However, no DVD or streaming release of the series has been available worldwide as of today. Animation currently owns the series, as they own the 1974–89 Rankin/Bass library, which was incorporated into the merger of Lorimar-Telepictures and Warner Bros. The animation was provided by Japanese studio Pacific Animation Corporation. The series lasted one season with 26 episodes and was part of the show The Comic Strip, which consisted of four animated shorts: TigerSharks, Street Frogs, The Mini-Monsters, and Karate Kat. The series involved a team of heroes that could transform into amalgams of human and marine animals and resembled the series ThunderCats and SilverHawks, also developed by Rankin/Bass. If you’re tuning in to Shark Week at any stage over the next while, remember that Discovery has a history of tall tales, and sharks are from the beasts these shows will have you believe.TigerSharks is an American animated children's television series developed by Rankin/Bass and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures in 1987. So I can only assume that Discovery Channel chose to include this very real tragedy in order to somehow legitimize their fake-u-mentary. This boat was capsized by heavy swell in the middle of the day and had nothing to do with a shark, let alone a mythical one. So why would they say Hout Bay? If you google “boat capsized in Hout Bay”, you will find that there was a boat which capsized outside of Hout Bay in 2012, killing 2 passengers onboard. The fake-u-mentary is supposedly based in Hout Bay, but continually shows a map of Dyer Island and Geyser Rock and refers to Shark Alley that are all in Gansbaai, ~100km to the east. We don’t need to pick this apart, but we will, courtesy of Southern Fried Science: Watch from the start for more awful acting, featuring a whale-watching boat setting sail from Hout Bay: There is still a debate about what they may be.ĭespite a massive backlash, the following year, the same bogus story of Submarine the shark was once more trotted out, in a Discovery show titled Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine. Legends of giant sharks persist all over the world. Though certain events and characters in this film have been dramatized, sightings of “Submarine” continue to this day. In order to cover itself, Discovery popped a little disclaimer in the final few seconds of the ‘doccie’, stating that “none of the institutions or agencies that appear in the film are affiliated with it in any way, nor have approved its contents.” Oh, and as for that megalodon boat attack: More fabricated “evidence” supporting the creature’s existence is presented, including a whale whose tail has been bitten off by an unknown animal, and a Coast Guard video showing a giant, shark-like shape moving through the water. Their expedition is mounted following the release of (faked) footage showing a fishing vessel taken down by a massive sea-dwelling predator (nicknamed “submarine”). Instead, Discovery hired actors to play marine biologists on a hunt for the megalodon around the coast of South Africa. Those watching the “documentary,” however, were not burdened with such inconvenient truths. There’s only one problem: Despite what the show’s title may claim, this “monster shark” has been extinct for more than one million years. With a maximum length of 60 feet and teeth the size of butchers’ knives, the megalodon…is one of history’s most fearsome predators. No, because it didn’t happen, but Shark Week ran a ‘documentary’ about it in 2013 anyway, titled Megalodon: The Monster Shark That Lives. Remember that time a megalodon shark attacked and sunk a ship off the coast of Cape Town? Much like a WhatsApp message that has been forwarded many times, you shouldn’t believe everything you see on the telly, because Discovery has no qualms about taking you for a ride. If you caught our story on Tuesday about Jackass actor Sean McInerney being bitten by a shark during the filming of Jackass Shark Week Special, you would have seen what comes below already.īut with Discovery’s Shark Week having kicked off Sunday, July 11, and running through to this Sunday, July 18, it’s worth revisiting. It has, and I cannot stress this enough, been a long week. 2OV Throwback Thursday - The 'Met Eish, Ja' Viral Video.2OV Throwback Thursday - The 'Winnebago Man' Viral Video.2OV Throwback Thursday - The 'Camps Bay King Of The Jack' Viral Video.
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