Shark Attacks | Deep Blue Discovery | Episode 1

The ocean covers 70% of the planet's surface and most of the life on earth is aquatic. Humanity hasn't explored the deep blue in full but what we've seen so far is incredible. This is the deep blue captured by you. You're about to see the sea's biggest, baddest and most bizarre through the lens of the internet's best viral video. Welcome to Deep Blue Discovery. Coming up a spear fisherman's crazy encounter with a great white shark but first an attack by a predator with a fearsome reputation. The Red Sea, Egypt. Egypt's Red Sea is a must-see part of the world especially for scuba diving enthusiasts. The idea is that you basically sail in the Red Sea and then you do up to four dives a day and you just live on the boat between each dive and it's a real good holiday if you're into scuba diving. It was a vacation Dan and his partner went on in late 2018. They were completing their deep dive certificates when the group were joined by a curious shark. One of the exercises we had to do was a hang tank exercise where you mimic changing a tank over in an out of air situation. While I was waiting for my turn to complete the exercise I spotted an oceanic white tip coming off the reef towards us and circling our boat. So I started filming with the GoPro and alerted all the other divers that I was with to the shark's presence. Obviously you've got to be cautious around them it's their territory after all. Dan and the others were comfortable sharing the water with sharks. They had encountered oceanic white tips before and despite their reputation all the advice suggested being cautious was the best course of action. The oceanic white tips we knew they were around and yes they're rated as the fourth most dangerous shark in the world but from everything all the dive guides and all the local knowledge was telling us there was no problem so we acted like there's no problem. But there did turn out to be a problem. The shark was calm until something spooked it. The shark was completely placid fins were raised and it's a behavioural trait if any shark's fins are out horizontal then they're calm they're chilled they're just you know going about their business doing what they want to do. It was only because the bubbles came up from a regulator of one of our divers underneath the belly and spooked the shark that it brought its fins down and then it was in defensive mode. Once it was spooked it became interested in what spooked it naturally and it came to investigate and as it came down towards the divers they were aware of it they came from being in trim position and they went up vertical which is supposed to be when you encounter a shark especially one that's getting close to you. The shark went for the guy's fin investigating bites but it didn't actually manage to connect. Dan's group were then joined by another group of divers. One grabbed the shark's attention and that's when things turned bad. They just stayed completely in trim a couple of people noticed and stopped and went vertical in but one particular diver the sharks come from beneath him up to the side came around and bit his leg and because it was such an easy target the shark started thrashing on his leg went over the top of itself like a cartwheel and next thing we know the guy's absolutely hemorrhaging blood everywhere in the water. Dan stopped filming with him and his partner still in the water he knew they had to escape. I've just seen a man lose a chunk of his limb and there's an act like a wild animal in the water and it's home. I was like I am in somebody else's territory I cannot win this fight all I know is my basic training and no fight or flight really it was a case of we either get to the reef and get safe or we could be next. As they tried to get to safety a rescue operation was underway to save the victim who was badly injured. From what I've been told he had lost his calf muscle entirely down to the you could see bone and ligaments and obviously torn muscle and teeth marks. He was hemorrhaging from a vein or an artery of some description. Where we were moored on what's called the Brubber Islands there was also a medic on the island that was brought down and then onto the boat and they stabilized the diver and then he was rushed back to Haggadah in Egypt to get emergency surgery. He was then stabilized in the hospital in Haggadah but he's had some sort of reconstruction. Dan's diving group returned to their boat safely and moved to a different dive site. He hopes the video can be used as a lesson for other divers. Still to come on Deep Blue Discovery, a spear fisherman standoff with a four and a half meter monster. Perth, Australia. Spear fisherman Joe Petrovich was heading back to his boat after a successful dive when he encountered a great white shark. What happened next was every diver's nightmare. Shark attacks on spear fishermen do occur. They're often carrying dead or distressed fish which attracts predators. Some experts think this one was just a warning, an apex predator telling Joe to leave its hunting ground. The terrifying ordeal went on for nine minutes. When Joe finally got back to his boat he was somehow uninjured. All he had lost was a fin. Teutomanu Island, French Polynesia. Teutomanu boasts some of the best diving in the world but what you're about to see is unique. The man behind the camera, James Doughty, wore no protective gear as he dived with these grey reef sharks at night. As they hunted in large numbers he kept the camera rolling. This is what he captured. San Clemente, California. Cam Brook is an experienced fisherman but on this occasion his catch was too hot to handle. He was after smaller prey but ended up hooking a great white shark. At the end of the video things got so tense the camera was knocked over but we weren't left on a cliff edge for long. Cam was able to break the line and free the shark. Guadalupe Island, Mexico. When it comes to marine life there's nothing quite like the ocean off Guadalupe. The location itself is a diver's dream as the great whites in these waters are numerous and enormous. Here's what happens when you dip your camera in the water there. The safest way to see them is from inside a steel cage. That's what photographer Daniel Bardia did. He made it his mission to catch the biggest beasts on camera in stunning high quality. Marathon, Florida. Imagine being on your first ever deep dive and you encounter a great white. That's what