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Diver’s chilling screams for help as world’s fastest shark mauls him during swim in chilling video
CHILLING footage shows a fisherman desperately screaming for help as the world’s fastest shark mauled him during a dive.
Chad Patti, 30, and his pal were spearfishing some 70 miles off the coast of Florida when he was attacked by a 10ft mako shark.
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Chad Patti’s GoPro captured the moment the shark attacked him[/caption]
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The beast chomped down on his fin before vanishing[/caption]
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Patti’s pal jumped in to help him after hearing him screaming[/caption]
Terrifying footage showed the moment Patti was mauled by the beast on New Year’s Day.
He was using a GoPro attached to his head to record himself spearfishing with his friend Josh Loucks in the waters off Pensacola.
And as he came to the surface after a dive, he captured the moment a massive mako shark suddenly appeared below the surface and charged at him.
The terrified fisherman could be heard screaming for help as his friend leapt into the water to help him.
The beast chomped down on his fin before vanishing – and Patti said he was convinced he had lost his leg.
He told Pensacola News Journal: “It basically shoved my knee to my chest, almost knocked the wind out of me, knocked my gun out of my hand, partially flooded my mask and I did a summersault in the water.
“The first scream, the ‘help,’ I didn’t think I had a leg, honestly.”
“It wasn’t just a bump. I got it [the video] slowed down five times the speed and you can see the shark clearly has the fin in its mouth. You can see him crush it.
“It was a predatory strike from the mako. I was his prey. There was no mistaken identity. There was no fish in the water. No blood in the water.”
Patti was miraculously uninjured in the attack.
He said the shark grabbed his fin as it launched itself at him – a popular hunting tactic used by the species to immobilise their prey.
“It did what any mako does. It kind of takes out the motor, cuts the tail off the fish in the first strike and then it doubles back and finishes it off,” Patti said.
“When it hit my fin, what it was doing was it was trying to take the motor out.
“Luckily the boat was there and my buddy Josh jumped in the water.”
Patti said he “never saw a sign of a shark except the fish being a little spooked”.
Despite the terrifying ordeal, he said it won’t stop him from heading back out into the ocean.
“I’m not going to let it stop me from doing something I love,” he said.
According to Oceana, mako sharks can swim up to 45mph.
And although they are known for being aggressive, attacks on humans are rare.
According to the International Shark Attack File, nine attacks on humans have been recorded between 1580 and 2022. Of those nine, three were fatal.
10-FOOT TALL AQUATIC HUMANOIDS Encountered By Russian Navy Divers in 1982
Soviet Russian Navy divers encountered 10-foot tall aquatic humanoids wearing skin-tight bodysuits and jellyfish-like helmets during a 1982 diving exercise in Lake Baikal.
Lake Baikal is located in northeastern Russia in Siberia. It’s the deepest lake on Earth at its deepest depth of 1.6 miles. It covers 31,000 square kilometers or 12,500 square miles, approximately the size of the state of Maryland or Belgium, and holds 6,000 cubic miles of water or 23,000 cubic kilometers. It is the largest freshwater lake on Earth, holding one-fifth of the freshwater on the planet.
The encounter between the seven Soviet Russian Navy divers and the humanoids occurred in 1982 while diving during a training exercise in the winter. At the time, there was a 5 to 10-meter-thick ice sheet at a depth of about 50 meters. Upon entering the water, they soon realized they were being watched and observed something approaching them. From the distance were the illuminated creatures. As they approached and got closer they looked to be humanoid in shape only. But these beings were much larger than humans at about 10 feet or 3 meters in height. There were several of them.
The Russian divers froze at first, figuratively speaking, as they observed these creatures. They were wearing what looked like skin-tight bodysuits that were shiny silver-gray or light bluish in color. Over their heads, they had what looked like a helmet made of jellyfish or something similar because it was flexible, but seemed to maintain an unbreakable bubble of air inside of it. There were no oxygen tanks and no pipes or wires, just the skin-tight suit and the jellyfish-like helmet. Clearly, this was technology unknown to man and it did an admirable job of sustaining these creatures against the cold, enabling them freedom of movement with no risk of water leaks and plenty of secure oxygen.
The Russian divers radioed to the surface describing what they were encountering. They received an order to try to capture one of these creatures and bring it to the surface. According to the divers, as they moved in unison towards one of the creatures with a net and a rope, a wave or sonar frequency explosion occurred and the seven Russian divers were thrust upwards through the ice and onto the surface. Because of the rapid ascent, they suffered injuries from the bends and compression sickness that can be deadly.
It was reported that three of the divers died and the other four were saved inside a compression chamber. After remaining in critical condition for several days they all suffered long-term disabilities as a result of the incident.
The images above were created by Discovery+ and are based on descriptions given by the surviving divers, who confirmed that these interpretations closely resembled what they actually saw.
The accounts of their experience were long held as a classified secret of the Soviet Army. The details were later leaked to Professor Vladimir Asasha, a former Soviet naval officer and a known Soviet ufologist who first documented the story in a book titled ‘Russia’s USO Secrets.’ He was told about the incident by a diving trainer Mark Steinberg and an unnamed former Soviet senior officer in charge of the diving team at the time of the incident.
