More troubling for the U.S. Navy, though, the Akula was nearly as stealthy as the Los Angeles class. I switched over to NatGeo Wild and their shark shows that were on last night were more like what Shark Week used to be.". ", : "I think Willy Wonka said it best - 'A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men' ", : "Shark Week has definitely jumped the shark. They really had me fooled. You need someone better who will honestly put their heart and soul into earning their pay and making Shark Week all it can be. Ugh! More than 20 bluntnose sixgill sharks have been tagged by researchers with satellite tags and another 50 have been tagged with simple identification tags. What will it take? Even the limber holes which allowed water to pass inside the Akulas outer hull had retractable covers to minimize acoustic returns. But anyways the show did exactly what they wanted it to it got the ratings they got the viewers thats all it was ever meant to do whether we like it or not they already got the ratings thats all that counts. And yes insensitive is correct. This predilection for deep water makes bluntnose sixgills a difficult bunch to study. Watched it, was totally amazed n scared shitless only to find out it was fake!!!!! Whoever came up with that made up line of bull and felt it was viewer worthy should have known millions are going to realize he/she has no clue..NONE!! Cal.1530 automatic, 26 jewelsmovement number:77'591case: Lo search through 503,484 watches from 130 . Im surprised they didnt interview the shark to get his side of the story. Redubbed the INS Chakra, it served as Indias only nuclear powered submarine for years, armed with the short-range Klub cruise missile due to the restrictions of the Missile Technology Control Regime. How this supposed horrific set of shark attacks happened earlier in this year, yet not a single media outlet reported on them as if shark attacks are never massively huge sensationalist news? Why didnt I ever hear of this because Im a big CNN guy, well that little caption I saw but I thought it was just some small things, my wife even stayed up extra late and has to struggle now all day at work. Thirty years later they remain the mainstay of the Russian nuclear attack submarine fleetand are quieter than the majority of their American counterparts. Youre ruining Shark Week. Ohh and let us not forget the brave men pulling the steel line with no gloves to bring the cage with 4 grown wet adults (one with gear) up. Shark Class Submarine: Laid down, 24 October 1933, at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, CT.; Launched, 21 May 1935; Commissioned USS Shark (SS-174), 25 January 1936; Lost to enemy action, approximately 11 February 1942, presumed to have been hit by enemy naval gun fire in the vicinity of the Celebes Islands. Unauthorized use is prohibited. Im surprised they didnt interview the shark to get his side of the story. dying!!!!!! The whole program was a fear mongering production. If you lower the brain temperature down to 30C (86F), it can increase the survival time from 10 to 20 minutes. Yet nobody saw him on the way in? A diagram from the Shark Week show "Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine," which shows how big the fabled mega-shark would be if it existed. Ratings? I dont want to watch fake crap during sharkweek. Pitiful sad and irresponsible. You should be ashamed of yourself. I believe nothing else Descovery Can ell says now they have discredited themselvestheir Producers should be firedand me personally. Thanks for the disappointment Discovery! The researchers were using their submarine, Nadir, a Triton 3300/3 which is capable of diving up to 1,000 metres below sea level with three passengers. If the Great White Shark is bitten, the creature can consume up to 14 kg (31 lb) of body flesh, which can eat several hundred kilograms of food. In horror, the submarine crew watched as the great white sharks tore into the swordfish and devoured it. I have to agree with everybody else. Like most commenters, I have always enjoyed Shark Week on Discovery Channel. It was the 70s. The under water footage is from the deep water horizon oil disaster. And then to take a real actual boating accident where real people lost their lives and make up some shity shark story, that goes above and beyond all inconsiderate things! I doubt it. And it is magical., Copyright 1996-2015 National Geographic SocietyCopyright 2015-2023 National Geographic Partners, LLC. The shark that took the swordfish is more than three metres long and had swallowed the fish. I want to see real facts and videos of sharks. The man eventually drowned and the shark swam away. With the somewhat obvious visual effects I doubted it. Even if it is possible for a shark to break a ship, it is not worth the risk. The shows Melvyn Thurmond also has an online blog, which you can find here. Its disappointing. (Something about it taking hours for a rescue ship to pull a few people from the water was the first clue, then the shark misinformation.) Ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earths surface, and nearly two-thirds of that water is over 5,200 feet deep. Sharks are some of the most iconic sea creatures. A young great shark strays into a sea-themed park managed by Calvin Bouchard (Louis Gossett Jr.). Jim B. She has spent the past 4 years studying the behaviour of white sharks and Cape fur seals at Geyser Rock, Shark Alley, South Africa. After an expensive round of repairs, the Nerpa was ready to goand promptly transferred on a ten-year lease to India for $950 million. ", Kathy Geldenhuys was sitting on a nearby bench. Now, they are also fake? Troy was covered with SkinFlex fabric and glass, which created a shark skin appearance. This cat-sized shark in the photograph to the right does not appear intimidating, but it possesses the ability to destroy an entire nuclear submarine, making it a potential threat. Lession ? This fake drama is really disheartening and shows just how cheezy these producers are and the lengths theyll go to ratings. Players will be responsible for recruiting sailors to their crew as well as upgrading . Lloyd Skinner was pulled under the surf and dragged out to sea by the shark, believed to be a great white, off Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town. The shark submarine is an urban legend from the 1970's about a large white shark in false bay,. DISCOVERY show real sharks docs. Not once did I meet the researchers Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine features, because they do not exist. I cant believe I jus wasted two hours of my life. There is a real problem with the destruction of sharks by fear, fishing or for their fins by people in Asia. The harm this one show will do to shark populations is saddening. We started questioning it when EVERYONE was good looking lol. In October 2016, Moscow and New Delhi agreed on the leasing of a second Akula-class submarine, although its unclear whether it will be the older Akula I Kashalot or never-completed Akula II Iribisthough the steep $2 billion price tag leads some to believe it may be the latter. . A very valid point by Michelle here. What a shame and a waste of time. Wow. There are so many people who really believe that these shows and concepts are legitimate and that saddens me. I have no problem with occasional flights of fancy, but Discovery is heading down the path of MTV, which itself over time became less and less about music and faded into irrelevance. The International Union for Conservation of Natures Red List of Threatened Species classifies bluntnose sixgills as near threatened, but there is not enough data to estimate their population or discern whether it is increasing or dwindling. Now I know its because it was fake . A man was swimming in the ocean when he was suddenly pushed out to sea by a submarine shark. Time to bring Shark Week back to being something the viewers wait for, for an entire year and not a joke to us or the sharks. A better name would be the Mythology Channel.. In actual science taking bits and pieces of factual information and crafting them into a knowingly false story is EXTREMELY disdained. The clip was taken by submarine pilot and engineer Lee Frey who was on a trip with OceanX to tag members of the species. These accounts can easily be found on google, indeed the first google result for Melvyn Thurmond is the typepad blog. This section includes over 21.000 Allied Warships and over 11.000 Allied Commanders of WWII, from the US Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, The Polish Navy and others. THEN they could not rescue the man who was being pushed by the sharks snout further out to open sea? Dates, locations, facts, numbers, and so many other things that were said has no info to back it up!! Then these 3 victims survived on an air pocket in the shipwreck undersea after 4 hours under water? But the key thing here I would like to emphasise is that the youtube accounts and that blog make absolutely no reference to an affiliation with Discovery Channel, never mind any disclaimers. Thank you for that detailed explanation. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Imaginext / Playskool Lot Mixed Vinyl Figures Woody Spider-Man Jurassic Park. All I can say is, I honestly deep down in my heart know that with the amount of money they spent to create this mockery, I could of in the years time they had, made a much better and based upon true story shark feature. Shark pushing man out to sea? K signing off from Belgium. Not that the video, nor its description ever makes any reference to what area it was recorded in! It's like Google Reader, except it still exists. There is some truth to base the story on. You and me both. same here, i was all into it crunching on my doritos and gulping down my ginger ale. Bruce shark, which was 20 feet (6.6 metres) long and 3 tonnes in size, was enlarged tenfold by Steven Spielbergs 1975 film adaptation of Peter Benchleys novel. I have always found the possible existence of creatures and alien sightings to be cool even though Im 20. Massive Deep-Sea Shark Checking Out Our Submarine OceanX 262K subscribers Subscribe 124K 17M views 3 years ago #shark #sharkweek #OceanX *EXTENDED EDIT NOW LIVE:. Discovery you are losing respect and the trust of your viewers! For the second year in a row I have had to explain to my 9 year old son that a Discovery show is fake, disappointing to say the least. On the first night, a sixgill knocked into the speargun, causing it to misfire. To better study the bluntnose