SYDNEY – It has a big yellow dog, sharks, a dead dugong, it has attracted millions of viewers on YouTube and you couldn’t make it up.
Video footage of a dog attacking a shark under water on the Australian coast has gone viral, becoming an internet hit.
The footage shows two dogs swimming in the ocean near the Western Australian town of Broome, about 1,650km (1,025 miles) northeast of Perth.
The dogs appear to be herding several sharks towards shore, when one suddenly ducks under water and attacks one of the sharks.
“The dog is biting the shark,” said Russell Hood- Penn in the voiceover as he filmed the incident. “That is unbelievable. I’ve seen it all now.”
Mr Hood-Penn placed the footage on video-sharing website YouTube, where it has been viewed more than 27 million times.
When the camera pans out, a dead dugong (a large marine mammal) can be seen beached on the shore and Mr Hood-Penn speculates that is the reason the sharks are circling so close to shore.
At the end of the video the dog emerges from the ocean and shakes the water from its fur. There was no word on the fate of the shark. – (Reuters)