OK in all seriousness...a well acted movie...but comeon...
the excessive splashing was really obscene.
In real life, if they stayed very still and swam almost along side of shark smoothly and calmly I i think they would have faired better...
what do the rest of you think?
Along the great white? I think he smells your inner dislike for him, however smooth the swim by.
shareI wasn't saying I would have done that, but surely all the splashing didn't help.
What would you have done? Also, what was the guy with the goggles actually doing? other than getting a first hand view of the attack.
I'm sorry, I actually haven't seen the movie -- yet, just checking. I find that bizarre for Jaws induced some heavy traumas in me. And I'm coming back for more. :/
Regarding the moment in water. I don't know what I would do, I would probably not remember any National Geographic. It's different thinking from a chair, having a clear head, not feeling fatigue, not trying not to sink.
bole 79, you sound a bit like me when it comes to sharks
I was waiting for my hearse what came next was so much worse
I know if a shark of ANY kind came by I'd be as still as possible!
shareI find it hard to believe that the Shark would have returned to get two more of them It had already eaten one person Sharks don't waste energy if they aren't hungry.I think that was a bit Deep Blue Sea Sci-Fi wasn't it ?
shareYes BIG TIME...although...it could have just been another shark, not just one malevolent hark.
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http://www.gondwananet.com/australian-sharks.html
scroll about halfway down the page until you see the part about tiger sharks. this really happened. with fewer people, of course. but, it did happen. thats why the film says "based on a true story"
sorry, not trying to be a d!ck with that last statement. sounded like internet cruelty when i re read it. haha.
I find it hard to believe that the Shark would have returned to get two more of them.I always find it interesting when people attempt to categorize events and then state that anything outside of that is hard to believe. Stranger things have happened, and this was one of them (though there were only three people in that incident).
"I find it hard to believe that the Shark would have returned to get two more of them It had already eaten one person Sharks don't waste energy if they aren't hungry.I think that was a bit Deep Blue Sea Sci-Fi wasn't it ?"
That's a shark that normally eats seals/sea lions... one person is nothing compared to that... we are skin and bone... no fat. A big shark could eat a few people and come back for more out of hunger. BUT, would it? Ya never know.
I guess you're right as much as I think sharks are cool I wouldn't want to find out.
shareYes he would come back over and over again. I have 3 huge aquariums and I tried to hide food inside. The darn fish will try to get to that food all day long. If they know food is there they'll not stop trying to get it. I don't keep sharks but fish behave the same.
"Stalingrad. . . The fall of Stalingrad was the end of Europe. There's been a cataclysm."
Yeah, remain as calm as possible and stay in a tight group.
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. - Bill Maher
Calm and huge sharp toothed shark don't come together for me, i would be the first one bitten in half
I was waiting for my hearse what came next was so much worse
LOL maybe if your sneaky enough, you can sneak right by him. Imagine some saying, "SHHhhh! Don't make too much noise! He might notice!"
Or split the groups into halves, and each half sneak on each end of the shark, and on the count of three! Rip him apart! Hey if a group of dolphins can beat the crap out of a shark, why can't humans?!
Posts like this are SO redundant. When are people going to realise that at no point has it been said that these types of films are depicting these situations realistically? Are you honestly saying that you would rather have watched a film where four people swim safely across a vast amount of ocean with no complications? It is what it is. Accept it.
Blue Valentine/Williams/Gosling/Weaver/Hawkes
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Splashing did not help, but the shark could have "attacked" anyways. I remember reading that most shark attacks are actually just a cursory bite to see if what they're looking at is good eats or not.
shareone more thing about shark's attacks...sometimes it's not a real attack and they don't wanna find out if it's tasty or not ...they just have no hands to touch and recognize things ,so they bite it to find out..
anyway,a small tinny fish in a swimming pool could make me cry all day long :))
be safe
Panic would be a natural, uncontrollable reaction to most people in that situation. I think they handled it better than many would... at least they stayed in a tight group.
plus, the splashing would attract a shark from a distance, but once it knows your there I don't think it would make too much difference. If you just float on the surface you could look dead or dying and that means easy meal... thrashing around might make it think twice. But basically, if the sharks hungry at that size, your food regardless of what you do.