happened to Cody Wabuzuski. The trainee diver was joined by the five meter monster off the coast of Florida. His reaction was priceless. Sharks out in San Diego and they followed him here. Port Macdonald, South Australia. The risk of being attacked by a great white shark is low but like oceanic white tips their reputation precedes them. These sharks get a certain response from people unlike any other animal on earth. Darcy Russell was on a fishing vessel off South Australia when he was circled by this inquisitive big guy. Waikiki, Hawaii. Like all of us great whites will take an easy meal over a challenging one. Joshua Minos was swimming near a sperm whale carcass when a seriously large great white shark turned up to feast on the flesh. Coincidentally the world's largest great white shark ever caught on camera known as deep blue was also seen feasting on the carcass. Tiger Beach, The Bahamas. Tiger sharks are common here but it's unlikely you've seen one like this before. This is a baby shark moving around inside the womb. It was captured by a team of experts studying shark conservation and getting this footage was not easy. The team led by Dr Neil Hammerschlag first had to catch a tiger shark and that was no easy task. They then had to hold the shark next to the boat. Using state-of-the-art scanning technology they were able to get this image instantly using a VR style headset. Still to come on Deep Blue Discovery when you have the courage to save something you're scared of. Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It's not all that unusual to find sharks close to shore like this tiger deliberately beaching itself to feast on a whale carcass. Great white sharks hunt near the coast too. Unfortunately open ocean sharks like great whites can get confused in the shallows and that's a good place to begin Corey Schnabel's story on the Cape Cod coast a few years ago. That morning get there get down to the beach and there's this massive dune at White Crest and as we're walking down it to get down to the beach you see this huge crowd of people and you don't know exactly what's going on there so you know something's going on and and somebody ran by us and said there's a shark. That shark turned out to be a large great white and it was in serious trouble. Somebody ran by us and said there's a shark and we just both looked at each other and we we sprinted and we ran right to it because when do you ever get to see that and and so we ran there and as you can see in the video we got there right in the middle of the process of a huge group of people trying to save a trying to save a great white shark and ended up being about a 14-foot great white shark. The shark was beached and dozens of people had come together in an attempt to save its life. What you have going on is really wild. There was a boat out in the water that had a tow line they were trying to tie it to the shark's tail. There was a stand-up paddle boarder that was sort of aiding in that whole thing. You had a group of I mean I don't know tens maybe even had a hundred hundreds of people and they were doing things you know like putting water over the shark and and trying to create they dug out a trench. It was a sterling effort by everyone and the video shows them succeeding in getting the shark back into the sea. I mean you see all you see everybody and then you see the shark getting pulled out into the water and it's incredible everybody's cheering everybody's you know clapping and it's a real sort of like joyous thing. At this point no one really knew if it was alive or dead and that posed a problem for a police officer on the beach. And then you see this cop come in and really kind of I don't want to say lose his mind but he's like I think he you know kind of dawns on this cop that like okay we have a hundred people in the water there's a 14-foot great white I who knows if it's dead or alive and if that thing snipe you know snaps back to life it's got a hundred pieces of food right there for the taking and I think that cop really really turned it on and yelled at everybody to get out. But the shark wasn't in any shape to be hunting humans. Sadly the rescue operation failed. I think everybody was doing their best their best to save the shark but you know a shark needs to have water kind of going through gills but you know whereas with a whale you can keep it on land and keep putting water on it and keep it alive for a little bit. In the end you kind of realize that if it's not getting that water going through its gills it's going to die and ultimately that is what happened. No one wants to see such an amazing creature lose its life but Corey's video is an amazing demonstration of human kindness bravery and ingenuity. The beautiful chaos that you know that we happened upon it was people trying to save this shark and and you saw just a bunch of people working in concert working together what you saw what you see in this video is normal beach-going types that happen upon this scene and they spring into action and you see a lot of beautiful chaos teamwork that ultimately doesn't you know save the shark but does get the shark back out into the water. Corey believes he saw something he'll never see again and he's probably right. While great whites can hunt near the coast they're very much open ocean sharks it's extremely rare to see them beached. This one was an inexperienced juvenile. Corey says seeing one of these sharks in person even in such unpleasant circumstances was a humbling experience. I have to admit like it was a really surreal moment for me just having grown up around there and never having seen anything like that then actually when you actually see a massive great white like that it just it really humbles you in a sense even though this was you know I imagine if you see one in water it's even that much more of a humbling experience but that was the day it didn't go surfing that day did not go surfing that day. The ocean is home to hundreds of thousands of species Deep Blue Discovery is dedicated to highlighting as many of them as possible. All of the footage you've just seen was shot by members of the public and not specifically for this program it just goes to show that you never know what you might encounter if you enter the Coming up next time on Deep Blue Discovery it's all things whale as we lift the lid on why they breach and on the intelligence of belugas. All that's coming up next time on Deep Blue Discovery.