sixgill, scientists had to figure out how to fire a speargun from a submarine. And the entries for January, February and March were actually all posted on July 17th. This is surely getting dangerous in terms of how misleading its getting. More people in the age group of 25-54 watched Shark Week programming this year than last. However, even as the Soviet Union collapsed, it launched the first of five Project 971U Improved Akula I boats. It is a feared predator of the deep ocean, and is known to attack and eat anything that it can fit into its mouth. Sensors in shark heads detect electrical impulses in their prey--and these sharks are mistaking this submarine for a snack. As soon as they mention the joyride I looked it up within the first 30 seconds of the show last night I could not find anything to support their claims 25 minutes into the show I looked it up again all of a sudden there was floods of information but from the discovery channel no news channels. Thanks for posting this. Theres nothing new under the sun. A Stranded Deep-Sea Research Team Encountered Deadly Monsters In Underwater After sitting on the shelf for a couple of years before finally being given an early January release date, Underwater, unfortunately, seemed destined to fly under the radar. I had been channel surfing and came upon it and I did say to myself, Wow! Really? How a zoo break-in changed the life of an owl called Flaco, Naked mole rats are fertile until they die, study finds. 10:04 GMT 03 Aug 2019. I think Discovery Channel is reaching their lowest point in history. These vague (and quickly flashed) statements intentionally deceive people who are willing to believe whatever they see on Discovery. One Man's Plan To Drain the Mediterranean Sea. He is the oldest out of the four and possesses super strength, making him the strongest out of the four siblings and everyone else in the world. The most noticeable increase in viewership occurred in the case of nearly 3.3 million viewers. Did not seem right that they filmed this while people were supposedly dying. Now they are going for pure entertainment, to compete with other channels for viewerships! Awasome Navy Ship Tests Positive Ideas.Navy is now awaiting confirmation of the sailor's test results. You mean to tell me that all that filming was fake? 's week of shark-themed programs Sunday night. Story. Locals believe this shark is responsible for countless fatal attacks, but its . The shark submarine is an urban legend from the 1970s about a large white shark in false bay,. Man! The 111-meter-long vessel was distinguished by its elegant, aquadynamic conning tower and the teardrop-shaped pod atop the tail fin which could deploy a towed passive sonar array. Old cells hang around as we age, doing damage to the body. Sharks have also been the focus of numerous. Last year it was megladon, this year more crap. The megalodon had to be killed in order to eliminate its primary prey. HOWEVER, In The Past Few Years its become apparent that its not as truthful and informational as it used to be. ", His friend Dane Leo added: "I was floating and I thought the people waving at us were joking, but then I looked back and saw a fin and blood. You can see the location stamp from Canyon Offshore that operated the ROVs that shot the video. I agree a total fake. The pressurised gas that . Who created it? The shocking attack yesterday afternoon came after an increase in recent shark sightings and led to calls for an electronic warning system to alert swimmers. Now I am just mad and feel stupid. They migrates through the area every July. An Otto electric motor has 14 rows, and a 13 horsepower (9.7 kW) gasoline engine with 13 rows. Why would they air fake shows that portray exactly the opposite. Complete nonsense, discredits every other show they air. Tag: submarine shark pushes man out to sea March 8, 2022January 24, 2023TV/Moviesby Igor 10 Shark Movies That Changed Our Perceptions About These Monstrous Sea Dwellers Sharks are some of the most iconic sea creatures. From pioneering the use of solar energy to helping to eradicating disease, here are just a few ways the 39th U.S. president has made the world a better place. As for the Akula II Vepr, it was beset by tragedy in 1998 when a mentally unstable teenage seaman killed eight fellow crewmembers while at dock, and threatened to blow up the torpedo room in a standoff before committing suicide. This was like a documentary on Jaws. http://io9.com/shark-week-lied-to-scientists-to-get-them-to-appear-in-1619280737 If you google boat capsized in Hout Bay, you will find that there was a boat which capsized outside of Hout Bay in 2012, killing 2 passengers onboard. Wont watch Discovery ever again. Today the Russian Navy maintains ten to eleven Akulas, according to Janes accounting in 2016, but only three or four are in operational condition, while the rest await repairs. Fear struck at, Journalist passionate about cutting edge technology, space and fighting climate change. Sharks arent calculating murderers! This isn't SyFy", : "Discovery, History, and Nat Geo have all given up on educational programming in favor of ratings. If I want this kind of entertainment, Ill stick to watching Sharknado on ScyFy. And the story was an inscrutable mess that proved challenging to get through. I so pissed right now. Besides, it seems like so many programs they have aired in the past have focused on changing peoples perception of sharks from viewing them in a negative ( mindless man eating machine) way, and working towards goals of conservation and cohabitation with sharks. They need to stop competing and stay true to science and education. He would have had to swim into the sonars view first before he stopped and turned vertical. Like the Megladon B.S. Experts who offer explanations for some of the most compelling witness accounts offered a solid explanation for the existence of The Submarine, a massive and mythical great white shark that allegedly terrified South Africans for 30 to 44 years. 