Jumping shark caught on camera in an almost Sharknado situation
Sharks are the perfect predator. They are fast, lithe, have heaps of teeth and sometimes, for fun, can propel themselves out of the ocean.
Photographer and fisherman Jake Beazley, 19, discovered this unsettling fact first hand on Thursday when he spent a day fishing south of Perth, Australia.
Beazley and his friends had been fishing since sunrise roughly 12 nautical miles off the West Australian coast when they spotted the beast. "It was around lunchtime when I had myself a good fish on the end of the line," Beazley told Mashable Australia. "My friend and my lines started getting twisted and after we untangled them, a shark swum up and took my fish."
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About five minutes later, the shark, which they believe was a mako, swam back to the boat and started biting at the motor and propellor, prompting Beazley and his friends to make a unanimous decision to high tail it out of there.
Before they got away, the shark took at least one of their baits before launching itself skyward.
It's very rare to catch this behaviour on camera, and rarer still to have the romance and poetry of Australian commentary to accompany it: "Holy shit he's f*cking on the motor man, dude he was just f*cking biting the prop (prop = propellor)," "lookadim! ( look-at-him)," and a personal favourite, "oh my god nah nah nah."
Mako sharks are known to be one of the fastest breeds on the planet and are notorious for being aggressive and territorial.
As terrifying as a beast with a penchant for flying can be, the number of fatalities from sharks in Australian waters is remarkably low. You would statistically be more likely to die falling out of your own bed, or maybe even performing with Katy Perry as the "left shark."
So stay calm, don't provoke a shark, and you'll be ok.
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