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on the Discovery Channel! I love this series!

[Intuitive_Edge]

Saw the commercial.. looks neat

[BGS 9.5]

on the Discovery Channel! I love this series!

I have been watching this for years, very cool show

[CaneDawg]

great series....even better now thanks to HD

gonna skip it this year as the family is headed to the beach next week

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great series....even better now thanks to HD

gonna skip it this year as the family is headed to the beach next week

Have a great time Dawg! I hope the sharks stay away.

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It's that time of the year...

"Shark Week" begins tonight on The Discovery Channel!

[clownpuncher]

"are you high it is shark week"

Will Farrell

[Mr KLC]

Its about time. I've seen the ads for weeks now.

[Ralphie1412]

Love shark week. Watching right now.

[Chi_archie]

great stuff

[jonmic]

shark week is the best week in television

[Capybara]

Check this fukkin' shit out -- this just happened yesterday. This shit is for fukking real, like "Jaws" is really happening NOW!!! ..................

Shark sightings close a Cape Cod beach

Indefinite ban on swimming ignored by some

By Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent | July 31, 2010
CHATHAM — Town officials closed South Beach for swimming indefinitely yesterday after a spotter plane located at least five great white sharks off the coast.

“They’re spread all up and down that beach,’’ said pilot George Breen, 66, who spotted three great whites during morning flights with a Globe reporter and photographer, and three sharks on his flight home to Falmouth.
He believes the sightings represented at least five distinct sharks, based on location and timing.
Around 1:30 p.m., after receiving radio reports from Breen, Harbormaster Stuart Smith banned swimming at South Beach, which was closed last year after five great whites were tagged around Labor Day. Yesterday’s beach closing was the state’s first because of sharks this year, although many sunbathers ignored the prohibition.
South Beach is a 4.5-mile peninsula accessible only by boat or foot that extends south off the elbow of Cape Cod. Swimming has been banned on its eastern coast.
“It is remote and rural, but it’s popular,’’ Smith said.
Just before 11 a.m. yesterday, two 12- to 14-foot great whites swam 200 yards apart, about a quarter-mile off South Beach.
To the north, another great white was swimming back and forth about 100 yards off the beach. Breen estimated the shark was 14 feet long, weighed 1,500 pounds, and was swimming along the ocean floor at a depth of 12 to 15 feet.
“They’ll even go closer than that. They’ll hang out in the white water,’’ Breen said as he circled the plane 500 feet up. “He’s just cruising the beach.’’
About 100 yards from where a great white swam, 33 children and adults at a family birthday party were lounging and playing Frisbee on the sand. Near their semicircle of chairs, seaweed spelled out “Happy 30th!’’
As Breen flew back to Falmouth around 1 p.m., he spotted three sharks, all within 100 yards of the coast. He said one off South Beach was probably a shark he had seen hours earlier, but the other two were too far south to have been the same sharks. One was near the middle of Monomoy Island, a national wildlife refuge popular with seals, and another was a mile north of the island’s tip.
In more than 30 years of flying spotter planes, Breen said he had seen “only a handful’’ of great whites before last summer, but he saw a dozen in one day in September and has seen sharks seven out of the eight days he has flown this summer.
He directed researchers to the great white that was tagged off South Beach Tuesday, but said he saw five other great whites that day.
The number of confirmed shark sightings off the Massachusetts coast this summer is approaching 20. But state biologist Dr. Gregory Skomal said the count is meaningless because many sightings could have been of the same shark.
In an attempt to more accurately count the sharks and to study them, Breen, Skomal, and commercial fishermen Bill and Nick Chaprales plan to head out today in a plane and a boat to tag great whites off Chatham.
The sharks are attracted to the area’s thriving seal population, which is growing because of the seals’ protected status, said Skomal, a shark expert with the Division of Marine Fisheries.
Thousands of seals lounged on sand bars yesterday and rolled in the waves breaking along the swoops of the Chatham coast.
Meanwhile, dozens of people relaxed on the sand of South Beach and some went in for a swim, despite the ban.
After exiting the water, Nicola Massarotti, 39, of Naples, said he thought there was little chance of an attack by a great white.
“I’d be more afraid to be hit by a car than to get in a shark accident,’’ he said.
But because of the sharks, John Roussel , 44, of Vernon Hills, Ill., said this is the first summer he will not take his son boogie boarding off South Beach.
“I just don’t want to take the chance,’’ said his son, James, 15.
At the birthday party where a shark had swam nearby, many were nonchalant. Nearly all had gone swimming in the morning, and 12 of the partiers said they went in the water even after the harbor patrol boat came by and asked them not to.
“We’re careful; we don’t go too far out. But I think I’m faster than a shark anyway,’’ joked the birthday girl, Hallie Smith, 30, of Chatham.
Breen, who has probably seen more sharks off South Beach than anyone, said the swimming ban is well advised.
“People say there hasn’t been a shark attack since 1936 in Massachusetts,’’ he said. “Well, I’ve been flying out here [for] 30 years and I’ve never seen sharks near the beach. If the sharks aren’t there, they’re not going to attack you. But now they are, so it’s a whole different story.’’

[obamaismyuncle]

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i love sharks i've always wanted to swim with them

[jjgold]

Any links for replays on net?

[TobiasFunke]

i love sharks i've always wanted to swim with them

That sounds safe...

[pavyracer]

It's on right now. Those seals are getting slaughtered.

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An Aussie just lost his leg and his hand to a Bull Shark.

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OH-I-THOUGHT-WE-HAD-TO-EAT-SHARK-TACOS-ALL-WEEK

[PureGuava]

that sounds interesting

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Humans and animals are not safe in rivers and lakes either...

Interesting fact that Bull Sharks can survive in salt water AND fresh water.

[Capybara]

Are these shows literally only one for one week, or is that just when they debut and then they'll repeat a whole bunch of times?

I'll have to check it out. I mostly watch Discovery Science channel when I watch Discovery-ish stuff. "Through the Wormhole" with Morgan Freeman was really interesting... about the beginning of the universe.

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Just a week, Cappy. If they showed these episodes too often, it would dilute the thrill!

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In my opinion, the live footage and reenactments of the shark attacks on humans are the best.

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This might have been the best "Shark Week" I've ever seen.

Great job, Discovery Channel!

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Shark Week 2011 begins this Sunday, July 31st @ 9:00 PM on Discovery.

[ThaWoj]

cant wait, my degen ass doesnt have cable right now so i hope discovery or some other site will have streaming or at least replays of the shows

[mike-dub]

cant wait...it should be a good one (its always a good one!)

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It's that time again! "Shark Week" begins tonight @ 9:00 PM ET on the Discovery Channel...

[GUMMO77]

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It's that time again...

[Poker_Beast]

Can't wait to see this gigantic shark! This whale lure is unreal.

[innovation]

70 foot megaladon? Insane

[KingJD31]

Fukin megalodon

[chipper]

Shark week is awesome! I'm loving it.