Shark Expert Rates 10 Shark Attacks In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
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- Marine biologist and doctoral student Amani Webber-Schultz rates 10 shark attacks in movies and TV shows, such as "Jaws," for realism.
Webber-Schultz breaks down the accuracy of shark behavior and appearances of the great white shark in "Jaws" (1975), "The Requin" (2022), and "The Shallows" (2016), starring Blake Lively. She looks at the likelihood of shark attacks in "Unbroken" (2014), "47 Meters Down: Uncaged" (2019), and "Finding Nemo" (2003). She also looks at the realism of various shark species, such as the megalodon and tiger shark, in "Never Say Never Again" (1983), "Deep Blue Sea" (1999), "Shark Night" (2011), and "The Meg" (2018), starring Jason Statham.
Webber-Schultz is a doctoral student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology with a research focus on shark morphology and biomechanics. She is one of the cofounders and the chief financial officer of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a nonprofit dedicated to fundraising for and culminating a space for gender minorities of color in shark sciences. She is also the cohost of "The Sharkpedia Podcast."
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Shark Expert Rates 10 Shark Attacks In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
I love that the expert is essentially saying, 'Sharks are literally too lazy to be this violent." And has a good chuckle.
It makes sense tho, they wanna eat and use as little energy as possible to do it! Relatable really 😂
These people grew up in love with these animals and they often romanticising to the puplic either out of misguided love to that animal or to protect it .They are way more dangerous and opportunistic they eat anything that moves when they're hungry, Same with bears. Yes they might not attack you if they're full . But good luck finding that full great white. Another false information is that shark in general are important to the environment not all of them , only the bottom feeders like the Basking shark, the whale shark and maybe the goblin. All the rest are just another Predators that compete with us for fish . That's why many countries eat them to increase the fish h in that area and also the fins taste good 😊.
Just like crocs and anacondas
don't forget sharks are predators and there's higher chance that big cats like tigers see you as a food or a wolf rather than a shark also they usually warn people before attacking, watch avng react to shark attacks
Lmao
My favorite thing about the sharks in Finding Nemo was basically it's played as Bruce having an addiction problem that he was trying to kick, and the group of three was basically an AA meeting
Was exactly my thinking here, when she mentioned it.
She is correct, but I think this time it is just a very hungry shark being in contact with fish to eat again, so I can imagine that he is desperate enough to try to eat them^^
But to be fair, I am not an shark expert xD
And inhaling that line of blood is very allegoric to some stimulants.
Yes... That was the joke lol
"fish are friends - not food!"
I Just found out that it might be a small Easter egg because the Name of the Shark in Jaws is Bruce named by Spielberg.
I think people forget that Jaws was literally about the mythical “rogue” shark. Hooper even says the digestive system is slower so they’d be able to see any limbs or body parts in the stomach. He also mentions that a normal shark DOESNT act the way Bruce does when Brody asks if they were dealing with normal shark behavior, furthering the idea that JAWS was about a special freak of nature 😂
I love sharks, which is why I'm watching this, otherwise I never watch "experts" talk about what's right and/or wrong about movies because they usually miss the nuance or purpose of portraying things wrong. Like you said, Jaws repeatedly noted how the shark was not typical or behaving normal. Her information is interesting but movies should always be recognized as entertainment, not educational.
I found it very frustrating how the editors inserted one of their shots of a _real_ Great White that Spielberg used for the film into the video when the expert was talking about the puppet's gill count.
I give her a pass though, because she was hired to talk about real sharks, and Jaws does not portray a _real_ shark (although there are occasional shots of a real Great White for the underwater shark shots). What she said about audiences taking this film with them into the real world and altering their perception of sharks kind of contradicts what you were saying.
My meaning is, not everyone recognized Bruce as a unique freak of nature.
They couldn't seperate fact from fiction, and I think that the shark expert here does a fine job seperating fiction from fact.
Rogue sharks aren’t exactly mythical, but they do it for the same reason other big predators do it. People are slow and weak, if the predator is injured they might only be able to catch the food with bad hearing, slow, and no sharp claws to fight back with. Bears, usually only white sharks, and lions have been known to “go rogue”
Also her complaining about the Megalodon biology like she would know for a fact a shark that large wouldn’t need more gills to draw more oxygen is a little upsetting to me, since I believe sleeper sharks have varying number of gills based on their subspecies/size, I think the largest, the greenland sleeper has 7 gills where their smaller cousin only has 5 on each side. We also have sharks specifically named “7-gilled” and “6-gilled” sharks
Also upsetting she said white sharks breach only for food, when recently they’ve been found to breach without food in the area and we can only speculate it’s for either fun, or they’re testing their speed, not to mention breaching isn’t even some slow buildup then a burst of speed, they actually sit well below the waterline where their prey is and move straight up to intercept/ambush their prey at high speeds to cause blunt trauma to break more blood vessels as they bite to sever them, causing their prey to bleed out faster. This is why white sharks have the highest fatality rate even though they have the lowest rate of attacks, wanting to be 100% sure it’s a food item before expending that large amount of energy
@@mortimerbrewster3671 I agree with both you and the Congaminator. i feel like this was reclipped because obviously that was the scene which did show a true great white which was incorporated into the movie and then also she isnt taking into account of the movie itself. Bruce the shark surely wouldn't act like that around small fishbut when hes pretty much a vegetarian and hasnt eaten fish in how long, then surely the drop of blood he hasnt smelt so close in so long, would send his sensors into over drive etc. i mean she stated amazing facts and called it how it is but i just get slightly annoyed when the story of the shark in the movie isnt properly presented with how the movie is trying to set it up.
