Incredible drone footage helps dispel myths about great white sharks

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Set against a teal canvas of undulating ocean, a shark effortlessly slices through the water. From above, the dark outline of its body is distinctive but it’s only when the camera zooms in that a sprinkling of white and blue dots clustered nearby start to come into clearer focus: surfers, bobbing on their boards, directly in the predator’s pathway.

If this were a horror movie, those humans would be done for. The footage – captured by 14-year old Zachary Berman who took up drone photography as a “lockdown hobby” a few months ago when South Africa’s stay-at-home regulations kicked in – is certainly hair-raising, but it also helps highlight that sharks are not the ruthless murderers they are so often portrayed to be … continue reading.