anyone see it? interesting footage. but seems like they made it to scare the heck out of people.
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David Evans once bubbled...
I'm watching it right now, and it's pissing me off more and more by the minute.
It seems clear to me that the bite on Eric Ritter was an exploratory one. If the shark had wanted Ritter, the shark could have hit a LOT harder and taken his leg off below the knee.
It appears to me that this was the result of a stupid publicity stunt. I don't buy for a second that there's any valid science to be learned from any of this.
I haven't seen ANYTHING yet where Ritter makes a statement along the lines of "Sharks are sharks, and I took an unwise risk in doing what I did - it was MY fault and not the shark's!"
And until I see something like that, I am going to consider this show a ridiculous and unbalanced bit of negative shark propaganda.
My opinion: if you chum to bring a bunch of sharks into an area and then walk into the water with them, then you damn well deserve to be bit.
Sorry if this seems caustic. I just wish they would follow this show up with a show about shark fisheries and the unbelievable barbarism that humans inflict on sharks, vs. what sharks do to humans.
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5615mike once bubbled...
B] A grandious 2 hour show derived from several minutes of film footage. [/B]