Fairs fair but atleast go along with the movie if your going to critique a movie.
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Honestly, one of the most realistic shark attack scenes I've ever seen on film was in the movie Soul Surfer. It's based on the real-life story of a girl who had her arm bitten off at the shoulder by a tiger shark while surfing and the way it's done in the movie is so disturbingly accurate. No massive, slow-motion breach, no thrashing and screaming. We barely even see the shark at all, just a splash and a split-second when the mouth is above water, and then she's off her board and bleeding profusely, barely even able to speak from the shock. Scarily accurate to how it would actually go down.
It's 3am and now I'm going to watch it.
@@anonplussedhuman2615 Have fun lol
I honestly love that movie. The entire sequence from when Bethany is bitten to when she gets into the operating room is such an adrenaline rush and it feels pretty realistic.
@@anonplussedhuman2615 ok?
Sharks cant go on land
Well this movie is based on a true story so it makes sense that it have such accuracies
Her laugh is seriously so fun, she’ll say something hilarious like “sharks would never eat you because we taste like trash” and give off the most genuine laugh 😭 bring her back for more
I love how she would laugh just because of how ridiculous most shark movies are. 😆
I worry about them sampling my limbs just to check, really, as much as them deciding to proceed with dinner. So I don't take a lot of comfort in any of this. 😂😮
I like how while she's reviewing Jaws and she's complimenting how they got the number of gill slits correct, what we're being shown is some of the small amount of stock footage from the movie of actual live Great White sharks, not Bruce the mechanical shark.
I can’t believe the editing didn’t catch this
Shot by the legendary Ron and Valerie Taylor☺️
But Bruce also had five gill slots so she's still correct. 😉
hehe I was thinking this too.
Bruce did in fact have five gill slits
5:46 Exactly. My fist encounter with a shark was a large Great White female that bumped me from behind, diving in murky water, other than a very wet, wet suit I came to no harm. It looked me over then slowly swam off. Since then I started spending holidays swimming with sharks recreationally. People don't realize if you swim in the ocean, even if you don't see them, they see you. No one fights off a shark, fish are all solid, strong, muscle (try holding a 12 inch squirming trout) and then imagine it 10 feet long, no one out swims a shark. If they want you they will have you, period.
If a large great white shark bumped me from behind it would immediatly be swimming in an even murkier water if you know what I mean
@@rodrigoandrade256 I hear you!! I have studied sharks (through books) most of my life, so I don't have the inherent fear most people do. Its almost unheard of a shark attaching a diver, under water we don't look remotely like a seal. But still would have preferred an intentional frontal first contact. Somewhat more shocking than having someone jump out of a closet. a few seconds of shock followed by YEAH MAN! LMAO! My dive partner however was no where to be seen. At least he waited with the boat till I came up. He did swear he was about to dive back in to check on me.😁😁
@@DIDYOUSEETHAT172 they will absolutely attack spear fishers especially ones with stringers which most pacific islanders use. However you are wrong about not being able to fight off a shark as well. If you can remain calm and the shark isn't massive AND you are very experienced in the water you can kinda bull fight a shark. It's stupid to try to do but if you have a 7-8 foot shark charging you for the fish on your hip and you can't get it detached then it's better to face up and kinda guide the shark past you using either your gun or your hands.
Shooting the shark is a last resort.
@@steentemple2652 Simply put once again, you cannot fight a shark, you cannot out swim a shark, if they want you, unless it dies nothing will stop it. They decide they don't want you and that is it. They let you go once they figure out its a mistake. It is their domain. You are talking totally out of context of what I was referring to.
@@DIDYOUSEETHAT172 There were a number of freaky shark attacks in Australia in 2020, seemed like covid did weird things to all marine life in Australia in 2020, whales beached on mass (when not "mugging" whale watching boats & insisting the humans pat them for hours), dolphins chased kids to play, seals decided the Opera House was theirs, a generally considered harmless fish species (I've forgotten which one now) launched itself at a fisherman's chest in Darwin, resulting in his death & the sharks attacked & attacked & attacked. In one case a great white lept out of the water to take a child off a boat, in another a great white decided it wanted a surfer & was NOT letting go, but her boyfriend WAS able to fight it off & rescue her. There were a couple of other similar fight off attacks, but that girlfriend one was the one where that shark was NOT letting go & the boyfriend REALLY had to fight it hard to save her. Mostly a single hit or eye gouge seems to stop them, but not in 2020 Australia it wasn't!
