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Lol, yeah, just big fish...maybe Jaws scarred me as a child, but they set off all my alarm bells. I think its about being in their element..loss of some control...And I wouldn't get anywhere near a salty in a kayak. I'm still wary of the American puppy alligator..after all, the big ones do kill people. It's rare, but not unheard of. Death by shark is not so rare. So in answer to your question.. Unfamiliarity with them, being in their element, and the fact that they can murder you, I suppose.
While most likely find it horrible, I really enjoyed the meg. I have never watched one movie in the Jaws franchise.
You kept alligators too? I've always been kind of interested in them. I'm planning to try to find some, take some pictures. Gators may be dumb, but I get the impression sharks are just mindless eating machines. There doesnt seem to be much intelligence there at all..like if you cut a zombie's head off in a movie, the mouth keeps trying to bite. Thats very sharkish, to me. All teeth and appetite, no reason. Im sure im just acting like arachnophobes do about spiders, but I dont care, **** those things..
One of my favorite movies... My hero, Quint!!!
Sharks, fish, gators, spiders... Yep. All of them are pretty much working on instinctual responses to the world around them. There is still some individual "personality" though. Some gators are super tame while others are very aggressive. Same with sharks. There is a guy in the Farallon Islands that dives for urchins with a hookah rig. The same giant great white sharks come back the the region seasonally every year. He knows them all as individuals. Most of them just go about their business while he goes about his. There are a couple of them though that when he sees them, he gets out of the water.
No sir, YOU can swim right up to them.
I'll fire a harpoon, from a distance. Thats interesting. Perhaps if I learned more, I wouldn't be so afraid of them.
