The “horrific” incident was “like something out of Jaws,' an Our Planet II producer said.
Gregory Sweeney via Getty Imagesdocuseries crew nearly became shark bait after they had a “horrific” encounter with 15-foot-long tiger sharks while filming in Hawaii.
While shooting the four-part climate documentary series Our Planet II, the team was attacked by sharks who “leapt at the boat and bit huge holes,” the show’s director, Toby Nowlan,“The original idea was to do an underwater shoot with the tiger sharks waiting in the shallows at Laysan,” the series’ producer Huw Cordeyin an interview that was published on Wednesday. Laysan is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
“But the first day the tiger sharks were around, the crew got into these inflatable boats — and two sharks attacked them. It was like something out of Jaws,” Cordey said of the startling moment. The “panicked” team, who were only around 100 metres from land, were forced to swiftly make their way to the beach for an “emergency landing” after the attack.that the shark attack was the second one of that same day.“This ‘v’ of water came streaming towards us, and this tiger shark leapt at the boat and bit huge holes in it. The whole boat exploded,” he shared. “We were trying to get it away, and it wasn’t having any of it. It was horrific. That was the second shark that day to attack us.
Calling the sharks’ behaviour “extremely unusual,” Nowlan added: “They were incredibly hungry, so there might not have been enough natural food, and they were just trying anything they came across in the water.”that Hawaii’s tiger shark population had increased after the state experienced a string of attacks.
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