A whale helped a woman get away from a shark when she was in trouble.
Nan Hauser is sure that a humpback whale saved her from a tiger shark attack in 2017 by putting her on its nose.
The whole thing was caught on camera, and during National Geographic’s annual Shark Week, the video was shown on Saved From a Shark.
When the tiger shark came straight at her, the marine scientist and whale expert knew she was in trouble.
‘It’s moving fast and it’s coming towards me,’ she recalled.
‘I know and the whale knows that this is a serious situation. I wanted to get out of the water.’
She has always thought that a whale could kill her, but now she thinks that this one saved her life.
‘The whale has got me right on the front of his face.’
Nan is able to get the attention of her boat at this point and ask for help before the whale sends her pants again.
During the event, she was only wearing a snorkel and mask, so if she was pulled under, she wouldn’t be able to breathe for long.
‘I suddenly realise that the shark is coming up. Right below me.
‘The whale pushes me back to the boat.’
Nan is able to get back on the boat and sits on the edge to watch the whale that helped them get to their destination.
‘I look and he’s right there next to me, protecting me. I cried.’
She isn’t the only person in the movie who survived a shark attack who thinks they wouldn’t be alive today without some help from the water.
Martin Richardson thought he was going to die when a shark attacked him while he was diving in the Red Sea in Egypt. This happened near where a tiger shark killed a tourist just a few weeks ago.
‘I had lost approximately five pints [2.8 litres] of blood,’ he said.
‘You only have eight to nine [pints, or 4.5 to five litres] in your body.
‘I was waiting for a feeding frenzy… I knew it was circling me… I turned away and looked at the mountains. I gave up.’
Martin thought he was going to die, but then a group of dolphins showed up and the attack stopped.
He was then pulled onto a boat and rushed to the hospital, where he needed more than 300 stitches.
Nat Geo WILD’s annual SHARKFEST begins on Sunday 16th July at 8pm starting with ‘When Shark’s Attack Season 9’.
Source My Celebrity Life.
