That got me thinking about what would it be like if JAWS was made today, instead of 38 years ago...Just hope the sharks focus on the seals only.
Here's a couple updated copies of posters for JAWS, the quintessential summer movie.
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
JAWS - Movie Posters reimagined
If you've been paying attention to things on Cape Cod, you might know that summers there are now more shark infested than ever. The seals are thriving due to protection as marine mammals and that in turn brings the Great White Sharks in for the summer.
That got me thinking about what would it be like if JAWS was made today, instead of 38 years ago...Just hope the sharks focus on the seals only.
Here's a couple updated copies of posters for JAWS, the quintessential summer movie.
That got me thinking about what would it be like if JAWS was made today, instead of 38 years ago...Just hope the sharks focus on the seals only.
Here's a couple updated copies of posters for JAWS, the quintessential summer movie.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Great White Sharks return to Cape Cod
They're back.......It's summer on Cape Cod and they have returned.....NO, not the tourists.The Great White Sharks....
They know there are seals in the waters off Chatham and seals are their favorite food. Of course, this makes others who want to be in the water nervous as you could be mistaken for a nice fat seal by Mr. Sharky......
The scene in Jaws where Hoope tries to explain this to Mayor Vaughn is a classic.....
Hooper:Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that's all. Now, why don't you take a long, close look at this sign.
[refers to the graffitied billboard]
Hooper:Those proportions are correct.
Mayor Vaughn:Love to prove that, wouldn't ya? Get your name into the National Geographic.
I hope the Sharks don't find the wrong "seal" when they go looking for a quick snack.....
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Girl after shark attack: 'I like dolphins way better'
In the Movie JAWS, Brody and Hooper are having a discussion about why sharks do what they do....Brody: Is it true that most people get attacked by sharks in three feet of water about ten feet from the beach?
Hooper: Yeah.
Brody: And that... and that before people started to swim for recreation - I mean before sharks knew what they were missing - that a lot of these attacks weren't reported?
Hooper: That's right.
Brody: Now this shark that... that... that swims alone...
Hooper: Rogue.
Brody: What's it called?
Hooper, Brody: [together] Rogue.
Brody: Rogue, yeah. Now this guy, he... he keeps swimmin' around in a place where the feeding is good until the food supply is gone, right?
Hooper: It's called "territoriality". It's just a theory that I happen to... agree with.
Brody: Then why don't we have one more drink and go down and cut that shark open?
Ellen Brody: Martin? Can you do that?
Brody: I can do anything; I'm the chief of police.
While I understand that sharks are only doing what they are instinctively designed to do, I can empathize with the young lady in this case....I like Dolphins way better too.
Girl after shark attack: 'I like dolphins way better'
Child airlifted to hospital after being bitten on right leg
2011-07-21
OCRACOKE, N.C. — A 6-year-old girl attacked by a shark was in good condition and good spirits at a North Carolina hospital Wednesday, telling her parents: "I hate sharks. I like dolphins way better."
The girl was swimming on a boogie board in very shallow water when she was bitten on the lower right leg and foot, said Cyndy Holda, spokeswoman for the National Park Service Outer Banks Group. Her parents released a statement saying the mother was 10 feet away and witnessed the event.
"Paramedics arrived promptly and she received excellent medical attention from EMS personnel, life-flight crew, and Pitt County Memorial Hospital medical staff in Greenville," the parents said in statement. "She is in good spirits, declaring this morning that, 'I hate sharks. I like dolphins way better.' "
Hyde County spokeswoman Jamie Tunnell said bystanders described the shark as having a "black tip or black fin, which is the type of sharks that have been known to be in this area."
No other swimmers were injured and area beaches remained open.
It was the first shark attack at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, a prime tourist destination that extends more than 70 miles from South Nags Head to Ocracoke Inlet, since Sept. 3, 2001, when a 28-year-old Russian visitor was killed off Avon, Holda said.
With the warmer water temperatures and time of day, shark sightings are not uncommon in the area, park rangers said.
"This time of year we have a lot of people in the water that are on vacation. We also have a very active marine fishery with bait in the water," Holda said.
According to the website Shark Attack File.info, this is the second shark-bite incident in the waters of North Carolina in less than a month.
In late June, a shark bit a 10-year-old twice in the leg before letting go. That incident happened in about three feet of water in North Topsail, an area about 130 miles southwest of Tuesday's incident.
The site shows 15 attacks so far in the United States in 2011 by sharks, none of them deadly.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Chatham, MA becomes SHARK CITY for the tourists on Cape Cod
Summer on Cape Cod and the tourists are out in full force to see....SHARKS !! Great White Sharks no less.....
