Sometimes I wonder whether the Discovery Channel should start an entire network and call it The Shark Week channel. I seems every time I flip through channels with my remote control, I encounter another program about sharks, which inevitably show dagger-toothed Great Whites prowling around a couple of caged divers. The thing is, I usually can’t pull my eyes away. We are a strange species in that way: we love to watch real-life monsters who could, in unfortunate circumstances, eat us.
Well if you can’t get your fill of man-eating fish on TV, you can always pop over to a site like sharkinformation.org, which has got a multimedia chum line of shark videos and images. The videos, especially, culled form the BBC and YouTube, will pretty much ensure that you won’t be going in the water again any time soon. If you’re like me, you may also develop a sudden sympathy for seals, those lovable mammal snacks who always seem to end up caught inside the jaws of, well, Jaws.