Shark Week 2011 - General - Facepunch Forum

[img]http://www.thestickercast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/shark_week_2011_countdown_1_of_4.png[/img][img]http://www.stickerhunt.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/shark_week_2011_countdown_3_of_4.png[/img][img]http://glueimg.s3.amazonaws.com/stickers/huge/shark_week_2011_countdown_2_of_4.png[/img] It's almost the beginning of August, and you know what that means... [h2]Shark Week![/h2] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYoSZkclzA[/media] It officially kicks off at 9 PM EST tonight with [b]"[url=http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/pictures/great-white-invasion-03.html]Great White Invasion[/url]"[/b] [url=http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/pictures/great-white-invasion-03.html][img]http://i.imgur.com/UpX1r.png[/img][/url] You can also check out a rerun of 2010's "Ultimate Air Jaws" earlier at 8 PM EST [img]http://i.imgur.com/3JhhP.png[/img] [release][b]The following shows will be premiering for the remainder of the week:[/b] [b]Great White Invasion[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/great-white-invasion-150x100.jpg[/img] Sunday, July 31, 9 PM EST [b]Jaws Comes Home[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/jaws-comes-home-150x100.jpg[/img] Sunday, July 31, 10 PM EST [b]Rogue Sharks[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/rogue-sharks-150x100.jpg[/img] Monday, August 1, 9 PM EST [b]Summer of the Shark[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/summer-of-the-shark-150x100.jpg[/img] Monday, August 1, 10 PM EST [b]Killer Sharks[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/killer-sharks-150x100.jpg[/img] Tuesday, August 2, 9 PM EST [b]How Sharks Hunt[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/how-sharks-hunt-150x100.jpg[/img] Wednesday, August 3, 9 PM EST [b]Shark City[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/shark-city-150x100.jpg[/img] Thursday, August 4, 9 PM EST [/release] [release][b]The following shows will be replayed after their previous debuts:[/b] [b]Ultimate Air Jaws[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/ultimate-air-jaws-150x100.jpg[/img] Sunday, July 31, 8 PM EST [b]Jaws of the Pacific[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/jaws-of-the-pacific-150x100.jpg[/img] Monday, August 1, 8 PM EST [b]Top Five Eaten Alive[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/top-five-eaten-alive-150x100.jpg[/img] Tuesday, August 2, 8 PM EST [b]Into the Shark Bite[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/into-the-shark-bite-150x100.jpg[/img] Wednesday, August 3, 8 PM EST [b]Air Jaws: Sharks of South Africa[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/air-jaws-sharks-of-south-africa-150x100.jpg[/img] Thursday, August 4, 8PM [b]10 Deadliest Sharks[/b] [img]http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week/images/when-fish-attack-150x100.jpg[/img] Friday, August 5, 7 and 8 PM EST [/release] [i]Only on the Discovery Channel[/i] [img]http://i.imgur.com/eTPqq.png[/img]

Bear week would complete my life.

I love the Discovery channel.. this stuff always interests me (uum-di-ad-ah, -uum-di-ad-ah)

Why do the titles always have to demonize sharks as vicious eating machines? [i]Rogue Sharks, Summer of the Shark, Killer Sharks, Top Five Eaten Alive, 10 Deadliest Sharks[/i]. I don't understand the irrational fear of sharks. [i]Jaws[/i] damaged the reputation of a fish to near extinction. They should show Sharkwater every day during shark week so people see the real problems. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vog3z1NsMYU[/media] We enter the ocean. The moment your foot enters water you are entering a completely alien ecosystem and you have to respect it. We build beaches and resorts on the coast then get mad and scared when sharks accidentally bite maybe three people every year. No engineer in their right mind would build a camp site in front of a known bear cave or lions den, beaches are exactly that. Sharks are a necessary part of the ocean ecosystem and are not a thing to be feared, but something to be in awe of, something to love. Over 400,000,000 years of evolution tuned them to be the apex predator of the world gave them some of the most advanced sensory organs on this planet. Sharks are afraid of humans, and they should be. We kill around 70-100 million sharks every year for fins and out of fear. In that 400 million years of existence sharks have only been threatened once, and that's in the last century. We glorify sharks as vicious man-eaters yet we are the one that is entering their territory and slaughtering hundreds of millions of them, or cutting off their fins as they're still alive and leaving them to drown. Where is the logic behind this? I could compile a list of the worlds most deadliest animals by the rate of how many people they kill annually and sharks wouldn't be in the top 10. Elephants, Tigers, Cobras, Lions, Sea Snakes, Mosquitoes, [i]vending machines[/i], jellyfish, the list goes on. Don't get me wrong, I love shark week. I just wish it was more about how sharks are not scary man-eaters rather than [i]Rogue Sharks, Summer of the Shark, Killer Sharks, Top Five Eaten Alive, 10 Deadliest Sharks[/i].

I love sharks.

Is Andy Samberg hosting this or something?

