The Dorsal Fin

YouTube user opimoby (videographer Ross Isaacs) posted the video above featuring a children’s song titled “I’m a Shark.” The video is an excerpt from “Bubbles – On the Reef,” an educational children’s video intended to introduce children to ocean life. The video, shot in high definition, follows Bubbles the shrimp on an adventure through Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

The video information for “I’m a Shark” touches on issues such as shark finning and the theory that shark attacks on humans are the result of mistaken identity. All-in-all it seems that “Bubbles – On the Reef” sends a pro-ocean message to children, based on the excerpts and video information available. For more info about the video, visit Ocean Planet Images.

While the “I’m a Shark” tune isn’t quite as catchy to me as The Great White Shark Song, it seems like it’s sending a pro-shark educational message to a younger audience, which hopefully will counteract some of the more negative stereotypes associated with sharks in the media.

Within a matter of days after Chuck Patterson’s great white shark footage from San Onofre started making the rounds in the media, YouTube user FussBrosProductions managed to put together a faux encounter with a white shark while kayaking by editing clips of Patterson’s white shark footage into some original kayaking footage.

A comparison of footage from Chuck Patterson and FussBrosProductions.

With the addition of the “Jaws” background music and a name like “FussBrosProductions,” it seems like the person or persons behind this particular video were just having a little bit of fun with some video editing, but it’s probably only a matter of time before somebody comments on the YouTube video swearing that they know the cousin of a kid who went to school with one of the kayakers and swears there were really white sharks there.

Jimmy Kimmel Live had an exclusive look at Discovery Channel’s next big thing. Check out the video above for Discovery’s follow-up to Shark Week. Some might argue that this could be an improvement to some of the programming that’s been on Shark Week the past few years.

The "Cardiff Kook" in Encinitas, CA, which is routinely the victim of pranksters, has recently fallen victim to a paper-mâché great white shark. The video feature above from CBS8 shows off the “artistic prank” (and also shows off a girl picking her nose on camera at the beginning).

It would seem that even whales aren’t immune to “Jaws” references in the news. CNN‘s report on a breaching whale that landed on a sailboat near Cape Town harbor features clips from “Jaws.” Additionally, during an interview in the report, the interviewer even asks one of the occupants of the boat if she thought about “Jaws” when the incident happened.

The southern right whale was “definitely badly bruised, but probably did not break anything,” according to a marine scientist quoted in USA Today. The USA Today article also calls into question whether or not the whale was being harassed by the boaters. Legally, sailors are required to stay at least 1,000′ from whales, according to the report.

In other breaking news, CNN also aired a clip this morning of a someone being chased by a moose. There were no “Jaws” references in the moose report, though.