Shark Attack 2 2000
Marietta Bleasdale
Shark Attack 2 is a 2000 direct-to-video horror film. The film follows the mutant sharks from Shark Attack who attack Cape Town. In the film, a shark expert (Thorsten Kaye) and a flamboyant Australian marine hunter (Daniel Alexander) team up to destroy a group of white sharks mutating into a deadlier breed. The film was directed by David Worth and stars Thorsten Kaye and Nikita Ager.
Dr. Nick Harris (Thorsten Kaye) is a marine biologist hired to deal with the results of an experiment in genetics, a mutated breed of great white sharks have gotten loose on a South African shoreline whilst being transported to an aquarium. The mutant sharks from Dr. Craven's experiments are back, this time choosing Cape Town, South Africa as their hunting ground. Two sisters, Amy (Caroline Bruins) and Samantha Peterson (Nikita Ager), while diving near a wreck in the reef are attacked by a shark; Samantha survives. One week later, Dr. Nick Harris and his assistant get the shark, a 16-footer (4.9 m), and install it as a new attraction at Water World - a Sea World rip-off. When the shark kills a member of the staff and escapes, Nick and Samantha go to hunt it and discover that there are 6 mutant Great Whites living in a cave near the beach. Along with Nick, they figure the Water World's surfing competition may be attacked by the sharks.
Now they team up with Bishop to kill the beasts and save Cape Town. Eventually they succeed in luring the sharks into their cave and blow it up, killing them. Roy is initially believed to have perished but in reality survived.
G Noel. Gross of DVD Talk gave the film a negative review and said: "As subtle as a kick in the pants. Utterly no concept of suspense. Grossly unoriginal without the benefit of even being amusing -- intentionally, or otherwise".[1]
Popcorn Pictures gave the film 4 out of 10 criticizing the characters and CGI: "You'd assume that I hated Shark Attack II from the overall negative review I've given it here. It's not as bad as I'm making it sound, though that is coming from someone who watches so many low quality films that it's hard to make a valid case for any sane person to watch it. Better than the first one by a fair distance but still coming a long way off being classed as watchable".[2]
CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) -- The waves off South Australia's rugged western coast were deserted this week after two surfers were killed in separate shark attacks about 200 kilometers (124 miles) apart in the space of two days.
The deaths of New Zealander Cameron Bayes, 25, on Sunday and local Jevan Wright, 17, on Monday were a reminder to surfers using these off-the-beaten-track beaches that southern Australia's temperate waters are prime shark territory.
The most ferocious of the shark family, the Great White, also known as the White Pointer and demonized in films such as "Jaws," is often sighted in these waters. They can grow up to seven meters (23 feet) long and weigh four tons.
Witnesses described a Great White about four meters (13 feet) long attacking Bayes at Cactus Beach, about 600 km (370 miles) west of Adelaide, an area nicknamed Shark Restaurant because of the frequent shark sightings.
Two friends who were out on the waves with Wright at Black Point, near Elliston, were uncertain what type of shark ripped the teen-ager from his board, seeing only its tail, but believe it was also a Great White, a protected species in Australia.
Jim Clarke, chief executive of the South Australian Surfing Association, said surfers took the risk for the thrill of the ride, perhaps lulled into a false sense of security with an average only one person a year killed by sharks in Australia.
Police spokeswoman Jenny Barrett said beaches were open as usual, since police did not have the powers to close areas after shark attacks. But locals living near Cactus Beach had put up a sign warning surfers about sharks prowling the area.
Despite popular belief that shark attacks are common in Australia, only about six people are attacked each year and fatalities are low, less than the average three deaths a year from bee stings and compared with 1,760 fatal road accidents.
Before Sunday the last reported fatal attack in Australia was in May 1999 when windsurfer Tony Donaghue, 22, disappeared off Hardwicke Bay in South Australia. A shredded wet suit and mauled board were the only clues to his fate.
"It is very unusual to have two fatal shark attacks in one year, let alone two days and on the same stretch of coast," said John West from the ASAF. It had been 23 years since one state suffered two fatal attacks in a year, he said.
South Australian shark expert Rodney Fox said sharks do not like humans. Fox survived an attack by a Great White off Aldinga Beach south of Adelaide in 1963, though he needed 450 stitches in his chest. An Adelaide student was killed by a White Pointer while diving off the same beach in 1991.
