They told Israel National News, “He entered the water to dive and take pictures of sharks, not to feed or play with them.”
“I spoke to a fisherman who saw the incident, and he told me that he swam with the shark and then moved a little farther out.”
He did not contact or feed the sharks; instead, he took distant pictures of them. He gently pushed them away with the GoPro camera’s stick when they began to approach too closely.
The victim is seen thrashing in the bloody assault as the water rapidly turns red in horrifying video.
