The Dorsal Fin

Chuck Patterson’s great white shark video (seen above), which made the rounds in the media about two months ago, recently showed up on TeddyHilton.com, which appears to be a pet-related blog inspired by Perez Hilton. Unfortunately, the description of Patterson’s video on the site is a misrepresentation of Patterson own account of the scenario that he recorded using a pole-mounted GoPro camera.

The TeddyHilton.com post regarding Patterson’s video is titled “Surfer has NO idea great white is circling him.” The post, which includes the tags “scary” and “attack!” goes on to say that Patterson did not realize the sharks were around him until after getting back on shore and checking his video footage.

The actual story behind the video, straight from Chuck Patterson’s Blog is that he went out with the intention of filming the great white sharks on camera and knew full-well they were in the water.

Within a matter of days after Chuck Patterson’s great white shark footage from San Onofre started making the rounds in the media, YouTube user FussBrosProductions managed to put together a faux encounter with a white shark while kayaking by editing clips of Patterson’s white shark footage into some original kayaking footage.

A comparison of footage from Chuck Patterson and FussBrosProductions.

With the addition of the “Jaws” background music and a name like “FussBrosProductions,” it seems like the person or persons behind this particular video were just having a little bit of fun with some video editing, but it’s probably only a matter of time before somebody comments on the YouTube video swearing that they know the cousin of a kid who went to school with one of the kayakers and swears there were really white sharks there.

Skier/surfer/snowboarder/(insert extreme sport here) athlete Chuck Patterson recently added the video above to his Vimeo channel. According to Patterson’s video description he had encounters with multiple white sharks while SUP boarding the day before this video was shot, so he decided to bring his GoPro camera with him mounted on a 10′ pole. Patterson estimated the great white in the video to be about 9′ in length and wrote that he encountered another smaller white shark a minute later.