Shark Week started last night. I turned on Discovery just to catch the middle of the program. I knew form the dialogue people were in the water and one was already killed by a shark. The one guy was in the water screaming. There was no way to help him for the shark itself was pushing the person from the rescuers. Yes, you read that right.
All the sudden this huge shark attacks this man and instantly kills him. They said the shark is about 38 feet long. I never saw a shark attack like that.
They find out that 3 people are still not accounted for. So they decide to do a heat seeking camera on the boat. It picks up the 3 people in the water and the shark circling the sunken boat.
They set up a rescue using a shark cage. When the rescuer gets into the boat underwater, the shark starts ramming the hull. As the rescuer tries to get the people out the helicopter above is still using the heat camera to let him know where the shark is.
As they are swimming to the shark cage the shark is already chasing them. When they get to the cage the shark slams right into it. Full mouth open. The shark does this several more times. I had to check if this was a real documentary or a mockup. No it was real.
I am watching with my hand covering my mouth the whole time and thinking has this Shark been watching Jaws.
The shark is ramming the cage so hard the other rescuers are struggling to get the cage lifted out of the water. The shark is damaging the pulley.
They are finally able to get them out if the water. They talk about what happened and how "Submarine" has been just a legend until this amateur footage was able to document it. No wonder this shark knows what it is doing. It is a cross between Jaws and the Deep Blue Sea. Somewhere in it's lifetime this shark has been able to act in a way that scientists over the years have said it not possible.
These people instantly became the hunted. Watching Submarine I was stunned. It truly is there water not ours. If we invade in their space things may or may not happen. We have to decide if we want to tempt fate.
Watching this really stunned me. Even this afternoon when I write the picture of how it attacked the man sits deeply in my mind. Where it will probably stay along with other things that have shocked me over the years. I think of these people and the utter fear they felt as this shark was determined to attack them all.
Science has a lot to investigate when it comes to sharks. Is Submarine a once in a million shark with the taste for humans and the hunt for them? Or have other sharks developed this?
If someone else encountered this shark, who would be alive to tell?
You really should watch this documentary it will really make you think about who's water it is.
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