Going on a cruise is the new craze this year, but let’s take a closer look at the giant luxury ships and you’ll see something you’d wished you hadn’t looked at.
A Greek photographer has gone on to disturb his viewers with a video of his deep-sea GoPro footage underneath and alongside a cruise ship.
Photographer Odysseas Froilan shared his clip to his YouTube channel in November 2021 and the footage went viral with millions of views.
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Don’t watch this if you ever want to enter the ocean again:
Froilan hasn’t been forthcoming about the footage or where in the ocean he lowered his GoPro.
In the video, after lowering the camera in the water while the cruise ship is anchored, viewers were initially happy to see a school of fish perplexed at the foreign object that had dropped into their neck of the woods.
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However, it wasn’t until things got dark that viewers were left feeling icky.
That was when out of nowhere, sharks came into view of the GoPro camera and one quickly darted into the camera night light, before swimming off quickly.
Then, moments later, a huge shark is seen coming out of the shadows to calmly swim unfazed out of view.
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“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.
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“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.
Last year, viral footage showed the moment a young man jumped off a cruise ship in the Bahamas for a dare before and was allegedly preyed upon by sharks.
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Cameron Robbins, 18, was never seen again and the footage was viewed more than 10 million times on X in June.
Some who watched it claimed the footage showed the moment he was pulled underneath by sharks.
It happened on May 24 2023 at around 11.30pm near Nassau, Bahamas off the Blackbeard’s Revenge sunset cruise ship and 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.
Topics: Shark, Travel, Cruise ship, YouTube