OT - Video Tiger Shark vs. Loggerhead Turtle

[RickI]

This wasn't taken while diving but some of the GoPro imagery was shot underwater from a boat. It deals with an approximate 10 ft., half ton tiger shark going after a 400 lb. loggerhead turtle. This was just west of the marina of Old Bahama Bay, West End, GBI in blue water. The shark may have previously caused some internal injury in the turtle from an impact causing an intestinal blockage to mess up its buoyancy control. Large sharks are quite fond of turtles hence what appears to be a normal predation. It is interesting to observe how the shark goes about it and the responses of the turtle.

[video=vimeo;105205626]https://vimeo.com/105205626[/video]

Apologies for the second half of the clip involving some quadcopter imagery. The guys were in transit to a watersports meeting when they came across the shark and turtle.

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[chillyinCanada]

But what happened to the turtle?

 

[Mike]

I totally missed the versus

 

[drbill]

Video seems to be more about a group of guys having some "fun" than about the interaction between the tiger shark and turtle.

 

[RickI]

Good chance the turtle died and/or was eaten I would guess. It is the way of the world after all. The turtle did what it could, keeping the shark in sight, even blew bubbles at one point although that could have been related to its probable GI blockage. Still, when a ten foot tiger shark wants to have a go at a turtle, there isn't a great deal it can do about it. I had never seen anything quite like this in 43 years of diving, thought others on here might find it interesting as well. The clip was prepared to go with an event write up hence the extra scenes and OT reference.