Netflix crew attacked by sharks while filming new Attenborough series

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It was like “something out of Jaws.”

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That’s how a TV producer described the scene when a Netflix documentary crew filming in the Pacific Ocean west of the main Hawaiian islands was attacked by two 15-foot tiger sharks, reported the New York Post.

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At the time of the attack, the crew was in inflatable boats as they tried to collect underwater footage of a Laysan albatross’s maiden flight for David Attenborough’s Our Planet II.

“This ’v’ of water came streaming towards us and this tiger shark leaped at the boat and bit huge holes in it. The whole boat exploded,” producer-director Toby Nowlan told RadioTimes.com.

“We were trying to get it away and it wasn’t having any of it. It was horrific. That was the second shark that day to attack us. They were incredibly hungry, so there might not have been enough natural food and they were just trying anything they came across in the water.”

Series producer Huw Cordey told Forbes, “it was like something out of Jaws.

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“The original idea was to do an underwater shoot with the tiger sharks waiting in the shallows at Laysan,” said Cordey.

“But the first day the tiger sharks were around, the crew got into these inflatable boats – and two sharks attacked them. Suffice to say, they didn’t get any underwater shots.”

Nowlan and his crew safely made it ashore, but when they sent out a small rubber dinghy it was also attacked and had its motor knocked out by giant trevallies, a fish that can weigh up to 132 pounds.