Her passion and laugh are both so infectious! I love the very random, specific information we got about sharks, like the amount of gills and how they can sense electricity.
cant exactly be random when it’s in direct correlation with what she’s being shown & talking about…
Her laugh is a mix of neurotic and condescending. There are way more knowledgeable and charismatic shark experts than her. Diversity pick.
I wish she would lose the up-talk. It's hard to sound like an expert when everything sounds like a question?
@@slayerduval1it can be due to where she’s from. It’s not A big deal. In Canada it’s common.
Her obvious love and curiosity of sharks is absolutely infectious.
I love that for the scene from The Meg, the first thing she IMMEDIATELY latches onto is the fact that the Megalodon has eight gill slits. She's the second shark scientist I've seen immediately notice that detail, with the other being Kristian Parton, the owner of the Shark Bytes channel.
fun fact, it actually has extra gill slits intentionally! the makers gave it extra gill slits to represent the fact its ancestors were stuck under the chemical barrier in a low oxygen environment and thus needed extra slits to compensate.
@@dallasmeeker5577 Yep, that was a deliberate decision on the filmmakers’ part. And in that regard, I’m glad they kept it at eight gill slits. I think any more than that would have made it look and feel more like an alien than a real shark.
@@dallasmeeker5577 Yeah I was hoping she would pick up on that
She also didn't mention that Megs looked totally different then how the media shows them to look
Yea great. Only problem is, we have no clue about that, its speculations. By remains that were found, and even that can be found considering shark anatomy, we have no means to determine the gill slit numbers in any extinct species of shark.
And, how much of an expert she is she showed in the very beggining by claiming great white maximum lenght being 16 feet
She's fantastic, both very educational and entertaining!
And I like how the passion for her job shines through her reaction and commentary!
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not to mention how absolutely beautiful she is!!!
Exactly what I came on here to say!! I LOVE Amani!! She is fantastic and fun. Would love to buy her a drink and just listen to her stories....
she's not. great whites will go into shallow water it's been documented. but hey what's a fact you simp and a half
@@kayleemariee239 she's like a 2 but hey delusions in style these days
The more I watch sharks, the softer I feel toward them. I watched a clip of Valerie Taylor feeding a shark off a boat and watching her gently pat it on its nose in between feedings painted them in such a different light. And seeing how curious they are just further endears me to them. After all, they’re only animals and don’t deserve to be demonized.
Have you seen Emma the tiger shark?
They dont deserve to be demonized, and they dont deserve to be shown in a "good" light. They are to be respected and not seen as misrepresented animals. They are naturally born killing machines...perfectly normal for people to fear and be threatened by them.
@@ammarelle they're not "killing machines". They hunt and eat, that's all.
Say that to the men of the USS Indianapolis...
@@kobeslaughter4671 The amount of sharks killed by men tops it by far.
I love shark week but she explained more in a little over 17 minutes then in an entire week. You are so interesting, funny and entertaining. Thanks.
Friend and I were scuba diving one time when we came across a great white, it really taught me not to be so terrified of sharks because even though I practically pissed myself the moment I noticed it, the shark didn’t do anything to us, it just swam by, checking us out, we both stopped and sat upright and it turned away and swam off. Still a terrifying thing to see, but ultimately beautiful and something I think was quite special to see first hand like that.
I know "Jaws" made so many people scared of sharks but for me it made me admire them, I visited the local library to consume every book they had about them and it led to a lifelong love of them to the point where my family gift me shark stuff every year for Xmas and my birthday. My bucket list for before I die it to sponsor a great white.
that's very cool
It did scare me as a kid, but it also made me curious to how the animals in the real-world function and fear turned into wonder and admiration and now they are one of my favorite animals.
I’m petrified of sharks but also fascinated by them. I’ll watch shark week and watch documentaries but I will not get into the ocean past my ankles 😂
Jaws did had me nervous at first, but it quickly got me wondering how they work in real life.
me too! i only watched the parts of the movie where bruce was present
I do have one comment about her remark on being bitten in the abdomen: it's NOT unrealistic that you can survive such an attack. There was this episode on Mythbusters related to just this, and they actually showed a real person who got bitten by a great white, but basically had him in his mouth. He managed to escape by writhing and hitting the shark, which made the shark drop him. They even show his bite marks, which shows the size of the shark's jaw. One side was on the guy's clavicle, and the other was around his pelvic area.
@watering the event I was referring to was was a white shark attack. Look up the episode/episodes that Mythbusters did on it, if I remember correctly they actually showed the real person who had survived, not sure if they also interviewed him, but I 100% remember seeing him with jaw marks which went half circle starting from his clavicle and coming round onto his hip.
@watering you are probably right, can't comment on bull sharks since, contrary to most youtube commenters I am not an expert on them 😅
Check the story about the attack on Rodney Fox.
Thank you! It is a possibility that someone could survive, but it would be sheer luck. There are so many major arteries that run through the torso (not to mention the big bloody liver) that would be difficult to miss - BUT possible.
