Shark Week Question

okay watching the Anatomy of a shark bite they showed a video of a 19 year being attacked by a Great white shark. A tourist caught the whole attack on video and my friend and i got into a discussion about the person who video taped it. Now my friend is arguing that the guy who video taped it should of done something. the first thing that she said was to shoot it with a flare gun Yes each tourist are given there own flares to carry aboard the ship in case something like this happens. i Don't think a 1500 pound animal with some water over it is gonna react much if a flare hit it. Its not Jaws.

Anyways another boat was in the water with them trying to save the poor girl by trying to reach for her. But with no luck until her leg was gone. Now her next response was to call coast guard or "throw a rock at it". Now hes a tourist the only real way to call the coast guard is from the radio on the boat (yes assuming there was no cell phones) and where the hell am i going to get a rock?!?


Is this man wrong for filming the event? These events happen all the time and so fast that you have no time to react.

[RituallyPure]

Even if there was nothing he could do, I don't think he should have been sitting there filming it...

So what about the people who film place crashes and car crashes?

what was he going to do? the videos are being used now to discover the effects of shark bites and the damage they do from the sharks themselves and people who react

Like i said it happened so quickly to sit there and figure out what was going on. he was already filming the water

[RituallyPure]

the videos are being used now to discover the effects of shark bites and the damage they do from the sharks themselves and people who react

They are? How so? I've never heard of this before.

Like i said it happened so quickly to sit there and figure out what was going on.

You said earlier that people were helping the girl... It would have taken some time for them to get to her. I sincerely doubt that he had no idea what he was filming.

Originally posted by RituallyPure


They are? How so? I've never heard of this before.

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence...sharkweek.html

[Mickwish]

Better link to exactly what you are talking about, GZ3?

Thanks
Mick

[CraigK]

what else are those people supposed to do? it's videos like that that are sent to professonals so they can be presented to the masses via "shark week," or whatever other weeks there are.

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In 2002, shark behavioral scientist Erich Ritter was filming in the Bahamas with Discovery Channel when a bull shark bit his calf — a terrible accident caught on film from both above and below the water. Join us as we use other shark-attack footage and computer-generated imaging to explore how and why different breeds of sharks bite, and as Dr. Ritter watches and reflects on his nearly deadly encounter for the first time.

[julietsrose]

I'm watching the same special.

Personally, I would have done something, anything I could think of at the moment with what I had to help another person. I hope someone would do that for me. If someone sat by idly and watched as my legs were ripped off, I'd be pretty mad. Even if they can't help, at least they tried.

If the other people had time to react, the man shooting the video should too (especially since he knew the girl and called out her name)

Also, this isn't being used for the anatomy of a shark bite because you don't see the actual bite, just the attack.

When people sit by and let these things happen things like the Kitty Genovese case occur http://www.newsday.com/extras/lihistory/8/hs818a.htm).

Wednesday, March 23, 1994, South Pacific Ocean:
"I felt something grab my leg and jerk me," recalled Heather Boswell, a 19-year-old Seattleite who had signed on for a six-month term working in the galley of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research ship Discoverer. Boswell and several of her shipmates were taking a break, swimming in balmy waters some 300 miles east of Easter Island. What she believes was a great white shark first chomped the legs of a seaman swimming nearby, opening wounds that would require more than 50 stitches; as it turned out, he got off easy. Quickly grabbing first Boswell's right leg and then her left, the shark pulled her under, shaking her violently like a dog with a rag doll. When the fish resurfaced, two of Boswell's colleagues in a skiff grabbed her arms while another beat the shark with a stick. Boswell felt her left leg pop. "I thought it was my hip dislocating," she said. Only when the crew pulled her up into the boat did she look down and realize that her leg now ended at midthigh. The shark then headed for another person dangling in the water from a ladder, but shots fired by crewmen on the ship evidently drove it away.

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http://www.elasmo-research.org/educa...n_identity.htm
mick i dont see the video any wear posted online. there showing it on tv

julietsrose your arguing something that someone could of had under control but no one responded. There was a boat trying to help her out. there is only so much help one person can give. If he didn't film and just watched it would he be just as bad? This was a wild animal that you couldn't call the cops on or beat it with a broom