A video with lots of of hundreds of views on Instagram is garnering a blended response from the web neighborhood. Harrison Wiedman posted a video earlier this month that reveals him telling the story of his shark assault, beginning with “I acquired attacked by a shark right this moment.” He provides footage of the shark assault into the video after he tells his story. Wiedman added a set off warning on the high of his put up caption.
Wiedman begins the video by explaining that he’s main a dive expedition in Indonesia, and regardless that he’s been in water with sharks earlier than, he didn’t count on to see a shark that day. When he noticed it, he felt excited, however then it attacked him. Wiedman explains that he’s okay. At this level, viewers are questioning: What’s happening right here?
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In truth, the primary clue that one thing’s not because it appears is the caption. After Wiedman’s set off warning, he writes: “Such stunning creatures which are simply naturally curious. This was a cool expertise.” Not many shark-attack survivors would name the expertise “cool.”
Watch Wiedman’s “I acquired attacked by a shark” video after which hold studying beneath:
Does This Depend as a Shark Assault?
Seems, the shark assault was fairly tame. The footage appeared a bit anticlimactic after the construct up, however I’ve little question that the expertise would have been scary in actual life. The net neighborhood didn’t maintain again within the feedback part.
“How will you name this being attacked by a shark? Actually simply ran into you. Placing a unfavorable picture on sharks for clicks, that’s all,” wrote one individual.
“Please as a fellow diver, cease utilizing the phrases ‘assault’ and ‘shark’ collectively as we need to cease the unfavorable picture folks have of sharks. So how about ‘shark incident’ or ‘accident with shark’ or in your case ‘curiously approached by a shark to some extent i felt not very comfy anymore,’” wrote one other.
Others had a humorousness about it. As an illustration, one TikTok consumer wrote: “no concept the way you survived such an aggressive boop assault.”
In all seriousness, we’re glad neither human nor shark was harmed.
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