Another hurricane , another chance to share erstwhile “ footage ” of sharks taking to the flooded street in a classical case of shark appearing where sharks by all odds should n’t be . A classic hoax . Or is it ?
You may have examine the video circulating on social media of what appear to be a shark swimming down a street in southwest Florida . Well , it may really be the first confirm tragedy movie - esque “ street shark ” . The panel is out , but it ’s not a definite no .
Low - resolution cellphone footage appears to show a shark - like Pisces in the suburban floodwaters of Fort Myers , in Lee County , Florida , afterHurricane Ianbattered the Department of State and a violent storm surge flood some areas .
As unlikely as it seems , and despite multiple people crediting multiple other people on Twitter for the footage , Storyful , SnopesandAP Newshave report Florida literal estate developer Dominic Cameratta as filming the time . It has had more than 12 million purview in total .
Storyful managed to track down Cameratta , who confirmed the video was taken on September 28 around 8 am in Fort Myers as rising waters take up encroaching on nearby properties . Rob McDonagh , Storyful lieutenant news editor in chief , twirp that metadata from the .MP4 files confirmed the meter and escort the film was taken .
According to Cameratta , he filmed the cartridge holder of the animate being thrashing around in shallow water in his neighbour ’s backyard from his patio . What ca n’t be verified yet is whether the creature realize is a shark .
“ I did n’t know what it was — it just look like a Pisces or something , ” Cameratta toldAP News . “ I zoomed in , and all my friends are like , ‘ It ’s like a shark , man ! ’ ” He reckon it as around 1.2 meters ( 4 metrical foot ) in length .
Most of the experts questioned by AP ranged from ambivalent to cautious in their reply – but George Burgess , former director of the Florida Museum of Natural History ’s shark program , told AP it “ appear to be a jejune shark ” .
accord to Burgess , immature dogshit sharks can often be found in low - saltiness waters such as rivers and estuary , and thus may be found in bodies of water connected to the sea such as canals and ponds . It ’s possible a shark could have been disorientate by Hurricane Ian and eitherswum up a channelor been swept inland by astorm surge .
So this pitiable lost creature may be an existent bonafidehurricane shark , a one - fish sharknado if you will .
Just a reminder that although the Hurricane Ian shark may be real , these single also doing the round – here sharedin a chirrup threadwith an more and more pleasurable absurdness that flummoxed innocent bystander who have understandably never seenBait – are not .
