Shark surfing

• zav
  May 5th, 2008 at 8:49 am

  Uhhh, since the video is listed under “comedy”, I think it might not be real.

• Lauren
  May 5th, 2008 at 8:53 am

  I’m hoping it’s not real. That would be unfortunate if it were.

• roger
  May 5th, 2008 at 9:03 am

  No, it doesn’t look real to me.

• ~Emma
  May 5th, 2008 at 9:10 am

  That takes balls…and absolutely no brains.

• Andrew G
  May 5th, 2008 at 9:13 am

  yea i’m pretty sure it’s fake, the shark conveniently stayed perfectly in the water so that just it’s fin was showing and it didn’t dive deeper either…

• johan
  May 5th, 2008 at 9:19 am

  You can see the trail of a boat in the path between the surfer and the shar. So most likely, the “shark” is tied to a boat and they just shoot it such that you never see the boat.

• Kathy
  May 5th, 2008 at 9:22 am

  Isn’t that a boat wake the shark is “swimming” in. Let’s not be so gullible people.

• The Mutt
  May 5th, 2008 at 9:28 am

  Real or not, that guy should be beat with a stick for chumming the water around other surfers.

• DanO
  May 5th, 2008 at 9:32 am

  Very very fake. amusing though

• fsmarch
  May 5th, 2008 at 11:23 am

  Fake. The so-called shark does not ripple the water or leave any sort of wake behind it.

• Alannah
  May 5th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

  Come on, guys, it’s gotta be real! We all *saw* the video!

• Katsoulis
  May 5th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

  No chance this is real. None at all.

• Christophe
  May 5th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

  Not real, but very cool.

• xander
  May 5th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

  Ill bet it’s real. My friends and I did something like that back home with kayaks and longboards.

• CheeseDuck
  May 5th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

  How is that not real?

• jenny
  May 5th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

  yeah that huge dorsal fin looks like a giant great white, nd with all those other perfectly calm surfers all around… all other facts aside..
  well, i’ll let you decide heh

• Eric
  May 5th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

  I can find two things wrong with this, but i dont know if they are true. First, its too shallow water for a shark (again, idk if thats true). Second, didn’t you see all the bystanders just watching a foot away?

• Parker
  May 5th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

  Ha that huge wake and that huge fin are great. also, why would he need to be told a shark took his bait that was lying like 5-10 feet away? he would see and feel it. and the nearby super calm surfers…

• Sheldon
  May 5th, 2008 at 8:03 pm

  I love the guy at the end though. What happened to the pole? He took it? He took it?!

• Viola
  May 5th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

  That shark wouldn’t have calmHave you guys ever seen a shark eat something? It would have ripped the guy right off his board.

  Also, way too close to the shore. Sorry, kids.

• Viola
  May 5th, 2008 at 10:06 pm

  **Wouldn’t have calmly taken the bait.

• Athon
  May 6th, 2008 at 1:32 am

  Yeah, my BS detector is flashing ‘extreme’. Sorry; growing up in Australia where surfers regularly get the chomp by anything from a bull shark to a great white, it seems a little far fetched. Add to that what Viola just said about the calm taking of the bait, the fact the shark didn’t dive…too many conveniences add up to the smell of fantasy.

  Still, funny clip…until some moron thinks it’s possible goes out to try it for themself.

• Pol x
  May 6th, 2008 at 4:17 am

  Oh this is so fake.

  And not for any of the usual intenet reasons.

  Usually people seem to cry “photoshop” like that answers everything, it doesn’t.

  The thing that screams fake is the camera work.

  See when the camera man drops the shot and you see the board walk and then he whisks back onto the subject?

  Ahve you ever, and i mean EVER seen a camcorder brought up onto subject that fast, accurately and in focus right away?

  also there is no aperture lag, as the camcorder adjusts to the sudden chage in light levels between the dark boardwalk and the bright horizon.

  The actual footage is bloody well done aside from this glitch.

  Well done to the crazies involved.

• supaswag
  May 6th, 2008 at 4:19 am

  Yes, it’s real. I know the shark.

• SarahS
  May 6th, 2008 at 7:17 am

  I think a shark would put up more of a fight.. I know the small dogfish goes crazy when it’s caught on a fishing line.

• Xinavera
  May 6th, 2008 at 11:01 am

  Somebody call up the Mythbusters! I’d love to see them test this one

• christopher miller
  May 6th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

  There are many clues that this is a fake. The wash from the boat towing the “shark” is briefly visible. The caudal (tail) fin of a real shark swimming on the surface usually is visible. A real snagged shark would not swim in a straight line for that duration.

• Jen Bolger
  May 9th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

  The best part is the music. Perhaps the idiot should have eaten the meat, he looks kinda thin

• nanatotwo
  May 9th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

  I think the guy should be fined…I know, I know it’s a shark, but if this is real he let go of the pole and now the shark is swimming around with a pole dragging….the guy’s an idiot in more ways than one

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