Big scare: The moment a scientist nearly jumped into a shark’s mouth by mistake

Ocean Ramseya renowned marine scientist, he almost ended up in the belly of a shark. Happened in Hawaii when the woman was about to jump off a boat to dive. At that moment, the huge animal rose to the surface with its mouth open, ready to swallow the woman. Fortunately, she realized it in time and, in the midst of desperation, she managed to climb the ladder of the boat and get to safety, while her frog legs brushed against this shark.

It all started when the scientist had spotted a shark interacting with floating garbage and wanted to go down to save it, but things did not turn out as expected. “Moments after the video I shared in my last post, I saw a shark hitting a piece of plastic, so I ran over and this was my greeting”, Ramsey wrote on Instagram. The woman works at Oahu-based One Ocean Diving.

But instead of saving the shark, the one who had to take refuge was herself. A colleague filmed the video – which went viral – as the scientist prepared to get into the water before the shark, a female named Queen Nikki, came out of the water with its jaws open and seems to bite the fins.

“I always love to see his white belly rising from the depths and in this case it is what gave away his position”, explained the 35-year-old researcher, and thus explained how she was able to prevent the animal from injuring her. “It was actually easier to spot when she was going up vertically compared to the others that were already close to the surface.”

Huge scare in Hawaii: a scientist nearly jumped into a shark’s mouth by mistake

Despite the adrenaline-filled encounter, Ramsey insists Queen Nikki wasn’t trying to attack her: “I couldn’t see very far and I don’t think they could either, so I think Nikki was reacting more to my initial noise input and shadow.”said the biologist, who has been swimming with that particular tiger shark for three years.

In another clip, he pointed out that what appeared to be an attempt to bite was actually a “spy jump”by means of which sharks They stick their heads out of the water so they can scan their surroundings in turbid seas.

However, Ramsey is used to close encounters with sharks. The researcher herself first sparked global astonishment in 2019 after being filmed swimming with Deep Blue, a seven-meter-long great white shark believed to be the largest ever seen.

After that incredible event, he said that the fact showed that sharks are to be protected and not feared. “There’s not a lot of sympathy for sharks because of the way they’re portrayed in the media and they don’t look cute,” said the specialist, who runs cage-free shark diving tours. “You can’t hate them for being predators. We need them for healthy marine ecosystems.”

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