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Este es el salto más extraordinario que se haya registrado de un tiburón blanco

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Fallows, experto en tiburones blancos, había viajado a Seal Island, una pequeña isla en False Bay, Sudáfrica, como parte del Shark Week de Discovery Channel.

El equipo se había dirigido hasta allí para el metraje del programa Air Jaws: Ultimate Breach, una producción donde algunos de los mejores expertos en tiburones blancos compiten para tomar las mejores fotografías de estas criaturas saltando desde la superficie del agua. Para lograr sacarlos, el equipo patrulla la zona con cebos atados a los botes con los que alentar a un tiburón a moverse.

Y para que nos hagamos una idea de lo que Fallows iba a encontrarse, normalmente, un gran tiburón blanco podría saltar hasta 3 metros aproximadamente, por encima de esa marca podría considerarse un récord.

Así, y tras varias horas en busca de un tiburón al que pudiera capturar con su cámara, ocurrió.

La alucinante escena que vemos es, según los expertos del programa, un récord jamás registrado por el hombre. El gran tiburón blanco que se alza sobre la superficie alcanza aproximadamente los 4,5 metros.

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