anybody see the "Megalodon" show about the incident in South Africa?

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What are your thoughts? Have they produced credible evidence of current existence of that species? This was on Animal Planet, and they're currently running it again.

Btw, some of the legal language at the end of the program mentioned "dramatized" events. Which part was dramatized? Was the footage from the sunk charter fishing vessel at the beginning of the show real or staged? How about the end sequence?

Thanks

PS hmmmmmm http://www.snopes.com/critters/malice/megalodon.asp
 
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I didn't see it -- no TV. But Megalodon stories are a staple of the cryptozoic crowd. Did they produce evidence? They never do. Artificial speculation.
 
Yeah, the prevalence of legal disclaimers throughout the show seemed like a red flag.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if there was a sunk vessel at all?
 
Check out Megalodon on YouTube and you'll laugh it all off. They do a great job of selling the smell, but no meat in that package. Just as well, if they did exist, we would see a remake of Jaws with a really, really big shark eating a whole town at a gulp.
 
I am told by a very credible authority that Megalodon is extinct. They were all eaten by the sharktopus.
 
My God, those executives must think their audience are total morons. Judging by the angry responses they got, I think they were wrong. Should stick with PBS.

Now, I am hoping the South African scientists studying the jumping sharks at Seal Island were the real deal?
 
We had an extensive discussion of this show on the James Randi forum. It's very sad when these sorts of "entertainment" shows are put up on previously-reputable channels and presented as fact. (unless, as noted, if you see the disclaimers)

The previously-reliable History channel has become a joke, more nonsense than you can shake a stick at.
And the "Discovery" network is pretty much the same.
 
It might have been good for the forum sharks to have known they have an even mightier ancestor. Cool story behind the whole thing though.
 
A little off topic but what do you all think about "Mermaid The Body Found" and "Mermaid Further Evidence"?
 
It's an industry. Splice a monkey upper body to a fish tail and dry it out, shrivel it, sell it to a gullible tourist.
 
Of course it's real and still out there , how else did syfy film magalondon vs giant octopus , I mean that was clearly a real event
 
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I mean that was clearly a real event
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My brother and I were very young when grandpa took us to the movies to see "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms". As we crossed the street to the theater, I saw the dinosaur footprint on the sidewalk and got a little worried! :)
 
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It might have been good for the forum sharks to have known they have an even mightier ancestor. Cool story behind the whole thing though.
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"Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror" was a good sci-fi novel by Steve Alten. It had a series of sequals:
The Trench
Meg: Primal Waters
Meg: Hell's Aquarium
Meg: Night Stalkers
Meg: Origins

Perhaps the author was a consultent on the set for the OP fiction. There were several attempts to make a movie from the book.
http://www.stevealten.com/

[video=youtube;nWrNPGva0DA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWrNPGva0DA#t=152[/video]
 
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Oh, you scoffers. Can't you believe your own eyes? :rolleyes:
[video=youtube;1nzd0R_OeOc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzd0R_OeOc[/video]
I like the part when the fish bites the guy. :cool:
 
Could there be a really big shark in the ocean?
It's a lot more likely than finding a good job in Windsor. :)
 
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More of the same crap. Congrats. :D

http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2014/08/more_shark_week_lies_new_fake.html

Makes me wonder how much crappier TV will be 10 years from now.

Forget "Sharknado 2." This summer's cheesiest movie about sharks was dished up by Discovery Channel on Sunday night with obviously fake "Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine." The faux documentary, which helped kicked off the opening night of Shark Week, was two hours of nonsense about an attack by a 35-foot-long great white shark off the coast of South Africa.

Trouble is: None of it was real. The supposed attack by the shark on a whale-watching vessel earlier this year never happened, the film's blurry footage was clearly computer-generated, and the eyewitnesses, scientists and shark experts featured in the film were actually actors. One of the leading biologists in the film is even named Conrad Manus – Con Man, you get it?

The special was quite similar to last year's fake documentary "Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives," which infuriated Shark Week fans and caused a social media firestorm. This time around, Discovery clearly labeled the film as a dramatization, with this disclaimer: "Events have been dramatized, but many believe Submarine exists to this day."
 
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