Research

Fake Shark documentaries;  http://www.businessinsider.com/discovery-channels-fake-documentaries-2014-9?IR=T

"Last year's two-hour special on Discovery, called "Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives," convinced 70% of viewers that the giant prehistoric shark still existed even as outraged scientists insisted that the show was ludicrous and almost entirely fictional."

"This summer, Discovery followed it up with "Megalodon: The New Evidence," which became the highest-rated episode of Shark Week with 4.8 million viewers."

"Discovery-owned channel Animal Planet has aired two other fake documentaries in recent years""Many viewers seem to take them at their word, with children being especially vulnerable to deception."

"The documentaries show "found footage" from a fatal attack off the South African coast that apparently left three people dead. It's fake; no such attacks took place."

"The documentaries show news reports from "3 News" in South Africa. It's fake; no such channel exists"

"The documentaries air photos from the Second World War showing the fin and tail of the shark next to a German U-boat.This image is an altered still from a historical video, which we tracked down online."

"The documentaries contain no disclaimers to inform viewers they're watching fiction, though some brief text shown at the start acknowledges that one or two scenes may have been "dramatized" — quite the understatement, unlikely to be of use to children, and totally useless to anyone who starts mid-show."

Astounding revelations about the 510 species of the ocean's top predator - http://www.theartsdesk.com/tv/shark-bbc-one
"We witnessed the incredible sight of a huge one-ton shark, travelling at 20mph, leaping out of the sea to bring down the seal in mid-air"

" It is also the 40th anniversary of Jaws, the film that encouraged an uninformed worldwide horror of sharks. And now sharks everywhere are threatened, even though their survival record hitherto has been impeccable."

"There are 510 different species of sharks and rays"

" The epaulette shark can walk on land as it traverses from tidal pool to tidal pool on the Great Barrier Reef, while the six-foot-long blacktip sharks band together to feast off 10-million-strong anchovy shoals traversing the South African oceans."

"We witnessed the incredible sight of a huge one-ton shark, travelling at 20mph, leaping out of the sea to bring down a seal in mid-air. All that remained was the victim's blood pooling across the ocean’s surface." - makes the shark seem like a murderer

"Composer Will Slater was doubtless working to a brief, but the background music was melodramatic, overwrought and often completely unnecessary, while the voice-over was studded with clichés about “the world beneath the waves ruled by strange fearsome creatures”.

Shark Week Lied to Scientists to Get Them to Appear in "Documentaries" - http://io9.com/shark-week-lied-to-scientists-to-get-them-to-appear-in-1619280737

"why are scientists allowing themselves to be featured in these pseudoscience disasters? There's a simple reason: Shark Week producers have been lying to them."

"I asked a few of the crew members, including the producer, what the show was going to be about. I never got a straight answer and the producer seemed to avoid the question. I was just told it would be combined with some other filming to make one show about Louisiana shark research." - Jonanthan Davis

"Davis was barely asked about the voodoo shark at all. His answers from unrelated questions were edited together to make it seem like he believed in its existence and was searching for it."

"Throughout the interview I was fed certain words to rephrase my sentences in ways that the producer thought would spark more interest"

"Monster Hammerhead explores a legendary hammerhead shark that has been patrolling Florida's shores for the past 60 years. Now, a team of scientists and anglers look to explore the mystery and find out if the legend could be real."

"First of all, great hammerhead sharks live a maximum of 44 years, so a large one could not have been patrolling Florida for 60 years"

"Had I known they would combine it with those ridiculous fishermen to make a show about a mythical shark I would have had some serious second thoughts about participating," - Davis