Losing interest in Shark Week

[Aquatic Eagle]

Every year I look forward to Shark Week on Discovery. I have watched Shark Week almost every year since I was a small child and I've always loved it. I'm really starting to get tired of it now though. I'm watching it right now and the episode I just watched is an episode they used last year and an episode last night was called Air Jaws. Air Jaws has been available on VHS for years now. Shark Week used to be different each time and now it's just a repeat of the previous years. Also, Shark Week used to be about biology and behaviors of sharks. They also highlighted where different types of sharks are found and that sort of thing. Now it seems that almost every episode of Shark Week in the last few years is about shark attacks and how devastating they are, how to avoid them, how to recreate them and the like. I used to watch Shark Week to learn about sharks and I always learned an awful lot. Now it's all about how many times people are attacked and why and how much damage they do. Here are some examples of episode titles:

Shark Attack
Sharkbite: Surviving Great Whites
Shark Hunting

This kinda makes me mad that instead of a week of good information about sharks and shark conservation it's more about how they're dangerous to humans and about sharkfishing tournaments. Anyone have an opinion on this?

 

[sasscuba]

I have lost interest this year also. They are just playing old stuff with a new show every now and then.

 

[PhotoTJ]

What gets better ratings? We live in a bottom line world.

 

[scubaaaronh]

Kind of agree we quit watching also.

 

[jbichsel]

I too have been watching Shark Week for year and agrre that it is becoming more like the evening news: biased and sensationalized.

But that is the target audience mentality. They don't really care that sharks are becoming scarce, they are an integral part of the ecosystem, etc.

All they want to see is someone getting chewed up and spit out.

I find it interesting that some of the "victims" actually have no clue that their behavior is just begging for an attack.

Standing waist deep in the surf, fishing, carrying the bait and caught fish on their belt. Yeah, ok, these are the kinds of people that go into Glacier National Park, leave their cooler open, hamburger sitting out, and then are amazed the grizzly ate their head.

Some people are just walking proof that the gene pool needs some chlorine.

There still are bits and pieces of science, biology during Shark Week, but mostly it seems to be "Stupid Humans on Parade" Week.

 

[mike_s]

Seems to me as the same shows they showed last year...


and the year before that... and the year before that...

 

[ScubaTexan]

My brother made an interesting observation tonight....

The individual that cares the least about what the chances of being attacked by a shark are is.......the shark itself.

Hmmmm...

 

[Aquanautchuck]

I also noticed that they appear to be all reruns. I am tired of seeing the same story of people being attacked. I want to know more about the sharks themselves.

Charles

 

[Jim Ernst]

Every year I look forward to Shark Week on Discovery. I have watched Shark Week almost every year since I was a small child and I've always loved it. I'm really starting to get tired of it now though. I'm watching it right now and the episode I just watched is an episode they used last year and an episode last night was called Air Jaws. Air Jaws has been available on VHS for years now. Shark Week used to be different each time and now it's just a repeat of the previous years. Also, Shark Week used to be about biology and behaviors of sharks. They also highlighted where different types of sharks are found and that sort of thing. Now it seems that almost every episode of Shark Week in the last few years is about shark attacks and how devastating they are, how to avoid them, how to recreate them and the like. I used to watch Shark Week to learn about sharks and I always learned an awful lot. Now it's all about how many times people are attacked and why and how much damage they do. Here are some examples of episode titles:

Shark Attack
Sharkbite: Surviving Great Whites
Shark Hunting

This kinda makes me mad that instead of a week of good information about sharks and shark conservation it's more about how they're dangerous to humans and about sharkfishing tournaments. Anyone have an opinion on this?

yes i have an opinion on this!!! you are 100% correct!!!! it is all about how the sharks are out too get us,BULL S****, WERE DID THE REAL SHARK WEEK GO:11:

 

[serambin]

I too have been watching Shark Week for year and agrre that it is becoming more like the evening news: biased and sensationalized.

But that is the target audience mentality. They don't really care that sharks are becoming scarce, they are an integral part of the ecosystem, etc.

All they want to see is someone getting chewed up and spit out.

I find it interesting that some of the "victims" actually have no clue that their behavior is just begging for an attack.

Standing waist deep in the surf, fishing, carrying the bait and caught fish on their belt. Yeah, ok, these are the kinds of people that go into Glacier National Park, leave their cooler open, hamburger sitting out, and then are amazed the grizzly ate their head.

Some people are just walking proof that the gene pool needs some chlorine.

There still are bits and pieces of science, biology during Shark Week, but mostly it seems to be "Stupid Humans on Parade" Week.

Hey, to make the show more interesting, they could put divers in the water with the hamburger rubbed on them . . . or chum the surf at Destin early in the morning, you know . . ., before the swimmers get there. Then they could tie rump roast on to a line attached to the rental hobie's. Great fun, huh.

Stan