After his own terrifying incident, Love Island star Elias Chigros has cautioned surfers to shun a hazardous myth about dolphins and sharks.
The 32-year-old, who previously appeared in Netflix’s Byron Bae, advised his followers to disregard the widely held belief that if you see a pod of dolphins, there are no sharks around.
He claimed to have observed sharks swimming close dolphins three times while out on his board.
‘Alright common misconception, if there’s dolphins in the water there’s no sharks and that is absolute bullsh*t,’ he began on his Instagram Stories.
‘It happened to me today when I was in the water. There’s a huge pod of dolphins real close by, cruising about 50 metres away.
‘I paddled a bit further out waiting for some surf and a huge shark just cruised straight under me. Not huge. It was actually quite a small shark.’
The shark, according to Elias, was between seven and eight feet long and ‘cruised’ around a metre underneath his board.
‘Completely different build, so solid and right next to the dolphins,’ he continued. ‘So don’t believe the hype.’
Elias’ remark comes after a young girl died earlier this month in Perth from a shark attack after plunging into the sea after spotting a pod of dolphins nearby.
Each year, around 20 shark attacks occur in Australia, the majority of which occur in Western Australia and New South Wales.
Sharks, on the other hand, are increasingly being found washed up on beaches after being killed by orcas, who pose a far greater threat to sharks than dolphins. Obviously, none comes close to being a threat to humanity.
This week, a pair of orcas off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, killed at least 17 sharks in a single day, with more and more incidents of sharks having their livers extracted by killer whales.
Source My Celebrity Life.