A spectacular underwater video goes viral: it shows a three-meter-long tuna chasing a bull shark – and sending it running.
Jupiter/Florida - Sharks are notorious as the most imposing predators of the seas.
Due to its size alone, the bull shark in particular has no natural enemies and is at the top of the food chain with the great white shark and the tiger shark.
But off the coast of Florida, that law has been turned on its head: a giant tuna is aggressively chasing a shark.
A group of divers witnessed this spectacular scene - and took pictures of it.
This is now reported by
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Most recently, a video of an alleged 80-million-year-old prehistoric shark and images of an alleged megalodon caused a stir.
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A spectacular underwater video shows a three-meter-long tuna chasing a bull shark - and driving it away.
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Incredible footage of giant tuna chasing shark
The pictures show the three-metre-long bluefin tuna darting towards the bull shark out of nowhere.
You can clearly see him trying to bite the dangerous animal's tail fin.
Then the unbelievable happened: the shark took to its heels and disappeared in the depths of the sea, at the edge of the Gulf Stream on the east coast of Florida in the USA.
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Three-meter tuna chases away shark, then swims peacefully with group of divers
But that's not all: The shark from the requiem shark family then swims peacefully on with the organized diving group "Salty Divers" - and even seems to become the divers' bodyguard: "We had this GIANT bluefin tuna visiting us during our third dive. "
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"He stayed around for about 15-20 minutes and even chased away some bull sharks like it was nothing... what a fish!" the dive tour operator commented on photos posted to Facebook of the spectacular underwater diving experience.
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'Incredible': Divers christen brave tuna 'Charlie'
“What an incredible dive today.
A bluefin tuna came to visit us and even fed on the box.
I christen this giant fish 'Charlie',” reports an eyewitness who is a diver with the group enthusiastically.
Researchers who discovered a centuries-old Greenland shark in the Caribbean were just as euphoric.
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