Update on Shark Week. . . .

So I posted about how much our family loved Shark Week, hosted by Discovery Channel.  We always tune in to learn more about sharks and to see all the video footage they have.  They always show such beautiful video.  I told you about how disappointed I was in Tuesday nights episode and how it was just not good.   Hubby and I have still been talking about the Megalodon episode.  He has been listening to the different radio talk shows hashing it out.  Hubby looked up the oceanographer that was the lead person on this hunt and he could not be found on google except associated to this episode.  I told him to look it up on Snopes, so he pulled it up and snopes is calling it a farce.  www.snopes.com  check it out for yourself.
I am a little disappointed in Discovery Channel ethics.  Some channels you depend on to be honest and report the truth, this just goes to show you, you cannot believe everything you see or hear on TV.   They should really know better in this day and age of google.  According to Snopes several people have asked about this and have looked it up.  One thing Snopes pointed out was that the South African press did not report the boat being capsized and the three people dead.  That does raise a few questions.
Shame on Discovery Channel for stooping to such a level of deception.

Shark Week. . . .

We all love shark week on the Discovery channel.  Dear Hubby and I watched the first episode and it was about the once thought extinct Megalodon.  Hubby and I both have degrees in biology so we are always intrigued by animals that show up after everyone has thought they were extinct.  We always are geared toward the biological significance. We stayed up and watched the two hour episode and I must say they have some pretty good evidence and new evidence that the Megalodon still exists.  The one diver still thinks it is just a big great white but, I don't know.  They talked about government cameras they have under water at different places that you can access online.  One showed a large shadow and a kid just happened to be watching it when the shadow appeared.   They looked at the shadow and it was a really big shadow.  It is amazing what they can glean from a shadow.  I tried to watch last nights episode but I could not.  It was a little ridiculous.  I will try to watch tonight's episode and I hope it will be more grounded.   I am not too keen on the little talk show that comes on after the main show.  They are a little to campy for me.  I guess I am getting old.
One of my aquarium pictures to the right is of a small Megalodon mouth open, my boys and my hubby are standing behind it.  I think this was considered a baby Megalodon.
These are some pictures I took at the aquarium of the shark tank.  I do love to watch them, they are fascinating animals.