The summer continues, and except for deniers, global climate change is evidence; both in my neighborhood and in Tanzania. The Serengeti migration alters their rhythms and the glaciers of Kilimanjaro diminish. The ocean temperature varies in the Galapagos, and in Atapuerca there is a lack of rain. No problem. Everything is going well. No one wants to be messed with with scaremongering and environmental stress. The first beach bath is not going to embitter you; a simile of the pose with which Ana Obregón, in a bikini, inaugurated the arrival of summer. However, It is to see the foreigners and locals soaking their buttocks and the news about shark attacks skyrockets.
Don’t they get enough punishment with shark fin soup already? Large ships capture thousands of sharks to, alive and kicking, cut off their dorsal fins and return them to Neptune’s realm. There, they bleed to death. As long as you think that the conservation of biodiversity is a whim of perroflautas, or romantic scientists, it is normal that we do not give a damn about this. On the other hand, when they bite the human, they do look like a tie. Even so, the number of fatalities from shark action is negligible next to the deaths caused by air pollution, wars and poverty. Any of these scourges, or a heat stroke, kills much more than Bruce – Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ – and all his companions from the sequels and film substitutes.
But the cinema did not give rise to the unfair bad reputation of sharks. They are wonderful living fossils that have been on Earth for hundreds of millions of years, and we – a vain biological species only 250,000 years old – treat them with no respect. Respect is what prints invoking the megalodon; a shark that could exceed 16 meters in length and that roamed the seas about 20 million years ago. The size of today’s great white shark, even the exaggerated Hollywood specimens, dwarfs the length of the ‘Carcharocles megalodon’. Consequently, this summer we will experience the same anguishing sensation that, after the premiere of ‘Jaws’ (1975), and as in the town of Amity Island, I lived in Barceloneta, Castelldefels and Sant Pol every time something strange brushed against my leg; and it is that, after the electoral nightmare, ‘Megalodon 2’ arrives. The sequel to the film that, in 2018, gave prominence to such an extinct shark. In the rooms of the American Museum of Natural History I was able to contemplate a replica of his jaw and an adult Homo sapiens can fit inside by standing. Also, the mold of one of his teeth rests on my desk: 16 cm high by 13 cm wide. Glops!
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Megalodont… big teeth. We love and terrify XXXL monsters alike. From the dinosaurs of ‘Jurassic Park’ to the Vernerian cephalopod of ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’. Aboard a bathyscaphe –if I get the ticket for 250,000 dollars–, far from descending to the ‘Titanic’ wreck screening, I want to explore the abyssal trenches and find the 18 meters of this real ‘kraken’: a giant squid launching its tentacles against its fearsome predator, the colossal toothed sperm whale. Be careful, it will have to be before we have caused the extinction of both creatures. I was thrilled by the sight of a large group of sperm whales in Norway, but a few weeks ago a ferry afflicted and killed one of them off the coast of Tenerife.
On the other hand, we do not know what drives gladys the orcaand companions, to cause sporadic damage to some recreational boats that sail through the Strait and Galicia. like in the movie ‘Orca, the killer whale’ (1977), revenge due to previous trauma? I opted more for the game; to orc/human social interaction. I only know that Gladys is not a danger that she should eradicate, nor is she an anti-establishment militant. That’s why I dream of seeing Godzilla emerge from the waters of Sitges. They say that the mutant beast was born from fear; that of Japanese society to the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I hope the reptile/dino teams up with Kong – the giant gorilla who sponsors the local fantasy film festival – and together they protect us from the kaijus plague. [monstruos] deniers.