The purpose of the stunt was to show that not all sharks are the same, but the only grins after Leon Deschamps’ stunt when he recently stood on the body of a dead whale while a school of tiger sharks tore it to shreds were his own, and those on the sharks.   As you can imagine, officials are none too pleased with the actions of the Shark Bay, Australia, naturalist, simply because this is the sort of thing that gets dumb people to imitate it.  When your country is as shark-filled as Australia, that’s a bad thing.

Here’s Deschamps’ version of the event, which he insists was not planned.  “Me and some friends travelled through the night on a Catamaran and arrived early the next day. We were the first to arrive and saw the sharks in a eating frenzy. It was totally spur of the moment but I knew it was incredibly safe. It was because it was not a planned event that made it so special. You must remember the whale was grounded, beached in about one metre of water. I was stable. Great whites can jump and will do so to get their prey. Tiger sharks don’t. It was the safest time I would ever get to touch these animals during feeding.”

See?  It’s totally safe to go out and stand on the rubbery body of a dead beached whale, because there’s no way you’d ever slip off the side and fall into the mouthes of a hungry bunch of sharks.  No way.

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