Un mese dopo il rientro in Italia continua il racconto sul grande squalo bianco - white shark
The great white shark in the film wasn’t real—director Steven Spielberg utilized three different mechanical sharks to play the role—and at 25 feet in length and 2.7 tons, the fictitious man-eater dwarfed the biggest documented great whites ever caught. (The current unofficial record is held by a 17.9-foot-long, two-ton shark that was caught and released in 2009 by researchers at the Marine Conservation Science Institute.) Leonard Compagno, a South African-based shark researcher consulted by the filmmakers, later noted that the creature’s maniacal compulsion to stalk and kill humans was complete fiction. In reality, as Compagno told Smithsonian magazine in 2008, great whites “rarely bother people, and even more rarely attack them.” And while great whites have on occasion attacked fishing boats—here’s a video of a January 2011 incident in Australia, in which a 15-foot great white apparently chomps down on an outboard motor—there don’t seem to be any reports of one systematically ramming and demolishing a craft the size of the one depicted in the film.
Per leggere l'articolo completo:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/wild/shark-attack-experiment-live/articles/sharks-bum-rap/
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