Sink your teeth into 'Shark Week'
- Time to cue the theme from Jaws, old chums..
Starting tonight, Discovery Channel viewers can once again commune with the Voldemorts of the deep, thanks to that summer staple known as Shark Week. Now in its 34th season, the series will be hosted by Saturday Night Live's Andy Samberg (a.k.a. "Chief Shark Officer"), whose official duties included swimming with reef sharks in The Bahamas.
As Samberg's encounter illustrates, there are plenty of ways to get up close and personal with the maligned and misunderstood creatures - including four Discovery Adventures tours to the Galapagos Islands (three cruises and one trip that tacks on a visit to Peru's Machu Picchu). Participants will likely see (and perhaps dive with) such species as scalloped hammerheads, Galapagos sharks, reef sharks, white-tipped sharks and whale sharks.
Not ready for the deep end? Several aquariums are hosting Shark Week tie-ins, from shark-themed dive shows and an outdoor screening of Jaws at Charleston's South Carolina Aquarium to $2 off admission at Camden, N.J.'s Adventure Aquarium for any guests sporting fins on their heads. A high-definition, underwater Shark Cam at Atlanta's Georgia Aquarium will beam live views of the facility's shark habitat, and a special version of the aquarium's popular swim and dive program, Journey with Gentle Giants, will focus on shark identification.
Near Bruce's old swishing grounds of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., meanwhile, a corresponding rise in the gray seal and great white shark populations has sparked a tourism boom, notes Discovery News.
Monomoy Island, an 8-mile sand spit where the great whites have been spotted, is a national wildlife refuge. Nearby Chatham has seen a 15 percent uptick in tourism revenues, and New England Aquarium spokesman Tony LaCasse told Discovery News that during one recent tour, "a great white took a free swimming seal" in a bloody, violent battle viewed by families riveted to the real life event.
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Not ready for the deep end? Several aquariums are hosting Shark Week tie-ins, from shark-themed dive shows and an outdoor screening of Jaws at Charleston's South Carolina Aquarium to $2 off admission at Camden, N.J.'s Adventure Aquarium for any guests sporting fins on their heads. A high-definition, underwater Shark Cam at Atlanta's Georgia Aquarium will beam live views of the facility's shark habitat, and a special version of the aquarium's popular swim and dive program, Journey with Gentle Giants, will focus on shark identification.
Near Bruce's old swishing grounds of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., meanwhile, a corresponding rise in the gray seal and great white shark populations has sparked a tourism boom, notes Discovery News.
Monomoy Island, an 8-mile sand spit where the great whites have been spotted, is a national wildlife refuge. Nearby Chatham has seen a 15 percent uptick in tourism revenues, and New England Aquarium spokesman Tony LaCasse told Discovery News that during one recent tour, "a great white took a free swimming seal" in a bloody, violent battle viewed by families riveted to the real life event.
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