That's right, Chatham, MA on Cape Cod has become " Shark City " based on the past few summers of Great White Shark sightings. The Sharks are there for the seals, the tourists want to try to see the Sharks.....What the Tourists don't realize is that Sharks are way off shore and they are very solitary creatures.
But in the meantime, it means more business for the locals and that is not a bad thing except for those who hate traffic.....which raises the question, " If you hate traffic, why would you go to Cape Cod during the summer ??" - The Cape is all about traffic, especially in the summer....
Looks like they will need to heed the advice of Chief Martin Brody, " You're gonna need a bigger boat."
Shark Chase, Blood-Thirsty Tourists Jolt Town
By Laura Keeley - Jun 30, 2011 Bloomberg.com
The great white sharks swimming off the waters of Chatham, Massachusetts, are boosting its economy by luring more tourists. Now the Cape Cod town is wondering whether being so popular will have a bite.
As the Fourth of July weekend kicks off the summer vacation season, Chatham is the best place on the cape to view the predators, according to Greg Skomal, shark expert at the state’s Division of Marine Fisheries. The several thousand gray seals dwelling in the area are shark prey, he said.
“The seal population has reached some critical level that the likelihood of seeing a white shark now has increased,” Skomal said.
Shops and restaurants profited last summer as busloads of visitors detoured to the town in pursuit of shark sightings, resulting in constant traffic jams, said Lisa Franz, executive director of the Chatham Chamber of Commerce. This year, with at least two film crews visiting, some residents are bracing for unwelcome attention.
“We wanted to be known as a nice, quiet, laid-back community,” said Mike Ambriscoe, fire chief of the town, 75 miles southeast of Boston. “We’ve been having this problem where sharks have been visiting us. It certainly does put you in the limelight.”
In the past two summers, state experts have tagged 13 great white sharks and confirmed the sighting of at least four others. The U.S. Coast Guard issued a shark warning last year on July 2. This year, fishermen in Martha’s Vineyard, 60 miles away, spotted a great white on May 6.
Shark Circus
News of the sightings brought about 5,000 day-trippers into town each month last summer, said Tim Roper, a selectman.
“Folks show up and ask, ‘What’s the best place to see the sharks?’ or ‘What time do they start eating the seals?’ as if it were a circus act,” Roper said.
Great whites can exceed 20 feet in length and weigh more than 2 tons, according to the Marine Division’s website. In comparison, a Honda Insight compact car is about 14.3 feet long and weighs about 2,700 pounds, according to Edmunds Inc., an automotive information company.
Skomal said people aren’t at risk of being attacked by sharks on Chatham’s beaches as long as they visit ones away from the seals that draw the predators.
“The first year this all happened, I was really nervous about it and would say to others, don’t talk about it, we don’t want shark merchandise,” Franz said. “The second year, I embraced it. The third year, come on down, we’ll have a shark statue for you.”
More Sightseers
The shark buzz and favorable weather boosted revenue by about 20 percent for Beachcomber Boat Tours, which ferries tourists to where the seals gather at Monomoy Island, said Paula St. Pierre, owner. Chatham’s population is 6,579 most of the year, swelling to about 25,000 in July and August, according to the town website.
Chatham didn’t have as many gray seals to attract sharks before the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972 made it illegal to kill them and the population began to rebound. Federal authorities are investigating the fatal shootings of six seals in the area this year, said Michael Booth, spokesman for the International Fund for Animal Wildlife. Skomal said fishermen tend not to like the seals, which they blame for eating all their catch and driving away other fish.
“People are more interested in sharks than ever,” St. Pierre said. “They have fantasies that they’re going to see something like a National Geographic show.”
Customer Expectations
That's right, Chatham, MA on Cape Cod has become " Shark City " based on the past few summers of Great White Shark sightings. The Sharks are there for the seals, the tourists want to try to see the Sharks.....What the Tourists don't realize is that Sharks are way off shore and they are very solitary creatures.
But in the meantime, it means more business for the locals and that is not a bad thing except for those who hate traffic.....which raises the question, " If you hate traffic, why would you go to Cape Cod during the summer ??" - The Cape is all about traffic, especially in the summer....
Looks like they will need to heed the advice of Chief Martin Brody, " You're gonna need a bigger boat."
Shark Chase, Blood-Thirsty Tourists Jolt Town
By Laura Keeley - Jun 30, 2011 Bloomberg.com
The great white sharks swimming off the waters of Chatham, Massachusetts, are boosting its economy by luring more tourists. Now the Cape Cod town is wondering whether being so popular will have a bite.
