‘Run, shark!’ Terrified children run for their lives after spotting a dorsal fin surfacing in shallow water before the sea begins to churn in the Malta resort, but all is not as it seems.
- Video shows youths yelling ‘shark’ as they run away from a flailing sea creature.
Terrified children ran for their lives and screamed ‘shark’ after seeing a dorsal fin surfacing in the shallows at a resort in Malta, but all was not as it seemed.
The video shows the youths screaming and running away from what they thought was a terrifying predator, with one yelling: ‘My God, run! Shark!’
Four children can be seen running down an inflatable walkway in Mellieha Bay, on Malta’s north coast, as the creature thrashed about in the shallows and swam towards them.
The sea began to churn with the force of the animal’s sudden movements when a lifeguard blew a whistle and yelled at tourists to get out of the water.
But all was not as it seemed, and locals quickly realized that what tourists had initially thought was a shark was actually a large tuna.
The video shows the tourists, believed to be British, screaming and running away from what they thought was a terrifying predator, with one yelling: ‘Oh my God, run! Shark!’
The sea began to churn with the force of the animal’s sudden movements as a lifeguard can be heard blowing a whistle in the background and yelling at tourists to get out of the water.
A man could be heard saying, ‘tuna, tuna’ to terrified tourists after taking a closer look at the agitated fish, which nearly got stuck in the shallows of the bay before swimming away from the beach.
Later, it emerged that the bluefin tuna had died after becoming trapped in a shallow rocky part of the nearby shoreline, Lovin Malta reports.
He had been wallowing in the shallows when he was fatally injured on the sharp rocks.
The tourists tried in vain to help pull the tuna off the rocks, but it died from a series of injuries.
The video shows the tuna lying motionless in the shallows as tourists brought it to shore. The footage shows how the rocks had pierced the body of the tuna, leaving the fish with a series of bloody cuts.
Later, it emerged that the bluefin tuna had died after becoming trapped in a shallow rocky part of the nearby shoreline.
The video shows the tuna lying motionless in the shallows as tourists brought it to shore. The footage shows how the rocks had pierced the body of the tuna, leaving the fish with a series of bloody cuts.
It is unclear where the large tuna came from, and local media speculate that it may have escaped from a nearby fish farm.
Malta’s five tuna farms receive around a quarter of all the eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna caught in the world each year.
The bluefin is the largest type of tuna in the world, measuring between six and 10 feet. They can weigh up to 1,500 pounds and live an average of 35 years.
They are predators that seek out schools of fish such as herring, mackerel, and eels.
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