This shark isn’t looking for a meal. A human one, anyway. Photo: YouTube//Screenshot
If you surf in Southern California — or many other places, for that matter — you’re sharing the lineup. Not just with other surfers, but with sea life. Great white sharks, to be exact. In the video you see here, placid great whites are seen cruising the lineup, just behind where the waves are breaking.
Despite their fearsome reputation, the chances of being attacked by a shark are extraordinarily low, but that doesn’t make the prospect of an attack any less frightening. We humans are prone to panic, and Hollywood movies like Jaws in particular helped up the panic about sharks.
“Using both drone and underwater footage,” wrote Carlos Gauna, the creator of this little YouTube offering, “this video documents how white sharks move through crowded stretches of coastline, often without causing any reaction at all from the people nearby.”
Now, many people these days are aware that if a drone is flying over you, it could mean there’s a shark around. But not everyone is aware of that nuance.
“As I continued filming along the coastline,” Gauna said, “a group of kayakers were paying close attention to the drone overhead. What they didn’t realize was that I was filming several white sharks moving quietly beneath the surface… they were seemingly completely unaware.”
And honestly, most of the time we are completely unaware that sharks are in the water nearby. And that’s probably a good thing, given our propensity to panic.
