Sharkwater

On Tuesday, May 1, 2007, I went to the see the movie Sharkwater. This movie is a documentary about Sharks, without the IMAX 3D, and is 1.5 hours long. It talks about sharks, the positive aspects of them, our misunderstandings of them, and the negative aspects of them. (I.e. illegal poachers who hunt them down, cut off their fins, and then dump them into the ocean for them to die - they usually get eaten alive by other fish).

Don't people who run these businesses realize that once there are no more sharks, then their business goes up in smoke, and then on top of that there are ecological consequences?

This was an enjoyable movie, but it was fairly depressing. I didn't especially like the part at the end, when we found out that while we were watching the film, about 15 000 were killed. That's not something we need to know at the end of the film. I know that shark finning is getting out of control, but it was unnecessary, in my opinion, to be hit with that fact at the end of the movie.

If you want to learn more about the movie, Sharkwater, click here.

If you want to learn more about saving sharks, click here.