Featured Image Credit: Odysseas Froilan/YouTube
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Gerrard Kaonga
A Greek photographer has disturbed viewers with his deep-sea GoPro footage underneath and alongside a cruise ship.
Photographer Odysseas Froilan initially shared his footage to his YouTube channel in November 2021 and the clip has so far amassed more than 5.3 million views.
Prepare to never want to enter the ocean again and watch the chilling footage below:
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Froilan does not give much information about the footage, and it is unclear where in the ocean he lowered his GoPro.
After initially lowering the camera in the water while the cruise ship is anchored, viewers were delighted to see the school of fish seemingly perplexed at the foreign object that had dived into their neck of the woods.
However, it wasn’t until the night-time footage was shown that viewers were left more concerned.
Seemingly out of nowhere, sharks can be seen coming into view of the GoPro camera with one quickly coming into view of the camera night light, only to swim off quickly.
Moments later an even larger shark is seen coming out of the shadows to calmly swim unfazed out of view.
“The way I went from kicking my feet in the air at the cute fishies and thinking ‘maybe the ocean isn’t so scary after all’ in the day footage to blankly staring, terrified, at the night footage, further confirming my intense fear of the ocean,” one YouTube user commented.
“This was way more interesting than I thought it would be. Man there’s something primally terrifying about seeing a shark emerge from the darkness like that,” another agreed.
Other comments reinforced viewers’ intention to not swim in the ocean and stick strictly to man-made pools to avoid encountering sharks.
“For years I wondered why there were pools on a cruise ship when there was this great big body of water to swim in. It’s videos like this that make me realize the importance of swimming in chlorine water,” a third user commented.
“I would just like to point out the difference in marine life depending on the time of day. If you ever find yourself on a cruise, do not take a bet and jump into the ocean at night, most sharks are nocturnal hunters and they are basically just waiting for you,” a fourth warned.
Earlier this year a clip went viral on X, formerly known as Twitter, that showed the moment a young man jumped off a cruise ship in the Bahamas for a dare before being preyed upon by sharks.
The video of Cameron Robbins, 18, was viewed more than 10 million times on X in June.
Some claimed the footage showed the moment he was pulled underneath by sharks.
The incident happened on May 24 at around 11.30pm near Nassau, Bahamas off the Blackbeard’s Revenge sunset cruise ship.
On May 27 the United States Coast Guard, who was assisting the Royal Bahamas Defence Force in the search, confirmed the search had been concluded, though his body was never found.