Terrifying moment great white shark lunges at cage divers off of Mexico – then bleeds to death after getting its head stuck between the bars
- A great white shark lunged at four divers in a cage in Baja California, Mexico
- The shark swims up to the cage at speed but becomes stuck between the bars
- The animal tries to break free but blood begins to appear from around its gills
- The shark died in the incident, which reportedly lasted for 25 minutes
This is the moment a great white shark lunges at four divers in a cage but gets stuck between the bars where it begins bleeding profusely before its lifeless corpse sinks.
The incident took place at Guadalupe Island, in the north-western Mexican state of Baja California and shared by Mexican activist Arturo Islas Allende.
In the video, the huge shark, which is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, can be seen approaching the cage, which was hanging from the diving boat ‘Nautilus’, with at least four divers inside.
Allende said the area is considered ‘the most important great white shark sanctuary on the planet.’
This is the moment a great white shark lunges at four divers in a cage in waters off Guadalupe Island, in the north-western Mexican state of Baja California
The shark swims up to the cage at speed but gets caught between the bars
The huge animal begins thrashing and blood quickly appears from around its gills
The shark swims up to the cage at speed but gets caught between the bars.
The huge animal begins thrashing against the metal wires to break free and blood appears from around its gills.
A second clip shows the shark’s motionless body dropping from the cage into the depths.
Local media report the shark was caught in the bars for 25 minutes but Islas Allende said ‘nobody did anything’ to help the creature.
The shark died in the incident and Allende slammed the animal’s death, pointing out that the ‘great white shark is an animal that is protected under international laws’.
The company who provided the cage said in a press statement that the accident took place on October 9 and was ‘totally extraordinary,’ involving a great white shark that was ‘strangely aggressive, attacking one of the cages used by our company to dive at Guadalupe Island’.
The shark was filmed bleeding from its gills and died in the incident
Activist Allende slammed the situation , saying the ‘great white shark is an animal that is protected under international laws’
A second clip shows the shark’s motionless body dropping from the cage into the depths
The statement added great white sharks do not usually behave violently and it was the first case that they have suffered in more than 16 years of experience.
They said the trip was done with the company of the regulator of the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas, Beatriz Guadalupe Torres Gonzalez, who verified that the ship was following the current law and has been granted all the permissions relating to the preservation of the great white shark.
According to the company, the activist acted in bad faith to ‘generate misinformation and cheat audiences.’