Viral video shows inside of shark’s mouth as it swallows a camera

A video from April 2022 is circulating on the internet again of a shark taking a 36-degree camera into its mouth, offering a unique view of its teeth, throat, and inner gills, before it spits the camera back out.

The camera belonged to Zimy Da Kid, a Swiss-based film director, photographer and conservationist. He captured the footage during a trip to the Maldives, and though it may look scary, Zimy insists that the sharks are typically gentle and simply use their mouths to investigate their surroundings, since they don’t have limbs as humans do. “The shark was curious,” he said at the time. “He saw this shiny thing and he thought ‘let me taste it’ and then he bit the camera.”