Shark Week 2023
Dive into Newsflare’s most thrilling shark UGC for #SharkWeek2023. Sink your teeth into some terrifying attacks, or watch our fearless filmers get up close and personal with some of the ocean’s biggest predators. We’ve rounded up our all-time favourite shark videos - jump in (if you dare).
Meet Snooty the lemon shark
This is Snooty, the lemon shark who loves getting nose rubs. This filmer quickly debunked the idea that sharks are terrifying, vicious predators by giving Snooty a friendly rub on the nose. The big marine predator bares its teeth as if smiling whilst enjoying a good scratch by this diver.
Filmed by MarkDoingThings
A close call
Now this is footage that will get you blood pumping. Just as this freediver was about to plunge into the sea a huge tiger shark emerged right in front of her! Luckily the diver, Mrs Ocean Ramsey, has years of experience and has been diving with this particular shark, who is named Queen Nikki, for over eighteen years.
Filmed by Viralbear
Witness a hero at work
This is the extraordinary moment a fisherman saves a baby whale shark trapped inside a net during monsoon rains in the Philippines. The locals were docking their boats away from the rough waters when they spotted the 15ft-long juvenile marine mammal stranded near the shallows in the Pangasinan province. Despite the urgent need to secure their boats from the severe weather, the trawlers left their tasks and tended to the young endangered creature, locally called ‘butanding’. Thankfully the baby whale shark, a current endangered species, reportedly returned to the seas uninjured after the rescue.
Filmed by ViralPressExclusive
Thalassophobia sufferers - look away now!
Witness the beautiful moment these divers encounter a wall of hammerhead sharks just off the coast of Indonesia. The footage, filmed in the Banda sea, shows dozens of fully grown hammerhead sharks gracefully swimming in a school above the divers. The filmer shared the video with the hope of raising awareness of the amazing creature that is the hammerhead shark.
Filmed by pnup65
Dive into the deep blue
These divers near Oahu were closely observing tiger sharks feeding off a decomposed sperm whale when they came across what some might consider their greatest fear. However, for them, it turned out to be an astonishing discovery - a great white shark. And this was not just any ordinary great white. According to marine biologist and conservationist, Ocean Ramsey, the shark they encountered was none other than Deep Blue. This 20-foot-long predator is believed to be one of the largest great whites ever recorded and has garnered such fame in the field of marine biology that it even has its own Twitter account.
Filmed by amburr
