Netflix: Sharks attack documentary film crew, “Like in Jaws”!

It looks like Netflix has made its own remake of Jaws, but in vain. A documentary film crew in Hawaii recently encountered a tiger shark attack, resulting in “explosion“From the boat and crash landing.

The group was filming the Netflix documentary series Our Planet, narrated by the famous British biologist Sir David Attenborough. One of the show’s producers, How Corday, explained Forbes that at one point the team followed a Laysan albatross chick to Hawaii to see how “The longest living birds“Journey around the planet.

They wanted to go underwater to the Hawaiian island of Laisan, where they could photograph tiger sharks waiting at the surface for albatross chicks to spend their first months of life learning to fly.

“On the first day the tiger sharks were there, the crew got into these inflatable boats and two sharks attacked them.“, says Hu Cord.It looked like Jaws. The crew panicked and crash landed on the sand.“

Toby Nowlan, the producer and director of the first and third episodes of the series, also spoke about this ordeal. he told her Radio Times that when the team was in the currents, a “V” formed in the water”Suddenly he came straight to us“.

“This tiger shark shot at the boat and pierced it with huge holes“, she said. “The whole boat exploded. We tried to break up, but he didn’t want to understand. It was terrible. It was the second shark to attack that day.“.

According to Toby Nowlan, the crew were only 328 feet (100 meters) from shore, which allowed them to reach dry land safely, albeit with some trepidation.

On the shore, they repaired the boat and deployed the dinghy, but it was attacked by large trevally, a fish that can reach 1.80 meters in length and weigh more than 45 kg. The dinghy’s engine failed as a result of this attack.

The behavior of these sharks was “extremely unusual“, according to Nowlan.”They were incredibly hungry, so maybe there wasn’t enough food in their natural environment and they tried anything they could find in the water.“, he told Radio Times.

Rare attacks

Season 2 of Our Planet was released on June 14th on Netflix and contains four episodes of approximately 50 minutes each. Each chapter follows animal populations as they navigate an ever-changing planet, including humpback whales, polar bears, bees, sea turtles and gray whales.

despite the circumstances”Terrible“In the crew’s experience with tiger sharks in Hawaii, shark attacks are rare. Kaylee Grant, founder of Kaimana Ocean Safari in Hawaii, told CBS News that people “You should not be afraid of sharks“.

“Sharks mean no harm to us. They are not like in the movie Jaws“, he said, adding that they are animals.”You really got it wrong“.”They are not the enemy. We must work with them to keep the ecosystem healthy and balanced.”

Wildlife Conservationist Jeff Corwin also said CBS News That sharks are indicators of healthy ecosystems, and while unwanted encounters with them make headlines, they are usually around people without them realizing it. (That’s something to reassure vacationers planning to go to the beach this summer!)

“The truth is, when you’re in the water, in a healthy marine ecosystem, you’re never more than 100 meters from a shark.said Mr. Corwin.In places around the world where we observe the collapse of the marine environment, the first thing we often see is the disappearance of the apex predator, the shark.

They have been on our planet for 100 million years. When we lose sharks, it means something is wrong“.