Sunday, August 12, 2007

Enough Is Enough

This past week was Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. Like most men, I love sharks. I could watch shark programs for hours. Guys just love watching sharks do just about anything. I remember last year during Shark Week being completely amazed at this one guy who spent weeks swimming around Great White sharks until he was finally able to grab ones top fin and go for a little ride. It was AWESOME!

This year, naturally, I was as cranked as ever to watch. Many great programs but then one episode went too far. The scuba divers were putting tiger sharks, reef sharks, hammerheads and even tried getting huge full grown Great Whites under what they call tonic. Tonic is when the diver swims up to the shark, covers its eyes and basically puts the shark in a dazed sleep. Enough already! So now we are petting sharks? We are turning them over so we can "hang out" with them? Honestly, if one of you divers get bit, I will not feel bad.

Every year they take it a step further. When will they be satisfied? In 5 years I'll be watching and it will be like this:

"Today we are going to do something never done before in shark research. We are going to have our diver go inside the shark's mouth, see what he's eaten....and then crawl back out. And then we are going to see if the shark will wear this t-shirt."

Just keep showing sharks eating seals. That's enough for us.

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