Sharks Often Get A Bad Rap, But Oceans Need Them

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

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It's that time of the year again: Shark Week. The TV program is so long-running that if you're under 37, you've never known a life without it. In honor of this oft misunderstood critter, we revisit our conversation with shark scientist Melissa Christina Marquez. She explains just how important sharks are to keeping the oceans healthy, including their role in mitigating climate change. Plus, there may be some talk about shark poop.

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0:14.0	Hey, Shore Waver's, it's Regina Barber, and it's Shark Week.
0:18.0	The longest running cable TV programming event in history.
0:24.0	To mark this event, we're re-erring this episode about Sharks,
0:27.0	which is really an owed to them from former Shortwave host, Maddie Sophia.
0:32.0	Hope you enjoy.
0:33.0	You're listening to Shortwave
0:36.0	from NPR.
0:38.0	Melissa Christina Marquez has been obsessed with sharks
0:42.0	since the very first time she saw one as a little kid on TV during
0:47.8	you guessed it. She was watching a show called, and this is real, Air Jaws.
0:56.0	Which essentially is just showing the power of Great White Sharks breaching or flinging themselves out of the water up into the air to kind of catch their prey.
1:05.5	You're twisting and turning as if it is trying to dismember its prey.
1:09.7	You know I think for any person, but especially a child who's never seen a shark like that before.
1:16.0	It's really awe-inspiring.
1:18.0	You kind of just sit there with your jaw on the ground being like, wait, what?
1:22.0	It kind of cemented for me. being like, wait, wait, what? To see such a spectacular bridge.
1:23.6	It kind of cemented for me as a kid
1:25.4	being like, yeah, this is what I want to study.
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