14 DAY TRIAL // As predicted, “Sharknado 2: The Second One,” the second installment in SyFy’s disaster TV movie franchise “Sharknado,” was a hit. Somehow, it managed to be even worse than the first one, which aired last summer, but had an audience that will most likely ensure a threequel as well.
So, since Tara Reid, who appeared in both movies, thinks that a sharknado “could totally happen,” do you want to know what you should do in case of one? Worry not, these tips come from the best person around to offer survival pointers, Mr. Bear Grylls himself.
First of all, allow us to explain what a sharnkado is: it’s like a tornado but with sharks. When the tornado happens at sea, it basically sucks all sharks from it and then, as it travels to dry land, it drops the still living and furious as hell sharks there, and they kill all humans that cross their path.
In the second film, the sharks even find a way to infiltrate the metro in New York so, if you’re laughing right now at how preposterous the idea is, don’t. This is serious business.
Entertainment Weekly caught up with survival expert Bear Grylls and got him to dish out advice on how to survive several movie scenarios, including “The Hunger Games,” “Titanic,” “Life of Pi,” and “Sharknado.”
For this one, he came up with two potential situations: if the shark attacks you when you’re in the water, and if it attacks you from the sharknado.
“I mean, if you’re in the water with a shark, it’s about portraying confidence. If it comes swimming towards you and they detect that you’re scared and you’re flapping and you’re running away, you’re prey. You know, if you’re more confident, you can swim at them, it sews doubt in the shark’s mind, so the first thing is confidence. Second thing is if you are being attacked is to go for the gills, the eyes, or the nose, hitting, striking it hard, you can shout at it under water. If you’re swimming away from it, don’t panic. Just swim strongly to show that you’re not injured, you’re in control,” he says.
All this is actually sound advice to try and remember should you ever find yourself in the vicinity of a shark during a leisurely swim. Things are way more difficult with a sharknado, Grylls admits.
“But the truth is, you got great whites flying through the air and they’re all coming towards you, you’re a little bit screwed. You got to take cover, I suppose. Get a big strong stick, go for the gills and the eyes and the nose. Same principles!” he explains.
Bear Grylls didn’t watch the 2 TV movies, that much is certain. Where would one find a stick in New York or in Los Angeles, at the mall or in the subway, or on the rooftop of a skyscraper? Ian Ziering knows how to survive a sharknado best, and all you need is this:
