{"id":273664,"date":"2025-07-19T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273664\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:09:09","slug":"crafty-stingray-outmaneuvers-hammerhead-shark-during-high-speed-chase-off-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273664\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafty stingray outmaneuvers hammerhead shark during \u2018high-speed chase\u2019 off Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An Australia-based fisherman has captured extraordinary footage showing a large ray trying to outrun a hammerhead shark in the shallows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cJust another day in Cape York,\u201d Brody Sutton stated via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DLrcm98RpEV\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/fisherman-beside-himself-during-rare-155651843.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:ALSO: Fisherman hardly speechless during rare encounter with orcas off Hawaii (video);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALSO: Fisherman hardly speechless during rare encounter with orcas off Hawaii (video)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The footage, posted below, shows both creatures speeding over the flats and the ray leaping to escape the jaws of the shark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ray then uses Sutton&#8217;s boat to assist in its seemingly successful survival effort. (The footage contains brief profanity.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The footage has been widely shared via social media. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMOL7wVITHP\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BDOutdoors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BDOutdoors<\/a> described the footage as \u201cinsane\u201d and added: \u201cHigh-speed chase in the shallows. What a juke by this ray!\u2060\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Cape York Peninsula is in Far North Queensland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/07\/18\/stingray-pulls-out-all-stops-escape-hammerhead-shark-australia-video\/85275291007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Stingray pulls out all the stops to escape shark off Australia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Stingray pulls out all the stops to escape shark off Australia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australia-based fisherman has captured extraordinary footage showing a large ray trying to outrun a hammerhead shark in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3847],"tags":[103597,103598,103596,70,16,15,1717],"class_list":["post-273664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-brody-sutton","tag-cape-york","tag-hammerhead-shark","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114877705137502586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}