HOME | SCOOP!! & NEWS | BOLLYWOOD Adrenaline junkie Akshay Kumar swims with sharks30th June 2008 22.00 IST By Aparajita Ghosh Bollywood star Akshay Kumar needs just an excuse to flirt with fear and danger. Be it dangling a real python around his neck, or jumping off the elevated ledges, Akshay does it all in style and flamboyance. But getting up close and personal with more than two dozen sharks underwater is no easy ask and no mean task. Yet Akshay was game for it. 
It was not for his personal adrenaline trip but for a movie shoot that Akshay reportedly took a deep plunge into the sea and shot a scene with as many as 35 sharks. And the plunge reportedly resulted in a close shave for Akki. The actor, along with co-stars Sanjay Dutt and Lara Dutta , is in Bahamas shooting for film Blue , an action adventure set mostly under water. All the actors of the film have already undergone deep-sea Scuba diving training in Bangkok. So Akshay was fully prepared to shoot this scene in which he goes 75 feet under water to the hull of a sunken ship amidst deadly sharks floating around him. According to media reports, the sharks were trained and tamed for the shoot. To make the stunt safer, three trainers accompanied Akshay underwater. But things did not go as planned. While shooting underwater Akshay accidentally hit his head against the rusted metal of the wrecked ship and blood began to ooze out. The crew was immediately alarmed because sharks get attracted to the smell of blood. While the trainers tried to take the sharks away, the underwater crew rushed to stop Akshay’s bleeding and slowly carried him to the surface. Thankfully, nothing untoward happened and Akshay even joked about the incident to the crew later on. This is not the first time Akshay has swum with sharks. During the shooting of Vipul Shah’s film Aankhen , Akshay dived into a tank full of sharks and came back in a single piece. This time also Akshay has cheated death and escaped the jaws of sharks, even if by just the skin of his teeth. BRAVO! (With inputs from agencies) Related view Akshay Kumar videos (new) view Sanjay Dutt videos (new) view Lara Dutta videos (new) Blue view Aankhen videos (new) | CRICKET ZONE Live Cricket Coverage Song Lyrics ALSO READ scoop ~ Hello – Movie Review ~ Akshay Kumar replaces Amitabh in Deepa Mehta film ~ Mona Singh joins '3 Idiots' ~ 'Roadside Romeo' gets shorter? ~ Arjun Bajwa being sought by Telugu filmmakers ~ Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar bhai bhai ~ Shweta Kumar not scared of comparisons ~ Amitabh Bachchan's Hollywood foray still a distant dream ( more in scoop ) happenings ~ Shahrukh to be star attraction of Singapore carnival ~ Rekha working on her autobiography ( more in happenings ) AKC HOT INDEX ECARDS > New Year, Diwali, Birthday, Valentines, Love, Christmas MOVIES Hello, Drona, Kidnap, Welcome To Sajjanpur, Hulla, The Last Lear, 1920, Saas Bahu Aur Sensex, Ru-Ba-Ru, A Wednesday, Rock On, Phoonk, Chamku, Dostana , Heroes , Karzzzz , Golmaal Returns MUSIC Drona , Kidnap celebs » wallpapers » the celeb A-Z who's in » Katrina Kaif | Deepika Padukone | Ranbir Kapoor | Harman Baweja | Aishwarya Rai | Abhishek Bachchan | Imran Khan | Shahrukh Khan | Salman Khan | Aamir Khan | Hrithik Roshan | Akshay Kumar | Zayed Khan | Saif Ali Khan | John Abraham | Shahid Kapur | Kareena Kapoor | Vidya Balan | Priyanka Chopra | Rani Mukherjee | Mallika Sherawat | Bipasha Basu | Preity Zinta | Kajol | Neha Dhupia | Sameera Reddy | Juhi Chawla | Karisma Kapoor | Madhuri Dixit | Zeenat Aman | Payal Rohatgi | Sneha Ullal | Mahima Chaudhary | Meghna Naidu | Gayatri Joshi | Rakhi Sawant | Bhumika Chawla | Lisa Ray | Dimple Kapadia | Ayesha Takia | Dia Mirza | Sushmita Sen | Amisha Patel | Esha Deol | Amrita Rao | Amrita Arora | Genelia D'Souza | Arjun Rampal | Amitabh Bachchan | Vivek Oberoi | Raima Sen | Riya Sen | Rekha | Rimi Sen | Nigar Khan | Tanushree Dutta | Yana Gupta | Deepal Shaw | Shilpa Shetty | Celina Jaitley | Sonam Kapoor | Neha Oberoi | Nisha Rawal | Manjari Fadnis | Kamal Haasan | Rajnikant | Asin | Sanjay Dutt | Shahid Kapoor | Sherlyn Chopra | Farhan Akhtar | Prachi Desai | Koel Purie | Shahana Goswami | Adah Sharma | Kangana Ranaut | Anushka Sharma | Mugdha Godse | Masumeh Makhija | Minissha Lamba | Vidya Malvade | Malaika Arora | more... POPULAR WALLPAPERS Katrina Kaif | Deepika Padukone | Salman Khan | Aishwarya Rai | Shahrukh Khan | Akshay Kumar | Kareena Kapoor | Ranbir Kapoor | Priyanka Chopra | Kajol | Mallika Sherawat | Rani Mukherjee | Hrithik Roshan | Vidya Balan | Amrita Rao | Genelia D'Souza | Sneha Ullal | Riya Sen | Preity Zinta | Bipasha Basu | Minissha Lamba | Ayesha Takia | Imran Khan | Nigar Khan | John Abraham | Sherlyn Chopra MOVIE TRAILERS & VIDEOS Drona | Kidnap | Hello | Fashion | EMI | Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi | Raat Gayi Baat Gayi | Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai | Aashayein | Paathshaala | Dostana | Toonpur Ka Superhero | Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi | Rang Rasiya | Chal Chala Chal | Heroes | Karzz | Horn Ok Please | Golmaal Returns | Ghajini | Yuvvraaj | Kambakth Ishq | Dil Kabaddi | Billoo Barber | | 
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