To be fair, she didn't say it was unrealistic to be bitten there at all and survive.
She said it was unrealistic to be bitten and dragged/carried under without massive damage (severe lesions, interal bleeding, and potentially missing a chunk of yourself). That is true. A small bite, or even a large chunk of say, a larger person's subcutanrous and even visceral fat being removed without harm to internal organs? Sure! But the force required to grab, hold on, and really pull you under like that is going to cause both shearing and crushing injuries to the point that surviving that is unrealistic, even if not totally impossible.
I'm actually terrified of sharks but her videos are so informative that I'm okay watching them
Same she makes the video fun😂
The 47 meters down movie is highly unreal but it’s VERY entertaining; I 100% recommend
As a thought it's so terrifying though! That could've been better. The awful cgi sharks ruined it for me 💔
fun fact: bruce from finding nemo is named after bruce from jaws
also in jaws during the cage scene, some curious sharks came by and invested. so the footage was to good not to use
A great vid! This woman is highly knowledgeable and I feel like I learned some interesting corrections about all the incorrect “facts” I thought I knew about sharks. Also her giggles are so joyously adorable.
Not really
@@carelesscribo3072 incel behavior
@@carelesscribo3072 that explains everything about your name😂😂
@@carelesscribo3072 bruh what? She’s a lot more knowledgeable then you or anyone here for that fact don’t act as if your a expert on sharks
@@kane_howe138 She couldn't identify real great whites in the Jaws review as...well, real.
This is exactly what I watch RUclips videos for: interesting, entertaining, informative, fun and factaul. I'm giving this video 10 out of 10.
I wish she would have rated the movie Sharknado too...
yeah, same apologie, where is sharknado? im quite disappointed
Sharknado is a documentary though. She was reviewing fictional movies.
@@Auriflamme 😂😂😂
"Megalodons were probably closer to around 60 feet" AS IF THAT MAKES IT ANY BETTER lmao
also she's so awesome, I would love to hear her talk about sharks more
I love her energy and how informative she is! Her laugh is very contagious too, it's amazing
Probably one of the better ratings I've seen in these types of videos. Everything was 6 or below, compared to the other "How real is it" videos where every movie gets a 9+, even though multiple criticisms are brought up.
On the other hand, she had literally nothing 'bad' to say about the cookiecutter sharks (saying that 'we don't know what are their social habits, but they probably wouldn't be in a pack' is not something to take points for...since we don't actually know) and yet she still gave it a poor rating. She even praised two things in particular about them at the end, and still gave it such poor note.
Giving all-low scores is all nice and dandy...but only if they actually say WHY they deduct the points.
Also, she didn’t say anything was incorrect in the Unbroken scene yet gave it a 4/10. Why?
@@kikixchannel I think we can aknowledge that tehy're not really pack hunters because most of the times when you see a bitemark on a large animal you only see one bitemark and not multiple of them which would be the case if they would hunt in a pack
@@r-boy9677 There is a difference between what is the norm and what does not happen at all. If they sometimes do end up hunting in pack for whatever reason, then it is realistic. You yourself used 'most of the times'.
@@kikixchannel it doesn't make too much sense to be a packed animal in the deep sea and low nutrient habitat
Jaws is such a good movie man, the fact that they managed to pull that off in the 70s is Insane. The second one was good, the third… ehh it was still a fun summer movie but the fourth film? God it might as well have been a soap opera
The third was absolutely terrible.
I didn't even know there was more than one
The second one is the worst.
@@redrick8900 no offense but how can you say that when Jaws 4 Exists, where it swims from New England to the Bahamas, roars, can balance on its flipper above the water and has a strange mental connection with ellen LMfAO
Although I do think its a bit over the top from the first one, like with the explosions and stuff
For Shark Night they should've shown her the "tiger shark" scene
Because he was describing a tiger shark, but the shark in the water was actually a sand tiger - a completely different shark
That scene annoyed me so much, it would have been awesome to see her tear it apart
Same here! They're two different sharks, one has stripes and looks very docile while the other is the color of sand and has needle-like teeth. The differences are easy to see. I used to live in Florida so I saw all kinds of interesting animals.
"they did a really good job on this one, it seems like everything is pretty accurate, imma give this a 5/10"😂
0:10 Omg yess. Exactly. Why?
Interesting that she says a Shark's weakspot is its stomach, because this is honestly the first time I've heard any shark expert say such a thing. Up till now, I've always heard the best spots to go for if you're being attacked are its eyes and its gills. And I've also heard that what works even better than punching those areas is GRABBING them. I've heard shark attack survivor stories where they diffused the attack by grabbing the shark by the gills and not letting go until the shark let go of them.
well, to be fair, if a shark is trying to bite you, the eyes and gills are gonna be way more accessible than the stomach
Jack London describes how in the polinesian islands, a sport to show off their courage amongst young men was to kill a shark with a knife. They'd go chest deep in the water and wait for the ( then much more frequent I presume) shark to attack. Just before the fish would reach them, the men would dive to the bottom, holding the knife up, so the shark would be cut open from throat to belly by its own speed and force.
