Get Your Shark On...It's Time for Shark Week 2015!

This is the beginning of one of my favorite times of the year…Shark Week! Ever since I was a kid and saw Jaws for the first time through the holes in our crocheted blanket, I was hooked on sharks.

It’s the mystery, the danger, the simplicity, and the sheer respect for these creatures that gets my attention and created my slight obsession with sharks.

6 Fun Shark Facts About Me:

I have watched shark shows since Shark Week started and to better visualize and appreciate the size of sharks, I started measuring them by my sister, Megan. She is about 5 feet tall on a good day, so a 10-foot shark is 2 Megans, for example. An 18-foot shark is 3 1/2 Megans (holy cow, that’s impressive)!
This 18-foot shark is “investigating” the shark cage. That is 3 1/2 Megans!
I hope one day I have kids just for the sheer fact that I could dress them in this costume. (Fine that is probably not the only reason, but it’s right up there.) I think I would find every available holiday to use this shark costume (I’m looking at you Halloween, Shark Week, Memorial Day since that’s the start of Summer vacation, 4th of July because it makes me think of Jaws, and so on).
Holy adorableness!
I’m so incredibly fascinated by great whites, yet my complete respect of them makes me want to steer clear. Many a people have tried to convince me I’d love doing a cage dive to see them up close. I’m not, however, convinced that I wouldn’t lose control of my bodily functions if I was face to face with one.
Jaws will forever be in my top 5 favorite movies. My mom and I recently went to see it in the movie theater for the 40th anniversary of its release. It. Was. So. Cool. Seriously, I had only dreamed of getting to see Jaws on the big screen and can’t believe it came true!
It was worth every penny!
As a kid, I wanted to become a marine biologist. There is a part of me that still wishes I’d done it…of course I’d be the gal manning the boats, the radar, and the GPS trackers on the white sharks. I’d let the camera work and cage diving be done by the people with a streak of crazy in them, who I totally respect and admire.
One thing to know about me is I’m a self-proclaimed shark snob. That means I don’t care about all sharks…I love great white sharks and get rather bored by most other varieties. There is something so beautiful, perfect, and logical about white sharks. They have been around for who knows how long, and evolution has created this perfect creature who is suited for swimming, eating, and making baby sharks. They are a simple animal in that regard.

For one whole week every year, the Discovery Channel gives us all things shark every evening. Usually shark week is at the beginning of August. This year they moved it up a month. Perhaps it’s because of the timing of the shark attacks in the Carolinas right now, or maybe they wanted to try something new out. Either way I’m psyched!

I look forward to those documentaries that give me even more shark facts to store in my brain. That introduce you to men and women whose passions are studying sharks and putting themselves in somewhat precarious situations for a living just to help all of us and science learn more about these creatures. And then there is Shark After Dark that is kind of like a late-night talk show with (B-list) celebrities, I’m sure hoping that Bob the Shark also plays a part for the third season. The whole production is so wrong it’s right…I love it!

And I just read that Shark Week 2015 is not only starting a month early but it’s also going to have a Shark Week weekend with all new programs in August to finish Summer off on the right foot (or fin)! Holy ~~cow~~ shark, I’m so excited!

Shark Week begins with a marathon of past Shark Week episodes today (July 5th) including several new shark documentaries beginning tonight followed by Shark After Dark in the evening. Fellow shark lovers, you don’t want to miss it!