesomeness. But it didn't there. Another guy pumped a couple of hollow points into the Bull Shark's head (sad, but he did bite the boys fucking arm off). While the boy was being airlifted to the hospital, they cut open the Bull Shark's stomach and retrieved the boys missing arm. They sent the arm to the hospital where doctors reattached the arm and the boy lived and regained use of said arm. Anyone who tries to hate on that needs to back the fuck off.
In all honesty, Sharkbite Summer could have done a better job of tackling the sheer frenzy the media pumped into the United States. People were literally afraid to go into the water, even though the stats on shark attacks were basically the same in 2001 as they were in 2000. But otherwise, the show did a solid job recounting the most drastic of the shark attack stories of that summer, including the 8-year old boy in Virginia who lost his life after a Bull Shark severed his femoral artery. They interviewed the boys father and it was effective and heartbreaking.
Give it credit. Not everything can be gaping wounds and jumping sharks. Tonite: Great White Appettite. It's on.
Anticipated Rating = Tiger Shark
Actual Rating = Tiger Shark
Actual Rating = Tiger Shark
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