I was just wondering is it even possible for sharks to jump out of the water since I don't think that they are capable of doing so but I could be wrong.
shareYes, they can. Great whites are fully capable of jumping out of the water to catch their prey.
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Not in the way it is portrayed in this film. There is a huge difference between a great white shooting up to grab a swimming seal and a shark jumping out of the water to attack a guy on a jet ski or someone hanging on to a tree.
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http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/videogalleries/airjaws/airjaws.html
Blakes death was beyond awful definitely the worst! like a bad syfy movie ripoff
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Their bodies aren't made to support themselves out of the water so they'll bend and fall back almost as soon as they leave it.
The jumps in the movie weren't remotely realistic. They can't jump like dolphins, they can't swim as fast either.
They can. And just like in the film.
My Mam told me about some holiday resort somewhere, there was a just a little walkway separating the pool from the ocean. A girl was walking along it when a shark jumps out and grabs her.
Great Whites can breach. Basically, in Discovery Bay in Africa, there are a lot of great whites. Also, a lot of seals. The great whites attack from below with such speed, that their momentum carries them out of the water. The thing is, they are attacking a seal in the water, not above the water, and it is their momentum that causes the breach.
Mako sharks can jump out of the water too.
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They can but clearly not to the extent shown in the film.
shareSure, some types can jump out of the water (I'm thinking of Great Whites and Makos). Can they keep up with a jet ski then nimbly jump out of the water to snatch someone off it? Um, no. They aren't as mobile/coordinated as dolphins (who I also doubt could keep up with a motor boat going full speed), when they leap out of the water it's usually because they're attacking something from below with such force it takes them out of the water, not because they have the ability to pirouette into the sky.
But where to start this movie - the asinine thought that a bunch of normal guys could surreptitiously purchase/conceal sharks in a salt water lake without attracting any notice, that these sharks could be somehow made hyperaggressive, that they could pinpoint the location of various sharks in a huge body of water with no trouble, that sharks from various areas in the oceans could all live in the same, fairly warm body of water without any large game to sustain them - urgh. Cookie Cutter sharks live in deep water! I can't believe I rented this after I decided it sucked in the theater. Yeah, I'm an idiot.
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It not only keeps up with a jet ski, it actually gets ahead of the jet ski to 'cut him off at the pass' and ambush him from the front while he was looking behind him.
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yes, sharks can get quite high out of the water, about one body length. this has been captured in ultra slo-mo HD in the bbc documentaries and it is some of the most amazing footage i've ever seen.
that's not an endorsement of this movie, but it is plausible.
Sargasm1, Ok so you paid to see in theater then paid again to rent. Sorry but, :( feel bad for you.
HJfong, absolutely is maybe the coolest thing we get to see in nature when they show the sharks attacking a seal or something and coming totally out of water. Very cool.