Fake news?

[LostAtSea]

This pic is buzzing around the internet right now. It's supposedly a 10 yr old kid surfing over a Great White.

Looks like someone duck diving, right?

[jaffa1949]

Genuine article , mid NSW, at the northern reach of a long beach which happens to be any area for juvenile great whites. From Port Stephens north is the area where many attacks + fatalities are happening.

[dtc]

Here is the full sequence - if it was a duck diver then s/he must be a world record duck diver

http://www.surfinglife.com.au/news/sl-n ... l-sequence

[LostAtSea]

Still not so sure. The photo sequence shows other surfers in one shot and gone the next - and the background perspective changes as well - the hills in the background. As if it's not all from the same ride, but pieced together from different rides. Also, the lack of video for this particular shot, wasn't he filming?

Do sharks swim upside down? (other than mating)

It looks to me like you can see the outline of two arms pushing down the nose, and the swirl of the body submerging where it should be, and faintly legs behind the body.

Is my brain looking for patterns? Are other people's brains projecting a shark? I'm not sure what's going on in this photo.

[oldmansurfer]

I think it is a duck diver. There is a ripple in the water that makes it look like a sharks mouth open. You can easily follow the ripple around from where the duck diver went down. You can see the duck divers feet. I don't see why anyone is making a big deal about this. That sequence is missing a lot.

[saltydog]

Supposedly sharks can't swim upside down so it must have been a dick diver.
http://www.isciencemag.co.uk/blog/how-to-hypnotise-a-great-white-shark/
Doesn't mean there weren't any sharks in that area at that time, however.

[Oldie]

The photo sequence shows other surfers in one shot and gone the next - and the background perspective changes as well - the hills in the background.

Yeah, obvioulsy the camera is panning. And looking at the position of the THING in the one shot where you see it, in the next shot it would be under the breaking wave and maybe thus not visible.

It would be a very tilted duck diver, wouldn't it?

[Oldie]

Supposedly sharks can't swim upside down so it must have been a dick diver.

Thank good he dived everything

[dtc]

Andrew Chin, a shark researcher at James Cook University, said it was possibly a small great white, which was “spooked and … [was] rolling away from the board to escape it”.


https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... reat-white


Editor’s note:

– To further add to the speculation. Surfing Life did in fact catch up the marine biologist, Danny Bucher who made the positive identification of a White shark. He was not presented with a sequence, but just the one photo that we’ve all seen. As far as he's aware there is no seqence of photos.

He made his opinion it was a shark based on, there were eyewitness accounts from the area who also saw the shark. The water around the shark is consistent with a shark moving towards the surface through the wave, not a surfer penetrating it, as you would with a duckdive.

He also feels very few surfers would duckdive the shoulder of an unbroken wave, and even fewer surfers would attempt to line up that surfer and rip a big hack off right on top of them, as Eden the young surfer appears to doing.

So as of right now, in the absence of a sequence, there is no firm proof of a shark or a duckdiving surfer. Let the debate rage on!

http://www.surfinglife.com.au/news/sl-n ... hark-photo

[oldmansurfer]

I suppose the surfer who rode right over the shark would have seen the shark if it were a shark but that was not the case and a surfer would duck dive to get out of the way of another surfer and that would not alarm the surfer who was riding the wave.

[LostAtSea]

I suppose the surfer who rode right over the shark would have seen the shark if it were a shark but that was not the case and a surfer would duck dive to get out of the way of another surfer and that would not alarm the surfer who was riding the wave.

That's what I'm seeing here too. Someone ducking out of the way. I also doubt an alarmed reaction by a fish is to roll away. Fish generally sound when they are alarmed by something from above.

I don't want to insinuate anyone is lying here (kind of a dumb thread title, apologies), Maybe they just looked at the photo later, saw the shape, and were mistaken.