My entire family is animal lovers and that includes the animals who live in the great blue sea. We love sitting around and watching the animal programs on TV and often times you will find us watching Animal Planet, Nat Geo or the Smithsonian Channel.
Today I want to tell you all about a fabulous new DVD that was just released on July 22nd, 2014 by the Smithsonian Channel titled “Shark Collection” from Inception Media Group.
Synopsis: Sharks are universally feared, but also widely misunderstood & suddenly endangered. Marine biologists, shark experts and conservationists are doing everything they can to reverse the tide of public opinion before it’s too late… Even if it means diving into infested waters where sharks hold every advantage.
The Smithsonian Channels’s Shark Collection includes three exciting programs that take you from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the remote shores of Africa’s east coast to the operating room of a shark autopsy to explore what makes these fish so unique.
In Great White Code Red, two scientists dissect a shark to reveal what drives this fearsome animal to attack. Shark Girl follows activist Madison Stewart’s mission to save the creatures she loves by changing people’s minds about them. Death Beach investigates an abnormal string of shark attacks off a South African coast.
Our Thoughts: We invited over my 2 nephews who are ages 14 and 16 to watch the DVD along with us. The 14 year old wants to be a marine biologist when he grows up, so we thought it would be a great DVD for all of us to watch together.
We all really enjoyed watching the Great White Code Red and found the shark autopsy to be really interesting to see. Let’s face, we never get to see the “insides” of this awesome sea predator until now! I love that the scientists explained exactly what they were doing, why they were doing it and what they found along the way.
The Shark Girl episode was a little boring for all of us but yet informative on the conservation efforts to help save the sharks. For those who are into any type of animal conservation, I think you will find this episode to be interesting.
The Death Beach episode was very interesting on how they went about investigating the shark attacks off the coast of Africa which has been a “hot bed” for the past decade. What I loved about this episode is that you got to see some beautiful coastal shots of South Africa. When people thing of the Africa continent, they usually think “safari” but there is a WHOLE LOT more to this continent for sure!
You can learn more about this DVD and the Smithsonian Channel by visiting their online web site. It is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble.
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Although I know that sharks are misunderstood I would be afraid of any large animal near me without my having protection. All of the Smithsonian programs are well done.
I cannot deal with sharks, on television or the thought of them in the ocean when I’m at the beach. I’m simply terrified of them. Heck, I’ve never seen Jaws. But this is sooo my husband and son. They eat this stuff up and never miss a show on sharks or any other kind of animal. They would esp enjoy the autopsy for the reasons you said. I am sure that the photography is awesome, after all it’s Smithsonian.
This is one collection that I would love to see. I am so interested in sharks and watch all I can about them. Yes, I am afraid of the them, but they are just doing their thing in their home and here comes man! It makes me SICK that an estimated 100 million sharks are killed per year just for their fins! So they can make fin soup in Asia! I watched a program on television where it showed these sickos cutting off the sharks fins and then throwing them back into the ocean alive to just bleed to death and drown.
It hurts my heart what man is capable of.
When I first saw this, I thought great for my son and grandson. They live in Florida, my son scuba dives, and has no problem diving with sharks. He is all about a better understanding of them. So I know they would both enjoy. Have to say even I want to see it. I’m interested in the findings of dissecting a shark. You don’t just see that on all the shark shows, and to have actual marine biologists educating you would be wonderful. Thank you. I hadn’t even heard of this.
I love learning about sharks and am so surprised many still don’t take care when they swim here in the shark invested waters (California). I don’t get cable but love to learn about science and nature too.
(Explore Science & Nature with the Smithsonian Channel – Shark Collection DVD) This would be great for my husband to watch, he watches shows like this all the time on the National Geographic channel.
It would be interesting to see the insides of a shark and that is definitely not something you get to see every day.