One guy (an eye specialist) straight up ripped out the eye of a tiger shark that was attacking him. He told his story on the TV series I Was Prey.
I think that if you were to injure a sharks gills or eyes they would cease to attack you, however in the video she says that injury to a sharks stomach would be Catastrophic, meaning it could potentially kill The shark vs. injuring it
stomach for sure, it's how killer whiles kill them
I’ve learned more from watching this woman talk about sharks than years and years of shark week.
The ‘average’ female great white is around 16 feet long, but Deep Blue was measured to be 20 feet back in 2013. Also there were 3 very, very large female GWS filmed in Hawaii back in January of 2019, I believe. One was Haole Girl. She is about the same size as Deep Blue. If there are multiple 20 footers swimming around out there, I’d extrapolate that there are probably some closer to 21-22 feet long… and THAT is not far off of the 25 feet that Bruce was supposed to be.
Yes but those are rare instances and not normal great white anatomy, the current tallest person in the world is 8 feet tall, does that mean that's the average height of normal human beings? No
@@themindgayer5367 I’m not saying that’s the norm… not by any stretch. I said it was POSSIBLE there are some that are quite a big larger than the ‘average’ size. Especially the older females. It seems like they keep growing lengthwise, up until a certain point… and then they REALLY start gaining girth. Even the 12-14 footers are a bit more girthy than the younger ones. They probably still gain length throughout their lifespans, but there are FOR SURE some absolute UNITS out there. I’d have a heart attack if I saw one of those beauties. ♥️
@@tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon your right, it's def possible for a shark to get over the average, but even deep blue was 5 whole ft smaller than Bruce, so it's safe to say his size wasn't accurate. I'd have a heart attack tho lol even 16 feet in itself is so much taller than any human that's ever lived, so a shark bigger than that would be absolutely chilling but also awesome
I agree. There has to be one out in the vast ocean that got at least a few inches in the ones we know about. I saw the video of deep blue and shes beautiful but enormous. I'd say the same thing about pythons. Not so much Crocs tho. I think we know about the bigger Crocs just cuz they spend a lot of time on open beaches.
@@themindgayer5367 We don’t even have a guesstimate on how many great white sharks are in our oceans, so we can’t really know what an accurate ‘average’ of their size is. Apparently, they can live about 70-75 years, and they do continue to grow in length, to a point. So how can we really know their ‘normal anatomy’?
Given the fact that the marine mammal protection act was passed in 1972, thus allowing the main dietary staple of adult GWS to flourish in number and to find new areas in which to live, and that the U.S. government listed the GWS as a protected species in 1997, which then prohibited people from catching and killing them, this has given the sharks that were alive during that time, and who have been born since then, plenty of food and protected waters in which they can thrive. This means there are probably some massive GWS swimming and enjoying their lives out in the deep blue sea.
The fact that so many bystanders have reported seeing “dinosaur-sized sharks” in South Africa and in Australia and New Zealand (and not to mention the ones that have been documented in California, Mexico, Cuba, the Mediterranean, and Hawaii) just goes to show that there are absolutely some truly big, beautiful sharks all over the world.
I think it would be silly to make such an assumption that 20+ feet is NOT a normal finding. We can only guess, but I believe that we might be seeing more larger individuals simply because they are not under the threats they once were, so we don’t yet know WHAT their ‘normal’ even is. 🙃🙂 Also, you might be onto something if Bruce’s size wasn’t accurate. Who knows? I think there might be part of one of the longitudinal halves of the puppet they used as Bruce when filming the movie in some junkyard somewhere. Or maybe on some backlot. Very sad. It should be in a museum somewhere.
One thing I do like about the Meg is that the regular sharks in the movie are pictured as completely harmless
Amani is so wholesome. I could listen to her talk about Sharks for hours.
Shes not. She is annoying and needs to go on a diet
Watching Jaws in 3D last summer was a highlight for me, it's such a classic film and the immersion is enhanced by the 3D. That said, it's heartbreaking it led to so many unnecessary shark deaths, the filmmakers and marketers at the time really didn't know the impact they would have. It ended up being the first Blockbuster, which is where we get the term from, and it makes sense they were unprepared for its success. Spielberg has said that he "truly regrets" the impact that the film had by severely reducing shark populations.
Also, this expert was excellent! Love their realistic ratings and science facts, more videos with the shark expert please!
It was not the first blockbuster, and that term referred to people lined up around the block for tickets.
@@codename495 You’re right in that it wasn’t where we get the term from, I was mistaken on that, apparently it used to mean literally busting blocks in WWII and then in 1954 it became a word to describe films that grossed over $2 million. What a wild evolution for a word!
However, according to Guinness World Records, Jaws is considered the first true summer blockbuster movie. The reasons being people physically lined up around the block to see it and it became the first films to earn $100 million at the box office. So in that sense it was the first.
If your heart is breaking over dead fish you are a crazy person. Don't look into what's going on in Ukraine.
Jaws also created mass interest in sharks which then lead to more knowledge and understanding. This would have taken much longer if not for Jaws.