As the Fourth of July weekend kicks off the summer vacation season, Chatham is the best place on the cape to view the predators, according to Greg Skomal, shark expert at the state’s Division of Marine Fisheries. The several thousand gray seals dwelling in the area are shark prey, he said.
“The seal population has reached some critical level that the likelihood of seeing a white shark now has increased,” Skomal said.
Shops and restaurants profited last summer as busloads of visitors detoured to the town in pursuit of shark sightings, resulting in constant traffic jams, said Lisa Franz, executive director of the Chatham Chamber of Commerce. This year, with at least two film crews visiting, some residents are bracing for unwelcome attention.
“We wanted to be known as a nice, quiet, laid-back community,” said Mike Ambriscoe, fire chief of the town, 75 miles southeast of Boston. “We’ve been having this problem where sharks have been visiting us. It certainly does put you in the limelight.”
In the past two summers, state experts have tagged 13 great white sharks and confirmed the sighting of at least four others. The U.S. Coast Guard issued a shark warning last year on July 2. This year, fishermen in Martha’s Vineyard, 60 miles away, spotted a great white on May 6.
Shark Circus
News of the sightings brought about 5,000 day-trippers into town each month last summer, said Tim Roper, a selectman.
“Folks show up and ask, ‘What’s the best place to see the sharks?’ or ‘What time do they start eating the seals?’ as if it were a circus act,” Roper said.
Great whites can exceed 20 feet in length and weigh more than 2 tons, according to the Marine Division’s website. In comparison, a Honda Insight compact car is about 14.3 feet long and weighs about 2,700 pounds, according to Edmunds Inc., an automotive information company.
Skomal said people aren’t at risk of being attacked by sharks on Chatham’s beaches as long as they visit ones away from the seals that draw the predators.
“The first year this all happened, I was really nervous about it and would say to others, don’t talk about it, we don’t want shark merchandise,” Franz said. “The second year, I embraced it. The third year, come on down, we’ll have a shark statue for you.”
More Sightseers
The shark buzz and favorable weather boosted revenue by about 20 percent for Beachcomber Boat Tours, which ferries tourists to where the seals gather at Monomoy Island, said Paula St. Pierre, owner. Chatham’s population is 6,579 most of the year, swelling to about 25,000 in July and August, according to the town website.
Chatham didn’t have as many gray seals to attract sharks before the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972 made it illegal to kill them and the population began to rebound. Federal authorities are investigating the fatal shootings of six seals in the area this year, said Michael Booth, spokesman for the International Fund for Animal Wildlife. Skomal said fishermen tend not to like the seals, which they blame for eating all their catch and driving away other fish.
“People are more interested in sharks than ever,” St. Pierre said. “They have fantasies that they’re going to see something like a National Geographic show.”
Customer Expectations
No customer has witnessed a shark attack a seal in her 12 years of operating boat tours.
“I just don’t want anyone to have any fantasies when they go on the boat that they’re going to see a seal island attacked with a shark jumping out of the water,” she said. “Who wants to see that anyway? I don’t want to see that.”
Sharks have been identified with Cape Cod since 1975, when Steven Spielberg used Martha’s Vineyard as the setting for his movie of Peter Benchley’s novel “Jaws.” The book was set in New York’s Long Island.
Celine Cousteau, granddaughter of the late sea explorer Jacques Cousteau, plans to spend weeks in town with a crew gathering material for a documentary, “The White Sharks of Chatham,” said Michael LeFort, co-producer. A team from the Discovery Channel already came to film a documentary for its Shark Week programming, Franz said.
Scientists don’t have much historical information on the activities of great whites in the Atlantic, LeFort said.
“Everyone has an opinion on both sides,” he said about the town’s reaction to the sharks. “I can tell you that there’s more fear than celebration.”
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Biggest Great White Shark Caught & Released - " You could tell he was just a bad-ass shark..."
Sherriff Martin Brody : " You're gonna need a bigger boat..."
This shark is like having something the size of a Buick swimming up behind you and thinking to himself, " You look tasty.."
Biggest Great White Shark Caught, Released
18-foot fish may help crack migration mysteries, team says
National Geographic News
Christine Dell'Amore
May 6, 2011
Talk about a big fish—an expedition crew has hauled up—and released—what the team says is the biggest great white shark yet caught.
The 17.9-foot-long (5.5-meter-long) male behemoth was found off Mexico's Guadalupe Island (map) in fall 2009.
