Originally Posted by Sir James
That doesn't look like a dolphin being attacked. Plus, dolphins can outswim even the fastest shark.
The way the camera was ready for action tells me that this was a big chunk of meat off the side of the boat.
Still, the power in that white shark is amazing.
This is true Sir James, as long as the dolphin isn't sick, or dead. I don't mean to sound like a "Miss Know-It-All", but I was thinking that it might have been staged as well. "Chum thrown overboard to lure the Great White." It also looked like it could have been a small California Sea Lion, which is a staple of the Great White's diet.
I am a former divemaster, and although I've never done the "chum dive for the camera". I know of plenty of folks who have. The only honest "major" feeding frenzy that I've seen, was a day I was out doing some actual research diving on Monterey Bay with a couple of divers from the Monterey Bay aquarium and a couple of Navy SEAL guys from the Monterey Bay Language institute. We were out diving off the boat in the bay and came upon a pod of Orca's feeding on a Blue Whale carcass. It was the most violent, bloody spectacle that I've ever witnessed. Others were out on the bay that day and the violent spectacle was caught on camera, and it went out over the national media. I was still rinsing off my wetsuit and flushing out my regulator, when a tourist came up to me and told me what they had seen on TV.
I've dove in a lot of conditions, although now that I'm an old fart of 45, I choose to dive in warm water with little effort....hahaha.. I do know though, that there are many people hoping for the best dive photo, or the best "whatever" photo, and they will do whatever it is that they have to do ,to sell it.
Looking at the video again, it looks like that might have been a California sea lion pup in it's mouth, but who knows?