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Thursday, August 17. 2017

Seals and sharks

The movie "Jaws" ruined beach fun for millions of people. Like "Psycho" with showers and "Snakes on the Plane" with airplanes, the idea was to make money by creating disturbing mental images for people who live lives blessedly free of elemental terrors. Shark attacks on humans are extremely rare, and probably mostly accidental. Still, the thought of it is disturbing and resonates with our deepest "monster under the bed" terrors.


I never saw Jaws. Didn't want to. I do know the famous lines from it, though. Great Whites are cold-water eating machines. They congregate where the food is. They will live on fish, but seem to prefer delicious mammalian flesh so they go where they can find it. 


Does the Bird Dog family swim with the seals? Yes, and the gals often with wet suits that make them look like cute seals. You can't have a life if fear dominates every aspect of it. I do not frequent golf courses in thunderstorms, but I do not frequent golf courses anyway.


Short video:  A shark expert says this US coastline could be the next danger zone for great white shark attacks

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 16:56 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Does the Bird Dog family swim with the seals? Yes, and the gals often with wet suits that make them look like cute seals.
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I would never do that. Actually the seals can be dangerous too.
#1 Jim on 2017-08-17 20:24 (Reply)
Seals are just curious. They like to look at people.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2017-08-18 08:02 (Reply)
I've been wanting to rewatch Jaws for a while now. It's a great film and worth watching again occasionally. But, I'm going to the beach in October and have purposefully put off watching it until after. I'm a land-locked soul. I don't need any more worries about the deep blue sea than my imagination provides.
#2 Jack Walter on 2017-08-17 21:28 (Reply)
Often humans attacked by sharks are bitten once. Some have suggested that we just don't taste good.
#3 jay on 2017-08-18 06:30 (Reply)
humans don't have enough fat on their bodies to justify the expenditure it takes it eat us
#3.1 SJ on 2017-08-18 07:57 (Reply)
expenditure of energy

hit enter too soon
#3.1.1 SJ on 2017-08-18 07:58 (Reply)
Humans usually aren't killed outright by the shark. It's that they then bleed to death before they can get medical help.
#3.2 Jim on 2017-08-18 15:42 (Reply)
Danger zone for great white shark attacks.
Yup. Slow news month.
Any missing young blondes in Aruba?
#4 OldFert on 2017-08-20 21:11 (Reply)

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