The most remarkable shark movies

Nowadays many divers pay a lot of money for trips with guaranteed shark encounters. Proud photographers share their stunning close-ups of oceanic whitetips, great white sharks or hammerheads. The shark dive tourism is a highly lucrative global market, because all of us want to dive with sharks, and we are really sad to hear about the cruel shark finning practices. Many divers join online petitions and urge banning the shark fin trade. We do not want expensive shark fin soups but living sharks...

But the majority of the people around us haven't ever dived and whenever they hear our shark stories they ask: "Weren't you afraid?" We know the shark is the dangerous, there are several attacks every year but as a diver I don't really fear of them. Why the people do who haven't seen any in the sea?

The answer is simple: their "knowledge" based on Hollywood movies. The legend of killer sharks was known for ages, but most of the people faced the beast in 1975. There were movies about sea monsters in the past but the Jaws wasn't an ordinary thriller. The masterpiece of Steven Spielberg seemed really realistic. The cast did a great job, especially Bruce, the mechanical shark who terrorized a small island community. The screenwriter, Peter Benchley later began to feel responsible for the negative attitudes against sharks because the Jaws became a blockbuster and since then many people treat great white sharks as aggressive, evil man-eaters. The Jaws was followed by three sequels: their plots were similar to the original story but the movies weren't that successful. The classic Jaws is still much praised- 37 years and dozens of shark documentaries weren't enough to make great white sharks much more popular.

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New website

With my friend we launched a new diving website: divingiscool.com
There'll be articles, photo and video contests, dive site directory and so on... Come and visit!

Back

Haven't posted for a while- I was lazy and I dived some. Whatever the reason I try to write a bit about my summer adventures.
First of all, we arrived back from our latest liveaboard trip in Egypt. We chose the northern route, we dived a lot in the 29 degrees warm water and we made a lot of photos. Here you can visit the shootout contest's gallery: DC-RSBH shootout contest 2012

Daily photo: shore diving in Pag island

This is one of my favorite spots in Croatia, the house reef of Blue Bay DC in Stara Novalja.

Success

In the beginning of June we organized a shootout photo competition in Pag island, Croatia. We announced two categories for DSLR and compact cameras, and a 3 member jury voted on the photos. For my surprise, I became second in the compact gallery with this photo:

I confess I am really happy, it is my biggest success in photography. If you want to see all the photos of the competition, here you can check the two galleries:
DSLR
Compact

Cat shark egg

I'm unlucky with the cat sharks. I saw dozen eggs but haven't ever met any living cat sharks. (Sadly I saw 4 dead ones, it's very sad.) Here comes a recent photo of an egg from Croatia, Pag island.

Ribari

After many Adriatic trips some local songs sound really familiar. The Ribari is one of them, I post this version, the singer is Vinko Coce. As I'm preparing for another two weeks long trip to Croatia I like to hear it again.