Also the numbers of sharks killed due to Jaws is a drop in the ocean compared to the numbers killed by the Asian shark finning industry, commercial gill net and long line by-catch and the beach netting programmes.
IIRC the author of the novel that inspired Jaws also regretted its impact on sharks, and ended up joining an organization that worked to rescue sharks and preserve their habitats
1:36 That's actually a real shark filmed by a second unit in Australia.
Phil EK23,
Those were actually the first shots filmed for Jaws in February 1974 off Dangerous Reef, South Australia. Principle photography did not start until May, on Martha's Vineyard.
Yes it was Ron and Valerie Taylor, plus Rodney Fox.
Spielberg wanted more footage so they went back in March but local abalone divers threatened them to stop chumming. They tried again in April but the weather was too bad to film, and no sharks turned up.
This is all in Valerie Taylors 1978 book Great Shark Stories. 👍
I think one of the things she's overlooking about Jaws is Bruce was acting completely unnatural specifically attacking humans. That was kinda the whole point of the movie. Also to be fair Brody was stabbing it out if necessity and improvisation not because it was a well thought out plan.
1. Pretty sure Bruce took out the dog, Pippet
2. That aside, we don’t know that the shark was singling out humans. A shark that size couldn’t live strictly off humans as their wouldn’t be enough for it to survive and achieve that size
You explaining them being attracted to flopping makes the surfer correlation make sense too. If someone falls off their board w fins it can make it look like weakened prey. Sharks are so cool
Quite a few years ago I said just what you did about the issue of chumming and sharks starting to associate boats with food etc and was immediately shouted down and told I CLEARLY did not understand animals and animal conditioning at all. So I am glad to hear someone who knows what they are talking about say the same thing I did.
They should make a movie where the Knights Templar fight a possessed Shark, so she and Ditch Guy can hook up and raise extremely critical kids together...
This is a real-life ship I didn't know I needed, but I am now 100% down for
LOL
the worst thing sharks ever made was writing a song about a baby of theirs
Do do doo do doo
Don’t forget that Deep Blue Sea song when LL Cool J said his hat was like a shark fin
Couldn’t agree more lol
Not nearly as egregious as the narwhals LOL 🤣
I wonder what a shark sounds like before we see them when they are swimming nearby us humans in the ocean. Maybe only like what seems at first like only an echo of the sounds being made during our own swimming movements.
Personally Deep Blue sea will always be my favorite behind jaws of course. Love all of the facts she was able to add theyre what make Sharks interesting to the people who want to study them.
The only sad point it eventually went the route of not to great squeals like jaws though for deep blue sea it's started early on the 2nd film instead of the 3rd for jaws
They should have her rate the _Sharknado_ movies.
In Bruce's defence, he probably hadn't eaten fish in so long that the smell of blood would've made the fish irresistible, and the desperation sent him mad.
“Curiosity bite” made me laugh so hard
She is so adorable, being all happy and cheerful. Also very educational, I didnt know some of those things.
Considering I’ve been watching shark documentaries for years I am surprised I haven’t seen this lady before.
She’s great !
Great commentary and information. Amani knows her stuff and her sense of humor makes watching this so easy. Her easy presentation makes learning fun. Awesome!
Only about half of her information was “accurate” exactly, and the sharks we know nothing about and her trying to state dead facts on them annoyed me since we only have their jaws. No idea about a megalodon in terms of coloration, true size, or especially how many gills a shark that massive might need to get enough oxygen in their body
@@kyoswkyosw1216 It's called logic. You don't need to see a megalodon shark in front of you to figure out about its food habits, habitat, size, body structure, etc. Megalodon were actually most closely related to mako sharks, and it most likely had 5 to 6 gills lmao. And you out there acting like meg is paying your bills or smth
@@kyoswkyosw1216 dude maybe it's cuz, idk, megalodon's are extinct? How would anyone know it's actual coloration or size when they've been dead long before humans even evolved? We can't get an accurate reading on a meg's true size because sharks are made of cartilage, not bone, and is harder to fossilize. You literally said we only have their jaw to base these off of, how would we know it's "true size" or color outside of speculations cuz again......they're all dead......
The Shallows pissed me off to no end once that Whale entered the frame. Go for the free buffet!!!!
It's crazy hearing everything she said about tiger sharks at 5:17 considering the latest event in egypt ... damn.
She's talking about Bruce the mechanical shark, and we're seeing real GWS footage from Australia. Also, a 25 ft great white isn't that far from reality. The largest ever recorded was 21ft, and there have been unconfirmed reports of 23 footers.
Yeah she says 16 feet for females and calls it a 'maximum.' Then straight after says so its 10ft bigger than the average, acknowledging it's the average for females and not the maximum. Its weird.
21ft is about the max they can grow to as well, their body can't really support it beyond that according to a shark expert i was watching.
@@ryanwalker8843because it isn’t the maximum. It’s the average as she said .
Deep Blue is a 25 footer or more!! She is quite a specimen!!