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How divers from Putin’s special ops sabotage unit could have blown up Nord Stream gas pipeline right under Nato’s noses
A CRACK force of divers from a shadowy Russian special ops unit could be behind the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline, security experts have claimed.
Spetsnaz frogmen – a secretive branch of the Russian military – and underwater drones could have been deployed to blow up the strategically-important supply route.
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The Baltic Sea foams with bubbles from the leaking Nord Stream pipeline[/caption]
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Huge bubbles erupted on the sea surface near the Danish island of Bornholm – a NATO member – following reports of explosions along the pipeline on Monday.
Sweden confirmed they detected two underwater explosions near to the leak sites while German gas engineers reported there was an “explosive” pressure drop in the pipeline and the pipes have been “torn open”.
Western leaders have accused Russia of sabotaging the line to stoke an energy crisis in Europe ahead of winter.
And according to an independent defence analyst, it’s “not out of the question” to believe Moscow might have been behind downing the pipeline right under NATO‘s nose.
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Underwater warfare expert H I Sutton said Russia’s shadowy GUGI naval unit, which is said to report directly to Vladimir Putin, may have used spy ships to carry out an attack.
The naval specialist said: “GUGI and the internet tapping subs. Today the Russian Navy has the largest fleet of spy submarines in the world. These are based in the arctic.
“They would be capable of damaging a pipe in the Baltic. However it seems improbable.”
GUGI – the secretive Main Directorate of Deep Sea Research – has a mission to deliver a catastrophic blow to the West and is known to commandeer the navy’s top vessels.
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H I Sutton also said the underwater supply channel was in 230ft of “divable” water that could be easily reached by professional divers who could then plant bombs.
“People will also point to Russian Spetsnaz divers based in Baltic. Not out of question, but much of the info out there is out of date,” he explained.
He also said Russia housed a lab developing state-of-the-art underwater drones capable of carrying out deep-sea attacks.
He said: “Russia does however have autonomous underwater vehicles.
“A new center for their development is in St. Petersburg. Some of these might be suitable.”
He added they would need a “host ship of some sort” to ferry them out.
Royal Danish Defence College researcher Anders Puck Nielsen echoed those concerns, saying that Putin’s frogmen could easily hoist remote-controlled explosives onto the pipeline.
“Technically speaking, this is not difficult. It just requires a boat. It requires some divers that know how to handle explosive devices,” he said.
“But I think if we look at who would actually benefit from disturbances, more chaos on the gas market in Europe, I think there’s basically only one actor right now that actually benefits from more uncertainty, and that is Russia”.
Another probable cause, according to a British military source, is that Russian special ops may have discreetly laid mines from a disguised commercial vessel and detonated them days or weeks later, according to The Guardian.
Just how the heavily fortified pipeline – which are coated in 25 tonnes of steel-reinforced concrete and weigh 11 tonnes each – burst remains unclear at the meantime.
Ukraine accused Russia of carrying out a “terror attack” after three leaks appeared in the two strategic pipes which run beneath the Baltic Sea.
Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said it was an “act of sabotage” while his Danish and Swedish counterparts viewed the leaks as “deliberate actions”.
Sweden’s PM Magdalena Andersson said intelligence she received suggests the blasts were intentional.
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A seismograph on the Danish island of Bornholm shows two spikes, at 0003 and 1700 GMT followed by a lower-level ‘hissing’[/caption]
“We have Swedish intelligence, but we have also received information in our contacts with Denmark, and based on this concluded that this is probably a deliberate act. It is probably a matter of sabotage,” she said.
“It is not a matter of an attack on Swedish or Danish territory. But that said, the government is taking what happened very seriously, not the least in light of the current security situation on our close proximity.”
Meanwhile, it’s emerged that CIA reportedly warned Germany of a possible attack on the Nord Stream pipelines weeks ago, according to Der Spiegel.
Swedish seismologist Bjorn Lund detected a blast with the force of 100kgs of TNT – and Norwegian monitoring group Norsar registered an earthquake of around magnitude 2.2.
Mr Lund said he had detected two explosions close to the pipeline on Monday, one at 2am and another at 7.04pm.
“There is no doubt that these were explosions,” he said.
Nord Stream AG – the pipeline’s operator – said it was impossible to estimate when the gas network would be fixed.
Flows via the pipeline, which had been working at only 20 per cent of capacity since July, were halted at the end of August.
Russia’s state owned oil and gas company Gazprom said it needed essential maintenance, but then did not reopen the line.
European leaders said the shutdown was nakedly political as Putin tries to hold the West to ransom over its support for Kyiv.
While the apparent sabotage won’t immediately impact supply, it has sent prices soaring by up to 12 per cent, reports Bloomberg.
Ships and planes have been told to stay way with an exclusion zone of five nautical miles and 1,000 metres altitude set up around the leaks due to fears of a disastrous explosion.
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Danish warship HDMS Absalon – a 6,300 ton frigate armed with missiles and a five-inch naval gun – has been deployed to enforce the exclusion zone.
The twin 800-mile pipelines Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 can ferry 110billion cubic metres of gas annually from Russia into Western Europe.
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Footage from a helicopter shows the sea bubbling above the Nord Stream pipelines[/caption]