Showing posts with label Al Jazeera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Al Jazeera. Show all posts

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Jimmy, Neil and Al Jazeera - great Shark Media!


Affectionate Sharks? Hmmmm...

And talking of bimbos and Sharks.
Watch this.



This is how you do it!
No drama and undue hype but instead, plenty of science and passion garnished with the right conservation messaging that is being delivered unobtrusively between the lines as opposed the usual tired old unappealing pathos. This is really excellent, highly entertaining and highly informative programming - love not loss, remember?
Kudos!

And bless Jimmy!
His love and passion for his Sharks is just infectious and really quite endearing.

Tho the Tigers and affection thingy, hmmm...
Tricky tricky. I've not been to TB and have never met those specific, highly conditioned individuals. And I totally respect Jimmy for arguably being the world's foremost authority on diving with them, and I also believe him when he states that there's something going on.
 
Still, from my own, granted much more limited experience, I do consider Tiger Sharks to be highly deceiving.
Yes they certainly appear mellow but the way I see it, they are actually always probing for opportunities and likely to pounce when not properly acknowledged and dominated = what I call a head on a swivel Shark that requires constant supervision and should never be underestimated!
Case in point.



To me, that is typical Tiger.
Yes the situation can usually be defused by reacting assertively, much like that dude did with the attacking Blue - but IMO this is never the less a highly dangerous Shark that should never be taken for granted! But who knows - maybe the TB sharks are somehow different? I say, possibly but not very likely. So, please, don't do that at home - and if you really must, then only with great circumspection and flanked with copious amounts of fishy bribes!

Anyway.
Love love love that feature and once again, big congratulations to everybody that has made it possible!

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Al Jazeera about the WA Shark Controversy!


Did I just say "tomorrow" ?
I misspoke!

Excellent program, check it out!



No I'm not going to comment, at least not in depth.

Just this.
It is good to see a nuanced and balanced report on the issue, and that some calm and rationality is returning after the initial emotional outbursts on both sides of the divide. Talking of which, it is sadly not surprising to witness the woefully inadequate contribution, or whatever, by the conservation activist. Just embarrassing - all the way to seeing it fit to invoke the moronic oxygen myth no less!

And yes I'll certainly leave it at that, the more as I would be repeating myself!