Almost 40 years on , scientist and conservationist are still find fault up the piece from the iconic movie “ Jaws ” that leave the world to believe that sharks are ferocious world eaters . trigger by fear and the theme that shark catching is “ sexy , ” numerous metal money receive a disturbing decay as adult male set off to hostilely search and kill them . So why is it that , once again , the Discovery Channel is helping to perpetuate the farcical melodic theme that sharks are savage , stale - blooded killer with scaremongering " mockumentaries " during their famous Shark Week ? Should n’t this week be aboutdispellingmyths about shark , not create new ones ?
This yr , plainly out of ideas and scratch up the bbl , Discovery Channel decided to reuse the same account into a new documentary ( mockumentary ) calledDarkness : Wrath of Submarine . Once again , it featured a savage 35 - ft great lily-white shark ( called submarine ) that had attacked along the same coast as the shark in the aforementioned docudrama . There was a disclaimer stating its existence is " controversial " ( import , nonexistent ) , but not everyone notice these .
The program involved fake institutions and player as before , one of whom described the shark as a “ cunning ” beast with an “ insatiate appetite for human origin . ” This is utterly ridiculous . Great white shark actually rarely assault homo and , contrary to popular opinion , they do n’t care the gustation of human flesh . It is irresponsible to paint this image of great whites ; they ’re advanced apex predators , not fatuous military man eaters , and it could once again damage this already fragile metal money .
It does n’t terminate there . Some of the preposterous documentaries in Shark Week actually feature real shark scientists , but it turns out the Discovery Channel has beenmisleadingthem and heavy edit out what they say to accommodate the capacity of the program .
For model , this year a docudrama calledMonster Hammerheadapparently set out to research a legendary lunkhead that has been patrol Florida for 60 yr . For starters , hammerheads know a maximum of 44 year . Second , according toio9 , the Postdoc that featured in the program , Kristine Stump , was lead to think the program was about something else .
This is n’t the first time Discovery Channel has done this . Last year they recreate the same trick on scientist Jonathan Davis . Davis was led to believe that the producer were interested in his fuzz shark research , but he end up in a documentary calledVoodoo Sharkwhich was about a mythical goliath shark call off “ Rooken . ” Davis answered questions about unrelated thing and the gang cleverly edited what he said to make it seem like he was discourse and actively seeking the voodoo shark . Of course , editing is standard practice , but if you ’re worried that genuine scientists wo n’t look in the docudrama because of its ridiculous nature , then perhaps you should have a re - think .
The Discovery Channelclaimsthat it is increase public interestingness in sharks , which is a good thing . While that may be true- there ’s so much actual , fascinating entropy outt here about shark that there ’s noneedto sensationalize in ordination to interest the great unwashed . Sharks are flaming awful , so stop lying about them .
[ ViaVox , io9 , andgawker ]
