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Shark Week Returns

Summer vacation is drawing to a close, and the start of a new school year is just around the corner. Hopefully you have been able to take a nice, relaxing trip to the beach … and survive. The time has come again for the annual terrifying, yet thrilling, Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. The ‘fear returns’ on August 2nd, 2009 with an action packed week filled with informative shark facts, attack stories, myths, shark tracking strategies, and much much more.

Conveniently enough, our family vacations usually fell around the first week in August, the general time for Shark Week to be aired on the Discovery Channel. Nothing says relaxation like curling up with a blanket and popcorn watching shark attack stories, only to fearfully head out on a boogie board the next morning. You know you have seen enough Shark Week when a plastic bottle floating atop the water sends you running out of the ocean shrieking with fear, convinced that the fin of a Great White Shark was lurking in your direction… Especially when the Great White Shark is primarily native to the coastlines of Mexico, Australia, and South Africa; meanwhile, you are splashing among the waves off the coast of North Carolina. Yeah, Shark Week can have that effect on you.

The official Shark Week website has all sorts of activities designed for the week long television event. Here you will find links to a number of different features such as: What Kind of Shark Are You Quiz, Shark IQ game, Worst Shark Attack Ever stories, organizations dedicated to saving sharks, and other exciting shark information.

Enjoy your vacation … but Swim at your Own Risk!

Contributed by Carrie Friedrich