Shark’s Love for Man Hoax
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The claim
Slideshow presentation claims that a friendly and thankful Great White Shark constantly follows a fisherman who once saved its life and the two have formed a “mutual affection”.
Subject: A Sharks Love for Man – This is AMAZING
LOVE STORY
The French Magazine “Le magazine des voyages de pêche” in its 56th edition, brought up an amazing news: An astonishing love story.
“Arnold Pointer a professional fisherman from south of Australia set free from a certain death a big female White Shark that was caught in his fishing nets. Now the fisherman has a problem: He says: “It’s been 2 years and she doesn’t leave me alone. She follows me everywhere I go and her presence scares all the fishes. I don’t know what to do anymore.”
It is hard to get rid of an almost 17 feet long shark since the White Sharks are protected by the wildlife conservation, but a mutual affection established between Arnold and “Cindy”.
Arnold Says: “Once I stop the boat she comes to me, she turns on her back and let me pet her belly and neck, she grunts, turn her eyes, and move her fins up and down hitting the water happilly…”
AMAZING!!!
What the fact-checkers found
The claims in the message are untrue. The story was published several years ago in a French magazine as an April Fools joke.
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