As beachgoers on North Carolina's Outer Banks keep an eye out for sharks after a number of attacks this year, one couple is spoofing safety precautions by wearing homemade shark cages when they go in the ocean.
Scott and Sandi Bergman from Richmond, Virginia were filming footage for an upcoming parody video about swim safety when a bystander's cellphone video captured the couple walking into the ocean with their cages over their bodies. A lifeguard quickly approaches the couple to end the stunt.
"These people are going swimming in their shark-proof cages," says the person that shot the video. "They don't want to get bit."
The images were taken at the Ocean Bay Boulevard beach access in Kill Devil Hills. Bergman tells CBS 6 that he wasn't trying to make fun at the victims of the shark bites, but rather bring some humor to all of the media coverage and hopefully make some people laugh.
"Here's the thing, it'll keep me safer from sharks then it'll keep you safe from sharks being outside of it. That's the way we look at it."
The Bergman's have fooled thousands of people on social media who thought the images were real and went viral. They say the idea for their prototype Block Jaw, PSC One came to them after the shark attacks and what kind of personal protection device would be good for business. The cages are made out of PVC and plastic and the couple painted them too look like a steel cage.
"The idea is that you would go in and you could put it down on the surface of the ocean so that you had protection along the bottom."
The couple plan to release their spoof video sometime in the near future.
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