Discovery Shark Week - get a clue...

A promo clip from BBC's Nature's Great Events - Sardine run...a world of difference in programming and show quality compared to what The Discovery Channel has lately done with Shark Week. How would the BBC do Shark Week? My only recommendation to Didier - don't wear fins that are the same color as the fish in the bait ball :)

15 minutes of transitory fame

Very funny, huh??
Photograph: Roger Horrocks

Some people get much more - and some much less...

My old man got only about 15 seconds, on radio, and the BBC comedians were making fun of him. BBC Radio 4 has a segment called "Friday Night Comedy" - and for some odd reason they spoke about the Wolf diving with tiger sharks in Aliwal Shoal.

The punch line was that despite having been bitten by a shark (which was not a tiger shark, and the bite wound was really just a superficial cut that required out-patient surgery), the Wolf still swims with these animals. I don't think it's that funny, or else funny at all - but then again, I am not really familiar with the subtleties of the famed British humor...

Have a (canned) laugh

Media talking more about sharks

Shark finning seems to be on the mind of more and more people, including the media. With the recent addition of several shark species to the endangered list, various outlets have covered the problem. Most recently, the BBC posted this article.

Nice change from the usual sensational coverage...

Sharks are always evil in the media...

A man in Australia was bitten by a white shark while diving for abalone. CNN chose the following title: "Shark chomps head of man diving near weeds" Anything to get people to click through. BBC chose the following headline: "Australian escapes shark that grabbed him by the head" seems a bit more civil and forgiving to our friends with fins...

I must say though, what a story to tell the grand kids.