shark true stories and lessons from the deep peter benchley

'In the marine ecosystem sharks are on top of the food chain, this means that they eat other marine creatures and through this grab all contained toxins. Methylmercury poisoning – the danger from the sea 'The agency found that shark has the highest levels of mercury.' '.independent tests on shark fins bought in Bangkok showed that some had mercury levels up to 42 times higher than the safe limit for humans.'Įnvironment News Service - Mercury Food Alert Issued for Swordfish, Shark 'What we found for our 124 sharks that we sampled was that about one-third of them came in with mercury levels that were over the Food and Drug Administration's action level of one part per million.' There were several others, but all were utilizing the primal terror that JAWS thrilled the world with. Then, don't forget the new genre of films Benchely spawned.A testament to this was on the SciFi channel last night, they were doing Shark Horror movies.The 2 headed shark attacking yachts and eating everyone, then a film on a SUPER Shark the size of a bus that can Jump on to land, and walk in order to eat more people, and on and on.

The demographics are all wrong for this.the people that fell in love with FEARING AND HATING sharks, are not going to watch a shark conservation show.that would be like trying to get Rednecks to watch a special show on just wont appeal to them. I can say I have never read or seen ANY of these in your list, but have seen all the JAWS films multiple times. Still, I would guess less than one half of one percent of all the people that saw JAWS, saw or read ANY of the shark conservationist work product.

Shark true stories and lessons from the deep peter benchley