"I wanna go out there and catch maybe the last one," said Mark
"the Shark" Quartiano on How Jaws Changed the World, which
Discovery premiered last night as part of its Shark Week lineup.
By "last one" he means "the last shark." As in, "I would gladly
have my hands be the ones responsible for finally collapsing our
ecosystem."  He could be trolling. Quartiano is a somewhat
notorious figure already; he's been accused of being an
attention whore by people who actually know a thing or two about
shark populations and care about how endangerment works. His
crazy eyes make everything he says really convincing, though.
How Jaws Changed the World focused on the impact Steven
Spielberg's 1975 landmark blockbuster had on actual sharks. It's
well-known that the film's demonization of great whites took a
chunk not only out of their population but the population of
sharks in general (Peter Benchley, who wrote the book from which
the film was adapted, spent the rest of his life repenting and
attempting to convince people t