Bull Shark
For the films I reviewed I feel like there has been a good mix of species. We had tiger sharks masquerading as mako sharks in Mako, we had a great white masquerading as a tiger shark in Cruel Jaws, actual great whites in The Reef films and The Requin as well as a sighting of a blacktip shark in The Reef. What we haven’t had is bull sharks.
Arguably the most dangerous (to humans) of all the shark species, | bull sharks are capable of swimming in both freshwater and saltwater. Aside before, of ‘al Lugar’, as I said in one of my writings, including a more pirate like bull shark may well have been at least partly responsible for the Jersey shark attacks of 1916 that inspired jaws But there have been experts that have said yes.
One of the attacks took place in Matawan Creek, an inlet in New Jersey that wouldn’t be a typical location for interactions between sharks and humans, and claimed two lives. It is still possible that a great white could have been responsible as tidal patterns meant that the water may well have been salty enough but as the bull shark is known to happily swim in both varieties of water, it has been seen as the most likely culprit by many experts.
In the end, it will remain a mystery which species was behind the attacks that took place at Matawan Creek or the series of attacks that took the eastern coast of America by storm during that year.
It is not uncommon to find bull sharks in areas that one wouldn’t anticipate. In 2017, a cyclone dubbed Tropical Cyclone Debbie struck the area of Ayr in Australia. Some time after the cyclone, it was reported that a bull shark had been washed up on a road due to the floods that came with the cyclone. The same thing occurred in Queensland in 2020 when floods that accompanied a storm drove a bull shark to a back yard.
In addition, bull sharks can go up most rivers and into lakes. In theory, they could indeed spend most of their lives in those areas but usually don’t do that due to feeding and reproduction. These particular sharks were reported in Lake Nicaragua, with evidence indicating that the Carribean sea sharks climb the rapids of the San Juan river in order to reach it.
The tracked species that were later recaptured in the open sea were also able to point out to scientists that this migration was not time consuming either 7 to 11 days is the period that some sharks took to make the round trip.
At last, the sharks have made their way to Peru, 4,000km up the Amazon river, Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans USA after hurricane Katrina and even to a lake on a golf course in Logan, Australia when some of the species were inundated by flood water. Carbrook golf course even uses their resident sharks for marketing purposes and the bull sharks have significantly bred and proliferated. Alligators would perhaps be a preferable hazard in water these days.
Setting the lake that is on our left as the primary landscape for this film, Blood In The Water also referred to as Bull Shark, is a 2022 film that continues the trend of shark films that have evolved in the past decade where instead of open ocean there are different settings, such as the canals of Venice, supermarkets, baths or swimming pools. In that list, a lake sounds like more than reasonable.
After the ridiculousness of Mako and Cruel Jaws, these critiques dealt three films that had a different approach of violence in it The Reef, The Requin and The Reef: Stalked.
From the trailer of Bull Shark, I get the sense that it will probably be one of the more jocular offerings. It is however, decidedly disappointing that the shark portrayed in the poster is a great white in fact (the snout in particular which a bull shark, by contrast, tends to be a little more round).
The film was released some time ago free of charge on youtube which dares me not to be optimistic but in these times of economic hardship there is no way I will refuse free stuff. Speaking of the film, let us see whether it is capa-bull or just the same old bull s***.
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