A man in Saudi Arabia was filmed brazenly jumping onto the back of a whale shark and grabbing it by the fin in a video
A swimmer has been slammed for leaping off a moving boat and landing on the back of a whale shark – which then swims off with him clinging to its dorsal fin.
In the clip, recorded in Saudi Arabia, the man on the boat slowly edges towards a group of endangered whale sharks.
As he nears, one of the huge beasts slowly swims below him and he jumps into the water and lands on the back of the gigantic animal.
Startled, the whale shark swims away and the man initially balances on the animal's back, before grabbing it by the fin as his friends follow in the boat while shouting and cheering.
One of the laughing men shouts to his friend: "Careful, it can swallow you."
The footage was shot in the Red Sea, near the city of Yanbu, and the man who jumped on the shark was named as Zaki Al-sabahy, local media reported.
Zaki was said to be with two other men, Bader Al-Kabidi and Yasser Al-Rifai,
Whale sharks, a peaceful species of shark that feeds on plankton, are extremely rare to see in the Red Sea and many people commented on the man's stunt.
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