Talk:Shark!

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:22, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

One shark or two?
In this issue from LIFE magazine the attack is blamed on a second shark which broke through a protective net, not the sedated bull shark:

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3lQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=Mexican+stuntman,+Jose+Marco&source=bl&ots=NTi7r9KjcY&sig=xaj9JiUK3eZXs2mLRTmg0MWfN_0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jQfoU7jqH8Lr8AX9soHQDQ&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Mexican%20stuntman%2C%20Jose%20Marco&f=false

Stefanmuc (talk) 19:09, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

I've seen some debate as to whether the event happened at all. A user on the old IMDb message boards wrote in 2009 "it was revealed in Skin Diver magazine, that the footage scene [sic] in the movie is NOT a real shark attack, that it was faked, and the publicity surrounding the movie (at least in regards to the film featuring an actual shark attack "caught on film") was bogus." [1] No exact sources provided, but something to keep in mind. Also of note, José Marco's name doesn't appear in the publicly available Global Shark Attack File, [2] although I don't have access to the more detailed International Shark Attack File, which is "accessible only to scientists whose access is permitted only by a review board."

As far as I can tell, both the evidence for and against the incident seems to be entirely hearsay, the only difference being that the story of a shark attack caught on film is more fantastical, which makes it more likely to be printed and reprinted, which eventually leads to the story becoming accepted as fact.

[1] https://www.filmboards.com/board/p/1790578/

[2] http://www.sharkattackfile.net/incidentlog.htm

--Double - U (talk) 17:43, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Title
Where is the support for calling this article Shark!? The film itself and every contemporary poster I have seen is simply Shark. 2002:620D:3AF:0:40FF:5CA:EFC:B980 (talk) 23:25, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

two sources in the article:
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=Qv9yKS4jjX0C&q=shark&pg=PA70
 * https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066365/

--FMSky (talk) 01:39, 14 September 2022 (UTC)