You might have seen Jaws, but you probably haven't had a real look around the gob of a man-eating shark.
But thanks to this conservationist and filmmaker, we can now all take a virtual tour inside the predator's cakehole - as one almost swallowed his camera.
Nicolas Zimmermann, better known online as Zimy Da Kid, captured the incredible moment on his 360-degree camera while exploring the ocean in Fuvahmulah, south of the Maldives, in April 2022.
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He was shooting an underwater documentary when a tiger shark approached him, and although they've been known to take a chunk out of humans, it wasn't Zimy which the creature was weighing up as a snack.
Instead, it was his fancy recording equipment which the shark found appetising, as it bypassed the conservationist and instead made a beeline for his camera.
The shark gobbled it up within a few seconds, but thankfully didn't break it, so the camera continued to capture some footage.
Which is how we've all gotten a glimpse of what the inside of the shark's mouth is actually like - teeth, gills, and all.
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Take a look at this:
People have been left stunned after getting an inside look, as loads of social media users said they couldn't believe how welcoming the jaws of a predator appear to be.
"Looks cozy in there ngl lmao," one said, as another wrote: "Holy crap! Now that was pretty cool and surprising to witness. Guess the camera wasn't tasty enough lol."
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A third added: "Bro it’s beautiful af in there," and a fourth commented: "Great, this was terrifying."
After realising the camera wasn't a tasty treat, the shark spat it back out onto the ocean floor.
Discussing the incredible encounter in 2022, Zimy told the Independent: "I put my Insta360 on a weight and then I put it on the sand and the shark was curious.
"He saw this shiny thing and he thought ‘let me taste it’ and then he bit the camera."
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There is a large population of tiger sharks in Fuvahmulah, where Zimy was filming the documentary, and he hopes the footage he obtained will help people understand sharks a little more.
"When sharks bite people it is not because they want to eat us, it’s because they see someone and they are curious so they just bite," the filmmaker said.
"But they usually never eat the person, because they don’t like it," Zimy added.
He explained that he began making marine documentaries to memorialise the amazing creatures which live in our oceans, as he'd noticed a huge decline in the numbers of them.
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Zimy said: "I started filming sharks because sharks are disappearing at a very, very fast rate which is going to be very bad for the ocean. If sharks disappear then the whole ecosystem of the ocean is going to fall apart. If the ocean falls apart, then we will fall apart with it.”
After he shared the footage on social media, the clip went viral, racking up thousands of likes and comments.
Topics: Sharks, Animals, World News, Viral
Olivia Burke