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Skyler Thomas continues to expose Discovery Shark Week and those who participate in the production of each season's shows. 'How to Survive a Shark Attack' is so bad that it had to be broken down in separate parts. Here is part 1.
Thomas claims that the show doesn't even meet the basic premise of the excuse used to make the show while also providing inaccurate information throughout the overly dramatized production.
Pasted below are the chapter descriptions of the critique, but make your own decision and leave a comment on the video.
IIn this episode, I question whether 'How to Survive a Shark Attack' really provided much in terms of helping viewers learn how to survive a potential shark bite, or if it was, instead, yet again, a series of silly, dramatized, unnecessary pranks. This isn't nearly the worst Shark Week show of 2025, and yet it was dreadful. So dreadful that I must break it down section by section. 00:00 How much fear has been inspired in just the first minutes? 01:45 Why must it always be a white shark? The water is extremely shallow and tropical. Perhaps, instead, they could choose a bull shark since a bull shark is, after all, what bit Paul. 95% of the time, both Shark Week and Hollywood use great white sharks as the source of fear in their shows. And yes, these shows are based on fear. Look no further than OCEARCH for your answer, if you aren't needlessly tagging or featuring white sharks you just don't get the money. 04:26 The show quotes unprovoked shark attacks from 2023, yet this show was produced in 2025. Why would Shark Week choose the statistics from 2023 when 2022, 2024, and 2025 were available and all these years had more positive statistics? Perhaps Shark Week is going out of its way to scare people. 07:01 Shark Week featured images of provoked attacks and natural predations of sharks on fish, while quoting the statistics of unprovoked attacks. This seems disengenuous. How does seeing a shark being tricked into biting a prosthetic arm help people at home survive a shark attack? 10:55 Why must Shark Week insist upon claiming synthetic blood excites sharks? 11:57 There is always ample shark touching involved on ecotourism dives as well as shark week shows, whether it's good or bad, it is happening. 12:38 Is Paul OK? 13:35 Applying a tourniquet is the best advice I can give credit to in this film, but they barely show it. 14:40 Isn't this bad for sharks? 15:36 Is shark species used in the demonstrations not important? 16:03 It's OK for Shark Week to touch, but not others. 16:18 Why must Shark Week pretend that their team of experts is scared and in critical danger while they do nothing more than what inexperienced tourists do by the millions each year? 16:47 Some people are revered as shark experts because they were bitten, others are condemned for being bitten, while still others are condemned for managing to never be bitten. What gives? #sharkweek #skylerthomas #howtosurviveasharkattack #sharkattack #pauldegelder
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