Great White Shark Attack Photo Caught By GoPro Camera Video Has Critics Exclaiming, ‘Too Dangerous!’

A great white shark attack photo is amazing since it captures the moment right before the shark takes a huge bite. Critics are already highlighting how dangerous it was to use bait attached to a shark cage in the manner shown, since a lunging shark could be harmed in the process if it ran into the cage.

In a related report by The Inquisitr, a great white shark attack on a sea lion was caught on video by shark cage divers, but that’s not nearly as crazy as the video showing killer whales attacking a tiger shark and tearing it to pieces. Australia also had the luck to catch two great white sharks battling it out on camera. But if you are looking for something relatively “cute,” you should check out the article on the baby great white shark.

Amanda Brewer is an art teacher in New Jersey who captured the great white shark photo on her GoPro camera, which she bought literally days before the event occurred. Brewer visited South Africa to volunteer with the eco-tourism and research group White Shark Africa as a summer intern. As part of this work, she had a chance to go into a shark cage, but she did not wear a mask or scuba gear since the cage was only partially submerged. And that’s when luck favored her outing.

“[The great white shark] came out of nowhere and just kind of lunged out of the water, and I just happened to have had my GoPro in the exact right place at the exact right time. It really was just luck.”

Although she managed to capture 30 images with her GoPro camera, she did not realize what she had until she was able to upload them to her iPad back at the office.

“Immediately it was, ‘Oh my goodness. Everybody take a look,'” Brewer recalled. “‘I think I really got something here. This photo is really gonna do something.'”

But people like Ricardo Lacombe were less than impressed with the great white shark attack photo, and complained on the White Shark Interest Group page.

“Bait usage is fine in my book as an attractant, but dragging it at the cage like this is asking for trouble for the shark. So disappointed this shot is getting so much coverage … but a chance to try and educate people I guess.”

But Brewer says critics do not know the whole story.

“The person was pulling the bait around and out of the way of the cage [to Brewer’s right] so that shark wouldn’t go near the cage at all,” Brewer said. “That’s one thing that we learned right off the bat, is that you never want the shark to make contact with the cage. And you also don’t want the shark to eat the bait. You don’t feed the sharks; that’s not what we want to do.”

The fish eye lens used to capture the great white shark photo did not show how the apex predator lunged about three feet away from the cage. Despite the controversy, Amanda Brewer believes the response to the photo has been “incredibly positive,” and has given a chance to White Shark Africa to educate the public.

What do you think about the great white shark photo?