"It's a sight that will terrify even the bravest of ocean goers."
Three days ago, the Gold Coast photographer Sean Scott posted a compelling photograph on IG of a couple of sharks swimming in the face of a wave.
And Sean, who has almost a quarter of a million followers, averaging four thousands likes per photo, watched it romp past twenty thousand likes, including six hundred and eighty comments. Likers were a who’s who of surf photography and freediving, Chris Burkard, Mark Healey and so on.
“I got to witness something pretty incredible last week in Western Australia and I’m still going through all the footage. I’ll be releasing something in the next week but I can let you know it involved over 200 hundred sharks close to the shore in one of the most breathtaking moments of nature I have ever seen,” wrote Sean. “My whole family were in awe and we camped out right on the beach and got to watch the show over three days.
Sean promised the footage would be released, i.e. sold, three days later, which it was. Some news sites reported it straight, i.e., baitballs happen occasionally, sharks dive in, makes for great footage, no big deal, while others such as the tabloid television show A Current Affair drew it as a ghoulish examination of the brevity of life, of the horrible death lurking behind every shadow.
“The kid were enjoying their holiday at their beach unaware of the man-eaters heading their way!”
“It’s a sight that will terrify even the bravest of ocean goers.”
It’s a two for the price of one. The media at its worst, nature at its most thrilling.
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Bronze whalers…. Lame. They are like the kittens of the shark world you can pat the fuckers.
Sounds like you’re also from WA, like myself. Last time I was out the local I whistled over a 6m white and gave it a scratch under the chin
ah the old whaler sharks doing a recon mission for the GWS’s , could only find skin and bones pretending to look like turtles , no man eaters here.
about 15 years ago during the Billabong Challenge at Tombstones , there was the same thing , only the sharks were coming out of the water onto the rocks chasing the baitfish , literally hundreds of sharks but we kept surfing!
Hence they named the break ‘sharkies’. Oh, and by the the way, that was 20 years ago.
Feeling old yet?
really old , 20 years ago seems an eternity , nothing new here!
Is it offshore yet?
These sharks are obviously vegans.
I initially thought that was a really impressive BG photoshop job, wondered why they had spent so much time water-blurring the nose of the shark, making the foam perfectly trail the dorsal fin, and then kept reading. Wow! What a photo!
Quit tooting your own horn Sean.
Did the tabloid ever dig up who was menstruating in the lineup? Heard from some reputable source that sharks love that…
A Current Affair neglected to mention these welfare cheating hoon driving sharks have been avoiding paying their taxes and child support.
Scientist and photog did a good job of not taking the sensationalist bait.
But fuck, they really should have pushed for the sharks to at least pay their child support. Dead beats.
Yeah, but nothing really lived up to that epic photo.
Let down.