This is the moment a thrillseeker shockingly jumps onto a whale shark and dances on its back in a ‘sickening’ stunt.
The footage shows an unnamed man performing the stunt near a drilling platform of the Iranian Offshore Oil Company off the coast of Abadan, Iran, in the Persian Gulf.
The video, posted on X by an Open Source Intelligence page, is captioned: ‘Wild footage.
‘Off the coast of Abadan in the Persian Gulf, near the oil rigs, a local was filmed leaping from a boat onto the back of a whale shark, where he danced and rode on it.’
The man can be seen jumping into the sea from a boat as he attempts to mount what is reportedly a whale shark.
He then aggressively grips onto the creature’s fin as he steadies himself before climbing on top of it.
The man then brazenly jumps up and down on its back whilst clapping and dancing.
Whale sharks aren’t typically viewed as deadly towards humans and the animal appears to remain calm.
A thrillseeker shockingly jumps onto a whale shark and dances on its back in a ‘sickening’ stunt
The footage, filmed in 2023, shows an unnamed man performing the stunt near a drilling platform off the coast of Abadan in the Persian Gulf
The man can be seen jumping into the sea from a boat before he mounts what is reportedly a whale shark
The thrillseeker stays on its back for a minute before losing his balance as the shark dips further down into the water.
But he remains confident, sitting on the shark and continuing to wave his hands around, before it eventually swims away.
The stunt, which took place in 2023, has been labelled ‘sickening’ by concerned viewers.
One person commented: ‘As an animal lover, it’s sickening to watch this man abusing a whale shark by jumping on it.’
The video emerged just months after a diver was found dead after being mauled in a rare shark attack in Israel.
Footage posted on social media in April showed a diver flailing in the water off the coast of Hadera.
Other footage showed beach-goers, including children, standing in the water and marvelling at sharks as they swam around their legs just moments before the diver was attacked.
A video of the incident then showed the diver further out at sea thrashing around during the bloody attack as the water quickly turned red.
The man then brazenly jumps up and down on the whale sharks back whilst clapping and dancing
The video emerged just months after a diver was found dead after being mauled in a rare shark attack in Israel
Footage posted on social media in April showed a diver flailing in the water off the coast of Hadera
An eyewitness told Channel 12 News: ‘I saw the diver in the depths of the water, he shouted, ‘I’m bitten, I’m bitten’ and waved his hands in the air. After a few minutes, sharks bit him – and suddenly he disappeared.’
Shark attacks in the Mediterranean are extremely rare, with 50 recorded since 1900, and only 11 fatal.
Meanwhile, a tourist was killed in a shark attack at a popular Red Sea holiday resort in Egypt in December.
The injured man was taken to hospital in Port Ghalib, around 30 miles north of Marsa Alam, the Egyptian ministry said at the time.
The ministry said the attack occurred in deep water outside the designated swimming zone near the jetties in northern Marsa Alam, adding that swimming out from the jetties was prohibited and the jetties would be closed for two days.
An EU official was also mauled to death by a shark at a luxury Egyptian resort last year.
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