Fri 11.02.07

Sharkwater Opens Today

In Sharkwater, filmmaker Rob Stewart sets out on a mission to debunk stereotypes about sharks and show just how important a role they play in the planet’s eco-system. I should probably see this…

Filed in Entertainment, Movies.

15 Comments on “Sharkwater Opens Today”

Nov 2, 2007 at 4:27 pm

Eric

I saw this guy on Larry King during Shark Week, it looks interesting…
Nov 2, 2007 at 4:40 pm

Bren Keller

Yes, you should see it. We all should. Here’s the link to see the theaters (very limited release - darn)
http://www.sharkwater.com/screenings.htm
Nov 2, 2007 at 9:54 pm

Thad

Its a bleeding heart tale about how shark populations are dwindeling and the cruelty sharks endure at the hands of asian fisherman (i.e. cutting off the fins and throwing the fish back in to die on the ocean floor).
Personally I’d rather hug a tree than a shark, but I live in Islamorada and know how dangerous these things are first hand. Im done getting in the ocean here, bull sharks home, not mine.
Hopefully the sport fishers do well this winter, the waters are getting cooler so the tigers and occasional whites are heading down.
2 weeks ago a 17ft. Mako was caught 6 miles from my beach.
CHOMP!

Ciao!
Nov 2, 2007 at 10:01 pm

Thad

Oh yeah, another Mako was caught north of here that wieghed in at 844 lbs!!! A monster!!!
Nov 3, 2007 at 2:40 am

Heretic

Thad, maybe you shouldn’t label people as bleeding hearts when they are trying to protect the oceans. It’s all the non-bleeding hearts who screwed up the fishing in S. Florida in general and in the Keys. It’s a shadow of what it used to be because of all the Hummer-tards and their voting habits. Florida bay is a disaster. The glades are mercury contaminated. Gimme the tree-hugging bleeding hearts any day. After 7 years of Bush, the Republicans will be shark bait for 30 years. And is it my imagination, but are bull sharks getting way more aggressive? I used to live on Key Largo in the ’60s, and nobody ever seemed to get attacked by sharks even though there were plenty of them all over the place. Maybe they are extra hungry or something from there not being any decent fishing anymore.
Nov 3, 2007 at 3:40 am

Sharky

Bull Sharks are getting more aggressive…there are a bunch of theories about it. Some say habitat loss. Some say loss of Bull Shark’s natural prey. Some say its because Bush was allowed to steal two elections.

It’s funny how scared people like Thad are of sharks when crossing the street is millions of times more dangerous.
Nov 3, 2007 at 3:07 pm

Thad

Bull Sharks DO scare the bejeezus outta me!
Oh, and I dont walk across the street, people down here are to busy looking around to pay attention to whats in front of them
Nov 3, 2007 at 7:28 pm

annie

Do u think i should c this???!!! is it good??
Nov 4, 2007 at 2:27 am

Thad

Yes,
It will be worth a look. If even the film is grounded in one POV it will still enlighten most to the over-fishing of sharks and other marine life. I’m all about preserving the oceans, reefs, and natural coral growth in our waters. I just dont agree that “saving the sharks” is a banner we should wave.
Trust me, there are PLENTY of sharks right here in the U.S. and we are’nt over-fishing them in the least…here anyways.
Of course the images of what the Japanese do are horrible, but they hae doing this for decades…possibly keeping the numbers under control. I dont know, Im not a marine biologist, but have seen hundreds of sharks. This year there is more than ever, in south Florida anyways.

Ciao!
Nov 4, 2007 at 1:46 pm

Mike Mongo

Two points, I live in Key West, just below Islamorada, and I am staff Researcher at Danger Charters: I am IN the water around twenty hours a week. Whatmore, I also live on the water on a sailboat.

There are so fewer sharks than when I was a kid around here. That’s just how it is. There are still sharks, though.

But as for there being PLENTY of sharks, how is that possible? Last year somewhere between 66 million and 166 million sharks were killed by humans. (Incidentally, 4 humans were killed by sharks.) How can 66 million sharks be pulled from the waters annually for the past twenty-to-30 years (due to increased population, demand for seafood products, modern fishing practices, etc.) and there NOT be less sharks.

Of COURSE there are less sharks. There BILLIONS of less sharks. And at the rate sharks are being killed, they are unable to repopulate or replenish their numbers.

Whatmore, at this time, we really have no idea about what the shark populations numbers even are! There just is a lack of information. But one thing we do know: There are lots less sharks.

Thankfully, Rob and Sharkwater have begun to bring this situation to all of our attention.

Lastly, I think sport fishing is dumb, but I think sport killing is dumb in any form. Unless one is eating what one catches, there is rarely any good reason to kill it. When it comes to sharks, I feel especially strongly about this.
Nov 4, 2007 at 4:36 pm

Sharky

^^Tell ‘um, Mike.

Furthermore, whenever you remove an apex predator from the food chain, the whole thing starts to crumble.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070329-sharks-shellfish.html
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:41 pm

Busybeemelissa

Heretic…So sad what you said, I hope no one is” shark bait”. I am a republican, and no matter how much I disagree with dems. I would wish them no harm!
Nov 5, 2007 at 11:51 am

Bren Keller

Interesting debates! Gotta luv it!
Nov 5, 2007 at 8:58 pm

Heretic

I was speaking in metaphorical terms, Busybeemelissa. What I meant was that your party will be thoroughly discredited for the next thirty years for remaining “faithful,” as Brittney put it, to the commander in thief. BTW, if you are pregnant or liable to become pregnant, stop eating seafood, especially shark and canned tuna. Most fisheries are now contaminated with mercury, which can give you a neurologically damaged kid with any number of syndromes such as autism and so forth. Mercury comes mainly from coal-burning electricity plants. Bush just delayed the cleanup of these plants for a decade because it would be just too much of an undue burden on the poor energy companies to install equipment to stop the flow of mercury into your fetus’ brain. Yet he’s the champion of the unborn!
Nov 8, 2007 at 6:34 pm

Jim

I wonder, just how do they know how many sharks there are in the ocean! Who counts them? It is not like they can see under the ocean and count them!