This list and the accompanying graphics do not include encounters in which a shark does not actually bite a person or board (e.g. person grazed by a shark), nor incidents classified by the International Shark Attack File as boat attacks, scavenge, or doubtful. A few incidents were possible shark bites, but shark involvement was not confirmed, and are noted as such.
Although shark attacks occur throughout the world, there are three main hotspots where they occur - the USA, Australia and South Africa. The below map illustrates the top 10 countries with the highest number of shark attacks. For a more detailed map you can visit the International Shark Attack File's Map of World's Confirmed Unprovoked Attacks.
Since records started for South Africa in 1905, there have been a total of 248 unprovoked attacks in South Africa. Of these most of them (103) have occurred in the Eastern Cape, 90 in KZN and 55 in the Western Cape.
Narrowing it further down to the Cape Peninsula, the first fatalities were recorded at Seaforth and Simonstown in 1900 and 1901. Since 1960 however, only 28 attacks have occurred on the Cape Peninsula. That is roughly one attack every two years. Of these 28 attacks on the peninsula, a high percentage have been on spearfishers and and surfers. Seven of these last 28 attacks have proved to be fatal.
The U.S. led the world in attacks with 59, driven by an abundance of coastline with an ever-growing number of swimmers, surfers and divers in the water, Burgess said. As usual, Australia and South Africa rounded out the top three, with 18 and 8 attacks, respectively.
The New York attack brings to light another factor in the increase in attacks: warming ocean waters. Ocean temperatures that spike earlier in the season and warm a larger range of coastline draw both sharks and humans to the same waters, Burgess said.
Paul Smith was on a work break at the Fountain pub in Tenbury Wells, England, when he decided to give Miami, a black-tipped reef shark, a special treat of prawns in the 3,000-gallon shark tank in the pub's restaurant.Advertisement
Russell Allen, who operates the pub that is just about as far from the sea as you can get in England, took his chef to a hospital. Smith was logged in as the victim of a "shark attack" and was released after getting six stitches to sew up the deep cuts.Advertisement
Allen recently had the tank installed for the benefit of his customers, who he said enjoyed watching the three sharks -- reef sharks can raise 6 feet in length -- cavort, especially at dinner time. The accident with Smith has done nothing to change his mind.
2015 was the worst year on record for unprovoked shark attacks on humans. There were 98 attacks, six of which resulted in someone dying. Attacks on humans are still very rare and there are steps you can take to stay safe.
February 4, 2023: Schoolgirl Stella Berry, 16, was fatally mauled by a suspected bull shark while swimming with a pod of dolphins in the Swan River near the old Fremantle Traffic Bridge.
October 9, 2020: Surfer Andrew Sharpe, 40, went missing at popular surf break Kelp Beds at Wylie Beach in Esperance, with authorities believing he was taken by a shark after widespread reports of a sighting at the beach and the recovery of his surfboard.
June 5, 2016: Doreen Collyer, 60, died while diving a kilometre out from Mindarie Marina between One and Three Mile reefs. The Edith Cowan University lecturer was attacked by a large great white. Witnesses said the shark was bigger than their 5-metre boat.
May 31, 2016: Ben Gerring, 29, died after having his leg severed and being dragged under water twice by a great white shark at Falcon Beach around 4pm at a break he had surfed since he was a teenager.
November 6, 2000: Businessman and father of three Ken Crew, 49, died after his leg was torn off in shallow waters at North Cottesloe by what fisheries officers believe was a four-metre great white shark.
October 9, 2020: , 40, went missing at popular surf break Kelp Beds at Wylie Beach in Esperance, with authorities believing he was taken by a shark after widespread reports of a sighting at the beach and the recovery of his surfboard.
June 5, 2016: Doreen Collyer, 60, while diving a kilometre out from Mindarie Marina between One and Three Mile reefs. The Edith Cowan University lecturer was attacked by a large great white. Witnesses said the shark was bigger than their 5-metre boat.
May 31, 2016: Ben Gerring, 29, after having his leg severed and being dragged under water twice by a great white shark at Falcon Beach around 4pm at a break he had surfed since he was a teenager.
Sharks killed a surfer off South Australia today in the second fatal attack near theremote coastline in two days, police said. Police spokeswoman Amanda Francis said a 17-year-old local youth was taken by a shark while surfing about 160 feet off Black Point, three miles north of Elliston, at 12:50p.m. local time today.
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