Shark Week!!

Definitely

FYI, It also has Robert Patterson "bothered."  see http://www.robertisbothered.com//>


Edited by Pector55 2009-08-10 3:05 PM

i had a 6 ft shark swim right next to me....approx 3 ft away when i was swiming in turks and caicos.  adrenaline rush....

pretty amazing fish, i swam behind it probably a stupid thing to do.....

shark?  nope, never seen one 



Seriously.  You have nothing to worry about.  You should worry about driving to your open water swim, much more likely to be hurt doing that than swimming.

You know you are a triathlete when you draft off a shark!  Very nice! 

Those hammer heads don't count.  They have handlebars to hold onto to keep them from biting you.

lol... how about these?  Cocos Island, nightly feeding frenzy (seriously. every, single night at the same dive site  these sharks come out to eat the critters, dove it 4 times, close to best dives of my life)






or this gal?
 

I used to live on an inlet of Tampa Bay.  Little black tip sharks would bump into me as I did my open water swims...

"Little black tip sharks would bump into me as I did my open water swims..."

Did they at least call out "on your left..."

I has a race this weekend so intentially did not watch. Now I have to see if I can get through On-Demand. I did not need any additional negative thoughts in my head.

OMG _ I was paranoid enough. Black Tips bumping into you! YIKES!!!!!!! cross off any ocean tri off the list

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Don't worry.. I just tried to get into the water at Ocean Beach (New London) over the weekend.  Those sharks won't bite.  They are too busy huddling by a fire to keep warm. 

hmmm, now you are slipping me the vegetarians. 

ha, FYI, these are some of the coolest pictures I have ever seen.  Very Nice!

ROFL!!!!!

Their little mouths were so small I doubt they would do any damage if they bit you anyway.

Remember the chances of you getting attacked by a shark are MUCH lower than you getting into a car accident on the way to the tri.  The chances are basically nil...

Logically so true - I am just convinced the shark will attack from below (like the sharks in South Africa) thinking I was the injured slow swimming seal !LOL LOL LOL - sad part is - I do not even think sharks breach in my neck of the woods? so irrational. I know.

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It's nice of Discovery Channel to program Shark Week right when the annual big crop o' newbies in LA are hitting the ocean for the first time to get ready for Malibu Tri and LA Tri...

I seriously think the movie 'Jaws' scarred everyone for life.

I used to be really afraid of sharks, but after having read things on BT and read other people's accounts of shark encounters, it seems that sharks' main purpose isn't to attack humans when they have the chance. I have no solid evidence on this guess and don't have the time to research it, but it seems like if you are minding your own business and don't freak out if you see one, your chances of surviving are pretty high.

Easier said than done, I'm sure.

But why are we so scared of them? Whales are bigger, yet if I saw a whale in the water I wouldn't be scared at all. Yea, sharks have hurt people before, and they have teeth, but the teeth aren't GINORMOUS or anything...seriously, I blame 'Jaws' for everyone's trauma.

Not bad mouthing the movie though - for a movie to have such an impact it must be pretty good...

Not training, but out surfing I've seen at least a half dozen.  Mostly bulls, which are very scary to see.  Not fun to arrive at the "secret spot" only to see everyone out of the water b/c there are so many sharks roaming.  I am more worried about the sharks I don't see rather than the ones that I do.  Still scary none the less when you see one splash about 3 feet away.

oh I am pretty sure seeing a whale while swimming would freak me out - don't think I would get eaten but sure it would stop me dead in my tracks. LOL.

I agree, they are not there to eat us per say - but when swimming I think we have too much time to "think" about things -the more I OWS the better I get with my fears of being attacked by sharks or hell even the man eating catfish they have reported in some parts of the world. Its still startling to think of an encounter. Atleast for me it is.

Florida - I grew up in south Florida and we used to swim in canals after school - never any encounters with gators which I am sure where there. Yet somehow you could not get me in a canal in FL now for the life of me. Go figure.

For me, I just view most animals as being unpredictable.  I would get out of the water if I saw a large school of 'cuda, tuna, shark, jellyfish or ill-tempered sea bass.