There’s a good chance that Molly Cavalli and CamSoda staged the whole shark attack. Above, Molly tests out her acting skills.
A few days ago, a video popped up on the internet that you might be aware of. It was a porn star named Molly Cavalli in a shark cage who was apparently bitten by a shark. As it turns out, the whole thing was most likely bullshit.
Over fifteen million people watched CamSoda’s video in a week, but after the video went viral, shark experts are coming out of the woodwork to call foul. “I can tell you for a fact, it was not a shark bite,” said Marine biologist George Burgess to My Palm Beach Post. “It was a PR stunt, and it worked.”
Then a guy name Bryce Rohrer, who runs a company called Florida Shark Diving, came out with some pretty damning accusations: he told Real Clear Life that CamSoda came to him a few months back with an idea to shoot a video of a fake shark, hoping that it would be an internet sensation. “She basically spelled out, ‘We want to do this fake bite, this is what we want it to look like,’” Rohrer said. It was, of course, an internet sensation.
Hot enough that there’s a good chance that @shark_bite_sophia (you remember her, too) is in fact, @fin_cut_sophia. To be fair to her, though, she’s been quite open about the fact that she doesn’t actually know what happened. She was also told by her doctor that the massive, gaping wound on her leg could’ve been from a shark. It does all seem a little opportunistic, though.lthough I don’t have problem with a little bit of opportunism or
Although I don’t have a problem with a little bit of opportunism, when it comes at the expense of an animal that’s been villainized for decades… well, that sucks.
“I’ve been working with sharks my entire adult career, 300 days a year, I’m on the water diving with sharks,” Rohrer continued. “They’re incredible animals, they’re a cornerstone species, meaning they need to be in the oceans at a somewhat healthy level, or else the entire ecosystem literally breaks down. So many people these days are working towards saving sharks and the environment is in such a focus right now…when someone comes up with a fake shark attack it just kind of is a blow to all that work.”
