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Film-maker seeks to bust popular shark myths

Posted Tue May 6, 2008 9:36am AEST

Updated Tue May 6, 2008 10:56am AEST

Film-maker Rob Stewart says the biggest myths surrounding sharks is that they eat people (file photo)

 

Film-maker Rob Stewart says the biggest myths surrounding sharks is that they eat people (file photo) (farm1.static.flickr.com)

 

* Video: Sharks are being hunted to extinction (7.30 Report)

 

The popular image of the shark is of a veracious man-eating predator, which has meant that many shark species are being hunted without consideration.

 

Now a young Canadian film-maker h

 

 

Catalyst: Whale Sharks - ABC TV Science

 

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PG Directed by Rob Stewart

 

A documentary presenting sharks as pillars of ocean evolution... More »

 

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Sharks are neither good or bad, they are simply what they are, oceanic scavengers and predators. The key is not to get in the water where a big one is feeding. They do not hunt people or anything else in particular, they just hunt and eat what they find. Just don't be found:doh:

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Sharks are neither good or bad, they are simply what they are, oceanic scavengers and predators. The key is not to get in the water where a big one is feeding. They do not hunt people or anything else in particular, they just hunt and eat what they find. Just don't be found:doh:

 

mm is right, there just animals.

 

i ask you this,

which kills more people? sharks or cars?

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mm is right, there just animals.

 

i ask you this,

which kills more people? sharks or cars?

 

No doubt cars kill far more than sharks, yet we don't destroy every car we find. Sharks are just a convenient whipping boy for all our fears of the unexpected.

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