Sharks are quite scary to think about when swimming in the ocean. Thank you for the update, Insider..!!
I honestly got a bit scared of the ocean as I grew older. You have no idea what is swimming close to you.
The deadliest thing in the ocean is the water. The deadliest animal in the ocean is other humans. After that, it’s box jellies, spicy little sea snots.
@@evilsharkey8954 sharks have killed more people than both of the animals u have mentioned so yea ur wrong on that one bud
@@bigdaddyc4471 That is completely untrue. Sharks kill only a handful of humans each year. More people are killed in the US by dogs than in the entire world by sharks.
In case you are confused, Sharknado is fiction, not a documentary.
@@bigdaddyc4471 100 people are killed each year by box jellyfish stings. They absolutely do kill more people than sharks.
I first watched Jaws with my dad when I was 12 and it sparked a life-long love affair with sharks. Great Whites are my favourites, they're amazing creatures - although I'm not sure that's the message I was intended to take from Jaws! So thanks, Bruce!
I watched the bear expert video last night and the expert was also a young woman. It's good to see young women getting into STEM fields.
I hate when all these experts say things like ''they are just curious when they bite'' like okay, in that case bite away please, you truly are not scary as I thought.
And saying this crap is what makes 18-year-old boys think they can jump into shark infested waters and be okay. Apex predators eat things that come into their habitat.
The version of bruce she points out as realistic is actually a real great white. That scene was filmed by dropping a miniature shark cage and dummy into the water with a real shark to make it look bigger.
Yeah, that's just a video of a shark. Of course it looks real. It's an actual shark!
I freaking love all shark movies, especially the super-unrealistic, over-the-top ones. But I'd never assume they're accurate to the actual animals. They're just for entertainment. Sharknado, lol.
I love watching documentaries where they breach. Incredible creatures. I love how into them she is, awesome.
Omg Same! I love all shark movies, doesn’t matter if they are realistic or downright ludicrous. I love how they showed a scene of The Meg and she just starts laughing. Only correct reaction. 😂 Still had a blast watching it.
Regardless, her knowledge chunks are incredibly engrossing, loved the video.
Does that include sharknado?
I can't help but think that the most realistic shark movie of all time -- Sharknado -- was conspicuously absent.
yeah, thats how revolutions starts
Yes. YES.
Thank you just for being a shark biologist in the first place- they're one of the most misunderstood predators out there, and seeing someone so passionate about them, who's helping people to understand them better, just makes me so happy
Here in SA we actually had a big GW take someone in about a waist deep water in Plettenberg bay, they recorded the following day again a big GW swimming in shallow water.
I just want to make a small correction at 4:50, which is in regards to Never Say Never Again (one of the best bond movies in my honest opinion). The setup to the scene implies the device - which is referred to as a tag in this video - is some kind of device controlling the sharks. The villainous, Fatima Blush, puts a homing beacon on Bond which attracts the sharks to him.
Yes, yes. I know. "Neeeeeeerd".
So do you like thunderball then?
If you're watching a James Bond movie with a shark & it was made before the 2000s, good chance it's a real shark.
There's some bonkers stories from behind the scenes, like in Thunderball, where they'd have real sharks (tiger sharks, I think) in the water with their actors & they'd control where the sharks were swimming through wires through their fins. Doesn't seem like there were many animal cruelty rules for sharks back in the 1960s.
Sharks reviewing these films: Yeah, that shark was really crazy. We wouldn't spend time chasing a small fish
Okay, I'm going to point out that several of the items she mocks are the same items that other marine biologists have been saying is TRUE for at least the last three decades, like hitting sharks in the nose to disrupt an attack, as it messes with their senses. 🧐
the author of Jaws, the book the movie was based on, actually had a large impact on advocating for the preservation of shark populations after he realized the damage his portrayal had caused (people began hunting sharks for fun or to kill the 'largest' one, most often pregnant females of the species, among other things). He's also the reason we have Shark Week on the discovery channel, and hosted sometime in the early 90s.
There was a case of a shark who got habituated to hand feeding by a tour guide. The shark started biting people's hands and then their butts. The tour guide would hand feed the sharks and pull a fish from a bag behind him. They got a video and matched an individual shark with the one attacking people. They wrote some laws after that to stop feeding them.
I would've loved to hear her thoughts on the movie of the USS Indianapolis.
The reason why Bruce went after Dory and Merlin to begin with and into a frenzy though is because he (and his buddies) tried to live vegetarian for some time so he had probably been considerably starved. Just wanna mention that :3
Can you do Under Paris? Its about a shark moving to a Paris river ans having a ton of babies
This lady is amazing! Could watch her for hours, so smart and entertaining
The shark in “the shallows” looked massive! Especially the ending scene! 🦈
I love her laugh 😃
Jaws is why I have a phobia of Great Whites but it also started my fascination with sharks in general. I have a love-hate relationship with them. I know they aren't monsters, they're just animals doing what nature designed them to do, but I'm still never getting in a shark cage. (Absolutely love Whale Sharks though; they're so cute!)
