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==Ratings== |
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''Mermaids: The Body Found'' received 3.4 million views during its US telecast premiere on Sunday, May 27, 2012. This is the network's most watched telecast since the [[Steve Irwin]] memorial special in September 2006. <ref>{{cite web|title=Animal Planet Slays With Best-Ever May in Network History|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings/2012/05/30/animal-planet-slays-with-best-ever-may-in-network-history-143310/20120530animalplanet01/|publisher=Animal Planet Press Release|accessdate=05/31/12}}</ref> |
''Mermaids: The Body Found'' received 3.4 million views during its US telecast premiere on Sunday, May 27, 2012. This is the network's most watched telecast since the [[Steve Irwin]] memorial special in September 2006. <ref>{{cite web|title=Animal Planet Slays With Best-Ever May in Network History|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings/2012/05/30/animal-planet-slays-with-best-ever-may-in-network-history-143310/20120530animalplanet01/|publisher=Animal Planet Press Release|accessdate=05/31/12}}</ref> |
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At the end we discover it was bullshit. |
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== US government statement == |
== US government statement == |
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Revision as of 16:48, 13 December 2012
| Mermaids: The Body Found | |
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 Title Screen | |
| Directed by | Sid Bennett Director of Animation - Steve Gomez |
| Written by | Charlie Foley Vaibhav Bhatt |
| Story by | Charlie Foley Vaibhav Bhatt |
| Produced by | Darlow Smithson, Tom Brisley |
| Distributed by | Discovery Communications Animal Planet |
Running time | 2 hours |
| Language | English |
Mermaids: The Body Found is a documentary with a ″few strands of fact″[1] television film that originally aired on May 27, 2012, on Animal Planet and June 17 on Discovery Channel. It tells the story of a scientific team's investigative efforts to uncover the source behind mysterious underwater recordings and an unidentified marine body. The show uses the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis to be used as evidence that mermaids exist, along with two boys video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejyjNTdJRfo.
Plot
Follows three former National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration scientists and an ex-Government employee, after investigating mass stranding of whales, claim to have recorded mysterious underwater noises coming from an unknown source. This sound resembled a sound previously recorded in 1997, called the "bloop". They recovered 30% of the remains of an unknown creature from inside a great white shark which was said to possess attributes of the human body. They alleged that the marine creature had hands, not fins, and the hip structure of an upright animal. These findings, along with many others led the team to determine that this unknown animal was very closely related to humans — a mermaid.
Ratings
Mermaids: The Body Found received 3.4 million views during its US telecast premiere on Sunday, May 27, 2012. This is the network's most watched telecast since the Steve Irwin memorial special in September 2006. [2] At the end we discover it was bullshit.
US government statement
In July 2012, the National Ocean Service (a branch of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) stated that "no evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found".[3][4][5]
References
- ^ Genzlinger, Neil (May 25, 2012.). "One More Reason to Fear the Beach". The New York Times. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Animal Planet Slays With Best-Ever May in Network History". Animal Planet Press Release. Retrieved 05/31/12.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found". National Ocean Service. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ^ "Mermaids: The Body Found (press release)". Retrieved 8 Dec 2012.
This two-hour special is science fiction based on some real events and scientific theory
- ^ "No evidence of mermaids, says US government". BBC News. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
External links
- Animal Planet's official video clips
- Discovery Channel Press Release and Info on aquatic ape theory [dead link]
- Mermaids: The Body Found at IMDb
- Stop everything! Mermaids are real?
- Snopes - Mermaids: The Body Found
- 'Mermaids: The Body Found' On Animal Planet Argues Mythical Sea Creatures Are Aquatic Apes
- One More Reason to Fear the Beach. ‘Mermaids: The Body Found,’ on Animal Planet