Sharks

After being sworn in as a policeman in late May, Takai Teitoi, who comes from the tiny central Pacific island nation of Kiribati, decided to take the two hour journey back home in a wooden boat.

Along with his brother-in-law, the 41-year-old father-of-six set off. In the middle of the trip they stopped to do a little fishing, and then, as the hour began to get late, slept the night in their craft. Bad idea, as when they woke up the next morning, they had drifted out of sight of land and then discovered that they had run out of gas.

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It's been a busy week for the internet -- Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his VP and the end of the Olympics finally came. Oh, and it's been SHARK WEEK since Sunday. Obviously, this has been a great source of inspiration to meme-makers everywhere, who came up with Paul Ryan Gosling, Mo Farah Running Away From Things, and loads and loads of shark jokes.

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If you're like us, then you too have a love/hate relationship with sharks, aka "the assassins of the sea." We're utterly terrified of them, but we can't help but watch when they rampage a shore and snack on some unfortunate swimmers. Hollywood shares our love/hatred of sharks -- namely, they love the money they make for them and hate them enough to kill them off in multiple gory ways (impalement, explosion, electrocution).

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Finally, Shark Week is here! For some reason America has a fascination with the week-long Discovery channel brainchild. It's a time to celebrate sharks, their lifestyle and a chance to act intelligent because we watched the Discovery Channel the night before.

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Sharks are often portrayed as terrors of the deep. Richard Dreyfuss' character referred to them in the original 'Jaws' as "an eating machine." He called them "a miracle of evolution" and noted that all it does "is swim and eat and make little sharks." He never said anything about their innate kleptomania.

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As we've learned in the past, shark encounters can be pretty funny from the safety of dry land.

But things got deadly serious in Australia when a great white shark started circling divers Nathan and David.

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Sarah Brame was doing a bit of lake fishing off of her back deck in Cherry Grove, South Carolina when something really unusual happened. She had just hooked a nice-sized red drum fish when a six-foot shark jumped out of the fresh water and snagged the snack for itself.

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Dr. Evil, of 'Austin Powers' fame, was a simple super villain. All he wanted was "sharks with frickin' lasers attached to their heads." Instead he got ill-tempered mutated sea bass. It was 1997, when the Mike Myers' character made this notorious aquatic request. And, finally, someone has indulged him.

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A group of fishermen 25 miles southeast of Wrightsville Beach, NC were probably thinking they needed a bigger boat when they spotted a 18-foot shark circling. The video is NSFW because of the typical fisherman language when they spot an enormous shark fin poking out of the water.

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A 27-year-old California man narrowly survived a horrific shark attack while surfing 150 yards offshore in the waters off Marina State Beach on Saturday.

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