{"id":21390,"date":"2012-05-03T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T15:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=21390"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:38:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T15:38:36","slug":"bahamas-lemon-shark-totes-dr-evil-style-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/05\/bahamas-lemon-shark-totes-dr-evil-style-laser","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Lemon Shark Totes Dr. Evil-Style Laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21392\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21392\" title=\"laser-shark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/laser-shark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/laser-shark.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/laser-shark-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/laser-shark-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laser-toting Lemon Shark in the Bahamas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Laser-toting sharks were the dream of supervillain Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies, but a social media campaign has turned fiction into reality.<\/p>\n<p>Marine biologist and television personality Luke Tipple strapped a 50-milliwatt green laser onto the dorsal fin of a lemon shark off the coast of the Bahamas last week.<\/p>\n<p>But the world&#8217;s first laser shark- named Mr. Bigglesworth in honour of Dr. Evil&#8217;s feline sidekick &#8211; won&#8217;t be patrolling the depths any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Tipple, who has appeared on Myth-busters and the Discovery Channel&#8217;s Shark Week programs, removed the laser after a brief experiment. Steven Campana, a marine biologist and head of the Canadian Shark Research Laboratory, said he doesn&#8217;t want to see this stunt set a precedent for others.<\/p>\n<p>Wicked Lasers, a laser manufacturer that sells a variety of lasers online, promised to affix one of its lasers to a shark if one of the company&#8217;s Facebook postings received more than 2,000 &#8220;likes&#8221; within a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>When they reached that goal, the company followed through on its word, hiring Tipple to perform the feat that Dr. Evil dreamt about in the first Austin Powers film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laser-toting sharks were the dream of supervillain Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies, but a social media campaign has turned fiction into reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}