YouTube video of a man swimming with a great white shark in Manly a fake
A YOUTUBE video of a white shark at Manly which has had more than 2m hits in 48 hours is a fake.
A YOUTUBE video of a white shark at Manly which has had more than 2m hits in 48 hours is a fake.
Terry Tufferson’s GoPro video is billed as a “bit of a close call with a great white shark in Sydney Harbour”.
It has emerged that the white shark footage comes from a video published on YouTube on June 11, called “Almost” great White Shark Attack - Newport Beach, Australia.
Tufferson’s video shows a man, leaping off Jump Rock at Collins Beach, a notorious jumping spot in Manly, with a GoPro camera strapped to his head.
As he comes to the surface he hears his friends shouting ‘shark’, before coming face-to-face with a great white.
The video footage of a man’s legs kicking away from a white shark is the same in both videos.
The creator of the Newport video, Scott Mitchell, commented on the video saying “this video is to take the piss, and reel in ‘believers’.”
Yesterday, opinion on social media was divided on whether the Manly video was fake or real.
One online commentator suggested the Manly video was a fake at around the 0:59 second mark: “The diver dips his head into the water to see the shark approaching. It is at that point the video is spliced because in just a few tenths of a second, the shark seems to teleport from the middle of the video to the lower left corner.”
Yesterday, expert Richard Farr, owner of Digital Video Experts, in Sydney, agreed that this part of the video was the most dubious, after analysing it for the Manly Daily.
“At 0:59 seconds and 22 frames, the shark can be seen on one side of the frame and then at 0:59 seconds and 23 frames the shark seems to jump half a metre to the right,” he said.
“Unless I see the original footage I can’t say for sure, but I think it is real.
“If it turns out to be a fake, then this person has done an outstanding job.”
He added if the footage turned out to be fake the editing was so clever he would offer this person a job.
So, it looks like Mr Tufferson – which is the name used on YouTube – could have a new career ahead of him.
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