FOOTAGE of a tiger shark gobbling up an iPhone has fixed viewers a tiny glimpse astatine what it mightiness look similar to beryllium eaten alive.
The predator chomped connected the iPhone - which had fortunately been successful a waterproof lawsuit - aft it had been accidentally dropped successful the water.
Tourists were observing a feeding league from a vessel successful the Bahamas, the Telegraph reported.
Mistaking the iPhone for a snack, 1 shark gnawed the instrumentality into its jaws - showing disconnected the lining of its rima ribbed with gills.
The shark swiftly spat retired the handset earlier it passed down done its gullet.
iPhone proprietor Dave Finch was filming the excursion operated by Dolphin Dream Team.
His friend, Ken Kiefer, an underwater photographer, was moving with him connected the shark tour.
"This devious miss – known by immoderate arsenic Jitterbug and by others arsenic Buttface – grabbed Finch’s camera and was trying to get immoderate selfies," Kiefer wrote successful a Facebook post.
“She grabbed it. Then chewed, dropped, grabbed again and dropped.”
Tiger sharks, which tin turn up to 25ft long, are known to beryllium unfussy eaters, arsenic good arsenic voracious predators.
They are the 2nd largest predatory shark taxon aft the large white.
These predators feast connected a wide assortment of marine prey, specified arsenic crabs, shellfish, lobsters, squid, bony fish, tiny sharks, skates, rays, porpoises, turtles.
Though they person besides been known to chomp astatine marine birds and immoderate land-walking mammals.
The beauteous species, known for their achromatic stripes, tin beryllium recovered successful tropical and sub-tropical waters.
Norfolk Island, a erstwhile Australian penal colony, has go a haven for tiger sharks, successful a revelation that has baffled scientists.
Tiger sharks found disconnected Norfolk Island successful the South Pacific are increasing an mean of 2 feet longer than those connected the Great Barrier Reef.