Amazon River...

[T-Man007]

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Funny you brought up industry..Did you see that Hunter and Hunted show about shark attack outbreaks in Brazil. A huge cattle plant was upstream duming thousands of gallons of blood into the river even though it was suppose to go into tanks. Scientists were claiming the blood in the water was the cause of the excessive attacks in the beach area near the mouth of the river. The city was called Recife. Supposedly the blood brought in a higher than normal density of sharks with higher aggression. I can't remember if it was debunked but I think they found out the the factories year of operation corresponded with the years of the attack outbreaks.

Wow! I missed that one.

See, this is what happens when common sense is left out of the equation. Most people who know anything about sharks know they can smell blood from dozens of miles away. They actually don't have very good eye sight, but there sense of smell is absolutely awesome. You don't just dump blood in the water and not have predators come to investigate. That's how you shark fish for crying out loud.

[whitetail]

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Wow! I missed that one.

See, this is what happens when common sense is left out of the equation. Most people who know anything about sharks know they can smell blood from dozens of miles away. They actually don't have very good eye sight, but there sense of smell is absolutely awesome. You don't just dump blood in the water and not have predators come to investigate. That's how you shark fish for crying out loud.

just type in your email or cell phone and they will contact you when its on.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/popup/200703111900.html

All these Hunter and Hunted shows are awesome. Shadow stalkers is a great one. One of the very few docmented attacks were wolves killed a person and tried to eat them. The bengaled tiger, lion, and hippo, are great episodes of the "hunter and hunted" series as well.

National Geographis is greatTV except for the show "THE DOG WHISPERER"

[Stackt]

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No doubt! A three month trip to be free to just travel Brazil would be killer! But, wife and child makes that an impossbility for me. Brazil is one of the coolest countries with their beaches, mountains, rain forest, rivers, waterfalls, they have all kinds of cool stuff. But yeah, gotta avoid the malaria. lol I would have like 10 cans of that bug repellant on me at all times. lol

Did u just say Brazil ..... oh my ! Yeah I love watching the Discovery n Travel Channel good use of tv for meat heads lol

[6p6]

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Heck yeah, I'm addicted to Discovery and History Channel. The Barbarians thing the History Channel does is cool to watch. I think I've learned more from those two channels than I did in History and Science class in 12 years of schooling.

good stuff there bro

[Testify]

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I did not see that but it sounds cool. I love that stuff.

I did learn while at school in Louisiana, that there is so much crap being dumped into the Mississippi that a "dead zone" extends about 40-50 miles into the Gulf, where nothing can live. It's pretty ****ty that we allow that to happen.

[T-Man007]

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I did not see that but it sounds cool. I love that stuff.

I did learn while at school in Louisiana, that there is so much crap being dumped into the Mississippi that a "dead zone" extends about 40-50 miles into the Gulf, where nothing can live. It's pretty ****ty that we allow that to happen.

Very ****ty indeed!

[jipped genes]

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i saw it whitetail, they were bullsharks werent they?

"Before the 1990s, there were virtually no attacks reported here. But since 1992, there have been 47 shark attacks along a 12.5-mile stretch of coast. sixteen of them were fatal"

the brazilian government was in a tizzy due to the tourism $ lost

[T-Man007]

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i saw it whitetail, they were bullsharks werent they?

"Before the 1990s, there were virtually no attacks reported here. But since 1992, there have been 47 shark attacks along a 12.5-mile stretch of coast. sixteen of them were fatal"

the brazilian government was in a tizzy due to the tourism $ lost

47 attacks in 12.5 miles? I wouldn't go either! That's too many. I think they only get like 1-2 a year along the whole state coast of FL and that thing includes the Gulf coast too.

[Testify]

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^ Damn. I wouldn't swim there.