Drug smugglers are known to drop cocaine bales overboard and out of planes when they run into trouble. Sharks decide whether an object is food by biting it.
to drop them out of a plane,” Hird admits with a laugh, “but actually, there is science there: We found when they were hitting the water, they were making a much bigger slap than we thought. Those kind of noises are attractants. So you could be getting sharks brought into an area thinking, ‘Oh, there are wounded fish here,’ and actually it’s dissolving bales of cocaine. So they're almost getting hooked into it without even knowing.
Using controls inside the decoy, which is named EARL , Gallagher can release 200 pounds of chum from a refillable “meat locker.” In Struisbaai, EARL attracts multiple smaller great whites. The footage of him at the literal center of a feeding frenzy is dramatic, but just wait. Once they’re back aboard, the amped-up shark finally attacks one of EARL’s pectoral fins. “At one point, the shark's behavior changed very quickly, and it started swimming different root patterns at me, at like a 45-degree angle, and it would investigate which side was weaker, trying to figure out where it wanted to do its full attack,” Gallagher says. “It finally did its full attack, and I was standing.
In Galante’s defense, he knew Port and Seaboard had been in the area recently, which means the odds of encountering a great white or sevengill were extremely low. “It might not have been the smartest thing, but I didn't feel as nervous as some of the other even dumber things that we've done in the name of wildlife science and television in the past,” he says. Still, it’s a nerve-racking sequence — especially when a cameraman on the boat spots Port and Starboard en route in the distance..
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