The video, which allegedly captures the tragic incident, spread in Russian -speaking social networks in the spring of 2025. We checked its reliability.
The video is mounted from several videos and photos. On them is a man who is trying to drag a shark swimming in shallow water to the depths. At the end of the shark, he suddenly dives, carrying the Savior behind him. Viewers watch the bursts for a few seconds, indicating an underwater struggle, then the waves subside and the video breaks off. The signature of the video says that the man died, trying to save the life of Shark. At the same time, the authors of some publications clarified that the victim of the incident was a tourist from Russia. The place where the tragedy happened was not specified. This video clip Popular in "VKontakte" - one of the publications in this social network Sicked 6 million views. In addition, the video was posted on entertainment sites.
With the help of a reverse search by images, we found out that this video originally spread to English -speaking Internet - with approximately the same signature as in the Russian -speaking (except for the mention of a Russian tourist): "The man died, saving the life of a shark."
However, in the earliest publication, which managed to find “verified”, history is told completely different. June 23, 2024 User Instagram Maggieandmum_ki From Australia posted this video and wrote: “Does anyone else have a completely crazy uncle? Well ... I hold a bet, not as nuts as mine! The other day, my uncle Tridd decided that it would be a great idea to fulfill his old dream - to swim with a shark, holding on to her fin, while she was dragging him along. He is like a cat with nine lives! And this is only one of the many completely crazy actions that he did in his life. Somehow, he always manages to get out of all the troubles intact and sound, then to talk about them later. ”
Later on the same day she Loose Record reporting About this event from the release of program news 7 Newswhich comes out in the Australian city of Adelaide. The report says that the event occurred on The island of Kangaroo Not far from Adelaide, where the hero of the viral video Tristan Turner fished with the children. One of his sons accidentally caught a narrow -toothed shark, and his father jumped into the water to remove it from the hook and let it go back into the ocean. However, at the last moment, he could not resist the temptation and decided to ride a little, holding on to the fish fin, - according to him, he had long dreamed about it. “My son was terribly frightened when I did it, but narrow -to -keeping sharks are quite friendly,” Turner told reporters. The report shows the continuation of the video that did not fall on the social network - on it, Torner gradually emerges and floats back to the shore. Publications about this incident appeared in British press.
Thus, the viral video is not captured by a Russian tourist, but by the Australian Tristan Turner. He really saved the shark, who fell on the hook, but did not die at the same time, but simply had fun and enjoyed it. This happened back in 2024.
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