Originally posted by: Brackis
Originally posted by: NeoV
there is a whole show on Discovery about these 'breaching' great whites off the coast of S.Africa - it's the only place in the world anyone has ever seen them do this...
As for the guy who said he saw this in person? I'm going to have to call BS on that one - it's not like you can see this from the beaches!
I never said I saw it in person, I said I can vouch for that area being shark infested and great whites breaching in that manner to hunt sea lions because I went there and found out a good deal about it.
Discovery did in fact did a 1 hour show called "Air jaws" on this behavior...
they had hours of footage just as spectacular as that..
that shot is not Chopped..
and if you watched that Air jaws this is not only a South African behavior anymore.. they witnessed sharks in the farralons off San Fran doing the same thing...
its what happens when a shark accelerates from the ocean floor where they lurk waiting for that correct shadow on the surface.. then they accelerate straight up and hit the prey item usally knocking it out of the water...
again Discovery showed this in great detail with several cameras in a fake seal they were dragging behind a boat...