What If There Were No Sharks?

Joe Hanson - Host and writer
Joe Nicolosi - Director
Amanda Fox - Producer, Spotzen IncKate Eads - Associate Producer
Katie Graham - Camera
Editing/Motion Graphics - Andrew Matthews
Gaffer - John Knudsen

Theme music:
"Ouroboros" by Kevin MacLeod

Stock images via Shutterstock

Produced for PBS Digital Studios
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[matthewthedford]

Can you imagine sharks making human attack movies?

[pacoo]

The most dangerous animal in the world is probably the smooth talking politician.

[Kubus]

"If the oceans dies, we die" - Paul Watson

[gdrfsdf]

"The more you know... The less you fear..".. So much sense in so few words.

[mindspongeshow]

Imagine how things would be different if Jaws had never been made

[yellow-cheese]

100 million sharks are killed by people
Around 10 people are killed by sharks

[lunarmist]

Sharks are misunderstood, a bit like wolves. Both are scared of humans too.

[blue_jai]

1:00 That’s a Sawfish, often called a Saw shark. It’s actually not a shark. It’s a ray. However, rays are the evolutionary cousins of sharks. I just wanted to clear the water. I understand the confusion.

[sidrai]

Kid Shark: Mom, I'm going out swimming!

Mom Shark: Watch out for humans, they'll hunt you and eat you!

See the irony?

[taehyxng]

"Very fish. Much full"

Me: **screaming**

[poopcat]

Sharks are so cute!! Anyone agree? D:
Also sharks aren't bloodthirsty, they just know that the scent of blood means injured victims. Lol

[paulwhite]

I'm reminded of an image I saw a couple years ago. It was a scuba diver next to a shark, and the caption read something to the effect of "Pictured here is the world's most deadly predator, next to whom a shark swims peacefully by."

[baruchbolinski]

I love how in so many ecosystems, from Yellowstone to the oceans the top predator whether it is sharks, wolves or Tasmanian tigers help the entire ecosystem. I especially like how predators can help prey populations by removing the sick, like in Tasmania where if the Tasmanian tiger was still around it could save the Tasmanian devil by killing contagious Tasmanian devils much earlier in their sickness and preventing disease spread.

[rockinrich]

I started crying when i realized the number was how many Sharks were killed

[fanyunxia]

Started crying when I realized the number at the bottom was the number of sharks being killed.😭😭😭

[zara]

Did you know more people are killed by selfies and coconuts than by sharks!?




Yes. Selfies.

[kittentoys]

This is super late but, thank you for this. I'm currently in school working on a marine bio degree specifically to work with sharks and on shark conservation. It makes me so sad to see the rep the media has given them. They're truly amazing critters and dont deserve the rep at all. So seeing folks working to change the way people see them does my heart a lot of good <3

[gabialger]

Sharks dont want to eat us they simply mistake us for seals

[xstartheone]

The most dangerous thing is






Your teddy bear
He will convince you to do horrible things

[thesquidofyoutube]

People who haven't watched this: Dead Shark = money
People who have watched this: Sharks = tourism