11/11/2022 0 Comments Deep blue shark capturedMedia_camera Underwater cinematographer Dean Spraakman described the 3.3m apex predator as “friendly”. “He came very close, within an arm’s reach from me – sometimes when you get a good shark like that, they just want to come and look you in the eye, just have a really good look at who you are.” He was really friendly, just very calm and wasn’t aggravated from everything he’s been through. “He was very calm and coming close and quite curious, which was great. “I noticed he had scars on him but I didn’t realise to what length until I reviewed the footage later. “You can only speculate* what happened there and to be honest no one … ever really knows what causes that sort of damage to a shark, but the poor guy had a bit of a hard time, I think. “We see sometimes down there the white sharks tracking stingrays because they hunt and eat them and we thought they chase them into shallow reef areas where it’s quite sharp and it might get stuck and cause that sort of damage. “No one has ever seen a shark in a condition like this before,” Mr Spraakman said. Mr Spraakman said they initially thought the scars might have been caused by boat propellers or perhaps the shark had been caught in tuna pens in the area, but they quickly dismissed both theories. He said the film crew could not be certain of what may have caused these marks, as no one had come across a shark so badly injured before. Media_camera There are multiple theories to explain the shark’s impressive scars, including underwater battles to survive.
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