On the hunt to capture the largest breaching Great White ever recorded.
Filmmakers Dickie Cheval and Andy Casagrande used the cover of Early Morning Darkness to
stalk their prey.
Dickie, these cameras are absolutely incredible, man.
This thing can see in the dark.
And look at that, man.
Super clean, high iso, but it still looks amazing.
Unbelievable. That was wild.
From this grainy night vision footage in the early 2000.
To this advanced low light imagery.
From 2016, it became clear that only the biggest of the big breach after dark.
From what I seen in the past and the Shark Week, legendary shots, it's going to be hard
to beat. But if anyone's going to do it, we are.
I think we might need to throw.
On the other side of the island more.
Whoa. Holy.
Whoa. Did you get that?
Caught me off guard. He still on it?
You might still be on it.
The shark was easily 14ft.
Okay, guys, let's pick up that decoy.
This is about the spot.
Racing Sunrise.
The team resets and drops the decoy in for another tow.
Whoa, dude, did you see that?
Yeah, I saw that.
A monster of the dark estimated at 14ft long.
The biggest breach they've seen in years.
The night breach we got.
Still blows my mind right now.
I mean, I couldn't see it with my eyes.
And yet, through the camera, it almost looked like daylight.
Using ambient light even from the city.
To hunt these seals in total darkness.
And we're able to capture it with these cameras.
It's incredible.
After days and nights of towing decoys, the team has fallen just one foot short of the
all time record.
Looks like air jaws will remain unchallenged as the largest shark ever captured breaching
from the water. He and Colossus have managed to elude the cameras this time.
But what if there was a way to simulate the biggest great white ever?
A 20 footer flying from the water today.
If we can come up with a way to make these small sharks look big, we win.
And I've got an idea on exactly how to do that.
We're a long way from the seal colony.
Man. What are we doing here?
So far, we've had nothing but juvenile sharks on the smaller side.
But I came up with an idea.
In the original Jaws movie, the director used a little person inside the cage to make
the sharks look bigger.
So I'm going to do the same thing to make our sharks look massive.
Dickie, I don't think we're going to find any sharks in here.
What are we doing here?
Welcome to my workshop.
Bear with me, bro. This is going to be cool.
Okay, I see the seal sled, but what exactly is this?
Check this out, bro.
What the hell?
It's Mini Dickey.
On a mini steel sled with a mini seal.
It looks just like you.
The beard, the hair, The crazy eyes.
A little seal.
I see what you're trying to do here.
You're trying to make the sharks look bigger.
Exactly. They did the same thing in the movie Jaws, where they used a little person instead
of a full sized diver to make the sharks look huge.
You have that small little dickie in the foreground, the great white breaching in the
background. It's going to make.
Ten foot sharks look like 20 foot sharks.
Dude, this is absolutely crazy, but it might just work.
The bigger the shark, just the more impressive it is, the more impressive the
breaches are. Taking a page out of the movie Jaws and Spielberg's brilliant mind.
You have that small little dicky in the foreground.
The great white breaching in the background.
How's the angle on that GoPro?
Looking good to me.
Make us proud.
Look, he's floating perfectly.
This might just work, guys.
Look at him. He looks perfect.
So essentially this is a toe cam, but it's got the little mini dickie on it.
And to be honest, as I'm filming it, I was fooling myself.
It really looks legit.
So we have mini Dickie toeing perfectly and he has the Phantom on him.
And Mini Dicky has its own little camera that he's shooting with.
Oh, this looks crazy.
Do it now. Do it now.
Whoa.
No right over many dishes.
Nice. Nice.
Everything lined up so perfectly.
The light. The shark coming out of the water.
Even mini Dicky got an incredible shot.
That worked.
Crazy there.
The shark looks huge.
It worked. It worked.
It looks real. It looks like Dickie.
Getting towed and seeing that shark breach.
Just tied it all together.