Seriusly I'm so sick of sharks right now Discovery, there's allways sharks in your TV channel

Yay! Sharks! :dance:

Apparently falling coconuts kill more people than sharks too :v:

[QUOTE=OvB;31445264]Why do the titles always have to demonize sharks as vicious eating machines? [i]Rogue Sharks, Summer of the Shark, Killer Sharks, Top Five Eaten Alive, 10 Deadliest Sharks[/i]. I don't understand the irrational fear of sharks. [i]Jaws[/i] damaged the reputation of a fish to near extinction. They should show Sharkwater every day during shark week so people see the real problems.[/QUOTE] Not only that but the quality of the programming in general has fallen down the shitter. Last year it had some bullshit full of scientists on a boat researching Great Whites by pulling them onto a collapsible deck. That's all well and good, except the crew was the biggest bunch of dumbasses so it boiled down to "Pull shark on deck, yell at crew, push shark back off deck, repeat for the entire show." Then the rest of the shows are all just stock footage with talking heads, a grade schooler could make that garbage in Windows Movie Maker in an evening. Throw in some CGI to be 21st century and call it a show. If I'm gonna watch a documentary on Sharks, I'll watch Blue Planet where you can see the animals behaving normally without some jackass chasing them around.

Without Mythbusters I won't be watching any of this.

There should be a Crocodile week.

[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;31447147]Toasters kill more people than sharks do fyi, now why aren't people exterminating all toasters? Sharks are beautiful creatures[/QUOTE] Toaster Week doesn't have the same pizzaz.

Do they still just show nothing but reruns? That kinda got old during Shark Week

[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;31444785]Ultimate Air Jaws[/QUOTE] They have [B]flying sharks?[/B] We're fucked.

I mean there is a sub section for TV but Shark Week is awesome so fuck the rules. I swear it's every like four months but I'm not really sure.

I have slight galeophobia but I love these shows.

Shark week has always been kind of pointless to me. All of the shows are kind of boring.

There are shark programs on right now here in the eastern states, even though Shark Week isn't officially on until 9. And a sea turtle just bit a tiger shark and made it bleed.

Fuck yeah Shark Week.

Sharks are cool :downs:

Good thing I know what channel I won't be watching for this week!

HOLY SHIT !!!!!!

[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;31447291]Not only that but the quality of the programming in general has fallen down the shitter. Last year it had some bullshit full of scientists on a boat researching Great Whites by pulling them onto a collapsible deck. That's all well and good, except the crew was the biggest bunch of dumbasses so it boiled down to "Pull shark on deck, yell at crew, push shark back off deck, repeat for the entire show." Then the rest of the shows are all just stock footage with talking heads, a grade schooler could make that garbage in Windows Movie Maker in an evening. Throw in some CGI to be 21st century and call it a show. If I'm gonna watch a documentary on Sharks, I'll watch Blue Planet where you can see the animals behaving normally without some jackass chasing them around.[/QUOTE] Dr. Domeier's techniques of baiting and hooking Great Whites has taken a lot of criticism from scientists and animal right's people alike because they say it puts the shark in a lot of unnecessary pain and danger. Great Whites are at risk of becoming endangered and federal law prohibits catching them. The Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary prohibits getting within about 100 feet of great white sharks but they issue research permits out to scientists. While I believe tagging Great Whites is necessary to learn more about them and help their species, Dr.Domeier's technique called for hooking a near endangered animal, tiring it out for about 30 minutes, then lifting the sometimes 2 ton animal out of the water for more than 30 minutes. Sharks lack a ribcage or any skeletal structure at all and setting them on hard ground puts their full weight on their vital organs, causing potentially life threatening injuries. On top of that you have the risk of the shark getting an infection from the wound left from the hook, which is commonly overlooked when catch and release fishing.

[QUOTE=OvB;31455604]Dr. Domeier's techniques of baiting and hooking Great Whites has taken a lot of criticism from scientists and animal right's people alike because they say it puts the shark in a lot of unnecessary pain and danger. Great Whites are at risk of becoming endangered and federal law prohibits catching them. The Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary prohibits getting within about 100 feet of great white sharks but they issue research permits out to scientists. While I believe tagging Great Whites is necessary to learn more about them and help their species, Dr.Domeier's technique called for hooking a near endangered animal, tiring it out for about 30 minutes, then lifting the sometimes 2 ton animal out of the water for more than 30 minutes. Sharks lack a ribcage or any skeletal structure at all and setting them on hard ground puts their full weight on their vital organs, causing potentially life threatening injuries. On top of that you have the risk of the shark getting an infection from the wound left from the hook, which is commonly overlooked when catch and release fishing.[/QUOTE] From what I saw there was a high degree of incompetence both among the crew and among the scientists, putting not only themselves in danger but the sharks as well. Like one idiot who failed to realize he was between the hull of the boat and and one of the largest Great Whites they had brought in until someone yelled at him to get out of there before he got crushed.

we need a physics week

I fucking hate swimming in the ocean because of these bad ass motherfuckers IM A SHAAAARRRRKKKKKK Its cool to see people on fp like shark week :)

I love this... Shark week is on the entire time I'm on vacation at the beach every year.

[QUOTE=Zombie man70;31462805]I love this... Shark week is on the entire time I'm on vacation at the beach every year.[/QUOTE] Don't be a dead fish and you'll be fine. What beach are you going to?

Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarks