Headbanging with sharks

If Great Whites knew how to use iPods, you know what they'd be playing: heavy metal, without a doubt. Dean Karr, a rock music photographer, know it to be true. In fact, one of his favourite pastimes involves dibing into shark-infested waters with waterproof speakers and blasting them fishes with classic Slayer and Iron Maiden.

His verdict? Sharks are total metalheads. "We were playing Iron Maiden's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner', and this 18-fott female swam right up to us. Then she turned around and swallowed one of the speakers. It was totally wild."

The news that sharks prefer heavy metal over, say Simon and Garfunkel comes as no suprise. Classic metal themes - darkness, evil and power, easily translate into the murky, cold-blooded world of the ocean's greatest predators. And like heavy metal fans, sharks are hardcore creatures:

they don't sleep (if they stop swimming, they die)
they like blood and death
they secrete urin through their skin

and if brought above water would probably, like many of our friends at Ozzfest, emanate the stench of piss. Hell, it's probably time the word 'shark' got its own umlaut. Word.

PS: And just so you are aware, more people are killed by dogs each year than have been killed by sharks in the last century....dig that.