Paladin1950
Still love 50's & 60's music!
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- Mohawk Valley, NY
Being July, the National Geographic Channel have shark shows on 24 hours a day for 4 weeks. Sometimes they spill over to other networks. There's a lot of contradicting shows. They keep telling you that the Great White, Tiger, & Bull sharks are the three that have a reputation as "man eaters". Some of the shows downplay the shark attacks over the years, while others feature people who have actually been attacked and have lost limbs as they recreate that fateful day. They point out how important sharks are to our ecosystem. Personally, I have always hated sharks. They can rip off part of your arm or leg to see if you are what they normally eat. You aren't so sometimes they just swim off. Meanwhile, you spend the rest of your life as an amputee. Sometimes they show fishermen trying to reel in a large bluefin tuna that could be worth big money for them, and a shark sees the struggling fish, and swims over and takes a chunk out of it, making the tuna worthless. Seems to me, that make people hate sharks more than like them.
Whenever they say that humans are not on the sharks menu, I think about the U.S.S Indianapolis during WWII. How many sailors died horrible deaths from sharks. Apart from those who died from the explosion, several hundred were devoured by sharks, before the remaining 700 plus were finally rescued. Many years ago, I read an account of what happened by an actual survivor. It was one of the most harrowing personal accounts that I have ever read. It helped form my opinions about sharks.
Being the fool that I am, I still find myself watching some of the shows.
Whenever they say that humans are not on the sharks menu, I think about the U.S.S Indianapolis during WWII. How many sailors died horrible deaths from sharks. Apart from those who died from the explosion, several hundred were devoured by sharks, before the remaining 700 plus were finally rescued. Many years ago, I read an account of what happened by an actual survivor. It was one of the most harrowing personal accounts that I have ever read. It helped form my opinions about sharks.
Being the fool that I am, I still find myself watching some of the shows.
