Happy Shark Week, Y'all!

SHARK WEEK is in effect.

Right now I'm watching some sharkologist types diving with reef sharks off the coast of Bimini and trying to incite them to attack barracuda-filet-wrapped "bite meters." One of these fools got bit really bad a few years ago doing this. Now he wears chain mail.*

He's German.

Happy Shark Week!

Edited to add:

OK, so now, I'm lookin' at "Mythbusters" and they're debunking "Jaws myths." One of the things they're doing is they're building a shark-punching robot. They wanna see whether punching a shark in the face will dissuade him or her from attacking...robots.

I don't approve of this!

I don't think it's nice to build robots to punch sharks. Sharks aren't asking for that shit. You wanna take on a shark, Mythbusters? Have the decency to punch the shark your damn self, and then let the shark have a turn. Sending a tuna-scented crash-test dummy with hydraulic fists down there is a dick move.

Edited again to add:

Later in the Mythbusters show they sent one of the Mythbusters down into reef shark territory wearing chain mail.* He had a wire box of cut-up fish with him. And he had to punch the sharks hisself. It seemed nicer than the shark-punching robot, in that one of the punched-in-person sharks coulda bit back, and in doing so would bite a real guy, but I still didn't care for it.

*Nice to see chain mail out and about again.
No, wait, no it isn't.