Sharks Good? Bad? ? ?

[Michaelangelica]

Film-maker seeks to bust popular shark myths

Posted Tue May 6, 2008 9:36am AEST

Updated Tue May 6, 2008 10:56am AEST

Film-maker Rob Stewart says the biggest myths surrounding sharks is that they eat people (file photo)

 

Film-maker Rob Stewart says the biggest myths surrounding sharks is that they eat people (file photo) (farm1.static.flickr.com)

 

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The popular image of the shark is of a veracious man-eating predator, which has meant that many shark species are being hunted without consideration.

 

Now a young Canadian film-maker h

 

 

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PG Directed by Rob Stewart

 

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[Moontanman]

Sharks are neither good or bad, they are simply what they are, oceanic scavengers and predators. The key is not to get in the water where a big one is feeding. They do not hunt people or anything else in particular, they just hunt and eat what they find. Just don't be found:doh:

[Moontanman]

Shark attack!

 

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I'm pulling for the shark!

[goku]

Sharks are neither good or bad, they are simply what they are, oceanic scavengers and predators. The key is not to get in the water where a big one is feeding. They do not hunt people or anything else in particular, they just hunt and eat what they find. Just don't be found:doh:

 

mm is right, there just animals.

 

i ask you this,

which kills more people? sharks or cars?

[Not half- but whole!]

You are more likely to be killed by a bee than a shark, or that matter even your wife..

Average deaths per year :

Bee-90

Shark-10

Wife- 300

[Moontanman]

mm is right, there just animals.

 

i ask you this,

which kills more people? sharks or cars?

 

No doubt cars kill far more than sharks, yet we don't destroy every car we find. Sharks are just a convenient whipping boy for all our fears of the unexpected.