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A painting for the U.S. Army's Stars and Stripes newspaper shows a downed pilot fending off sharks with a knife. Ed Vebell/Getty ImagesEvery summer on the Discovery Channel, “Shark Week” inundates its eager audiences with spectacular documentary footage of sharks hunting, feeding and leaping. Debuting in 1988, the television event was an instant hit. Its financial success wildly exceeded the expectations of its creators, who had been inspired by the profitability of the 1975 blockbuster film “Ja ....
Staff Afraid of sharks? Don’t be. Your idea of what a shark might do is the scariest part. Photo: Unsplash Are you afraid of sharks? If you are, it’s nothing to be ashamed of. It’s a large club to be part of, and on its face, it makes sense. Sharks, as many people think of them, are hungry, blood-thirsty creatures, hellbent on rending flesh from bone. Those, black, soulless eyes peering from the massive head of those ravenous monsters of the deep, dragging you down into the depths while gouts of your blood turn the sea red around you as you drown, only to be consumed piece by piece in your watery grave. See? Fucking scary. ....
no. not necessarily. i mean, sharks can certainly out-swim human beings and can sense panic. so probably the best thing to do is try and stay calm and turn around and face that shark. i have to say, ali, every time there s a shark attack or two every summer, people declare it the summer of the shark. that s a mistake. this does happen but it happens so infrequently. people are afraid of being attacked by sharks then they should be afraid of being hit by lightning. that happens more often. they should buy a lot of lottery tickets because you re more likely to win the lottery often times than get attacked by a shark. last week in yellowstone three campers were attacked by a grizzly bear. one of them was killed. we re not calling it the year of the bear. while it s grizzly and our fear of sharks taps into the primal fear of the unknown, the darkness beneath us we don t know, we have to understand it s ....