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And I'm Rob.

Now, on Friday the 29th of June 1975, movie posters appeared in cinemas all over the USA with

the now notorious words, you'll never go in the water again.

So do you know which movie was being promoted, Sam?

Yes, I think it was George, Steven Spielberg's infamous horror movie, which terrified a generation

with its story of a man eating great white shark with a taste for revenge and for human flesh.

George multiplied people's fascination with and fear of sharks.

But sharks's fearsome reputation is not based on facts.

Most attacks on humans are cases of mistaken identity, where the shark mistakes a swimmer

for fish.

In recent years, the average annual number of worldwide deaths from shark bites was as low as four.

Today sharks should be the apex predators of the ocean, the top predator that hunts and eats

other animals but has no natural predator of its own.

Instead, over 100 million sharks are caught and killed each year, and thanks to this overfishing,

many shark species are now endangered.

We'll hear more soon, but first I have a question for you, Rob.

Approximately how many different species of shark exist today?

Is it A, 330, B, 530 or C, 730?

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