The animal breaks the team's previous record of 16.8 feet (5.1 meters), set when they caught a female great white named Kimel. (Both records are unofficial and not maintained by a formal organization.)
The new titleholder was named Apache after the dog of Brett McBride, boat captain on the National Geographic Channel show Shark Men. (The National Geographic Channel is part-owned by the National Geographic Society, which owns National Geographic News.)
Shark Men chronicles the work of scientists and fishers who catch and release great whites in an effort to figure out where the mysterious giants breed and give birth. The scientific team is led by Michael Domeier, president and executive director of the Marine Conservation Science Institute.
The two-ton Apache put up a fight—at one point breaking free from his barbless hook, said expedition leader Chris Fischer.
"The battle with Apache was like nothing we've ever dealt with," Fischer said.
Once on board, the researchers fitted the fish with a satellite-tracking tag, took a blood sample, and released him, watching him vigorously swim away.
"He was all scarred up and had big marks all over him—you could tell he was just a bad-ass shark," Fischer said.
"It was so impressive and so humbling to be near him."
Size Doesn't Matter for Shark Research
In large ocean fish species, females are almost always bigger than males, because they need more girth to carry their young, Fischer noted. (See great white shark pictures.)
However, even a male of Apache's size is not unheard of among great whites, other experts say.
"That is one big shark, [but] I have no doubt that this isn't the largest white shark in the wild," John O'Sullivan, head of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's White Shark Program, said by email.
Shark expert Kenneth J. Goldman added, "I don't see anything overtly magnificent about it being so large. It's just another adult male they've tagged."
That's because size alone doesn't tell scientists much, said Goldman, a fishery research biologist at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game in Homer.
Instead, Apache's real value would be in helping to resolve the lingering mysteries of great white behavior.
Biggest Shark May Help Crack Mysteries
Expedition leader Fischer agrees—and he and his team are now watching to see where Apache goes.
For instance, recent research suggests that Pacific great whites gather in specific spots near the coasts—including the Guadalupe Island site—and then travel to a "cafe" in the middle of the ocean to feed. The animals often return to the same aggregation sites after feeding.
But this is still a tentative theory, so it "would be groundbreaking if, [say], Apache left Guadalupe and went to the middle of the ocean and [returned] to a different aggregation site," Fischer said.
Overall, tagging sharks to figure out where they migrate and congregate may help conservationists protect the species, Fischer added. Great whites are considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Meanwhile, Apache lives on, he said, as a "giant male shark out there doing his great white thing."
This shark is like having something the size of a Buick swimming up behind you and thinking to himself, " You look tasty.."
Biggest Great White Shark Caught, Released
18-foot fish may help crack migration mysteries, team says
National Geographic News
Christine Dell'Amore
May 6, 2011
Talk about a big fish—an expedition crew has hauled up—and released—what the team says is the biggest great white shark yet caught.
The 17.9-foot-long (5.5-meter-long) male behemoth was found off Mexico's Guadalupe Island (map) in fall 2009.
The animal breaks the team's previous record of 16.8 feet (5.1 meters), set when they caught a female great white named Kimel. (Both records are unofficial and not maintained by a formal organization.)
The new titleholder was named Apache after the dog of Brett McBride, boat captain on the National Geographic Channel show Shark Men. (The National Geographic Channel is part-owned by the National Geographic Society, which owns National Geographic News.)
Shark Men chronicles the work of scientists and fishers who catch and release great whites in an effort to figure out where the mysterious giants breed and give birth. The scientific team is led by Michael Domeier, president and executive director of the Marine Conservation Science Institute.
The two-ton Apache put up a fight—at one point breaking free from his barbless hook, said expedition leader Chris Fischer.
"The battle with Apache was like nothing we've ever dealt with," Fischer said.
Once on board, the researchers fitted the fish with a satellite-tracking tag, took a blood sample, and released him, watching him vigorously swim away.
"He was all scarred up and had big marks all over him—you could tell he was just a bad-ass shark," Fischer said.
"It was so impressive and so humbling to be near him."
Size Doesn't Matter for Shark Research
In large ocean fish species, females are almost always bigger than males, because they need more girth to carry their young, Fischer noted. (See great white shark pictures.)
However, even a male of Apache's size is not unheard of among great whites, other experts say.
"That is one big shark, [but] I have no doubt that this isn't the largest white shark in the wild," John O'Sullivan, head of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's White Shark Program, said by email.
Shark expert Kenneth J. Goldman added, "I don't see anything overtly magnificent about it being so large. It's just another adult male they've tagged."
