The Man who Tried to Fight a Shark with a Sword

This is a story about dogs... “sea-dogs“ to be exact. This is also a story about bravery, courage, and laying your life down to protect someone else. This is one of the most dramatic, and tragic stories ever lost to Welsh history. This is the story of Griffith Owen, or how a man from Wales tried to fight a shark with a sword. Chapters: 0:00 - Griffith Owen 1:42 - Sea-Dogs 4:08 - Shark vs Sword 6:35 - Diwedd Sources: Original story: Tywi, M.G. (1842). Cariad Mabaidd. Yr Iforydd, 2(13), –15. Mentions of previous shark encounters in Wales: R.G. Williams’s autobiography: On sharks: Florida Museum (2018). Species Implicated in Attacks, 1580-Present. Florida Museum. Neff, C. and Hueter, R. (2013). Science, policy, and the public discourse of shark ‘attack’: a proposal for reclassifying human–shark interactions. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 3(1), –73. NOAA (2013). Do sharks eat people? . Y. Hara et al. (2018). Shark genomes provide insights into elasmobranch evolution and the origin of vertebrates. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(11), –1771. doi: Humans: Wood, J.N., Glynn, D.D. and Hauser, M.D. (2007). The uniquely human capacity to throw evolved from a non-throwing primate: an evolutionary dissociation between action and perception. Biology Letters, 3(4), –365. doi: ---------- Music courtesy of the YouTube Audio Library: Crimson - Sextile Gas Giant - I Think I Can Help You Germ Warfare - Jeremy Korpas Deep Space by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Artist: Wolf Mother - Loopop Beginnings (Intro) - The Tower of Light Torture - Coyote Hearing Fortress Europe - Dan Bodan Underwater Exploration - Godmode ---------- Images of, and from: ’Surfacing Great White Shark’ - Brocken Inaglory, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. All other images are public domain, via the British Library, The National Library of Wales, the Yale Center for British Art, the New York Public Library, and the Rijksmuseum