A Netflix camera crew says its boat was almost sunk in a 'horrific' tiger shark attack while filming in Hawaii
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Isobel van Hagen
Jun 17, 2023, 18:25 IST
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The Netflix camera crew's boat was attacked by two 15-foot-long tiger sharks, reports say.
The "panicked" team was filming in Hawaii when they were forced to make an "emergency landing."
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A Netflix camera crew says it was attacked by 15-foot-long tiger sharks while filming a new wildlife documentary in Hawaii.
Filming for the new climate documentary series "Our Planet II," which is narrated by famous British biologist David Attenborough, the team was forced to head to land after encountering two sharks while on inflatable boats.
"The original idea was to do an underwater shoot with the tiger sharks waiting in the shallows at Laysan," series producer Huw Cordey told The Sun in a recent interview.
Laysan is a remote Northwestern Hawaiian Island, and the crew was taking a six-day filming trip there to try and capture footage of a Laysan albatross.
"But the first day the tiger sharks were around, the crew got into these inflatable boats — and two sharks attacked them. It was like something out of Jaws," Cordey said.
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"The crew panicked and basically made an emergency landing on the sand. Suffice to say, they didn't get any underwater shots," he added.
"This 'v' of water came streaming towards us"
The director of the series, Toby Nowlan, also spoke about the incident in an interview with the Radio Times.
"This 'v' of water came streaming towards us, and this tiger shark leapt at the boat and bit huge holes in it. The whole boat exploded," Nowlan told the Radio Times. "We were trying to get it away, and it wasn't having any of it. It was horrific. That was the second shark that day to attack us."
The crew was only a few hundred feet from land, so they were able to get the boats back to the shore. Even so, the sharks' behavior was "extremely unusual," he said.
"They were incredibly hungry, so there might not have been enough natural food, and they were just trying anything they came across in the water," he added.
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Despite the crew's terrifying experience, the chances of being attacked by a shark are extremely low, Insider recently reported.
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