A video that went viral on Twitter the day Hurricane Ian made landfall in Southwest Florida has been confirmed as original footage. Not certain was whether it was a shark.
But Habuda did not film the moment. And the person he credited in a follow-up tweet, Ed Bell, didn't either. According to Storyful, a media newswire used by the USA TODAY Network, Dominic Cameratta filmed the video from his property in the Devonwood community. The back of Cameratta’s house faces a small lake about half a mile east of Hendry Creek, a tributary that empties into Estero Bay and that also rises and fall with the tides.
He provided Storyful with the original video, which contained metadata specifying the video was filmed at 8:04 a.m. Wednesday.While the video is real, whether or not a shark was caught on camera remains unclear. Storyful says they spoke with a spokesperson for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission who said staff were “unable to identify the animal.”
Rick Bartleson, a marine scientist at the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation , told the organization based on the shape of its dorsal fin, he was doubtful that the animal was either a shark or sawfish.
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