Jacques of all Trades

The Jaws theme, illustrated

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Happy not-quite-shark week!

allcreatures:

A 50-foot-long whale shark dwarfs a 32-foot-long luxury yacht off the coast of Cancun, Mexico, in this over- and underwater shot…

Picture: Shawn Heinrichs / Wild Aid / Barcroft Media (via Pictures of the day: 2 August 2012 - Telegraph)

thedailyfeed:

You know, just in case you’re ever stalked by a 14-foot great white shark while kayaking off Cape Cod. 

We’re gonna need a bigger boat.

ruineshumaines:

Dubai - Sharks love You by *angelreich

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inothernews:

From the photo album “seal’s greatest hits.”

joshsternberg:

Loose Seal:

Incredible: Tourists in False Bay, South Africa, were left amazed when they saw this 12ft shark emerge from the water to catch a seal. But despite being one of the world’s most feared predators, it badly misjudged its attack.

Read the rest at The Daily Mail.

joshsternberg:

Shark eating shark.

The photo comes from Daniela Ceccarelli, of Australia’s Research Council Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.  Ceccarelli was working with fellow researcher David Williamson on conducting a “fish census” off Great Keppel Island, part of the country’s Great Barrier Reef. That’s when Ceccarelli thought she spotted a brown-banded bamboo shark hanging out near the ocean’s floor.

“The first thing that caught my eye was the almost translucent white of the bamboo shark,” Ceccarelli told National Geographic in an email. Instead, as Ceccarelli moved in for a closer look she noticed a camouflaged wobbegong shark emerging from seclusion with the same bamboo shark partially wedged inside its jaws.

“It became clear that the head of the bamboo shark was hidden in its mouth,” she said. “The bamboo shark was motionless and definitely dead.”

As the New Scientist explains, Wobbegongs, aka carpet sharks, are silent predators, waiting at the bottom of the ocean floor for their pray to pass by. And as stunning as this photo may be, it’s not uncommon for Wobbegongs to devour such large meals. Like several kinds of snakes, the Wobbegong has a dislocating jaw and rearward-pointing teeth that help it consume disproportionately large prey.

Read the rest here.

allcreatures:

A diver swims alongside a Greenland shark, a rarely-seen species that looks like it has been etched from stone. They can survive for more than 200 years at depths of up to 600 metres under Arctic ice. They grow to 23-feet long and are so fearsome they have even been known to eat polar bears. Picture: Doug Perrine/Seapics.com/solent

Eats polar bears? 

Sharks, Bahamas

Photograph by Wilfried Niedermayr, My Shot

(via National Geographic Photo of the Day)

Yikes!

(Source: dailyoliver, via thefrogman)

A family were on holiday in Australia for a week and a half when husband, wife and their 15 year old son decided to go scuba diving. The husband is in the navy and has had some scuba experience.  His son wanted a picture of his mum and dad in all their gear so he got the under water camera ready to go. When it came to taking the picture the dad realized that the son looked like he was panicking as he took it and gave the ‘OK’ hand sign to see if he was all right.
The son took the picture and swam to the surface and back to the boat as quick as he could so the mum and dad followed to see if he was OK.  When they got back to him he was scrambling onto the boat and absolutely panicking. When the parents asked why, he said ‘there was a shark behind you.’ The dad thought he was joking but the skipper of the boat said it was true but they wouldn’t believe him.

As soon as they got back to the hotel they loaded the picture onto there laptop and that was what they saw.

This looks photoshopped, but if not, it’s pretty terrifying!

(Source: hann-h, via scodal)

20 Things That Kill MORE PEOPLE Than Sharks Every Year

edatrix:

vneckandacardigan:

Vending machines??? Good god. Another favorite on this list? Icicles in Russia.

omg.

I’ve seen Maximum Overdrive; I know how this one goes down.  

someecards may speak for a number of Americans in this case.