‘Photo of the year’ feeds ‘Shark Week’ frenzy
Sure, it’s no ‘Sharknado,’ but short of starring Tara Reid, the image—popularized by an Australian radio show—easily grabs attention.
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One word: “Sharknado.”
Visit SharkWeekCountdown.com and you’ll also see that we’re only two days away from Discovery Channel’s marquee event.
Of course, there’s a reason every single human-shark encounter makes national news. We’re fascinated, terrified and altogether intrigued by these enigmatic fish.
And then, well, there’s this:
Gawker published a story about this photograph of a man “fighting” his way out of a shark after John Burns and Ross Stevenson of the Australian radio show 3AM Breakfast dubbed it the unofficial “photo of the year.”
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