Posted on 11/23/2011 3:12:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
Girl. Bikini. Shark. The only thing missing are two notes on a tuba – duhm, duhm – that ominous, iconic indication that "Jaws" is about to turn the water blood red.
But here in the shark infested waters off the South African coast, the women are not actresses and the sharks are not movie robots.
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Watch the full story on "Nightline" tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET
Since making it his life's work to demystify these monsters, marine biologist Dr. Ryan Johnson free dived with sharks countless times, he uses bite meters to measure the strength of their jaws and even helped develop silicon "robo-seals" to study the way Great Whites hunt their prey in beautiful Mossel Bay.
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But even though dozens of massive sharks spend over half of the year cruising less than a half-mile from some of the most popular beaches in Africa, there has not been a shark attack on humans here in over 20 years.
Johnson is so convinced that sharks are not the mindless man-eaters that he's recruited a small team of "shark angels" to test whether the animals are truly driven into a feeding frenzy by the sight of white flesh, the smell of human blood and urine or the flash of jewelry.
After his lovely assistants baited a number a sharks without a single menacing nibble, he's decided to put his theories to the ultimate test with "Shark Attack Experiment LIVE," airing Friday, Nov. 25 on the Nat Geo WILD channel.
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Girl. Bikini. Shark. The only thing missing are two notes on a tuba – duhm, duhm.
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Actually, IIRC, it was a double bass, aka a contrabass.
Can’t the press get anything right?
The sharks swim below..look up, and see the seals and/or wet suits, and strike upwards...
A “tuba”!? Are you kidding me. Even Spongebob Squarepants’ creators knew it was played on a cello in B flat.
“Jaws on tuba” just makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time.
Newsies are such idiots. Whatever happened to the real beat reporters?
I must have scrolled down too fast and missed the pictures of bikini clad women
This 'experiment' has been repeated millions of times at beaches and bars the world over.
"Can't you feel 'em circling honey, can't you feel 'em schooling around?"
Same here.
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