Ragged Tooth - Natgeo Wild documentary

[DD]

For those who are interested, channel 182 was/are airing a doccie on ragged tooth sharks specific to the South African east coast. They showed footage of the 2 raggies released from the PE aquarium as well. I'm not sure when the repeat is as I did not check.

It was a very interesting show for me particularly because I have never seen any informative programs on raggies before. "Shark programs" usually involve Great Whites and to a lesser extent, Tiger Sharks and Zambezi's. Was also cool to see the underwater environment just here on our front door; no colourful exotic sea creatures, just the plain old blacktail/strepies and karel groot oog doing their thing.

 

[mh]

Very interesting show.I did not think that they were so endangered considering that so many guys fish for them specifically.It would be nice if they make a documentary on the other shark species ;like bronzies etc. that are also targeted by fisherman.

 

[Trophy]

Hiya DD,

I caught the tail end of the show whilst channel flipping last night...was a very good 15min left.

Will def watch out for the repeat.

Just for a tit bit of information. I stand corrected, but was told that it was Cracker Jack's grandfather Johnnie Van Niekerk who caught and donated those Raggies to the PE aquarium a good few years ago. I think he was also present when they were tagged and released before the rennovations to the aquarium.

Nice to see they survived and seemed to be doing well!!

 

[trevour]

Sounds worth watching, I only hope that the documentary was done by a South African crew, because from watching all the landbased wildlife documentaries, the most trustworthy and accurate ones are the ones involving Africans, and the ones that are narrated and filmed by people working in our reserves tell a better story rather than the ones where an international team come over and rather make a story to support their limited, and often boaring footage. These are often, (and sometimes obviously) sensationalised, and often inacurate. Let us know Íf anyone knows about re-runs.

 

[Richard123]

Yes it was very interesting I also saw it by accident last night while channel hopping and then preset it. Was very interesting information. Have caught many big Raggies before and always thought they were just sluggish but they can move pity briskly. There was a repeat on channel 182 this morning at 09h00. Not sure but normally they show it a few times during the month.

 

[Stefan001]

trevour wrote:

Sounds worth watching, I only hope that the documentary was done by a South African crew, because from watching all the landbased wildlife documentaries, the most trustworthy and accurate ones are the ones involving Africans, and the ones that are narrated and filmed by people working in our reserves tell a better story rather than the ones where an international team come over and rather make a story to support their limited, and often boaring footage. These are often, (and sometimes obviously) sensationalised, and often inacurate. Let us know Íf anyone knows about re-runs.

Matt Dicken was the narrator. Read his masters on raggies. He knows his stuff.

 

[tadeo]

DD wrote:

For those who are interested, channel 182 was/are airing a doccie on ragged tooth sharks specific to the South African east coast. They showed footage of the 2 raggies released from the PE aquarium as well. I'm not sure when the repeat is as I did not check.

It’s been on a few times already…and with DSTV ,I’m sure it will come on a few hundred times more

 

[tadeo]

DD wrote:

For those who are interested, channel 182 was/are airing a doccie on ragged tooth sharks specific to the South African east coast. They showed footage of the 2 raggies released from the PE aquarium as well. I'm not sure when the repeat is as I did not check.

It’s been on a few times already…and with DSTV ,I’m sure it will come on a few hundred times more

 

[Def-e-nition]

So sorry i Missed it .

Getting Bored Of repeats on GW's all the time .
Breach -photo-underwater Camera-photo - seal Attack-photo


If anyone finds the repeat Times , I'd Love to Watch it .

 

[boepens]

Def-e-nition wrote:

So sorry i Missed it .

Getting Bored Of repeats on GW's all the time .
Breach -photo-underwater Camera-photo - seal Attack-photo


If anyone finds the repeat Times , I'd Love to Watch it .

come visit ill org a live show

 

[king carp fisher]

repeats sunday 18th may at 07:00

 

[Abaddon]

I got this doc some time ago off the net..

VERY interesting viewing - the feeding habits were well illustrated and shed some light on what happens on the terminal end when we get our pickups.

Was pretty amazing to see those old girls of Bay World make the mission after so many years in captivity! INSTINCT is a powerful force indeed.

Understanding their migration patterns, their breeding cycles and feeding habits better can only be beneficial to both angler(intelligent) and quarry. Others may argue it could enable anglers to exploit them but we can only hope it serves to EDUCATE.