Bizarre video reveals what happens when you drop an apple off an oil rig
A BIZARRE video has revealed what happens when you drop an apple off an oil rig.
The clip was posted to TikTok by Michael “Big Mick” Young Brown, a worker on the offshore platform.
He said: “Never fall off an oil rig – you can see what happens to the apple.”
Big Mick took a single bite out of a Pink Lady apple before tossing it into the deep water surrounding the platform.
Within seconds, hundreds of hungry fish could be seen swarming towards it in a feeding frenzy.
The apple was devoured in seconds, with the fish circling in a silvery mass.
But there was a shocking twist when a shark darted out of the water, a fish in its jaws.
The mass of fish dispersed as quickly as it gathered, with the huge shark gliding around the spot where Big Mick had dropped the apple.
You may be surprised to learn that oil platforms can actually host lively marine populations.
The legs and bracings holding up the rigs are a perfect home for mussels, barnacles and corals – as well as all the creatures which eat them, from tiny fish to hulking sharks.
Oil rigs usually lie far from the coastline, so the fish which live under them are protected from water pollution and commercial trawlers.
When oil firms decommission rig, they often just lop off the above-water platform without touching the legs.
This saves the oilmen money while also letting fish keep their home beneath the rig.
It comes as experts have issued an urgent warning after dozens of sharks washed up on a UK beach – and no one knows why.
You have 20/20 vision if you can spot the deadly marine predator lurking underwater in this drone-shot optical illusion.