Thread: Shark Shields

Originally Posted by planenutz

Yeah, nah.

Like others here I'm still traumatized from JAWS version 1.

This is so true of my experience too. Are you around 50 years old btw? I was at a party a while back where the subjecgts of sharks came up, and eventually everyone was asked for input and it turned out all of us who were at primary school around the time Jaws came out (1975) all shared an irrational fear of sharks that the other age groups did not have. A couple of people my age confessed to never going further than waist deep in the sea, but no problems with deep water in lakes. In my case watching Jaws as a kid then seeing a dead Great White washed up on the beach a few years later set me up with a profound paranoia I have never tried to shake off. I have swum with sharks in the water here and in Australia but did not enjoy it. As Micky Duck says, the Jaws shark was not very realistic (and swam so slwly even I could outswim it!) but there was something in those beach scenes that has stuck with me.