As Shark Week plays out, divers in South Africa’s Mossel Bay enjoyed an incredible real-life shark moment, involving a massive great white tearing at a hunk of tuna and a surprise breach that was caught on camera.
The accompanying footage was captured Monday by Remo Sabatini on a White Shark Africa expedition. Viewers will note the awesome power exhibited by the great white, but also the sound the shark seems to be making as it works with all its might to rip the tuna free of the rope.
But before the shark can claim its prize, with a GoPro camera very close to its face, another white shark leaps free of the water and photobombs the main subject.
Dan Abbott, a spokesman for White Shark Africa, said the footage was captured at Seal Island. Abbott wanted to point out that the sound isn’t coming from the shark, but the camera rubbing on the steel cage.
Abbott said there were six divers in the cage at the time, and that the breaching shark caught everyone by surprise because there were no seals or decoys near the cage.
Breaching great white shark steals the spotlight.
“We sometimes see great whites behave in this way,” Abbott said. “No seal or anything, just a totally random breach. Amazing to see.”
Amazing that so much drama is contained in such a 14-second clip.
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