Edit: In the original novel the Meg was actually pure white and had bioluminescent skin; this led to it's offspring (who was captured for an aquarium) to be named Angel.
The one thing about the movie scene from Unbroken if you read his book he stated that planes went down so frequently over the world War 2 that sharks learns that there was food at plane crashes. The sharks coming to there raft in that movie might not have been created very well. But according to Mr. Zambrini himself the sharks circled their raft for a long time.
1:31 “curiosity bite, meaning they just want to know what we are” help, that’s so adorable 😭😭
I have never been interested in sharks and movies about them, but this expert is so dope! Great video, thank you
Expert Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo
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Expert Shark
“Now you see a lot of people bouncing back from this and people realizing how important they are to this planet.”
*The Meg 2 was just announced.* 💀💀
The way I just RAN to show this video to my daughter. Imani you are such a cool Shark scientist!
She's back with more awesome earrings and her even more awesome brain! I just love listening to hear and learning what she knows about sharks.
Thumbs up, she is great! 😎 Any chance a similar one with a 'big cat expert' about lions, tigers in movies? Or a bear / wolf expert about bears/wolfs in movies?
I actually have had a shark circle me and a friend while I was kayak fishing in carmel California. I mostly just saw the tip of the fin and the slip but I'm very familiar with dolphin shapes and it was not a dolphin. 2 days later a person got hit in carmel by a 15ftish great white which is about the assumed size I saw with my friend.
I've also stroked a sleeping nurse shark in Micronesia and been chased by a reef shark while I had a oriental sweet lips on a spear.
They aren't so scary really but if you are aware of them keep your eye on them because you are kinda screwed in the water if you don't notice them and they notice you and are larger than you. Smaller sharks of larger species will leave you alone for the most part but sharks know how to measure themselves. Basically leave alone but be aware they are around.
“There’s no such thing as a soft clamp when sharks bite down” that’s reminds me of a story in the 1970’s a boy got attacked by a great white very quick attack probably just out of curiosity like she said. But anyway the shark ripped the teenager in half. Just by being curious.
Somehow, the idea of a shark biting me out of curiosity is more terrifying than it attacking because it’s hungry. Obviously both are horrifying, but the phrase “curiosity bite” fills me with an existential dread I cannot explain.
I have a phobia of sharks due to Jaws, love the fact this video broke down those misconceptions!
As a side note the shark in 1:33 is real as the original JAWS did capture footage of real Great White Sharks during production
I absolutely love her vibe.
This was fun.
"sharks wouldnt be trying this hard to get this small of a prey item" Me:Turns on Discovery and watches massive great whites literally jump clear of the water for a porkchop on a hook
A curiosity bite from a shark the size of Jaws would be some serious stuff.
JAWS was made at a time when we knew almost nothing about sharks. It increased culls but also interest in marine biology. We're finally getting the hint that sharks are important apex predators and actually much more peaceful than certain marine mammals.
Is the right answer. No Jaws = no knowledge and understanding of sharks at the level there is today. Jaws accelerated shark science incredibly.
There are multiple photos of white sharks on Cape Cod swimming right along the shore in less than six feet of water. Plenty of water for that shark to swim next to the surfer.
I love these shark videos SO much ❤ Sharks are one of my favorite animals!!
The only problem with this is that she talks about sharks and stops the video every 2 seconds. Besides that this is a good video.
I feel bad for the girl that was made to swim with cookie sharks from her friends when she was clearly afraid of entering in the water as a bait. Damn i wish the film's plot made her justice and avenge her.
Love this!
Besides everything obvious, entertaining and informative, it's just so wonderful to see a human being happy, relaxed and competent, living her best life.
Just a friendly reminder that Jaws was partially based on a real event, documented in a book and movie titled "12 Days of Terror." Also, the story of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is true - approximately 900 men went into the water, and the sharks ate about 600 of them.
This is an insane exaggeration. The vast majority of the men who died were killed because of exposure, salt poisoning and thirst/dehydration. Some of the dead were dragged off by tiger sharks, but it wasn’t a shark-eating frenzy where 600 men were brutally attacked. As for the ‘Jaws’ event, that was multiple sharks in an incredibly crowded area. Only four people died.
@@thenablade858 Multiple accounts and documentaries disagree with you. Men who were in groups, and survived, recounted the cries of men who were being eaten, and sharks do not tend to be scavengers. Men even talked about floating with their legs tucked up and their arms close, in the hope that they either would not look like food, or be harder to attack.
I would love to see her evaluate the 3 fatal tiger shark attacks in Egypt
I’m surprised soul surfer wasn’t on this list - but wow the expert was amazing ! I learnt a lot and her chuckle was infectious
Sharks don’t eat people, bears don’t eat people. What about all the sharks and bears that have eaten people?
I read somewhere that sharks behave kinda like large cats do (though actually less dangerous in most species), so if you watch them back, they don't really want to approach, thinking you're another predator.
I am petrified of sharks (never recovered from that scene in Nemo as a kid) but I find them so fascinating and such an essential part of the ocean!!
You got ptsd from Nemo bruh 😂