14 DAY TRIAL // Back in 2013, wildlife enthusiasts with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US set out to study great white sharks swimming in the waters off the coast of Mexico's Guadalupe Island.
As part of this research project, they lowered a torpedo-shaped vehicle fitted with as many as six cameras into the water, and used it to film great white sharks in this part of the world.
Footage obtained during this mission was posted online not too long ago, and it is now making rounds on the Internet. This video pieced together by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is available below.
The footage shows great whites not only swimming close to the underwater vehicle, but also attacking it and trying to sink their teeth into it. The vehicle sustained considerable damage as a result of these encounters.
Wildlife researchers who have had the chance to check out this video explain that many of the sharks approached the vehicle as if it were a seal they were hoping to kill and prey on.
Thus, they first swam right beneath it, and then suddenly moved in for the kill. By the looks of it, this is the same behavior that great white sharks display when hunting seals off the coast of the Guadalupe Island.
REMUS SharkCam: The hunter and the hunted from Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. on Vimeo.