This is a shocking record, realizing that time and luck are two factors that, combined, can be the difference between living or falling into the jaws of a predator.
Getting up with the left foot is a frequently used maxim. The scientist, who almost threw herself into the mouth of a shark, had both of them well placed on her boat and, in addition, luck was on her side.
Hawaii is a paradisiacal place where tourists and scientists carry out their activities separately. The former enjoy the environment and marine life. The others keep it.
One of the researchers of scientific themes of the ocean, she was precisely in those activities, when life gave her a second chance.
The shocking video released recently confirms it that way. It was all shared on Ocean Ramsey’s Instagram page. Her name, by the way, is very much in keeping with her activity in favor of the species of the marine world.
Almost in the mouth of a shark: scientist, miraculously alive
The episode of how Ocean Ramsey almost ended up in the mouth of a shark was one of the most talked about in recent days in cyberspace.
The shocking record went viral because its protagonist decided to share the revealing moment with her followers on social networks.
Ramsey appears in her diving gear, ready to jump into the ocean to investigate the fascinating but also feared sharks. She works for One Ocean Diving, which has its headquarters in Oahu, Hawaii.
Founded on her blue suit, and other clothing, the scientist was ready to conquer the sea in a new plunge. Behind her, a person recorded the moment. Between distractions, the woman looks behind and to the sides of her. When she pulls her forward, ready to dive, the unexpected happens.
As she is about to launch herself and with her head tilted into the water, the shadow of a huge creature suddenly stops her, making her take a few steps back to flee from the onslaught. She was about to finish the appetizer of a huge shark that took her huge jaws out of her and was left with nothing, before the quick action of her almost prey.
“I always love to see its white belly emerging from the depths and in this case it is what gave away its position”, the scientist declared shortly after.
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Nikki: the shark that almost ate a scientist
“We love the enthusiasm of the tiger shark queen ‘Nikki’ to say hello to @oceanramsey 😂 Ocean reading a quick and accurate approach, knowing when to back off respectfully”. These are the words of @juansharks, another of Ramsey’s fellow ocean adventurers.
In his writing, he confirms that the predator is an old acquaintance of the ship. Nikki, is the name given to the specimen of tiger shark.
Meanwhile, the scientist Ocean Ramsey described her friend’s behavior in another video, clarifying that she was not looking to attack her, despite the fact that the video clearly shows how she was about to fall into the mouth of a shark.
He assured, however, that it was all a “espionage jump” made by sharks, with which they try to recognize her surroundings on surfaces.
“Moments after the video I shared in my last post, I saw a shark hitting a floating plastic, so I ran and this was my greeting”Ramsey assured. It seems that both smoothed things over, after Nikki’s creepy reception.
The environment was conjugated so that the scientist and her white-bellied friend met in two different ways. The first, not so friendly, since according to what the author of the video described, there was cloudy water, bird activity and the presence of the Opelu fish under the boat, which attracted Nikki.
“…They made this day more exciting with fish and sharks practically jumping out of the water.”.
In the mouth of a shark: why they attack on beaches and more
It doesn’t happen that often, but the news of a shark attack, especially on the beaches, it is always impressive.
To find out what motivates these marine animals to target humans, the journal Interface (Royal Society) put this behavior into perspective last year, in order to understand sharks, at least one of their types.
“From the point of view of a great white shark, neither movement nor shape allow an unequivocal visual distinction between pinnipeds and humans”.
In addition to relying on this display error, which caused scientist Ramsey to nearly launch herself into a shark’s mouth, the researchers in the aforementioned publication cling to shark attack statistics, to denote that they are not as common as sharks. It is believed. The University of Florida placed them at 60 in 2020, globally. It must be taken into account that it was a pandemic year.
“This is the first study to analyze this theory from the visual point of view of a white shark”. They used “videos taken from the point of view of the shark and processed them with a program to imitate”, as described by Laura Ryan, a biological sciences researcher, whose words were replicated by La Vanguardia.
In the meantime, Nikki and Ocean remained as close as ever.