Man drops GoPro off cruise to show ‘terrifying’ true reality of what's underneath
If you find yourself in the middle of the ocean with a GoPro in your mitts, there's clearly only one thing you can do to quell the curiosity of people all over the world: throw it overboard.
However, there's nothing that can prepare you or others for what's going on under a cruise ship, and it might just scare you off from travelling again.
Depending on where you are in the world, you might see a vastly different seascape.
For example, if you're in the Atlantic, you could capture sharks skulking around, there have also been instances where sounds regurgitating from the depths have been heard by the masses once brought to the public, and in the past and present, there have been creatures that even scientists can't explain.
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When it comes to Odysseas Froilan, his footage leaned more into the horror genre than that of a nature documentary.
It all began when he threw the camera off a ship back in 2021, which resulted in him uploading the over seven-minute clip to YouTube, explaining that he was travelling on a vessel which had been docked in the Bahamas 'for a long time'.
The content creator told his 10,600 subscribers that as a result of this, the sand on the seabed was able 'to settle', allowing him to obtain 'clear images' of what was going on underwater.
Explaining the rigmarole that's involved with dropping a GoPro off the side of a cruise ship, Froilan said: "I used a GoPro case to withstand the pressure and some simple stabilisers that I made in order to prevent the rolling of the camera. For the same reason, I was waiting for a day with no wind and current. The GoPro was attached to a fishing line so I was able to feel the bottom of the sea.
"But I could check the footage only once I was bringing the camera up again. Initially, I started filming to see what was happening down there, but the footage was so cool I had to share."
He sent his camera down in daylight and at the witching hour too, in the hopes of seeing if things got a bit more exciting at night.
At the start of the clip, the GoPro runs into a school of inquisitive fish as it begins to sink to the depths, while some other aquatic creatures also make an appearance before it lands on the seabed.
For the most part, the footage just shows a calming scene of various fish swimming in the sea - but when night falls, some more sinister ocean-dwellers come out of the woodwork.
The darkness alone makes this portion of Froilan's video even more terrifying, but it's the presence of a number of sharks which really left viewers spooked.
The GoPro captured the predators navigating the ocean in the dead of night, while their eyes are chillingly lit up by the camera's night-vision mode.
Although they don't get up to anything that resembles a scene from Jaws, the unexpected arrival of the sharks unnerved a lot of social media users.
One person commented: "This was way more interesting than I thought it would be. There's something primally terrifying about seeing a shark emerge from the darkness like that."
Another wrote: "This video is literally my biggest nightmare. Thank you for letting me be able to experience it from a safe distance."
A third added: "The way I went from kicking my feet in the air at the cute fishies and thinking, ‘Maybe the ocean isn’t so scary after all’ in the day footage to blankly staring, terrified, at the night footage, further confirming my intense fear of the ocean."
While a fourth chimed in saying: "As someone who fears open water, this was delightfully terrifying."
It sounds like staying on dry land might be a better option for these lot.
Britt Jones