People 'terrified' after man drops GoPro under cruise ship and discovers what's underneath
While many people find going on a cruise ship to be a relaxing experience, seeing what's below the ship might make them feel differently...
Unless you're a fish in the ocean, it's quick unlikely that someone has seen the bottom of a cruise ship. With this in mind, Greek photographer Odysseas Froilan decided to drop his GoPro overboard to see what was going on down there.
Frolian, who has over 11,000 subscribers on YouTube, chucked his camera off the ship back in 2021 and ended up getting a very impressive seven minute-long video which he later shared online.
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To this day, the clip has amassed a whopping 12,000,000 views.
He threw the camera into the water at the perfect moment – that being when the ship had been stationary for a while, giving the sand on the seabed was able 'to settle' so he could get a clear view of what was below...
See a snippet of it here:
Looking at the footage, a lot of people are wishing he hadn't.
Things started off nice and tame as the footage revealed a school of fish happily going about their lives, even if they were slightly perplexed at the foreign object that had dropped into their home.
However, when night fell, things took a turn.
Out of nowhere, sharks began to come into view of the GoPro camera, with one quickly darting into the light before swimming off quickly. Moments later, a huge shark approached from the shadows.
After watching the clip, one viewer wrote: "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."
Another added: "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."
"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," wrote a third.
Another viewer urged anyone who might be taking a cruise any time soon to avoid 'taking a bet' and jumping into the ocean at night.
They wrote: "I would just like to point out the difference in marine life depending on the time of day [...] most sharks are nocturnal hunters and they are basically just waiting for you."
Frolian shared some insight into why he used a GoPro to get this impressive kind of footage.
"I used a GoPro case to withstand the pressure and some simple stabilizers that I made in order to prevent the rolling of the camera," he shared, per LADBible.
"For the same reason, I was waiting for a day with no wind and current. The GoPro was attached to a fishing line so I was able to feel the bottom of the sea."
He added: "But I could check the footage only once I was bringing the camera up again. Initially, I started filming to see what was happening down there, but the footage was so cool I had to share."
Topics: Shark, Travel, Cruise ship, YouTube
Emily Brown