Not exact matches
At the
first sign of blood
in the
water sharks (atheists) and LEACHES (scammers) come out of the woodwork.
Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the
first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror
in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open
Water 3: Cage Dive, whose
shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw
in audiences (
in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best
shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely
in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently
in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings
in recent months.
The name was
first given to the peninsula on which the city is situated, and probably inspired by the prevalence of locally native leopard
sharks in the surrounding
waters.
The historic Dirk Hartog Island where European man
first touched our shores
in 1616 is next, then our flight climbs
in altitude providing an amazing bird's eye view of the bays, penninsulars, islands and prestine blue
waters that is the
Shark Bay World Heritage Region.
As our groups jumped
in the
water, we
first made a stop for our photographers to take their time photographing this remarkable landscape before drifing along the current (
in visibility of about 15 meters / 50 feet) where we encountered the likes of Hawksbill Turtle, schooling Blue - lined Snappers, Napoleon Wrasse and Grey Reef
Shark, not to mention the amazingly colorful soft coral, which had its polyps open to catch the nutrients present
in the
water column.
The
first time I jumped into the
water with
sharks off Triangle Rocks
in Bimini was unforgettable.
Then
in 2011
sharks sanctuaries came fast and furious: Honduras became the
first nation
in the Americas to create a
shark sanctuary, followed soon after by Chile and the Bahamas; then Tokelau
in the Pacific declared a sanctuary
in its
waters; finally the Marshall islands created the world's largest sanctuary, spanning a total area larger than the country of Mexico.
Taiwan has announced Asia's
first ban on
shark - finning
in its
waters beginning next year.
The
first one jumps
in the
water and if it doesn't get eaten by a
shark, the rest follow.