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First-ever underwater video shows man baiting shark with horse

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Dubai - The video titled 'In the Tropical Seas' is a part of a BBC documentary.

By Web Report

Published: Mon 30 Oct 2017, 11:20 AM

Last updated: Mon 30 Oct 2017, 6:24 PM

This incredible first-ever underwater video shot way back in 1914 is nothing less than a treasure! The footage shows young English explorer, John Ernest Williamson, dive into sea in the Bahamas while one of his accomplices catches the shark in a hook baited with meat. Williamson lures the shark with a horse and then stabs the gigantic sea animal while the team pulls it onto the boat, in this adventurous video.
The video titled 'In the Tropical Seas', is a part of a BBC documentary on the Earth's oceans named Blue Planet II and seems like a perfect shot from one of the old Hollywood adventure flicks.
Williamson's desire to witness the spectacular underwater life, spurred him to invent the Photosphere - a long water-tight tube attached to a ship in which one could lower himself down into.
Williamson's father was a sea captain who invented a deep-sea tube to assist divers with oxygen so they could carry out underwater repairs and salvage work. Young Willamson, who was then a journalist, realized that his father's mechanism could be adapted to obtain undersea photographs.
And he then designed a spherical observation chamber with a large funnel-shaped glass window and attached it to the end of the tube. This equipment was taken to the Bahamas, where the sunlight could reach down to a depth of 150 feet in clear waters.

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