154 BGM-109 Tomahawks in 22 groups of seven. http://profile.typepad.com/melthurmond. Finally, in June, they embarked on their thirdand final trip, which would last a total of four nights. This year, the Chakra will also be joined by the domestically-produced Arihant class, which is based on the Akula but reoriented to serve as a ballistic-missile sub. 4 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes. July 1, 2021 8:44 pm et. REALLY? Appreciate you taking the time to put this out there. I understand the channels desperation, wouldnt any show be scrambling and desperate when they keep having to show the same footage year after year. Stuff like where Jeremy Wade caught a Greenland shark is much better than this. It's a wonder that "Shark of Darkness" fooled anyone. I had just been saying how the jaws outlook is no longer, and people are now curious and excited about sharks. if I want to see some fake shark garbage I watch sharknado I mean seriously Ive been watching Shark Week since I was a little kid now I have to explain the my little kids that this is fakeDiscovery Channel has really disappointed me again thank goodness for DVR I didnt waste two hours of my time. Bad enough theses sharkumentaries are all human attack centric. This is day 2 and Ive watched one show. Lmao. The above will be the only one posted. Deep sea sharks, particularly bycatch, are becoming increasingly difficult to catch as global commercial fisheries expand deeper. Basking sharks are mistaken for Great Whites because they have the same body shape as Great Whites. They would mount two spearguns on Nadirgiving them two shots at tagging a shark per nightwhich they would use to target bluntnose sixgills in the Exuma Sound off of Eleuthera. The visit by the Astute-class submarine comes after it has been part of a task group with the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth sailing through the Indo-Pacific. Phillip brown was spearfishing barramundi off the coast of queensland on. I love shark week. To think I taped it so me and my daughter could watchbecause we both find learning about sharks coolbut really pushing the guy out to sea that is just plain laughable and the sad part it their are people gullable enough to believe that shit.very disappointed. How did this mountain lion reach an uninhabited island? Now, I find out its all fake. The U.S. Navy still operates forty-three Los Angelesclass boats, though fourteen newer Seawolf- and Virginia-class submarines still beat out the Akula in discretion. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoS. I too was lmao when they actually said submarine watched the killer whales and learned from them.what?? Just a little more information on how this show was expended onto social media, because Im really bloody concerned about it. There are so many people watching this and thinking that this is true. On the third night, a pesky grouper swam by at exactly the moment they had fired at a sixgill, intercepting the precious tag. Copyright 2023 Center for the National Interest All Rights Reserved, long and eventful history of submarine disasters. How can you have a dramatisation of events that never actually happened? dolphins are the intelligent ones. After that things just started getting weird. I wont watch shark week again and how do I trust the rest of your material? Global Perspective on the Biology and Life History of the White Shark, Fin-Body Ratios for Smooth Dogfish Depends on How You Slice It, Background information on our trophy fishing for species threatened with extinction paper, http://io9.com/shark-week-lied-to-scientists-to-get-them-to-appear-in-1619280737, http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/shark-week-nets-ratings-record-posts-highest-numbers-in-27-year-history-1201280268/, http://sharkattacksurvivors.com/shark_attack/viewforum.php?f=39. Skinner, 37, a Zimbabwean who lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was standing chest-deep 100 metres from the shore and adjusting his goggles when the shark struck. Who is in the movie Dark Tide with Halle Berry. "That shark was huge. I thought the point of Shark Week was to dispell these myths. After all, its not like these things take months to make. Also it was weird how EVERYONE on the boat seemed to be prepared with a camcorder and compelled to film themselves and everyone else in b-style horror movie fashion before takeoff (almost like they were introducing a cast) also they just watched the shark lead the one guy out to sea and kill him. What is wrong with