--- title: This Gruesome Video Will Get You Pumped for Shark Week description: An Australian diver has captured footage of three great whites and a pair of tiger sharks chomping at the carcass of a sperm whale canonical: https://time.com/3946153/shark-week-video-great-white-tiger-whale-carcass-feeding-frenzy/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-06T06:43:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:21:46.216Z og:title: This Gruesome Video Will Get You Pumped for Shark Week og:description: If you're into that. og:url: https://time.com/3946153/shark-week-video-great-white-tiger-whale-carcass-feeding-frenzy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Gruesome Video Will Get You Pumped for Shark Week twitter:description: If you're into that. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Gruesome Video Will Get You Pumped for Shark Week, If You're Into That by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 6, 2015 6:43 AM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 6, 2015 6:43 AM UTC Just days after two shark attacks were reported along the coast of New South Wales, an Australian diver named Brett Vercoe has[ captured video footage](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-03/incredible-experience-watching-sharks-eat-dead-whale/6594150) of three great whites and a couple of tiger sharks happily chomping at the carcass of a sperm whale. The video, capturing a scene Vercoe described as “impressive” and “incredible,” is currently making the rounds on social media. It also comes in the wake of a string of shark attacks along the North Carolina coast, and together with them offers some incidental publicity for [Discovery Channel’s Shark Week](http://time.com/money/4383754/how-to-watch-shark-week/), which kicked off its 27th year on Sunday evening. Excited for a seven-day block of educational cable programming dedicated to a fish? Of course you are. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3946153/shark-week-video-great-white-tiger-whale-carcass-feeding-frenzy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3946153/shark-week-video-great-white-tiger-whale-carcass-feeding-frenzy/"},"headline":"This Gruesome Video Will Get You Pumped for Shark Week, If You're Into That","datePublished":"2015-07-06T06:43:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:46.216Z","description":"It was made soon after two shark attacks were reported along the coast of New South Wales, Australia","url":"https://time.com/3946153/shark-week-video-great-white-tiger-whale-carcass-feeding-frenzy/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sharks","Australia","animals","Shark Week"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3946153/shark-week-video-great-white-tiger-whale-carcass-feeding-frenzy/","name":"This Gruesome Video Will Get You Pumped for Shark Week, If You're Into That"}}]}] ```