See what it looks like to be swallowed alive by a tiger shark

The fearfulness of being eaten by a shark has travel live successful a caller video.

A tiger shark, named Jitterbug, accidently swallowed an iPhone during a feeding portion of a tourism excursion successful the Bahamas, taking the instrumentality connected a travel done its interior workings.

As the telephone floats done the tiger shark, specifically the folds of its digestive tract's ghostly airy achromatic skin, the interior broadside of its gills tin beryllium seen pulsing on the walls of its pharynx.

But Jitterbug coughed the mobile the iPhone, sealed successful a waterproof case, earlier ot went  beyond this past portion of the oral cavity into muscles that power the esophagus.

In the abbreviated clip,  Jitterbug rapidly figures retired that the glassy and metallic Apple instrumentality is not food, rapidly letting it autumn to the water floor.

The iPhone belonged to the skipper of the excursion, who was amazed that his iPhone camera managed to enactment rolling, collecting unthinkable footage from wrong Jitterbug's mouth.

Marine scientists picture the movements seen successful the interior of this tiger shark's rima arsenic 'buccal pumping,' aft the creature's buccal feature muscles.

The 'buccal pumping,' according to an explainer by the University of Hawaii, 'is what food usage to determination h2o implicit their gills erstwhile they are not swimming.'

When swimming rapidly enough, tiger sharks similar Jitterbug besides usage a method called 'ram ventilation' to determination h2o implicit their gills, extracting oxygen from the h2o to breathe. 

'When swimming fast, food similar sharks and tunas unfastened some their mouths and gill openings to fto h2o walk continuously done their gills,' the assemblage noted. 

As Jitterbug spat retired the phone, her rows of serrated teeth tin beryllium seen, which are much level connected tiger sharks than different taxon and person chiseled superior and secondary serrations that tin beryllium utilized to archer escaped shark teeth isolated by species.

The iPhone belonged to Dave Finch, who was moving with Texas-based undersea lensman Ken Kiefer connected the shark tour.

'This devious girl,' arsenic Kiefer explained in a Facebook post, 'grabbed Finch’s camera and was trying to get immoderate selfies.'  

'I was watching the shark chew connected the lodging of the phone,' Kiefer continued. 'I figured the telephone was a gone,' helium added, 'and past saw [Jitterbug] spit it out.' 

'She grabbed it. Then chewed, dropped, grabbed again and dropped,' helium said.

'In the apical pic you tin spot Finch successful the reflection of his dome,' Kiefer said. 

'And successful the little pic Jitterbug looks similar she's embarrassed a small astir being caught being mischievous.'

Staff with Dolphin Dream Team, which organizes tours to Tiger Beach successful the Bahamas, person named respective of the site's recurring aquatic visitors, including the tiger sharks Jitterbug, Emma and Natalie, 'each with their ain personality.'

'Passengers and unit unite to support tabs connected who is wherever and when,' Dolphin Dream Team explained of their enactment helping to show Jitterbug and the different tiger sharks successful the region.

'Being capable to spot the subtle differences successful tegument patterns oregon scars is for precise trained eyes,' the circuit radical continued. 'We tin larn migratory patterns. We tin larn if [a] shark is inactive alive.' 

Despite their prevalence successful fashionable movie and TV, Shark attacks — according to Dr Robert Latour, a prof of marine subject astatine the Virginia Institute of Marine Science — are rather rare.

'An idiosyncratic is acold much apt to beryllium struck by lightning than to beryllium bitten by a shark,' arsenic Dr Latour told CBS News past year.

The marine idiosyncratic cited information from the University of Florida showing that successful 2022, determination were 57 unprovoked bites worldwide, a importantly little fig than the 10-year mean of 74 unprovoked bites annually. 

But the US tops the charts erstwhile it comes to unprovoked shark bites, accounting for astir 72 percent of those recorded worldwide successful 2022.

And, of those, Florida accounted for astir 40 percent of the unprovoked attacks successful the country.

Australia came successful 2nd successful presumption of unprovoked shark bites successful 2022, representing astir 16 percent of the year's total.

But the commonwealth federation did not study immoderate shark-related fatalities.

If you bash ever find yourself (or your phone) successful a unsafe brushwood with a shark, Dr Latour says determination are champion practices to past the ordeal.

'The champion attack is to enactment calm and support yourself,' helium siad. 'Maintain oculus interaction with the shark and usage a hard entity oregon your hands to jab the nose, gills, and eyes.' 

'If you spot the shark anterior to an attack,' Dr Latour continued, 'position yourself to debar a wound to the cervix oregon face.' 

It was important, helium emphasized, not to thrash and flee, behaviors that could awesome to a shark that you are wounded prey: 'Work toward getting retired of the h2o arsenic soon arsenic possible, but bash not crook your backmost and swim,' helium advised.