discovery and animal planet too, are they both run by the same morons? This species is found throughout the world in abundance. This tag will remain on the shark for three months before being detached and uploaded via satellite to a processing center. Their target was the bluntnose sixgill, a massive creature with glittering emerald eyes and six gills to most sharks five. My son and I have been watching shark week for 25 years..please dont end a family tradition! Im hoping that the tag will shed light on the sharks home range and maybe, since its a male, the location of breeding grounds., The teams success is proof that animals can be successfully tagged in the deep sea from submersibles. If Discovery wants people to believe their shows they really shouldnt use actors that have been in several movies. But eventually he noticed that, though the sharks survived the experience of being hauled to the oceans surface, they didnt seem to resume normal behavior for a few days. Fake!!! Rated 5.00 out of 5 $ 498.68. Witnesses have described their horror at seeing a tourist being eaten by a "gigantic" shark in South Africa's most popular holiday destination. The world is going to hell and you people think this is Cute!!!! Ian Klopper, a spokesman for the National Sea Rescue Institute, said: "You can rule out any chance of finding him alive. What else can be said? Which travel companies promote harmful wildlife activities? Sharks are opportunistic animals that will only attack ships that are worthwhile for them. OMG! Push the guy out to deeper sea for a snack later on just because he is full and will eat again in 15 minutes? 14 min. ", British visitor Phyllis McCartain told the same paper: "We saw the shark come back twice. To think that these animals will be hunted and killed until they are gone Sick. There have been plenty of shark attacks near Africa and Australia. I believe that was an early report though because Ive seen articles about the Miroshga that say 4 people lost their lives. In 1954, again off the coast of australia, to fix and cleaning stopped in the port of the ship rachel cohen. I love most of shark week and even the shows which talk about REAL shark attacks. Just saw the doc. Seaview is designed and built by scientist and engineering genius Admiral Harriman Nelson (USN-Ret). Im done. No idea why they dont get that. I get the entertainment factor, it just seems that it goes against everything discovery channel is supposed to stand for. And would they really show real people dying on tv? Their radar and microphones were destroyed beyond repair leaving the Americans blind in the water. Sharks have traditionally displayed aggressive behavior in open ocean, but they most likely did so at this depth as a curiosity. Part of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, it had a crew of 98 and carried three SS-N-5 submarine-launched. Its Megalodon all over again. And you guys didnt see the report on the Sharknado in the middle of Nevada, thats their next documentary!!! Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Imaginext Deep Sea Shark Sub Submarine Vehicle Blue Orange Lot at the best online prices at eBay! Really. The attack submarines propulsion plant was rafted to dampen sound, and anechoic tiles coated its outer and inner surface. Discovery . , updated Thats when it hit and I was likeyeahbeen duped. A crew of around seventy could operate the ship for one hundred days at sea. The Rainbow Bridge comforts many pet parents. Though he couldnt see well, Naylor felt confident he could predict where the shark had gone. The submarine shark is a large predatory fish that can grow to be up to 20 feet in length. Really disappointed in Discovery channel. Add to cart. Even my sons no longer watch this. Three years later, there was an unconfirmed claim (this time denied by the U.S. Navy) that another Akula had spent a month prowling in the Gulf of Mexico without being caught. By Props remarkable 9-month recovery was documented (video) and the results were published in Global Perspective on the Biology and Life History of the White Shark. Shit, thatll be next. The idiot's guide to commanding a German submarine and fleeing to America with it. It sucks! 79 YOUR RATING Rate Documentary A mega shark known as Submarine menaces passengers of a sinking boat in the shark infested waters off the coast of Africa. I can honestly say, just like Fonzie, they have really I watched this show believing that what I was watching actually happened. As silly as it was, at least last month's "Sharknado 2" was entertaining. http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/shark-week-nets-ratings-record-posts-highest-numbers-in-27-year-history-1201280268/. Whales that we track would be gone left and right, not to mention larger prey. All rights reserved, classifies bluntnose sixgills as near threatened,. The submarine shark is a migratory species, and can be found in all the worlds oceans. There were already sharks attacking the fish before the Great White Shark had attacked it. A post shared by Silver Shark Adventures (@silversharkadventures) His Instagram introduction reads, "A blue whale, the largest animal species on earth, exploding out of the sea like a submarine."

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