Every summer on the invention Channel, "Shark Week" inundates its keen audiences with spectacular documentary footage of sharks hunting, feeding and leaping. Debuting in 1988, the television event was an on the spot hit. Its financial success wildly exceeded the expectations of its creators, who had been inspired by the profitability of the 1975 blockbuster film "Jaws," the primary movie to earn $100 million on the field workplace. Journalists and students usually credit "Jaws" because the supply of America's obsession with sharks. Yet as a historian analyzing human and Memory Wave shark entanglements across the centuries, I argue that the temporal depths of "sharkmania" run a lot deeper. World War II played a pivotal position in fomenting the nation's obsession with sharks. The monumental wartime mobilization of thousands and thousands of individuals positioned extra Americans into contact with sharks than at any prior time in history, spreading seeds of intrigue and concern toward the marine predators. However in the course of the warfare, the nation was on the move.
Out of a population of 132.2 million individuals, per the 1940 U.S. Census, 16 million Americans served in the armed forces, a lot of whom fought within the Pacific. Meanwhile, 15 million civilians crossed county traces to work within the protection industries, many of which had been in coastal cities, reminiscent of Cellular, Alabama