That's because size alone doesn't tell scientists much, said Goldman, a fishery research biologist at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game in Homer.
Instead, Apache's real value would be in helping to resolve the lingering mysteries of great white behavior.
Biggest Shark May Help Crack Mysteries
Expedition leader Fischer agrees—and he and his team are now watching to see where Apache goes.
For instance, recent research suggests that Pacific great whites gather in specific spots near the coasts—including the Guadalupe Island site—and then travel to a "cafe" in the middle of the ocean to feed. The animals often return to the same aggregation sites after feeding.
But this is still a tentative theory, so it "would be groundbreaking if, [say], Apache left Guadalupe and went to the middle of the ocean and [returned] to a different aggregation site," Fischer said.
Overall, tagging sharks to figure out where they migrate and congregate may help conservationists protect the species, Fischer added. Great whites are considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Meanwhile, Apache lives on, he said, as a "giant male shark out there doing his great white thing."
Friday, February 11, 2011
Dreaming of Hawaii......... Skier takes on "JAWS" in Maui on his own terms...
This is the time of year where I find myself really thinking (and dreaming) about HAWAII...Having spent some time there via the US Navy and on my own to visit friends, it is the kind of place that sticks with you. I would love to be able to wake up there each day but it looks like Life has other plans for me.....
Here's a cool story about a snow skier who saw that he could "ski" down a different type of mountain and make it look oh-so-very cool.....
I am missing all my friends in Hawaii...wish I was there.
Hawaii daredevil shows you don't need snow to go mountain skiing... but you need courage
By Daily Mail Reporter
11th February 2011
At first glance, it looks like footage of yet another daredevil surfer riding the breathtakingly large waves off the coast of Hawaii.
But a closer look reveals that this particular thrill seeker is on skis - not only that but he has stocks (ski poles) as well.
Chuck Patterson is a mountain free-skier who spends some time each year catching the sun in Hawaii. Obviously missing the ski slopes, Mr Patterson He recently made the trek to the famed Jaws surfing spot off the northern coast of Maui, and tried his hand at tow-surfing - where boats or jet skis help surfers build up the right speed to catch the fast-moving waves.
But Patterson turned the heads of even the most seasoned surfer dude by taking to the waves on his specially adapted skis - complete with stocks.
The stocks don't actually help with direction or propulsion. Presumably, Patterson just feels more comfortable with them in his hands. And, when you're riding a wave the size of a five-storey building, it's all about feeling comfortable.
Mr Patterson said that he started skiing at the tender age of two, and this transition from snow to water seemed natural.
But he wanted it to be seen as a genuine sport rather than just a crazy guy on skis.
He said: 'I don't want this to be looked at as a circus act.
'Ever since I started I was hooked like a little kid - just like I was when I started snow skiing.
'So it's something like that really keeps me going and I know that that's what I'm looking forward to as far as proving that you can actually turn on the waves.
Here's a cool story about a snow skier who saw that he could "ski" down a different type of mountain and make it look oh-so-very cool.....
I am missing all my friends in Hawaii...wish I was there.
Hawaii daredevil shows you don't need snow to go mountain skiing... but you need courage
By Daily Mail Reporter
11th February 2011
At first glance, it looks like footage of yet another daredevil surfer riding the breathtakingly large waves off the coast of Hawaii.
But a closer look reveals that this particular thrill seeker is on skis - not only that but he has stocks (ski poles) as well.
Chuck Patterson is a mountain free-skier who spends some time each year catching the sun in Hawaii. Obviously missing the ski slopes, Mr Patterson He recently made the trek to the famed Jaws surfing spot off the northern coast of Maui, and tried his hand at tow-surfing - where boats or jet skis help surfers build up the right speed to catch the fast-moving waves.
But Patterson turned the heads of even the most seasoned surfer dude by taking to the waves on his specially adapted skis - complete with stocks.
The stocks don't actually help with direction or propulsion. Presumably, Patterson just feels more comfortable with them in his hands. And, when you're riding a wave the size of a five-storey building, it's all about feeling comfortable.
Mr Patterson said that he started skiing at the tender age of two, and this transition from snow to water seemed natural.
But he wanted it to be seen as a genuine sport rather than just a crazy guy on skis.
He said: 'I don't want this to be looked at as a circus act.
'Ever since I started I was hooked like a little kid - just like I was when I started snow skiing.
'So it's something like that really keeps me going and I know that that's what I'm looking forward to as far as proving that you can actually turn on the waves.
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